Details

Subject(s)

• Ojibwa children [Browse]
• Ojibwa Indians—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Animals—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Indigenous peoples of North America [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Writer of introduction

• Trent, Ivy [Browse]

Publisher

• Cotsen Occasional Press [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Notes

• This is a facsimile of a manuscript produced in 1858 and a contemporary accompanying letter detailing its translation into English by Reverend Allen Salt. "Written in Ojibway and painted on birchbark by Soloman James, chief of Shawanagaw Village for his son Louis, then aged twelve... [with] expressive illustrations of the hunting of animals found around Georgian Bay... [with] accompanying letter and translation made by a missionary for the local Indian agent" --Inside upper flap of dust jacket.
• Originally intended for free distribution at Cotsen Children's Library.

Binding note

• Princeton copies 1 and 2: Publisher's gilt-stamped green cloth covers, brown dust-wrappers with pictorial facsimile of original manuscript.
• Princeton copy 3: Publisher's brown dust-wrappers with pictorial facsimile of original manuscript.

Other format(s)

For the original manuscript and letter held in the Cotsen Collection see: Anishinabe masinaigas, Cotsen call number 9670.

ISBN

0-9745168-6-4

OCLC

668211692

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