Notebooks and Notes, 1956 - 1982
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No requestable containers
Description
An extensive collection of field notes written by or given to Gordon Day. These include 29 notebooks detailing Gordon Day's travel to and from the Odanak community at Saint Francis in Canada (including routes taken, weather, personal interactions on the road), transcription notes, an index on audio reels, and more. Other notebooks contain more formal translations from English or French to Abenaki in a dictionary style. These vocabulary notebooks contain further discretional notes about interactions with Indigenous speakers concerning disputed word meanings or pronunciations.
Dates
- 1956 - 1982
Conditions Governing Access
Access to culturally sensitive materials restricted per request of the Conseil des abénakis d'Odanak
Extent
From the Collection: 15 linear ft. (21 boxes)
From the Collection: 3302 Digital File(s)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Algonquian languages
From the Collection: French
Part of the Rauner Library Archives and Manuscripts Repository