Mohawk materials, Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879
Culture:
Wyandot includes: Huron, Wendat, Wyandotte, Huron-Wyandot
Mohawk includes: Kanienʼkehá꞉ka
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Date: 1770; 1818
Contributor: Mathevet, Jean Claude, 1717-1781
Subject: Missions | Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Iroquoian languages | Sulpicians | Religion
Type: Text
Genre: Microfilms | Dictionaries | Grammars | Catechisms | Canticles | Prayers | Sermons | Hymns | Translations
Extent: 2 reels
Description: Thirty-nine volumes of relgious materials and translations prepared by French Sulpician missionaries in New France in Iroquoian languages, as well as Algonquin and Algonquian languagues. Materials include Mathevet's translation into Mohawk of the Old Testament (3 volumes); New Testament (8 volumes); sermons (10 volumes); formal religious materials (16 volumes); an anonymous Algonquin manuscript; and an anonymous volume of catechism, prayers, and hymns in Huron. Originals in Seminaire de Montreal, les Pretres de Saint-Sulpice.
Collection: Indian manuscripts, 1661-1879 Mss.Film.1109