MS 4538 English-Arikara vocabulary
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4538
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
culture: label: Culture
content: Sahnish (Arikara)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 36 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869-74 ?
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Dr John A. Pope, Assistant Director, Freer Gallery of Art, through Frank M. Setzler, November 7, 1958. Inscribed on inside of back cover is, "I remember these Indians [i.e., the list of Indian authorities for the vocabulary] in Dakota Territory 1869," signed, "Martha Gray Wales."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4538
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: With this, Dr Pope presented a copy of Washington Matthews, "Grammar and Dictionary of the Language of the Hidatsa," New York, 1873. The latter was inscribed from Washington Matthews to C. C. Gray, Surgeon, U. S. Army, in 1874, and from Martha Gray Wales to Gustavus D. Pope in 1920. The manuscript had evidently been kept with the printed volume for many years and had been assumed to be by Matthews also. However, it is unsigned, and comparison with the printed volume shows that the author of the manuscript used different orthography. The volume itself is different from the printed Hidatsa vocabulary, and comparison with Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript 260 shows it to be Arikara.