Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter by William Henry Holmes (Chief of Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution) to Frank B. Gay (Librarian, Watkinson Library), with enclosed draft notes written by Cyrus Thomas (Bureau of American Ethnology) entitled "List of Linguistic Families and Tribal Languages of Mexico and Central America", May 26, 1904
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
May 26, 1904