MS 7441 Gambier Notebook
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content: NAA MS 7441
label: Local Note
content: The material was identified by the handwriting of Horatio Hale. In Hale's Ethnology and Philology (volume 6 of the report of the Wilkes Expedition [United States Exploring Expedition]), the Maigret vocabulary is mentioned and one of its terms and an explanatory definition is singled out for quotation. This together with the appearance of Maigret's name (Christian name in Latin form) provides the identification of the vocabulary.
label: Local Note
content: Manuscript document
name: label: Creator
content: Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
label: Creator
content: Maigret, Louis-Désiré, 1804-1882
label: Creator
content: Emerson, J. S. (Joseph S.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Gambier
label: Topic
content: Ascension Island (Atlantic Ocean)
creator: label: Creator
content: Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
label: Creator
content: Maigret, Louis-Désiré, 1804-1882
label: Creator
content: Emerson, J. S. (Joseph S.)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Hale was the ethnologist on the Wilkes Expedition (United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1845.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 113 Pages
label: Extent
content: 1 Volume
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1830s-40s
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The notebook was an unidentified item in the collection of manuscripts acquired from the Smithsonian Libraries and was found among those materials identified as papers of W. W. Turner.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS7441
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Volumes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The spine of the notebook is marked Gambier. The main portion (70 pages) includes a copy of a Gambier-French vocabulary obtained from Father Louis Désiré Maigret, at one time a Roman Catholic missionary on Mangareva. There is also a note concerning infanticide in Hawaii from an article by the Rev. J. S. Emerson and notes on Ascension taken from G. W. Punchard and a related wordlist. There are notes from a journal of a Englishman named Smith, an English rendering of parts of the Maigret vocabulary, and the Lord's prayer in Mangareva.