MS 2806 Edward Sapir notes on vocabularies of

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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Local Numbers...... 1 Scope and Contents...... 1 Local Note...... 1 Names and Subjects ...... 2 Container Listing ...... MS 2806 Edward Sapir notes on vocabularies of Algonquian languages NAA.MS2806

Collection Overview

Repository: National Anthropological Archives

Title: MS 2806 Edward Sapir notes on vocabularies of Algonquian languages

Identifier: NAA.MS2806

Date: circa 1911

Creator: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938 (Collector)

Extent: 28 Pages

Language: In Delaware; Western or Eastern Abenaki; Malecite; Micmac; Cree; Innu; and English.

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Administrative Information

Provenance Apparently sent by Sapir to Truman Michelson (see 28th A.R., BAE, page 225 and ff). Preferred Citation Manuscript 2806, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Scope and Contents

Edward Sapir's typed notes on the vocabularies of various Algonquian languages that he collected in 1911. List of languages covered: Delaware, pages 1-6; Abnaki (Pierreville), page 7-12; Malecite (Riviere du Loup, Thomas Paul), pages 13-17; Micmac, pages 18-23, Cree (Rupert's House), pages 24-25; Montagnais (Louis Clairie, Pointe Bleue), pages 26-28. There are annotations and corrections in ink in Sapir's handwriting (identified by Mary Haas, 4/58). There are also pencil additions signed by Michelson; perhaps all of the pencil additions are his.

Local Numbers

NAA MS 2806

Local Note

Title changed from "Vocabularies" 5/1/2014.

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Names and Subject Terms

This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:

Subjects: Abenaki (Abnaki) Abenaki language Abnaki Algonquian languages Cree Indians of North America -- Great Plains Indians of North America -- Northeast Indians of North America -- Subarctic Language and languages -- Documentation Lenape Lenape (Delaware) Linguistics (Malecite) Maliseet- Mi'kmaq Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Micmac language Montagnais Innu Montagnais language Passamaquoddy language

Cultures: Abenaki (Abnaki) Cree Indians of North America -- Great Plains Indians of North America -- Northeast Indians of North America -- Subarctic Lenape (Delaware) Maliseet (Malecite) Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Montagnais Innu

Types of Materials: Vocabulary

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