Ten'a texts and tales from Anvik, Alaska / by John W. Chapman, with vocabulary by Pliny Earle Goddard.

  • Chapman, John W. (John Wight), 1858-1939.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Ten'a texts and tales from Anvik, Alaska / by John W. Chapman, with vocabulary by Pliny Earle Goddard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. I'liE legends in this collection are from x'\nvik, Alaska, on the Lower Yukon, and from the immediate vicinity. The dialect in which they are written is spoken at Anvik and at Koserefskv, on the Yukon, and at the villaoes on the Lower Innoko from Shageluk to Koserefsky. It is also spoken, with very little modification, on the Kusko- kwim River, from a village just below Kolmakof, to the great eastward bend of the Kuskokwim, at a village near the mouth of the Tokatna. In the Innoko villages north of the village marked Shageluk on the Government maps, the dialect changes to an approximation to that in use at Nulato, and is more difficult for a beorinner in the Anvik dialect to understand than the dialect in use on the Kuskokwim. The name “Ten’a” is here applied to this lan^uaofe, for the reason that it has been used bv the Rev. Julius Jette in connection with the Nulato people, in a series of excellent articles published by the Anthro- jmlogical Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, beginning with the year 1907. In the Anvik dialect, the name appears as “Denna,” and means man. No attempt is here made to deal with the grammatical structure of the lano-uagfe. The leofends must be taken for what they are; i.e., an attempt to furnish a working basis for the study of the dialect, by means of a phonetic representation of these legends, taken down from the lips [fl