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MS 2505-b "Unalit" (Unaligmiut) and "Malimyut" (Malemiut) vocabularies, sentences, and linguistic notes, Norton Sound, Alaska

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Catalog Data

Creator:
Turner, Lucien M. (Lucien McShan)  Search this
Extent:
1 Volume
Culture:
Eskimos  Search this
Arctic peoples  Search this
Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Volumes
Date:
1874-77
Scope and Contents:
Pages 3186-3475: "Unalit-English vocabulary, St Michaels, Norton Sound, Alaska. Over 3000 words, in partial alphabetical order, with sentences, grammatical notes, place names, legends, and verb conjugations interspersed. Pages 2475a-3495: Malemiut-English vocabulary, Norton Sound, Alaska. Approximately 250 words, alphabetical order.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2505-b
Local Note:
This volumes is listed in Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 1, 1887, page 94 as part of a Manuscript folio that he calls "[Contributions to the Natural History of North America. Report on observations made in Ungava and Labrador in 1882-1884 by L.M. Turner.]" Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscripts 2505-a and 2505-c also form part of this report, and there is an additional volume, with pages numbered 1842-2127 (listed in Pilling as "Ethnology of the Innuit,") which had not been located in 6/63. Manuscript 2505-b has not been titled by Turner, but the cover is marked in his handwriting with Roman Numerals XXIII and XXIV. These numerals do not seem to be related to the pagination, and possibly refer to the state before binding.
Topic:
Names, place -- Eskimo  Search this
Folklore -- Eskimo  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 2505-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS2505B
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32678237e-51be-4ac1-9e1e-992f95922692
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2505b