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oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:9436

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Title:Inuit materials, ACLS collection
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Comer, George
Mutch, James
Thalbitzer, William, 1873-1958
Date:1883-1929
Description: The Inuit materials in the ACLS collection consists of several items in the "Eskimo" section of the finding aid. The core materials are Boas' fieldwork materials from Baffinland in 1883, his first fieldwork trip. "Eskimo ethnographic notes from Baffinland" includes vocabulary, texts, and ethnographic notes. "Eskimo texts" includes several text written in syllabic script, and includes other texts as well, some with interlinear translations, and additional vocabulary lists. This material comes from Hamilton Inlet (Labrador), Hudson Bay, and Cumberland Sound. "Eskimo interlinear texts" includes brief additional texts. Boas' "Eskimo lexicon" consists of an extensive German-Inuit vocabulary file of over 2900 slips. Boas' "Eskimo Songs" consists of song texts with translations. Lastly, "Eskimo folklore" consists of materials on stories, customs, and cooking and building methods, sent to Boas by George Comer, largely from the Southampton Island and Repulse Bay region. A table of content of the Comer materials is available upon request.
Extent:184 pages; 2900 slips; 18 drawings
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/9436
Is Part Of:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society)
Language:English
Eastern Canadian Inuktitut
Inuinnaqtun
Language (ISO639):eng
ike
ikt
Spatial Coverage:Naujaat (ᓇᐅᔮᑦ)
Gore Bay
Igloolik (ᐃᒡᓗᓕᒃ)
Rigolet
Subject:Inuit
Ethnography
Food
Labrador--HIstory
Linguistics
Music
Nunavut--History
Social life and customs
Stories
Type:Drawings
Shorthand
Type (DCMI):StillImage
Text
Type (OLAC):primary_text
lexicon

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Archive:  Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:9436
DateStamp:  2020-03-02
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Citation: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942; Comer, George; Mutch, James; Thalbitzer, William, 1873-1958. 1883-1929. ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society).
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