National Anthropological Archives

MS 881 Beothuk vocabulary

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS881
Creators:
King, Richard, 1811?-1876
Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon), 1812-1888
Dates:
pre-1850
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
5 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Also includes Latham, R. G., letter to Bureau of Ethnology, transmitting the above "copy of a Manuscript concerning which Mr. Gatschet made an enquiry...." Putney, S. W. [London] January 2, 1883. Autograph Letter Signed 1 page.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
James P. Howley, The Beothuks or Red Indians, Cambridge, University Press, 1915, page 300, cites R. G. Latham, "Varieties of Man," Comparative Philology, London, 1850 as pronouncing the Beothuk language to be "distinctly Algonkin" on the basis of "a hitherto unpublished Beothuk vocabulary with which I have been kindly furnished by my friend Dr. King of the Anthropological Society." Presumably the "Dr. King" referred to by Latham is Richard King, M.D., a contributor to the Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 1, 1848;
Biographical / Historical
he is listed in the Contents of the volume as "Dr. King, Honorary Secretary of the Ethnological Society." The printed "List of the Ethnological Society of London," London, 1855 includes among the Fellows Richard King, M. D., Savile-row, and also David King, M. D., Eltham, Kent.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 881, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 881

Local Note

Local Note
Manuscript document


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Beothuk Indians Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Subarctic Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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