MS 4836 Pictographic record of trading accounts
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4836
name: label: Creator
content: Roy, Vincent, 1797-1872
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Minnesota
creator: label: Creator
content: Roy, Vincent, 1797-1872
culture: label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Vincent Roy (1797-1838) was an Ojibwa and French-Canandian trader who managed the Vermillion Lake trading post from the mid-1830s until 1840.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Notebook (4.5 x 6.75 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1838 November 28
container: label: Container
content: Box 4836
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The notebook was donated by John M. Lawler of Miller Street, R.F.D., North Wilbraham, Massachusetts on a visit to the Bureau of American Ethnology circa 1963.  It was deposited in the BAE Archives (now the National Anthropological Archives) by Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4836
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Notebooks
label: Type
content: Pictographs
label: Type
content: Account books
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Pictographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Account books
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of an account book kept by Vincent Roy.  The book records his year-end inventory of unsold merchandise and furs, as well as the individual accounts of Ojibwa trappers.  Pictographs represent individuals, trade goods, and animals.

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