MS 620 Pit River of Northeastern California vocabularies in Smithsonian Institution Comparative Vocabulary schedule
odd: label: General
content: Previously titled "Pit River of Northeastern California September-October, 1877 vocabulary."
name: label: Creator
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
topic: label: Topic
content: Achomawi language
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
culture: label: Culture
content: Achomawi (Pit River)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Pages
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Ms.D.
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS620
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: James C. Pilling, "Catalogue of Linguistic Manuscripts in the Library of the Bureau of Ethnology," First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1881 page 567
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The words are recorded in Department of the Interior, United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, Comparative Vocabulary. They include terms of three dialects of Achomawi: Big Valley, Hot Springs, and Goose Lake. Gatschet was skeptical of the value of the manuscript: "None of these vocabularies could be revised with the help of reliable Indians of the same tribal subdivision of speaking the subdialects, and therefore must be used with discrimination . . . No. 2.. . . deserves no credit at all."