MS 2505-b "Unalit" (Unaligmiut) and "Malimyut" (Malemiut) vocabularies, sentences, and linguistic notes, Norton Sound, Alaska
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content: NAA MS 2505-b
label: Local Note
content: This volumes is listed in Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 1, 1887, page 94 as part of a Manuscript folio that he calls "[Contributions to the Natural History of North America. Report on observations made in Ungava and Labrador in 1882-1884 by L.M. Turner.]" Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscripts 2505-a and 2505-c also form part of this report, and there is an additional volume, with pages numbered 1842-2127 (listed in Pilling as "Ethnology of the Innuit,") which had not been located in 6/63. Manuscript 2505-b has not been titled by Turner, but the cover is marked in his handwriting with Roman Numerals XXIII and XXIV. These numerals do not seem to be related to the pagination, and possibly refer to the state before binding.
name: label: Creator
content: Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)
topic: label: Topic
content: Names, place -- Eskimo
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content: Folklore -- Eskimo
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimos
label: Culture
content: Arctic peoples
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Volume
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1874-77
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2505B
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Volumes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Pages 3186-3475: "Unalit-English vocabulary, St Michaels, Norton Sound, Alaska. Over 3000 words, in partial alphabetical order, with sentences, grammatical notes, place names, legends, and verb conjugations interspersed. Pages 2475a-3495: Malemiut-English vocabulary, Norton Sound, Alaska. Approximately 250 words, alphabetical order.