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Title:Names of various trees, shrubs, and plants in the language of the Lennape
Contributor:Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
Kampman, Christian Frederick, 1708-1808
Turner, Edie
Wood, John, ca. 1775-1822
Date:1840
Description: This small manuscript volume contains a brief vocabulary written down by John Wood "from an old Indian Woman of the name of Edie Turner the 4th of March 1820"; together with newsclipping, Petersburg, Virginia, March 17, identifying informant and relating Nottoway, Powhatan and Welsh. The vocabulary is listed by semantic categories "Of the Universe; Of the Human Species; Of Animals; Vegetable Kingdom; Division of Time; Domestic Essays; Adjectives; Verbs." Marginal comparisons with Tuscarora, Onondaga, Wyandot, Delaware, etc., probably by Peter S. Du Ponceau. [See also letters of Jefferson to Du Ponceau, July 7, 1820; Du Ponceau to Jefferson, July 12, 1820.] This item is bound with a list of the Latin and botanical names of the plants, prepared by Christian Frederick Kampman, and with John Wood, "Vocabulary of the language of the Nottoway Tribe of Indians..." (1820).
Extent:1 volume, 11 p.
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/9662
Language:Welsh
Wyandot
Powhatan
Tuscarora
Nottoway
Onondaga
Delaware
English
Latin
Language (ISO639):cym
wya
pim
tus
ntw
ono
del
eng
lat
Subject:Delaware
Nottoway
Botany
Linguistics
Type:Newspaper clippings
Type (DCMI):Text
Type (OLAC):lexicon

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Citation: Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823; Kampman, Christian Frederick, 1708-1808; Turner, Edie; Wood, John, ca. 1775-1822. 1840. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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