MS 4634 Copy of two notebooks containing Micmac ideograms and interlinear transcription of Micmac words
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4634
label: Local Note
content: Microfolm copy made at Bureau of American Ethnology from the original lent by the Reverend Father Placide, O. F. M, Cap., Ristigouche, Cite Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada, March, 1962. Correspondence in Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology files.
label: Local Note
content: Xerox copy on file.
name: label: Creator
content: Navin, Frank
topic: label: Topic
content: Writing systems -- Micmac
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Navin, Frank
culture: label: Culture
content: Mi'kmaq (Micmac)
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Micmac ideograms."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4634
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Copied from Chritian Kauder, [Catechism, Prayer and Psalm Book], Vienna, 1866, with an interlinear transcription of the Micmac words. Microfilm copy of the original, which is in two copybooks written by Frank Navin, an Indian of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in 1943 or shortly thereafter.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The orthography is different from that of either Silas T. Rand (Protestant missionary, numerous printed works) or Charles Guay (Catholic Missionary, "Recueil de prieres," Quebec, 1890).