Jacobsen's Makah Field Notebook Index



Index Number

Speaker

Material

Date of Collection

Contents

Audio file

2014-21.001.038

Viola Johnson


1 notebook, 160 pages

28 Aug 1962 to 04 Feb 1964


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


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.


2014-21.001.040

Ralph LaChester

1 notebook, 130 pages

30 Jul 1964 to 29 Aug 1966


Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses.


2014-21.001.041

Ralph LaChester, Mable Robertson

1 notebook “1”, 79 pages

12 Aug 1965


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.

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2014-21.001.042

Ralph LaChester, Mable Robertson

1 notebook “2”, 60 pages

12 Aug 1965 to 28 Aug 1966


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.

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2014-21.001.043

Ralph LaChester

1 notebook “3”, 51 pages

28 Aug 1966


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.


2014-21.001.044

Mable Robertson, Ralph LaChester

1 notebook “4”, 48 pages

1966 to 1968


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


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


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).

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2014-21.001.047

Nora Barker

1 notebook, 158 pages

19 Jul 1965 to 02 Aug 1967


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


Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses.


2014-21.001.049

Nora Barker

1 notebook “B”, 160 pages

29 Jul 1969 to 05 Aug 1971


Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses.


2014-21.001.050

Nora Barker

1 notebook “C”, 149 pages

05 Aug 1971 to 15 Aug 1978


Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses.


2014-21.001.051

Nora Barker

1 notebook, 76 pages

01 Sep 1971 to 15 Aug 1978


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


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”.


2014-21.001.053

Sebastian LaChester 

1 notebook, 32 pages

15 Aug 1966 to 06 Aug 1971


Notebook containing field notes on Makah, including vocabulary, phrases, and sentences together with English glosses.


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.


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.


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.


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.


2014-21.001.058

??

1 notebook, 2 pages

??

Undated notebook containing an untitled text in Makah. No English glosses.


2014-21.001.059


1 notebook, 23 pages


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.


2014-21.002.042

William H. Jacobsen

1 folder, 36 pages


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.


2014-21.002.044


1 folder, 16 pages


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.


2014-21.002.045


1 folder, 7 pages


Handwritten and typed copies of a vocabulary list.


2014-21.002.046


1 folder, 29 pages


Vocabulary lists in Nitinaht and Makah


   2014-21.006.014

   Nora Barker 

   21 minutes


   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.