Alphabetical Vocabulary of the Chinook Language
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content: MS 262 Alphabetical Vocabulary in the Chinook Language

Index to Indian Vocabularies No. 417
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content: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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content: Chinook
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection / Writing
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content: 1 Volume
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content: Box 12, Folder 14
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Consists of slips of English and Chinook words pasted alphabetically onto sheets of brown paper which have been bound together with string.  The last page is a copy of Robert Shortess' Lower Chinook vocabulary which has the note "to be incorporated in the alphabetical voc[abulary]."   The manuscript was probably used to prepare: 

Gibbs, George. Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon. Cramoisy Press, 1863. 

(Also published as Smithsonian Institution Publication 161 (Washington, 1863) and reissued in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 7, 1867. 

There are some differences between this manuscript and the published versions.