Caddo materials, American Philosophical Society Archives

Culture:
Natchez
Creek
Caddo
Biloxi includes: Tanêks, Tanêksa
Adai
Language: English | French
Date: 1821-1822
Contributor: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Subject: Linguistics
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Memoranda
Extent: 3 items
Description: Notes concerning Indian nations given to Peter S. Du Ponceau by Mr. Darby, giving locations of Caddo, Inies [?], Natchitoches, Apalachicolas, and Biloxi; a letter from Du Ponceau to John Sibley seeking Caddo and Natchez vocabularies of 150 words each and giving classes (from Jefferson word list?); and a letter from Du Ponceau to Friedrich von Adelung transmitting two of Sibley's manuscript vocabularies, Caddo and Adayes [Adai], and noting that his brother, Le Chevalier Du Ponceau, has prepared a translation of Heckewelder (1819).
Collection: American Philosophical Society Archives APS.Archives