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Peel 1450

Garrioch, Alfred Campbell (1848-1934) [info]; Brewer, E. S. (cyclostyler) [info]. A vocabulary of the Beaver Indian language: Consisting of Part I, Beaver-English, Part II, English-Beaver-Cree. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1885].

Physical description: 138 p.; 28 cm.

Language: Beaver; Cree; English

Fifty copies were printed by Mrs Garrioch, from the copy made with a cyclostyle by E.S. Brewer (Pilling, Bibliography of the Algonquian languages , 562). The cyclostyle, invented by David Gestetner in 1881, was a form of stencil duplicator. It involved writing on the stencil with a pen with a miniature toothed wheel on the end. It was particularly useful for images.

Subject headings:

• Indians of North America--Education
• Indians of North America--Languages
• Textbooks