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National Anthropological Archives
MS 4871 Dictionary of the Illinois language
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4871
- Creators:
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Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708
- Dates:
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ca. 1700
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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581 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Dictionary of the Peoria dialect of Illinois and French attributed to the Reverend James Gravier and dated to "before or not many years after" 1700 on the basis of handwriting and orthography. The dictionary also contains later additions in at least two different handwritings. (Information from J. Hammond Trumbull in J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology-B 13, page 211..) A few pages at the beginning and end of the manuscript are lost, and some of the remaining pages are fragmentary.
Administration
Custodial History
Xerox copy purchased from the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, February 13, 1969. (Transmittal correspondence in National Anthropological Archives Accession Files.)
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4871, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4871
Local Note
Local Note
xerox copy of Manuscript document
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Illinois Indians | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Northeast | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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