legacy materials

[s.t. bischoff]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone might know of some good resources for finding out
about various legacy materials in museums, archives, garages, etc. I'm
wondering if anyone has sat down and done a survey of all the linguistic work
that has been done on indigenous languages. For example, I've heard that Boas
left hundreds if not thousands of pages of material on indigenous languages.
Also, Harrington has quite a reputation for having left field notes in various
places. Has anyone done a systematic "inventory" of these types of materials,
or has anyone proposed some way to do such an inventory? Is anyone aware of any
archives that have field notes or recordings that are not be utilized?

Thanks,
Shannon
PS Ives Goddard has a nice survey of linguistic work done in the Americas with
excellent references in the Handbook of American Indians 17, for those
interested in these things.

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