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MS 1759 Choctaw vocabulary

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS1759
Creators:
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
Dempsey, P.J.
Dates:
pre-1915
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
3 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Includes: Smithsonian Institution Ethnologist-in-Charge, F.W. Hodge's letter of appreciation to P.J. Dempsey, Chief-Clerk, War Department for the above vocabulary. March 3, 1915. Carbon typescript letter. 1 page. Recorded in printed form, "Words And Forms Of Speech Prepared With A View To Obtain Their Equivalents In Various Indian Dialects," with approximately 170 entries. The form is printed in England.

Administration

Custodial History
Originally "From R.H. Sterling to Colonel Abert, USA." Dempsey transmitted the Choctaw Indian vocabulary to Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, February 27, 1915.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 1759, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 1759

Local Note

Local Note
Manuscript document

Other Title

Other Title
Words and Forms of Speech Prepared with a View to Obtain their equivalents In various Indian dialects


Keywords

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Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Choctaw Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southern states Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sterling, R.H. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Abert, John James, 1788-1863 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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