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Title: Comparative vocabulary: 'Mohiccon' and unidentified languages
Identifier(s): text:156410
Description: Comparative vocabulary of Mahican (in column labelled 'No. 7') and 2 other unidentified Native American languages.
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages, 1802-1808 (Mss.497.J35); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.J35-ead.xml
Subject: Mahican language
Date: circa 1793-1808

Title: Field notes of vocabulary in Menominee, "Patewatmi" [Potawatomi], Winnebago, and unidentified languages
Identifier(s): text:268599
Description: Field notebook containing mostly lexica, and a few texts, as noted here. The notebook was either produced as part of, or later derived from, at least in part, the Oneida Language and Folklore Project. Consultants and languages have been identified as: Lafayette Webster (Oneida), Mrs. Robeson (Mahican), John Satterlee (Menominee), unidentified (Potawatomi), Chauncey Baird (Oneida, including texts told to Tillie Baird and Morris Swadesh in 1939), and Mrs. Powless (Oneida, named in a text told to Lafayette Webster). Also mentioned, but without indication as to whether or not they contributed directly to the notebook, are: John Webster, Jonathan Denny, Solomon Wheelock, Jay Mungen (?), Carl Miller, Webb Miller, and Avery Miller. Ho-Chunk section identified as pages 65-105 by Sheila Shigley in 2022.
Subject: Menominee language; Oneida language; Mahican language; Potawatomi language
Date: n.d.

Title: Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages
Identifier(s): text:156345
Description: Comparative vocabulary of 22 Native American languages, based on Jefferson's collection of vocabularies on printed forms. This document was damaged in transit from the White House to Monticello in 1809 (see letters of Jefferson to Peter S. Du Ponceau, November 7, 1817, and April 26, 1816.)
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: Comparative vocabularies of several Indian languages, 1802-1808 (Mss.497.J35); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.J35-ead.xml
Subject: Indians of North America--Languages; Atacapas language; Cayuga language; Cherokee language; Chickasaw language; Chitimacha language; Choctaw language; Cree language; Creek language; Delaware language; Mahican language; Miami language (Ind. and Okla.); Munsee language; Nanticoke language; Oneida language; Onondaga language; Ottawa language; Shawnee language; Tuscarora language; Unami jargon; Unquachog language
Date: 1802-1808