MS 881 Beothuk vocabulary
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 881
label: Local Note
content: Manuscript document
name: label: Creator
content: King, Richard, 1811?-1876
label: Creator
content: Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon), 1812-1888
label: Names
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: King, Richard, 1811?-1876
label: Creator
content: Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon), 1812-1888
culture: label: Culture
content: Beothuk Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: James P. Howley, The Beothuks or Red Indians, Cambridge, University Press, 1915, page 300, cites R. G. Latham, "Varieties of Man," Comparative Philology, London, 1850 as pronouncing the Beothuk language to be "distinctly Algonkin" on the basis of "a hitherto unpublished Beothuk vocabulary with which I have been kindly furnished by my friend Dr. King of the Anthropological Society." Presumably the "Dr. King" referred to by Latham is Richard King, M.D., a contributor to the Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, volume 1, 1848;
label: Biographical / Historical
content: he is listed in the Contents of the volume as "Dr. King, Honorary Secretary of the Ethnological Society." The printed "List of the Ethnological Society of London," London, 1855 includes among the Fellows Richard King, M. D., Savile-row, and also David King, M. D., Eltham, Kent.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: pre-1850
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS881
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Also includes Latham, R. G., letter to Bureau of Ethnology, transmitting the above "copy of a Manuscript concerning which Mr. Gatschet made an enquiry...." Putney, S. W. [London] January 2, 1883. Autograph Letter Signed 1 page.