Czech linguist Paul L. Garvin compiled Wichita paradigms in the summer of 1956 in Anadarko, Oklahoma, with the assistance of Wichita speaker John Haddon. The field work and assembly of the manuscript were made possible by the support of the American Philosophical Society. The volume includes verb paradigms and a few noun paradigms with possessive person markers.
Elicited Wichita word and phrase list; 3 stories given in Wichita: "Why the Dove Mourns," "How the Dove is Sad," and "Turtle, Buffalo and Coyote." Free translations by collector given in transcripts.
This is part of the large inventory for the Franz Boas Papers (Mss B B61). For complete information concerning this collection, please view the
Collection Description
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The Phillips Fund Collection consists of materials submitted to the APS by recipients of grants from its Phillips Fund for Native American Research. The materials vary in scope, ranging from linguistics to ethnography, musicology, religion, ethnobotany, and ethnohistory, and including studies of Indigenous peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Materials in this collection include brief project reports, dissertations, published and unpublished manuscripts, dictionaries and vocabularies, field notes, and audiovisual materials.