MS 806 Chochone and Paiute vocabulary

Summary

Collection ID:: NAA.MS806
Creators:: Remy, Jules, 1826-1893
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
Dates:: ca. 1861
Languages:: Multiple languages
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Physical Description:: 2 Pages
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Scope and Contents

Copied by George Gibbs from Remy's "A Journey to Great Salt Lake City," Volume 1, page 109, about 55 words, and about 26 Paiute words, all with French equivalents. Short list of Paviotso words on second page headed "Paiute words from Remy."

Biographical / Historical

Quotation by Gibbs: "Kowilths [Wishosk] is the name of the tribe.... The vocabulary was filled by Zara C. Williams, Table Bluff, Humboldt Bay, Oct. 1856, and forwarded me by Mr Numa Duperie."

Local Numbers

NAA MS 806

Local Note

manuscript document

Using the Collection

Citation

Manuscript 806, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms	Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Shoshone	Topic	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Paiute	Culture	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Shoshone	Culture	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Wiyot	Culture	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- California	Culture	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Great Basin	Culture	Search Smithsonian Collections	Search ArchiveGrid

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