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...
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content: NAA MS 4487
label: Local Note
content: 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."
label: Local Note
content: photostat copy
topic: label: Topic
content: Numbers -- Illinois
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
culture: label: Culture
content: Peoria
label: Culture
content: Miami
label: Culture
content: Illinois -- language
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Transferred from Bureau of American Ethnology Library, 1956.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4487
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.