National Anthropological Archives

MS 665 Grammar of the Choctaw language

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS665
Creators:
Byington, Cyrus, 1793-1868
Dates:
1865
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
288 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
There appear to be several revisions of an original designed to have nine chapters. For full description, see Pilling's Muskogean bibliography (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 9, page 16). Dr. Brinton published a brief summary of this work in 1870.

Administration

Existence and Location of Originals
American Philosophical Library Philadelphia, Pennsylvania unspecified portions

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 665, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 665

Bibliography

Bibliography
Swanton, Bulletin 46, Introduction, states that Byington's grammar of the Choctaw language was published in Philadelphia, 1871, in Proc. of the American Philosophical Society, Volume II, pages 317-367. D.G. Brinton edited it.


Keywords

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