Vocabulary of the Lower Chinook
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content: MS 265 Lower Chinook Vocabulary

Index to Indian Vocabularies No. 121
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
culture: label: Culture
content: Chinook
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection / Vocabularies recorded by Gibbs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Leaves
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1857
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 22
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Leaves
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: 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.

Margaret Blaker (BAE/NAA Archivist) had noted that the document was missing on August 12, 1957.  Harrington had this item (known as MS 265) and another Lower Chinook vocabulary (known as MS 2254) photostatically copied, cut apart, and mounted on paper slips.  Because the original documents were in Harrington's possession and their location was unknown to the Archives, the Archives replaced MS 265 with the copies. In 1991, when Mills returned the manuscript, the photostats were removed from the collection.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of a vocabulary of Lower Chinook obtained by Gibbs.  Gibbs' note indicates that he believed Robert Shortess' vocabulary to be superior to his own.