Letter : New Whatcom, Wash., to [J.C. Pilling], Director of Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1893 May 22.

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Letter : New Whatcom, Wash., to [J.C. Pilling], Director of Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D.C., 1893 May 22.

Letter, dated May 22, 1893, to J.C. Pilling at the Bureau of Ethnology in Washington, D.C. from Father Jean Baptiste Boulet of New Whatcom, Washington, containing the text of the Lord's Prayer in the Tanana or Shagaluk language of Alaska, copied from the San Francisco Monitor of April 8, 1893.

1 leaf ; 22 x 14 cm.

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