Fwd: Re: Aplodontia rufa, cont.

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Subject: Re: Aplodontia rufa, cont.
To: zenk at uswestmail.net
From: Dell Hymes <dhh4d at cstone.net>
Date: Sat, 5 May 2001 16:38:07 -0400

Dear Henry and all,

    As to Chinookan sources:
    Edward Curtis (W. E. Myer): nothing  for any of the Chinookan
languages.
    Clatsop:  the only source of which I know was a vocabulary taken
down by Boas when he first sought Chinookan speakers, about 1890.  No entry
for  this critter.
    Shoalwater Chinook:  no entry in Handbook of American Indian
Languages (1911), pp. 598-9 (small animals), but there may well be one in
the texts, or in the additional (unpublished) vocabulary taken by Boas.
    Kathlamet Chinook; s-q'ula 'woodchuck blanket' in Kathlamet Texts
(1901), pp. 51.5, 201.7.
    Wasco :  a-q'ula 'mountain beaver' (Walter Dyk, et al)
        i-q'ula Jeremiah Curtin in BAE vocabulary list, p. 110, #60
        'oppossum'.  With note:  one in mountain, no tail.

        Hope this is useful.
            Dell

>Some of the terms given by Ernest Thompson Seton cited way back when at
>the start of the rather involved discussion of this critter I knew rang a
>bell somewhere.  I finally got around to searching through dusty old notes
>and located the following:
>
>Gatschet (Tualatin mss, 1877) records Tualatin Kalapuya akulla (stressed
>akUlla), variously identified as:
>- "kind of otter, thick fur"; "in water ... black & reddish fur"; "kind of
>gopher ... opposum?"; "a kind of otter, size of skunk, thick fur"; "water
>animal ... high-priced braided blankets [made from it]".
>
>Seton's Oukala could be a related stem, but with a Chinookan feminine
>sing. n/g prefix, as I think someone suggested.  I find also a note that
>Jeremiah Curtin recorded Wasco "kula   possum".  Dell, if you're out
>there, do you know anything about this word?
>
>Jacobs also records kulata (stressed kulAta) as Santiam Kalapuya for the
>myth person who dug the tunnel that later became Santiam gap (which I
>gather is somewhere near Jefferson, Oregon).
>
>Finally, Harrington (JP Harrington papers, mf vol. 1, reel 18, frame 0036)
>records words for "mountain beaver" among a swath of vocabulary items that
>all appear to be from Joe Peter.  The languages are "LC" (which for Joe
>Peter means Lower Cowlitz, I believe) and "UC  Yak"  (UC = Upper Cowlitz =
>Taitnapam Sahaptin, Yak = Yakama Sahaptin, I believe):  LC Su7L (S =
>shibilant, u stressed, 7 = glottal stop, L = barred L), UC Yak sq'ula (q'
>= glottalized q, stressed sq'ulA; broadly transliterated).  The critter is
>said by Joe Peter to be "good eating."  Henry
>
>
>On Sat, 28 April 2001, Dave Robertson wrote:
>
>>
>> Re: "mountain boomer"
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>>  Ernest Thompson Seton in /Lives of Game Animals/ (Vol. IV Part II, Rodents,
>>  &c.,  1909),  identifies this animal as /Aplodontia rufa/, and  gives as
>>  other names for it: Mountain Beaver, Sewellel, Blue Muskrat, Ground Beaver,
>>  Muskrat Beaver, Showt'l, Kick-willy, Giant Mole, Ou-ka-la, Haplodon,
>>  Aplodon, and Chehalis.
>>  He quotes Dr. Jas. G. Cooper:" 'The Chinook name for the animal itself is
>>  /O-gwool-lal./ /She-wal-lal/ (Sewellel, corrupt) is their name for the robe
>>  made of its skins.' "
>>  This information is taken from the 1929 edition,  Doubleday, Doran, p 526
>>  et seq.
>>  A. Murie
>>
>>  A&M Murie
>>  N. Bangor NY
>>  sagehen at westelcom.com
>
>
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