1923, BC: “Chinook Short Grammar” (Kamloops Wawa #508)
This note is just to follow up on my previous piece, “1923: A re-discovered Kamloops Chinuk Wawa publication“.
Spoiler alert!
Thanks to Fuchsia Voremberg of the UK “Antiques Roadshow”, and to Amherst College Archive’s Rebecca Henning, I got a scanned copy of Kamloops Wawa #508 (May 1923).
That was the first known issue of KW since 1917.
Just as I speculated in my previous post based on the 2 pages of it that had been published in Printing History in 2019, #508 in its entirety is a practice attempt by JMR Le Jeune at what became his truly impressive and valuable document, the 1924 “Chinook Rudiments“.
It’s not different enough to get me sharing the whole 1923 item here 🙂
But there are plenty of neat features in the 1923 issue, such as a sort of stress-marking and a categorization of the vocabulary, that lead neatly to the 1924 publication.
Now we know!
And an enterprising student or other researcher can easily make a worthy & publishable study out of closely comparing the two.
Bonus fact:
You can justifiably think of the 1924 “Chinook Rudiments” as the second-latest issue of Kamloops Wawa. It doesn’t carry the title, but it has an issue number, albeit a weird one, #1739.
I don’t have an explanation for that numbering, but I know there’s also a publication “#1758”, which is Le Jeune’s intriguing 1925 booklet of “Studies on Shuswap“. And that one, my friend, can be considered the final issue of Kamloops Wawa.
