Smith, Harlan I. "Materia Medica of the Bella Coola and Neighbouring Tribes of British Columbia"

[David D. Robertson]

Published as National Museum of Canada Bulletin 56:47-68.

"Most of the information relating to the Bella Coola was given the writer
in 1920-22, by Joshua Moody, apparently a full-blood Bella Coola Indian,
born about 1868.  As he did not speak English he gave the data in Chinook
jargon...He remembers when Mr. John Clayton was the only white man living
in Bella Coola valley, and when the inhabitants saw only one other white
man every year or two.  Consequently he can recall the old Bella Coola
material culture before it was much affected by European ideas.

"Some of the information relating to the Bella Coola was given the writer
in 1922-23 by the late Captain Schooner, also, apparently, a full-blood,
born about 1848, who used the Chinook jargon...

"Most of the information relating to the Southern Carrier Indians of
Ulkatcho was secured during 1920-22 from Charlie West, alias Pretty Charlie
or Handsome Charlie, a native of that place, born about 1874.  Charlie used
the peculiar form of broken or pigeon English commonly employed for
communication between the whites and the Carrier and Chilcotin Indians of
this region...

"The information relating to the Gitksan was secured in 1925-26 from the
late John Fowler and Abraham Fowler of Kitwanga...The information was
secured mainly in English, although Abraham Fowler used also the Chinook
jargon."