essay
Vocabularies
Contributions to North American ethnology • 1 • Published In 1877 • Pages: 135-142
By: Gibbs, George.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gibbs' vocabulary lists include a wide variety of words from three cultural groups: South Alaska Eskimo, Tlingit, and Haida. The Eskimo materials were collected from two Kodiak Islanders in 1857. The Tlingit vocabulary came from a list in the possession of the Hudson Bay Company. The Haida materials include three dialects from three different 'clans.' These were compiled from a Hudson Bay Company list and several informants in 1854 and 1857. The lists are preceded by short notes on provenience of the materials.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Vocabulary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Alutiiq
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Lawyer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor Swanson ; John Beierle ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1857
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1857
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Kodiak Island, southwestern Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- George Gibbs
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02027777
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Koniagmiut Eskimos