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Language:English | French | Naskapi | Innu-aimun
Date:circa 1690-1774
Contributor:Laure, Pierre-Michel, 1688-1738 | Faber, Bonaventura
Subject:Linguistics | Algonquian languages | Missions | Religion | Canada--History--To 1763 (New France) | Jesuits | Séminaire de Québec
Type:Text
Genre:Microfilms | Correspondence | Prayers | Dictionaries | Baptismal records | Marriage registers | Birth registers | Death registers | Church records
Extent:3 items
Description: Part of a collection comprised of religious and linguistic materials in various Native American languages. Many were written by Jesuit missionaries of New France. These particular items include a copy of a Montagnais dictionary attributed to Father Bonaventura Faber (or Favre) circa 1690; Montagnais prayers attributed to Father Pierre-Michel (or Petro) Laure, containing also a fragment of a letter dated 1724 noting "this is the third year that I live with the Tad8ssaciens," and denouncing the honesty and truthfulness of the Indians; and a register of baptisms, marriages, and deaths at La Mission du Domain du Roy from 1759 to 1774. Native peoples mentioned in the latter include Chicoutimi, Tadussaks, Mille Vaches, and Montagnais. Originals in the Archives de l'Archiveche de Quebec, Bibliotheque de l'Archeveche de Quebec, and Universite Laval, Seminaire de Quebec.
Collection:Selected materials, 1676-1930, on Indian linguistics (Mss.Film.453)
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Language:English | Marshallese | Pohnpeian | Mortlockese | Kosraean
Date:1856, 1870-1880, 1904
Contributor:Whitney, Joel
Subject:Micronesia | Missions
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Diaries | Photographs | Broadsides | Poems | Marriage registers | Receipts
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: Papers of Joel F. Whitney, missionary on the island of Ebon, Marshall Islands, and Kusaie (Kosrae), Micronesia. Includes linguistic material, a small amount of mission press publications in Kosrean, Mortlockese, and Pohnpeian, one tintype likely showing Joel Whitney, realia, letters, and diaries that include some information in Marshallese, including records (with names) of marriages for 1876 and 1877 at the Ebon mission. Primarily materials relating to Ebon, including two diaries (1876-1877); early Micronesian printing, primarily of missionary texts such as the Lord's Prayer (first printing in Mortlock language; also some in Pohnpeian); manuscript articles about Micronesia; correspondence; billheads; reports; minutes of meetings, etc. Also included is a small wiskbroom or fan made of island bark and a scroll. Tintype photo ofolder man (possibly Whitney) with young native girl with hoop, circa 1880. The diaries have approx. 164pp, 130pp; approx. 149pp of correspondence; approx. 30 billheads or receipts (many are very long ordering 3 to 6 months of supplies); 13pp of minutes of missionary meetings; approx. 75pp of manuscript drafts of "articles" on history of Micronesian missions; approx. 38pp of mission press printed materials (including duplication).
Collection:Joel F. Whitney Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.98)