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National Anthropological Archives
MS 4487 Photostat copy of "Elemens pour servir a la formation d'une grammaire des langues sauvages des Nations des Pian, des Illinois, des Mi, lesquelles nations s'entendent parfaitement les unes les autres quoiqu'il y ait quelque difference dans leurs langues"
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4487
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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[Peoria?], Mi[ami?] correct. I. G. 4/67
- Physical Description:
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7 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Original described by Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 13, page 50: Manuscript, 4 11. containing 7 unnumbered pages, double columns, 4 , in the Lenox Library. Apparently written in the latter part of the seventeenth or early part of the eighteenth century. On the verso of the last (blank) page is the endorsement "Commencement d'un Dictionnaire de Langue Sauvage." "Contains a list of pronouns, a vocabulary of about 200 words, including the numerals 1-1000, and some short sentences, and ending with the Lord's prayer.
Administration
Custodial History
Transferred from Bureau of American Ethnology Library, 1956.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4487, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4487
Local Note
Local Note
Pilling description: "There is a copy of this manuscript in the library of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. It was made by Mr Duponceau and forms number LII of a collection recorded by him in a folio account book, of which it occupies pages 159-162. Like the original, it is without indication of date or name of author."
Local Note
photostat copy
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers -- Illinois | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Peoria | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Miami | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Illinois -- language | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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