Archives West Finding Aid

Scope and Content: Tape recordings, Becher Bay, B.C. July- August 1979.

Interviews with Tom and Lilly Charles; a recording at a Shaker meeting at the home of Richard Charles.

Scope and Content: Taped recordings of conversations in Saanich, some with Cowichan and English; microfilm is of accompanying notes.

Daily interviews were conducted with Elsie Claxton and Violet Williams at the East Saanich Reserve, British Columbia. Total time with informants amounted to over 150 hours. 40 one-half hour tapes of elicited, textual, and conversational material were recorded and documented in approximately 500 notebook pages. The elicited material includes the entire B.C. Provincial Museum word list and a great deal of paradigmatic and syntactic information. The short to medium length texts include anecdotes, traditional tales, local history, and old Saanich "rules for living" such as prescriptive behavior for expectant mothers and fathers. All texts are recorded in Saanich, some also in English and Cowichan. The conversations are on various topics including discussions of meanings, contexts, and acceptability for particular Saanich and Cowichan, and others exhibit switching among Saanich, Cowichan, and English. Most texts and conversations are yet untranscribed.

Scope and Content: Klallam language field recordings and notes. Includes 127 sound cassettes, 7 audio CDs (copies of the cassettes), and 2 data CDs containing field notes (1978-2003) in TIF and in PDF. Tapes include linguistic material: lexical items, narratives of history, culture, advice, speeches, conversations, paradigms, elicited sentences, etc.