National Anthropological Archives

MS 1506 French-Lower Nez Perce ("Cayuse") vocabulary

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS1506
Creators:
St. Onge, L. N. (Louis Napoléon), 1842-1901
Brouillet, J. B. A. (Jean Baptiste Abraham), 1813-1884
Dates:
ca. 1871
Languages:
Identified as Franch-Lower Nez Perce vocabulary by Bruce J. Rigsby, University of Toronto, in letter of March 22, 1965, in which he states: "The confusion enters in that the Cayuse also spoke a Lower Nez Perce dialect that many people call Cayuse."
Physical Description:
659 Items
cards
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
First card reads: "Vocabulaire Cayuse. Tir'e d'un memorandum du Tres Rev. I. B. Brouillet, V[icar] G[eneral], et de notes prises en route, par L. N. St Onge, Missionaire des Yakamas. Partie Francais--Cayuse, Contenant 759 mots."

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 1506, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 1506

Local Note

Local Note
Typed by John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt in 1894.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Niimíipuu (Nez Perce) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Plateau Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

National Anthropological Archives
Museum Support Center
4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, Maryland 20746
naa@si.edu