National Anthropological Archives

MS 311 Chuckchi Vocabulary

Summary
Collection ID:
NAA.MS311
Creators:
Stimpson, William
Dates:
August 1855
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
17 Pages
Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
In "Comparative Vocabulary of the Languages of the Indian Tribes of the United States", issued by the Department of the Interior (H.R.S.) Partially used. Contains 104 words in schedule. The Outline provides for 350 equivalents, plus 90 numerals. Attached to this manuscript are also 7 pages containing 117 words, partly duplicating entries in printed schedule.
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Citation
Manuscript 311, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 311
Local Note
Local Note
B. A. E. Mss. 311. William Stimpson. Chukchi Vocabulary, August, 1855. Locality unknown. Pp. 27 plus 117, partly duplicating, in insert. (Entry prepared by Demitri Shimkin, July 1957, for use by Roman Jacobson in his bibliography of "Paleo-Siberian" Languages.) Shimkin says this manuscript was referred to by Dall, but location of manuscript was not given.
General
General
Previously titled "Vocabulary."
Keywords
Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Russia -- Siberia Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chukchee Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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