Vocabularies of the Klatskanai and Tah-cully Indians, circa 1854-1876.

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Vocabularies of the Klatskanai and Tah-cully Indians, circa 1854-1876.

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The Klatskanai (Tlatskanai) vocabulary is a fragmentary copy. A note by Anderson, 1876, says he gathered the words in 1854 or 1855 from the last survivor of his tribe. To it are added words and numerals of another tribe of Athapascan stock, the "Tah-cully" (Takulli) of the upper Fraser River, British Columbia. With this manuscript is a torn sheet containing words and expressions in "Arra-Arra or Middle Klamath," endorsed by Anderson as "by the late George Gibbs Esq."

Originals : 3 pages ; 33 cm.Copies : partial microfilm reel (4 frames) : negative (Rich. 107:16-20) and positive.

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Anderson, Alexander Caulfield, 1814-1884

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Alexander Caulfield Anderson (1814-1884) was a clerk for the Hudson's Bay Company in 1832 at Fort Vancouver. He served the company in the New Caledonia district at Fort Nisqually and Colville, and at Fort Vancouver again in 1854. He retired to Cathlamet, but later moved to Vancouver Island. From the description of Historical notes on the commerce of the Columbia River, 1824 to 1848 /by Alexander Caulfield Anderson, [1880]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702127518 Official of...

Gibbs, George, 1815-1873

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George Gibbs, a New York lawyer, joined the Regiment of Mounted Rifles in 1849, went to Fort Vancouver, Washington, and remained in the Pacific Northwest for the next eleven years. During that time he held a number of positions, including that of an ethnologist and geologist with the Northern Pacific segment of the U.S. Army railroad survey from 1853 to 1855, and the Northwest boundary survey of the Northwest Boundary Commission from 1857 to 1860. He wrote numerous works on Indian languages and ...