Chinook
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 2254 Vocabulary of the Lower Chinook

MS 2254 Lower Chinook Vocabulary

Index to Indian Vocabularies No. 120

Index to Indian Vocabularies No. 287
name: label: Creator
content: Shortess, Robert, 1797-1878
label: Collection Creator
content: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
creator: label: Creator
content: Shortess, Robert, 1797-1878
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinook
setName: label: See more items in
content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection
label: See more items in
content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection / Vocabularies recorded by others / Shortess, Robert
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Leaves
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1853
container: label: Container
content: Box 8, Folder 11
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Leaves
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The document was signed out to Harrington on January 22, 1938, and was indicated as being "out" on July 25, 1939. Margaret Blaker, BAE Archivist, noted that the document was not in the archives on August 12, 1957.

This item was found in the John P. Harrington papers when they were processed in the 1980s. Elaine Mills, editor of the Harrington Papers Project, removed it from the Harrington papers in 1991.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains:

(1) Two copies of "Lower Chinook vocabulary of Robert Shortess [...] taken from Shortess' wife, a native Chinook woman."

(2) Gibbs' copy of the vocabulary.