MS 4836 Pictographic record of trading accounts
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4836
- Creators:
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Roy, Vencent (Trader)
- Dates:
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November 28, 1838
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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83 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Notebook includes handwritten names identified by Paul H. Voorhis, 1/69. The location, "Vermillion La.," given on the flyleaf, likely refers to Vermillion Lake in Wisconson.
Administration
Custodial History
Received by Dr. Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr., Director, Bureau of American Ethnology, from John M. Lawler, Miller Street, R.F.D., No. Wilbraham, Massachusetts, personal visit, ca. 1963.
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4836
Local Note
Local Note
Some pictographs resemble those of Abnaki shop accounts, reproduced in Garrick Mallery, "Picture-writing of the American Indians," Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 10, Washington, D.C., 1893, pages 259-262; see also, the Chippewa pictographs, pages 233-249.
Local Note
notebook
Digital Content
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4836, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Names, Personal -- Chippewa | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Chippewa | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Pictographs -- Chippewa | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- Northeast | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Repository Contact
National Anthropological Archives
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4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, Maryland 20746
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