[Hwa Miao hymnal]
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1900
Place of publication: Chengtu, China?
Language: chi
Number of pages: 92
Other titles: Hymn book in the Hiva Miao language.; Hymn book in the Hwa Miao language.
Notes: Text in the Hwa Miao dialect spoken in south-western China; transliterated by Samuel Pollard into a syllabic system that he devised himself.

Cataloguer's title.

Printed from woodblocks, on double leaves, in the oriental format.

"The Hwa, or Flowered, Miao live in western Kweichow Province of China and southward as far as northern Vietnam and Laos... Samuel Pollard and his fellow missionaries began their work among the Miao at the end of the 19th century... The mission set itself to provide the Miao with a Bible in their own tongue [Cf. Darlow & Moule 6779, 6780]... Pollard and his colleagues devised a script for the Miao. It was a syllabary, an alphabet of syllables, such as Evans had invented earlier for the Cree Indians of Canada"--The book of a thousand tongues, no. 861.