Inequality on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America measured by house-floor area and storage capacity

Summary This article reconsiders various aspects of missionary linguistics on the Pacific Northwest Coast in the late 19th century. In particular, it explores the complex relationship between Alfred Hall’s (1853–1918) A Grammar of the Kwagiutl Language (1888) and Charles Harrison’s (d.1926) Haida Grammar (1895), and it is shown that, in many cases, both the basic analytical framework and the clarificatory examples that Harrison used were largely derived from Hall’s work. Such connections have not been recognised previously, and yet they are of importance, since they indicate that traditional Graeco-Roman categories and paradigms were not the only templates used by missionaries who were seeking to analyse the indigenous languages of North America. In addition, Hall’s and Harrison’s accounts of numerals in Kwak’wala and Haida (respectively) are reassessed, and it is suggested that their analyses were influenced by the classificatory approaches presented in contemporaneous studies of non-Western languages (e.g., Japanese).

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DNA species identification of archaeological salmon bone from the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Journal of Archaeological Science ◽

10.1016/j.jas.2003.10.008 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 31 (5) ◽

pp. 619-631 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

Dongya Y Yang ◽

Aubrey Cannon ◽

Shelley R Saunders

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Species Identification ◽

Pacific Northwest ◽

Northwest Coast ◽

Pacific Northwest Coast ◽

The Pacific

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Insect Herbivores of Ferns along the Pacific Northwest Coast of North American

Biosis:Biological Systems ◽

10.37819/biosis.002.03.0124 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

Author(s):

George Poinar, Jr.

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Pacific Northwest ◽

North American ◽

Fossil Record ◽

New World ◽

Northwest Coast ◽

Insect Herbivores ◽

Pacific Northwest Coast ◽

The Pacific ◽

The Family

Fifteen species of insect herbivores were discovered on ferns growing along the Pacific northwest coast of North America. These included insects from the orders: Diptera in the families Anthomyiidae, Cecidiomyiidae and Syrphidae: Lepidoptera in the families Erebidae, Tortricidae and Noctuidae: Hymenoptera in the family Tenthredinidae: Hemiptera in the family Aphididae and Coleoptera in the family Curculionidae. The present study illustrates these associations that provides new world and North American host records of fern herbivores. The fossil record of these families is used to determine if the most ancient of these insects (dating from the Mesozoic) are now mostly restricted to ferns and the most recent ones (dating from the Cenozoic) are mostly polyphagous, feeding on ferns as well as various angiosperms. Results indicate that the insect clades belonging to the most ancient families, such as Aneugmenuss and Strongylogaster in the Tenthredinidae and Dasineura and Mycodiplosis in the Cecidiomyiidae, appear to be monophagous on ferns.

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Comment on Cannon and Yang: Early Storage and Sedentism on the Pacific Northwest Coast

American Antiquity ◽

10.7183/0002-7316.76.3.573 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 573-584 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Gregory G. Monks ◽

Trevor J. Orchard

Keyword(s):

Pacific Northwest ◽

Chum Salmon ◽

Northwest Coast ◽

Pacific Northwest Coast ◽

Growth Increments ◽

Data Support ◽

The Pacific ◽

And Storage

Cannon and Yang (2006) argue that a sedentary winter village based on stored pink and chum salmon began at Namu approximately 7000 B. P. In contrast, we argue that (a) available data support neither a sedentary winter village by that date nor a subsistence focus on stored pink and chum salmon; (b) the timing and ubiquity of salmon exploitation and storage was not as the authors assert; instead, stable, long-term adaptations focused on taxa other than salmon are found elsewhere on the Northwest Coast; and (c) seasonality estimation based on growth increments is a valid methodology.

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