Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg.

  • Leo J. Frachtenberg
Date:
1914
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Credit: Lower Umpqua texts ; and, Notes on the Kusan dialects / by Leo J. Frachtenberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    VOCABULARY. The same causes that prevented me from collecting a sufhcient number of native Lower Umpqua myths and traditions, also rendered the compilation of a complete and exhaustive vocabulary of this language an impossible task. None of the few informants that were available remembered enouOi stems and words to enable me to o compile a thorough dictionary of the two dialects that com- prise the Siuslaw linguistic family. An attempt, however, has been made to render this vocabulary as comprehensive as could be expected under existing conditions, by incor- porating into it, besides my own material, a collection of words and stems at the present writing in the possession of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D. C. This collection consists of short vocabularies obtained for the Bureau by George P. Bissell in i88i, by J. Owen Dorsey in 1884, and by Dr. John I. Milhau (date of collection not given). These vocabularies are reproduced here by permission of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Dorsey’s material contains both Siuslaw and Lower LImpqua stems, while that of the other two investigators seems to be confined exclusively to the latter dialect. As is to be expected, the phonetic spelling of these early collectors differs materially from the one I had adopted; this being especially true of Bissell’s and Milhau’s systems. I was therefore unable, in a good many instances, to transcribe [107]