Malecite words pertaining to natural history
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Abenaki includes: Abnaki
Language: English | Maliseet-Passamaquoddy
Date: 1959
Contributor: Paul, Peter Lewis, 1902-1989
Subject: Botany | Hunting | Linguistics
Type: Sound recording
Genre: Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (1 hr., 11 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Linguistic field recordings made at Woodstock Reserve, New Brunswick, Canada, in June 1959. A reading of Malecite words and their English equivalents for multiple varieties and groupings of animals and plants, fish, dwellings, canoes and other water craft, hunting & fishing, and numbers & measures. The final 6 minutes of the recording consist of a reading from from Joseph Laurent's "New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues" (St-Francis, Quebec, 1884). (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: Malecite words pertaining to natural history Mss.Rec.34