Inuit materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:

Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ

Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe

Language: English

Date: August 17, 1887

Contributor: Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895

Subject: Linguistics

Type: Text

Genre: Correspondence

Extent: 2 pages

Description: Letter to Henry Phillips requesting permission to examine the American Philosophical Society's Iroquois [Haudenosaunee] manuscripts for the Bureau of American Ethnology's planned series on North American languages. Transmits copy of volume on Eskimo [Inuit].

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