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National Anthropological Archives
MS 586 Cha'hta (Choctaw) vocabulary
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS586
- Creators:
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Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
- Dates:
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1881-82
- Languages:
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Materials inChoctaw(Cha'hta) andEnglish.
- Physical Description:
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74 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Recorded in J.W. Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. It is a dialect of southeastern Louisiana, collected in various settlements in Tangipahoa and St. Tammany Parishes, Louisiana.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Includes on title page autograph notes regarding Gatschet's efforts in collecting "only terms for concrete objects and actions" which are not to be found in Byington's Dictionary."
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Citation
Manuscript 586, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 586
Local Note
Local Note
Additional notes, page 239, on the words and sentences collected at New Orleans, Louisiana on January 14, 1882 read: "They could not be revised with the help of any other Indians, and therefore no implicit reliance can be placed on them."
Local Note
Manuscript signed document
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Choctaw language | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Choctaw | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- Southern states | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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