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Former owner:
Dorsey, James Owen 1848-1895 DSI  Search this
Author:
Dorsey, James Owen 1848-1895  Search this
Physical description:
1 folded sheet ([4] pages) 17 cm
Type:
Texts
Textes
Date:
1895
Notes:
Caption title
Imprint information appears on p. [2]-[3]
SCNHRB copy is laid a volume containing the following titles: Adams, S.F. "Nearer my God to Thee" in Omaha. Santee Agency, Neb. : Santee Normal Training School Press, 1894 -- Dorsey, James Owen. Ponka ABC Wa-Bá-Ru. New York : [s.n.], 1873 -- Hamilton, W. Translations into the Omaha language with portions of scripture. New York : Printed by E.O. Jenkins, 1868 -- Hamilton, W. An Ioway grammar. [Kansas?] : Ioway and Sac Mission Press, 1848. Bound together subsequent to publication.
SCNHRB copy has J. Owen Dorsey's autograph (as former owner) on front paste-down endpaper.
SCNHRB copy has two items laid in the volume, in addition to this leaflet, "Omaha hymns": 1. Unidentified typescript verses in Omaha[?], with initial line reading: "War-kon-dar, Dar-de-har" ([3] p. on 1 folded sheet); 2. Newsclipping from the Evening star (Washington, D.C.), Mon., Sept. 7, 1959: "Gold in your attic by Van Allen Bradley. Indian grammar brings $625" ([1] p.).
SCNHRB copy has a later blind-stamped half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and gilt-lettered spine.
Contents:
Just as I am -- Sweetly sing, sweetly sing! -- Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep! -- Praise Jesus the Lord -- God, O Father, help me
Topic:
Hymns, Omaha  Search this
Omaha dialect  Search this
Omaha language  Search this
Omaha (Dialecte)  Search this
Call number:
PM2071.Z77 A33 1894
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_904508