This map is another example of the highly informative maps in SWORP. Extending from Cape Foulweather to Port Orford in this truncated copy, the map clearly shows where Indian villages
existed by the numbered point locations. Also trails and roads are shown by dotted lines.
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This second page from folder Abbott 125 was part of the SWORP I collection from 1995. From the handwritten heading notes we can see how Abbott collected a vocabulary of Coquille words and was working closely with George Gibbs. Gibbs was at that time at Fort Steilacoom in the Washington Territory. This example of making notes on their texts is a common occurrence in Series 1. Many of these notes have been added to the manuscript in the course of the last hundred years by either the author, the letter receiver, members of the Bureau of American Ethnography, staff at the Smithsonian Institution, and sometimes other scholars who have visited the National Anthropological Archives. Notations on some manuscripts are from at late as 1975. The notations themselves are another layer of information, a dialogue, between Anthropologists through the history of such documents. This highly formalized vocabulary list was very common in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. Sometimes such formal lists have been criticized for not capturing the true character of the Indian language as the words are removed from grammatical and cultural contexts. However, sometimes this is all we have.