Comparative vocabulary of the Algonkian dialects [manuscript], 1893-1895 / by Albert S. Gatschet.

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Comparative vocabulary of the Algonkian dialects [manuscript], 1893-1895 / by Albert S. Gatschet.

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An original typed and handwritten manuscript, title page is dated 1893, which includes comparative lists arranged one word per page of over forty different Algonquin languages/dialects, apparently from both published and unpublished sources; the language names are typed, the words inserted by hand in ink. Pages 254-256 lists sources. With a letter from Wallace Tooker to Gatschet loosely inserted, dated October 16, 1895, discussing Algonquin terms for "rainbow."

[2], 256 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907

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