Questions re Allison 1892

[Terry Glavin]

tbe second, lebine, is almost certainly French.  . .




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Terry Glavin

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From: "David Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
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Subject: Questions re Allison 1892


> Mrs. S.S. Allison's 1892 article, that is: "Account of the Similkameen
> Indians of British Columbia" in J Anth Inst of Great Britain and Ireland
> vol. 21, pgs 305-318.
>
> She uses some words I'm unfamiliar with, which I don't find in Google
> searches:
>
> - stitome (a sort of wild potato) (no cognate in the Okanagan or Thompson
> dictionaries?)
> - lebine (made from soapberry; apparently = Indian ice cream?) (no cognate
> in the Thompson or Okanagan dictionaries?)
> - nic-a-nic (a variant of "kinnikinnik")
>
> I'd appreciate information on the first two.  I wonder if there's a remote
> chance they're from the old Nicola Athabaskan language?  (Allison gives 
> one
> word that's definitely Nicola [though she isn't explicit about that]: 
> <ike>
> = kinnikinnik berries.)
>
> She also uses Chinook Jargon terms:
>
> - papoose stick (cradle board)
> - kee-kee-lee fire (fire underground in the mountains according to
> traditional stories; ?volcano; compare missionaries' CJ <kikuli paia>
> = 'Hell')
> - kee-kee-lee (pit house) (this word entered regional English with the 
> same
> sense)
>
> Note: 'Papoose stick' is pretty certainly CJ, though Allison doesn't
> comment on its origin.  'Papoose' is actually found in CJ documents from
> that region, and this use of 'stick' is obviously less like English than
> CJ.
>
> --Dave R
>
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