MS 2008-23 Journal kept by Lewis Ketchum, a Penobscot
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content: NAA MS 2008-23
name: label: Creator
content: Ketchum, Lewis
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Ketchum, Lewis
culture: label: Culture
content: Penobscot -- language
label: Culture
content: Penobscot
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content: 1 Book (3 1/4 x 5 inches)
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content: circa 1837-1879
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2008-23
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Books
label: Type
content: Journals (accounts)
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content: Journals (accounts)
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content: 19th century manuscript book kept by Lewis Ketchum (Penobscot), mostly written in the Penobscot dialect of Eastern Abenaki with some notes in English. The manuscript descended through the Ketchum family and documents tribal matters from 1837 to 1879, including charity, marriages, births, and customs.