Flutes of Fire by Leanne Hinton

Author:Leanne Hinton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Heyday

But Marr added that he thanks God that Harrington used him this way, because of the great good accomplished by it. He also attributes much of the success of his own career as an engineer to the excellent education in vocabulary and writing that Harrington gave him.

Marr recorded many texts on Harrington’s giant recording machine, often reading a text in English and having the Native speaker say it back in the Native language. Starting in 2010, the 950 discs at the Smithsonian have been housed in the National Anthropological Archives, and sound clips of a handful of these recordings can now be heard online as part of the J. P. Harrington Collection.2 (Technology is still pressing forward to make it possible to digitize recordings that have been corroded by time.)3

Harrington’s letters to young Jack further emphasize the depth of the linguist’s passion for his work:4

. . . You’ve been a good friend if I ever had one, you just rushed at the work. You know how I look at this work, you and I are nothing, we’ll both of us soon be dust. If you can grab these dying languages before the old timers completely die off, you will be doing one of the few things valuable to the people of the remote future. You know that. The time will come and soon when there won’t be an Indian language left in California, all the languages developed for thousands of years will be ashes, the house is afire, it is burning. That’s why I said to go through the blinding rain, roads or no roads, that’s why I thanked God when you tried to cross the Mattole River, haven’t I gone back even two weeks later to find them dead and the language forever dead? (1941)

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