Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages, 1797
Culture:
Language: English | Mi'kmaq | Innu-aimun | Naskapi
Date: 1797
Contributor: Pierronet, Thomas | Gabriel
Subject: Picture-writing | Orthography and spelling | Religion | Quebec--History | Newfoundland--History
Type: Still Image | Text
Genre: Dictionaries | Vocabularies | Pictographs | Prayers | Sketches
Extent: 41 pages
Description: This is a comparative vocabulary of the Mi'kmaq (Micmac), Innu-aimun (Montagnais, "Mountaineer"), and Naskapi ("Skoffie") languages. It includes Mi'kmaq prayers and a dictionary of Mi'kmaq pictographs. The latter includes 288 ink sketch pictographs of the Mi'kmaq language presented by Gabriel, an Innu man ("Mountaineer Indian,") and transcribed by Thomas Pierronet in 1797. Includes three Christian prayers in pictorial sentences.
Collection: Specimen of the Mountaineer, or Sheshatapooshshoish, Skoffie, and Micmac Languages, 1797 Mss.497.3.P61s