MS 1936 The Chinook Jargon as Spoken in Southeastern British Columbia: From Notes Made in the Field
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1936
label: Local Note
content: Typescript document with manuscript additions
name: label: Creator
content: Chamberlain, Alexander Francis, 1865-1914
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Chamberlain, Alexander Francis, 1865-1914
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinook
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 15 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca.1891
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1936
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Mainly a Chinook-English vocabulary. The vocabulary contains, according to Chamberlain, "such words and phrases only as the author actually heard used by Indians, Whites and Chinese, while in the Kootenay country."
label: Scope and Contents
content: Manuscript states (page 1) that Chamberlain did the fieldwork among the Kootenay Indians in Southeastern British Columbia in 1891, under the auspices of the British Association for the advancement of Science. Reference: "Report on the Kootenay Indians of South-eastern British Columbia," BAAS Eighth Report of the North-Western Tribes of Canada, London, 1892.