MS 397 Sample Pages of Cherokee Grammar
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content: NAA MS 397
name: label: Creator
content: Duncan, D. W. C. (DeWitt Clinton), 1829-1909
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Duncan, D. W. C. (DeWitt Clinton), 1829-1909
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 69 Pages
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content: 1 Notebook
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1882
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS397
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content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Notebooks
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Negative Microfilm
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Also grammatical notes on separate sheets, [letter of transmittal, August 10, 1882; and broadside for lecture by D. W. C. Duncan (a Cherokee).
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content: These sample pages, which utilize the Cherokee syllabary, were extracted from the larger work, "Analysis of the Cherokee Language," by D. W. C. Duncan and Helen R. Duncan, his wife. The "Analysis" was sent to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1886 (Duncan to Baird, February 15, 1886, 6 pages; Duncan to Powell, February 23, 1886, 2 pages and March 9, 1886, 7 pages). It was examined by J. O. Dorsey (Dorsey to Powell, March 19, 1886 (2 pages), and returned (Powell to Duncan, March 20, 1886, 2 pages).
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content: The letters referred to above are in the correspondence files of the Bureau of American Ethnology. A copy of Dorseyʹs memo to Powell is filed herewith. Also with the Duncan file, apparently added later and possibly unrelated, are a photostat (1 sheet) of 2 pages of the Cherokee Book of Luke, and a transcription (1 page) of Chapter 1, verse 28 in John Napolean Brinton Hewittʹs writing.