MS 239 Attacapa vocabularies
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 239, NAA MS 239-a-b, NAA MS 239-c-d
name: label: Collector
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Atakapa
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Collector
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
culture: label: Culture
content: Atakapa
unitdate: label: Date
content: January 1885
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS239
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents:

(a)- Attacapa material gathered at same time and place, in bound composition book, consisting of vocabulary, texts with interlinear, mortuary notes, and grammatical material. Orthography not same as in (b).

(b)- Vocabulary recorded in schedule of John Wesley Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages; approximately 70 pages used. At back of volume are "syntactic examples," 2 pages, and "various sentences," 1 page.

(c) Attakapa vocabulary. Approximately 400 slips.

(d) Vocabulary copied on cards 4-1/2 x 6-1/2" in English -Attacapa and Attacapa-English arrangements.