Swanton J.R. Haida Texts - Masset Dialect

Leiden, New York: Brill, G.E. Stechert & Co, 1908. — 547 p. — (Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. Volume X, Part II).The following texts are about half of those obtained by me in the winter and spring of 1900-01. They are in that form of the Haida language spoken at Masset, on the northern coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and, with little alteration, by the natives of three Alaskan towns, — Howkan, Klinkwan, and Kasaan. The rest of my texts were taken down in the Skidegate dialect, which is now confined to the town of that name, situated about midway of the archipelago. The speakers of Masset, B. C. number in the neighborhood of 600, about evenly divided between Masset and Alaska; the speakers of Skidegate, 250.