Penobscot Language Master Cards
Language: Abenaki, Eastern | English
Date: circa 1970s
Contributor: Dana, Susie | McKeough, Helen | Pritchard, Evan
Subject: Maine--History | Language study and teaching | Linguistics
Type: Sound recording | Text
Genre: Correspondence | Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent: 1 folder; 12 audiocassettes (4 hr., 47 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recording of Penobscot Language Master Cards. Also contains the original list of 1255 English words and phrases used in the recordings (47 p,); a phonetic transcription of the corresponding Penobscot for the first 333 cards, made by Evan Pritchard (10 p.); and a letter from Sister Helen McKeough of the Indian Island School to members of the Penobscot Nation explaining the contents of the tapes and circumstances of their recording. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection: Penobscot Language Master Cards Mss.SMs.Coll.14