American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native ...

Nootka (Nuuchahnulth)
Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Material on Nootka aspect
<strong>American</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Learned</strong> <strong>Societies</strong>. <strong>Committee</strong> on Native <strong>American</strong> Languages. 1...
n.d. AMs and
- Page 182 -
TMs, 375L.,
13 slips.
W2a.17
Notes and various revision <strong>of</strong> article with annotations and comments by Edward Sapir. Explanatory
note by author, May, 1953. (Draft <strong>of</strong> a master's thesis. cf. No. 2424.)
Freeman and Smith 2421
Acquisition Information
Donor, Morris Swadesh, 1953.
Alternative Form Available
Micr<strong>of</strong>ilmed as: Film 372.7, reel 23
Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Miscellaneous Nootka material
n.d. TMs and
AMs, ca.
1600L., 19
notebooks
<strong>of</strong> ca. 100
p. each, 5
notebooks
<strong>of</strong> ca. 200 p.
each, and ca.
750 slips.
W2a.18
Includes: ethnographic notes, <strong>of</strong>ten with Nootka terms; some drawings by a Nootka; census data.
Notebooks are the source <strong>of</strong> material in the typed notes. Slips are alphabetical lists <strong>of</strong> Nootka
personal and place names. Table <strong>of</strong> contents available. Images in notebooks, numbers 6, 22, 32-35,
37-38, 51, 64, 77-79, 81-88 include color pencil sketches on photomechanical printed faces <strong>of</strong>
tattoos, masks; crayon drawings <strong>of</strong> totem figures, canoes, weapons, masks, hunting; black and white
illustrations <strong>of</strong> masks, totems, rattles, utensils, weapons; black and white gelatin silver prints <strong>of</strong> group
and individual portraits.
Freeman and Smith 4586
Acquisition Information
Donor, Sapir family, May 1972
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