National Anthropological Archives
MS 131 Vocabulary
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
NAA.MS131
Archival Resource Key
2 Pages
1851 or 1852
Identified as a separate language, not Hupa, by A.R. Pilling, 8/1970. According to George Gibbs in H. R. Schoolcraft, History, Condition, and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States, III, page 423, Nabiltse is a Rogue River language, and a vocabulary [this one? was collected from "a young Indian...at the upper ferry on the Klamath." A R. Pilling identified the "upper ferry" as Weitchpec at the forks of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers. (See A.R. Pilling's notes, 2 slips, filed with the Manuscript.)
Local Numbers
NAA MS 131
Scope and Contents
Numbered to correspond with USQV.
Citation
Manuscript 131, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Existence and Location of Copies
Negative microfilm filed with Manuscript.
Local Note
Manuscript notes in pencil on page 1 that compare this vocabulary to a language called "N C" [?] are apparently in the handwriting of A. C. Anderson (compare Athapascan Manuscript Number 123). Brief A. notes by J. C. Pilling appear on pages 1 and 2, and one note Signed by J. Owen Dorsey on page 2 reads, "Nearer to Wailakki and Henarger than to Hupa."
Local Note
autograph document
Language and languages -- Documentation
Nabiltse