| Description: | | Described by E. E. Blomkvist, Istoriya izucheniya v Rosii yazykov severoamerikanskikh indeytsev (iz arkhiva MAE), Sbornik Muzeya antropologii I etnografii 31:94-117, 1975, p. 106, as including 8 boxes of detailed lexical file cards (several thousand) (items 353-359, 362), Tlingit-German dictionaries, one with explanations and grammatical materials, miscellaneous notes, extracts, etc. Much or all of this was done with a Tlingit elder, Tikhontin, brought to St. Petersburg in 62 for this work by the Academy of Sciences. A. Schiefner (Mem, Acad. Imp. des Sciences de St. Petersburg, 7th ser., vol. 21, no. 8, pp. i-ii) also mentions this work and Pinart's copying of some of it. See Anonymous 1850, Holmberg 1873, 1865N, 1873 Pinart 1905 a, b. |
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