Milluk Digitized Words

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On a day in 1953, Laura Hodgkiss Metcalf was interviewed by Morris Swadesh and asked to translate English words and some short sentences into Milluk.  In the tape-recorded part of the interview, she said 284 different Milluk words.  She is remembered by Coquille Tribal members as Lolly Metcalf. Here is the entirety of the recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ren84k6j9oj4b5u/Milluk_Swadeshrecording_Cleaned.wav?dl=0

Hear how she referred to herself:

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