Mrs Ada Markishtum’s marked-up copy of a Chinook Jargon dictionary (Makah Tribe)
A Makah woman contributed this treasure to posterity!
A masterly basket by Ada Markishtum (image credit: Mutual Art)
Also this one:
Another old Chinook Jargon dictionary has been found with handwritten marks on a number of the entries.
This is Mrs Ada Markishtum’s (of Neah Bay, WA, 1890-1968) copy of the well-known red-covered “The Chinook Jargon and How to Use It” by George C. Shaw (Seattle, 1909).
You may know it as the dictionary with the pasted-on photograph that’s usually falling off by the time you meet up with it.
I guess this one got borrowed by the Lushootseed-studying linguist Colin Tweddell, seeing as how the cover has the penciled words “TWEDDELL — pro tem” 😂
(You know, “for the time being”!)
- For another woman’s personally notated Chinuk Wawa dictionary, go read my post about S. Crease.
- See also this.
- And this.
You know those are clickable links, right? A little bird told me some o’ y’all don’t get it lol
- Do you know of another written-in copy of a Jargon dictionary? Let me know, please.
The bad news is, the more I look through the range of the penciled marks inside, the more I think they may have been made by Tweddell; maybe as he did some “expert witness” work.
Oy. Tweddell was not known as a Chinook Jargon knower.
𛰅𛱁𛰃𛱂 𛰙𛱁𛱆𛰅𛱁 𛰃𛱄𛰙𛰃𛱄𛰙? qʰáta mayka tə́mtəm?
kata maika tumtum? Qu’en penses-tu?
What do you think?
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