Alaska Native Language Archive

Resource Details

Identifier:

EY786SW1786

Title

[Strange and Walker: Prince William Sound region]

Description:

Alexander Walker (1764-1831) was appointed to the military command of a 1785 expedition under James Charles Stuart Strange (1765?- 1840) to establish a military and commercial post on the Northwest Coast of North America. The two ships reached Vancouver Island on June 26 1786 and stayed one month at Nootka Sound. They then sailed north, sighted Cape Hinchinbrook on August 29th and entered Prince William Sound. The ships anchored at Snug Corner Cove, which Captain Cook had used in 1778. They abandoned the idea of establishing a post and on September 19, they sailed for Nootka and then for India.

Strange's journal included word lists for the languages of the inhabitants of Nootka Sound and Prince William Sound. Correspondence in the folder indicates it may have been Walker who actually collected the word lists.

The folder includes notes by Krauss, correspondence, copied excerpts of published and unpublished works, and copies of the word lists.

Historical notes based on information in folder.

Contributors

Strange, James Charles Stewart (author)
Walker, Alexander (author)

Date

1786

Type

Text

Subject Language(s)

Eyak

LingType

lexicon
vocabulary

Files:

Strange_Walker.pdf

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