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Hokkaido Museum of Northern Peoples houses the “Hattori Collection”, which includes a lot of materials of Attu dialect of Aleut (Unangan) language and Aleut culture. Linguist Takeshi Hattori (1909-1991), who was well-known as the expert of the Nivkh language, researched the Aleut language in 1943 at Otaru city in Hokkaido, Japan. In those days, all Aleuts of the Attu island were interned in Otaru in the course of Aleutian Islands campaign between the Japanese and U.S. Army. Although Hattori left a lot of linguistic and ethnographic data, unfortunately, these materials are rarely used by researchers. One of the difficulties to use materials is that no one grasps the outline of Hattori's research because he never published his Aleut study. Therefore, it is hard to understand “raw materials” which were handwritten in English, Japanese, Aleut, etc., for lacking information about his research overview or purpose.
This paper reveals the picture of Hattori's Aleut study by transcribing and editing several materials (T-177, T-373, T-400 and T-428). T-373 and T-428 are typed versions of uncompleted linguistic papers which were probably aimed to be published by Hattori. These manuscripts provide an excellent overview of his work and his research objectives. T-177 is another typed manuscript, a vocabulary list of the Aleut-English. T-400 is a handwritten note on the background of his Aleut research. We edited these materials and added the editors' notes. Besides, we listed all Aleut materials of Hattori Collections. These materials will support our understanding of Hattori's study and future studies of the Aleut language.
