MS 2795 Truman Michelson note that Beothuk is not extinct with contact information of authority on subject
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2795
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Note on information showing this stock not extinct" 4/7/2014.
name: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
topic: label: Topic
content: Cree language
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content: Delaware language
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content: Ojibwa language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
culture: label: Culture
content: Beothuk Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
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content: 1 Page
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2795
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Typed note stating that Beothuk is not extinct, with the contact information of Dr. H. Addy, the "best authority on them." It appears that this note may have been extracted from a 1914 letter from Lousiana. Handwritten by Truman Michelson at the bottom of the slip of paper is a Cree, Delaware, and Ojibwa cognate set and "Rev. W.C. Gaynor of St. Benedict La."