Index Number |
Speaker |
Material |
Date of Collection |
Contents |
Audio file |
2014-21.001.038 |
Viola Johnson
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1 notebook, 160 pages |
28 Aug 1962 to 04 Feb 1964
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. Pages 76-85 contain descriptions, in Makah, of a series of stickman drawings entitled “Picture Texts”; the elicitation prompts are catalogued in 2014-21.005.009. |
LA52.062.001 |
2014-21.001.039 |
Viola Johnson |
1 notebook, 80 pages |
1962 to 1964
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Notebook containing field notes, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. The first 13 pages contains elicitation notes on Skagit (Salishan) with an anonymous consultant, made in 1962; the remainder of the notebook is on Makah with consultant Viola Johnson, made between February 4, 1964 and July 26, 1964. |
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2014-21.001.040 |
Ralph LaChester |
1 notebook, 130 pages |
30 Jul 1964 to 29 Aug 1966
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.041 |
Ralph LaChester, Mable Robertson |
1 notebook “1”, 79 pages |
12 Aug 1965
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Notebook containing transcriptions of Makah texts, including “Last Makah War” (pp. 1-22), “How the Makah Got Neah Bay” (pp. 23-35), “Two Men Return from South” (pp. 36-57), and “Autobiographical Sketch” (pp. 58-79), which is continued in 2014-21.001.042. Mable Robertson is listed as a translator for a couple of the stories. |
LA52.018.001.wav LA52.019.001.mp3 LA52.020.001.wav |
2014-21.001.042 |
Ralph LaChester, Mable Robertson |
1 notebook “2”, 60 pages |
12 Aug 1965 to 28 Aug 1966
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Notebook containing transcriptions of Makah texts, including the end portion of “Auto-biographical Sketch” (pp. 1-14) continued from 2014-21.001.041, “Ozette’s Revenge” (pp. 15-47), and “History of Neah Bay” (pp. 48-60), which is continued in 2014-21.001.043. Mable Robertson is listed as a translator for the second story. |
LA52.016.001.mp3 LA52.029.001.wav |
2014-21.001.043 |
Ralph LaChester |
1 notebook “3”, 51 pages |
28 Aug 1966
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Notebook containing a transcription of the end portion of a text entitled “History of Neah Bay”, continued from 2014-21.001.042; glosses in English. |
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2014-21.001.044 |
Mable Robertson, Ralph LaChester |
1 notebook “4”, 48 pages |
1966 to 1968
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Notebook containing a transcription of a Makah text entitled “The Whaler XaXata and Revenge on his Brother”. The text was recorded on August 28, 1966 and translated by Mable Robertson in August 1968. |
LA52.030.001.mp3 |
2014-21.001.045 |
Mable Robertson, Nora Barker |
1 notebook, 22 pages |
24 Aug 1964 to 23 Jun 1976
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Notebook containing a transcription of a conversation about Makah Day between Nora Barker and Mable Robertson. The conversation was translated from the beginning through page 11 by Mable Robertson, and revised and completed by Nora Barker during the period of June 9-23, 1976. |
LA52.063.001.mp3 |
2014-21.001.046 |
Nora Barker, Mable Robertson |
1 notebook, 48 pages |
24 Aug 1964 to 03 Jul 1976
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Notebook containing transcriptions of Makah texts. Two texts told by Mable Robertson are entitled “Story About Crow and Raven Getting Hair Seal” (pp. 1-10) and “Crow Doctoring Raven” (pp. 11-32); a third text told by Nora Barker is entitled “Story About Q’weti and Wolf” (pp. 33-48). |
LA52.063.001.mp3 LA52.065.001.mp3 LA52.064.001.mp3 |
2014-21.001.047 |
Nora Barker |
1 notebook, 158 pages |
19 Jul 1965 to 02 Aug 1967
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
LA 52 |
2014-21.001.048 |
Nora Barker |
1 notebook “A”, 160 pages |
02 Aug 1967 to 29 Jul 1969
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.049 |
Nora Barker |
1 notebook “B”, 160 pages |
29 Jul 1969 to 05 Aug 1971
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.050 |
Nora Barker |
1 notebook “C”, 149 pages |
05 Aug 1971 to 15 Aug 1978
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.051 |
Nora Barker |
1 notebook, 76 pages |
01 Sep 1971 to 15 Aug 1978
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Notebook containing transcriptions of Makah texts, including “Dog Children” (pp. 1-12), “Crane and Helldiver (“Unfaithful Wife”) (13-20), Mistreated Children (21-25), Cry-Baby (26-32), Snake-Husband (33-40), The Mean Father (41-45), Killer-Whale Husband (46-48), Children’s Song to the Star (49), Wishing for Star-Husbands (50-52), Feather Island (53-62), How Rat Got Fire (63-66), Children and Basket-Lady (67-76). |
LA52.067.001 2014-21.006.014 |
2014-21.001.052 |
Mable Robertson |
1 notebook, 69 pages |
25 Jul 1965 to 23 Jul 1968
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. Pages 43-46 contain a narrative, told in English, called “Canadian Story of the Big Brown Bear”. |
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2014-21.001.053 |
Sebastian LaChester |
1 notebook, 32 pages |
15 Aug 1966 to 06 Aug 1971
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Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.054 |
Charles Butler, Lyda Colfax |
1 notebook, 67 pages |
07 Aug 1965 to 24 Jun 1976 |
Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.055 |
Isabel and Harold Ides |
1 notebook, 5 pages |
23 Aug 1971 |
Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.056 |
Hildred Ides |
1 notebook, 143 pages |
25 Jul 1979 to 31 Oct 1997 |
Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.057 |
Irene Ward |
1 notebook, 2 pages |
29 Sep 1997 to 31 Oct 1997 |
Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.058 |
?? |
1 notebook, 2 pages |
?? |
Undated notebook containing an untitled text in Makah. No English glosses. |
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2014-21.001.059 |
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1 notebook, 23 pages |
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Small, undated notebook; the first 7 pages contain vocabulary in Makah, with English glosses. The remaining pages contain what appear to be Makah song lyrics, and related notes, for particular dances. The dances mentioned include “Welcome Dance”, “Knife Dance”, “Yakima War Dance”, “Serpent Dance”, “Snipes”, “Fan Dance”, “Ham Ha-Mey”, “Spear Dance”, “Horse Dance”, and “Swan Dance”. May relate to the sound recording in 2014-21.006.015. |
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2014-21.002.042 |
William H. Jacobsen |
1 folder, 36 pages |
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Handwritten notes; each page contains a list of examples of a particular sentence type, for instance “examples of nouns as subjects”, “examples of preposition preceding objects”, “examples of clauses with three arguments”, etc. |
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2014-21.002.044 |
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1 folder, 16 pages |
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Photocopies of two published papers along with handwritten notes containing vocabulary extracted from the articles; the articles include “A Preliminary Report on the Zoological Knowledge of the Makah” by Erna Gunther, and “Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay” by George A. Dorsey. |
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2014-21.002.045 |
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1 folder, 7 pages |
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Handwritten and typed copies of a vocabulary list. |
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2014-21.002.046 |
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1 folder, 29 pages |
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Vocabulary lists in Nitinaht and Makah |
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2014-21.006.014 |
Nora Barker |
21 minutes |
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Recordings of Makah narratives told by consultant Nora Barker and at least one other unknown consultant, recorded by William H. Jacobsen. The first three recordings were made on July 9, 1976 with Nora Barker and include “Killer Whale Husband” (00:00-2:28), “Children’s Song to the Star” (2:50-3:41), and “Wishing for the Star-Husbands” (4:26-6:19); the next recording is from July 10, 1976 with Nora Barker and is entitled “Feather Island” (6:58-13:59). The content of the remainder of the recordings (14:04-end) is unknown. All the above tracks were taken from a longer, original recording which contained duplicates of digital items catalogued in LA 52, The William H. Jacobsen collection of Makah sound recordings. In particular, this original longer digital item also contained the digital items in LA 52.067, LA 52.068, LA 52.069, LA 52.070, LA 52.071, LA 52.072, and LA 52.073. The texts “Killer Whale Husband” and “Wishing for Star-Husbands” are transcribed in 2014-21.002.066. |
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