MS 4871 Dictionary of the Illinois language
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4871
label: Local Note
content: xerox copy of Manuscript document
name: label: Creator
content: Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708
culture: label: Culture
content: Illinois Indians
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 581 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1700
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Xerox copy purchased from the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, February 13, 1969. (Transmittal correspondence in National Anthropological Archives Accession Files.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4871
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Dictionary of the Peoria dialect of Illinois and French attributed to the Reverend James Gravier and dated to "before or not many years after" 1700 on the basis of handwriting and orthography. The dictionary also contains later additions in at least two different handwritings. (Information from J. Hammond Trumbull in J. C. Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian Languages, Bureau of American Ethnology-B 13, page 211..) A few pages at the beginning and end of the manuscript are lost, and some of the remaining pages are fragmentary.