Scope and Contents

Collection includes Fox, Ojibwa, and Cheyenne linguistic data obtained from informants; Fox and Ojibwa dictionaries prepared largely from published sources; notes on Powhatan, Cree, Menominee, and comparative Algonquian; publications in and concerning Algonquian languages; correspondence; and miscellaneous personal papers.

Local Numbers

NAA MS 4860

Local Note

Full series of Father Geary's Algonquian linguistic manuscripts are detailed in inventory of Geary papers, Number 4860, copy in "Master" file.

Local Note

Autograph document

Custodial History

Collection was presented to the National Anthropological Archives by Regina F. Hartzfeld, Head, Department of Anthropology, Catholic University, Washington, D. C. 20017 with the permission of of the Assistant Vice Rector for Business, June, 1969 (transmittal correspondence on file.)

Custodial History

Previously titled "Manuscript relating to Algonquian linguistics."