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MS 4487 Photostat copy of "Elemens pour servir a la formation d'une grammaire des langues sauvages des Nations des Pian, des Illinois, des Mi, lesquelles nations s'entendent parfaitement les unes les autres quoiqu'il y ait quelque difference dans leurs langues"

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4487
Creators:
ANONYMOUS
Dates:
undated
Languages:
[Peoria?], Mi[ami?] correct. I. G. 4/67
Physical Description:
7 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Original described by Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 13, page 50: Manuscript, 4 11. containing 7 unnumbered pages, double columns, 4 , in the Lenox Library. Apparently written in the latter part of the seventeenth or early part of the eighteenth century. On the verso of the last (blank) page is the endorsement "Commencement d'un Dictionnaire de Langue Sauvage." "Contains a list of pronouns, a vocabulary of about 200 words, including the numerals 1-1000, and some short sentences, and ending with the Lord's prayer.

Administration

Custodial History
Transferred from Bureau of American Ethnology Library, 1956.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4487, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4487

Local Note

Local Note
Pilling description: "There is a copy of this manuscript in the library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. It was made by Mr Duponceau and forms number LII of a collection recorded by him in a folio account book, of which it occupies pages 159-162. Like the original, it is without indication of date or name of author."
Local Note
photostat copy


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Numbers -- Illinois Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Peoria Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Miami Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Illinois -- language Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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