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MS 4538 English-Arikara vocabulary

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4538
Creators:
ANONYMOUS
Dates:
1869-74 ?
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
36 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
With this, Dr Pope presented a copy of Washington Matthews, "Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa," New York, 1873. The latter was inscribed from Washington Matthews to C. C. Gray, Surgeon, U. S. Army, in 1874, and from Martha Gray Wales to Gustavus D. Pope in 1920. The manuscript had evidently been kept with the printed volume for many years and had been assumed to be by Matthews also. However, it is unsigned, and comparison with the printed volume shows that the author of the manuscript used different orthography. The volume itself is different from the printed Hidatsa vocabulary, and comparison with Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript 260 shows it to be Arikara.

Administration

Custodial History
Donated by Dr John A. Pope, Assistant Director, Freer Gallery of Art, through Frank M. Setzler, November 7, 1958. Inscribed on inside of back cover is, "I remember these Indians [i.e., the list of Indian authorities for the vocabulary] in Dakota Territory 1869," signed, "Martha Gray Wales."

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4538, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4538


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sahnish (Arikara) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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