Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Accession #1976-95
- Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), b. 1885
- Greiner, Ruth H.
- Marr, John Paul
- Garfield, Viola Edmundson, 1899-1983
- Gunther, Erna, 1896-1982
- Young, Robert W., 1912-2007
- Names
- Angulo, Jaime de
- Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
- Frachtenberg, Leo Joachim, 1883-1930
- Hoijer, Harry, 1904-1976
- Jacobs, Melville, 1902-1971
- Ray, Verne Frederick, 1905-2003
- Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
- Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
- Collection Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Place
- Olympic Peninsula (Wash.)
- Wishram (Wash.)
- Northwest Coast of North America
- Oregon
- Puget Sound (Wash.)
- Topic
- Athapascan languages
- Chinook language
- Puget Sound Salish languages
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Linguistics
- Names, Geographical
- Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), b. 1885
- Greiner, Ruth H.
- Marr, John Paul
- Garfield, Viola Edmundson, 1899-1983
- Gunther, Erna, 1896-1982
- Young, Robert W., 1912-2007
- Culture
- Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
- Indians of North America -- Subarctic
- Indians of North America -- Plateau
- Coos (Kusan)
- See more items in
- John Peabody Harrington papers
- John Peabody Harrington papers / Series 1: Native American History, Language, and Culture of Alaska and the Northwest Coast
- Extent
- 1.83 Linear feet ((6 boxes))
- Date
- 1933, 1938-1943
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.1976-95, Subseries 1.15
- Type
- Archival materials
- Field notes
- Manuscripts
- Vocabulary
- Maps
- Collection Citation
- John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Microfilm and digital surrogates of microfilm are available. See Volume 1, reels 29-30.
- Genre/Form
- Field notes
- Manuscripts
- Vocabulary
- Maps
- Scope and Contents
- This subseries of the Alaska/Northwest Coast series consists of materials pertaining to the area Alaska / Northwest Coast as a whole and those which are too limited in scope to constitute a full subseries in themselves. Included are writings by Harrington, notes from his conversations with others, notes from secondary sources, and field notes and writings he collected from others. Some items date as early as 1933; most are from the period 1938 to 1943. The writings represent Harrington's attempt to synthesize the results of his years of work in the Northwest--particularly with regard to his Athapascan studies. There are several typed drafts of an untitled paper [former B.A.E. ms. 4360] dated April 4, 1943 on the tribal distribution along the Oregon coast. This work, accompanied by a map, describes tribal boundaries in detail and makes reference to the geographical and cultural setting. There follow notes, outlines, rough and final drafts of three papers of varying length relating to Harrington's theories on the origin and relationship of the Athapascan languages. Two of these were published (1940, 1943). Illustrations sent to the printer are also included here. The section of writings also contains several pages of notes and very rough drafts of short articles on the etymology of the term "Athapascan." The notes from conversations vary in length and content. Information from Franz Boas consists of two undated pages concerning phonetics in Coast Salish and Chinook. From a March 1933 discussion with Joe Maloney, Harrington obtained data on tribes of southwestern Oregon, predominently on the Coos. W. O. Thorniley of the Puget Sound Navigation Company provided biographical and general information of the Olympic Peninsula, with special attention to the Ozette and Queets areas. Thomas Yallup spoke on Wishram, the tribal boundaries and practices of neighboring tribes, and possible informants. Most significant are records of Harrington's meetings with Melville Jacobs in December 1939. Those discussions referred to Jacobs' own studies and included comments on the work of other linguists and anthropologists such as Jaime de Angulo, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Leo J. Frachtenberg, Harry Hoijer, Verne F. Ray, Morris Swadesh, and C. F. Voegelin. The notes also reflect a mutual interest in orthographies, the relationship of Athapascan languages (particularly Kwalhioqua and Tlatskanai), and the theory of the Siberian origin and migration of the North American Indian. This section includes a few interspersed notes from Erna Gunther and Viola Garfield. Notes from secondary sources consists of a few pages on each of several miscellaneous topics. The notes reflect Harrington's attempt to locate a speaker of Cayuse, and his interest in the early voyages to the Northwest Coast. Also included are comparative data on Athapascan languages compiled into a chart from a variety of manuscript and published sources. Notes and writings from others include a small set of sketch maps and field data collected for Harrington by his assistant John Paul Marr. These notes were obtained while Harrington was in Washington, D.C. and unable to get to the field himself. There is also a section of original field notes on Puget Sound ethnogeography obtained from Thomas Talbot Waterman. They cover his collection of placename data in Clallam and in the Shoalwater Bay area in the period 1919-1921 and are supplemented by original notes from Ruth H. Greiner dated 1920-1921. Her records consist of lists of numbered placenames in a variety of Puget Sound Salish languages, with translations, etymologies, and brief commentaries. These field data were part of the basis for a manuscript Waterman prepared for the Bureau of American Ethnology (Waterman 1922) and are keyed to a number of large maps contained therein. Harrington also collected a short typed paper by his co-worker Robert W. Young dated 1938. This article, relevant to their study of Navaho, puts forward a theory on the origin and dispersion of a branch of Athapascan languages. It contains charts and numbered examples of linguistic features in Navaho, Carrier, Sekani, Chipewyan, Hare, and Hupa, among other languages.
- Restrictions
- No restrictions on access.
- Record ID
- ebl-1626971434170-1626971434833-0
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