Dhegiha Plurals & the microfilms.

[Anthony Grant]

Rory et al:

The 'Dr Murray' is the author of one of the earliest Osage vocabularies.
It's not William Vans Murray, who got a vocab of Choptank Algonquian which
has often been taken as Nanticoke.  I'm not sure if it's the Osage
vocabulary which occupies a single page in Schoolcraft's thuge book.  The
earliest Osage vocabulary I know of is by John Bradbury, a naturalist from
Stalybridge in Cheshire, England, who collected it c. 1800, at a time whe
hewas staying with the Spanish furtrader Manuel Lisa . It's found in
Bradbury's book 'Travels in the Interior of America', which was repirnted in
the 1960s.  Bradbury was no James Owen Dorsey in terms of linguistic skill,
but he was a better phonetician than Dr Murray.

Anthony Grant
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From: Rory M Larson <rlarson at unlnotes01.unl.edu>
To: <siouan at lists.colorado.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: Dhegiha Plurals & the microfilms.


>
> > I just looked at Mark's microfilms last week.  The Kaw
> > Nation has copies.  Look on reel 7.  Reel 6 contains
> > some (not nearly all) JOD's Kaw material.  Reel 7 is
> > Osage and Reel 8 is Quapaw.  All are selective and not
> > complete versions of the Dorsey files, but we owe Mark
> > a debt of gratitude for including the (quite
> > respectable) amounts of those languages that he was
> > able to with his space/time constraints.  I assume all
> > of the first 5 reels are Omaha and Ponca.
>
> Reels 1-3 are the Omaha/Ponca dictionary slips.  Reel 4
> has miscellaneous material, including about 450 Osage
> vocabulary slips collected from other investigators.
> A lot of them seem to be from a Dr. Murray, who
> represents [i] with 'e' and [a] with 'augh'.
>
> Thanks for the advice.  I think I'll skip ahead!
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> Rory
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