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Costumes civils actuels de tous les peuples connus.
Paris: Pavard, 1788
Physical Description: 4 v. (with various pagings), col. plates; 23 cm. (4to)
Call number: E788/ G768c
Accession number: 99-09
Notes: Distributed throughout the four volumes are descriptions and hand-colored illustrations of costumes of the peoples of America, from Greenland to Patagonia.
Includes some selections of Indian language vocabularies: v. 1, "Moeurs et coutumes des Indiens, habitant les déserts du Chili" gives a small glossary of words in an undetermined language on p. 6; v. 1, "Notice historique sur les habitans de la Baye Chacktoole, a l'entrée de Norton" gives a small glossary of words in an Eskimo language on p. 3-4; v. 3, "Notice sur les Mexicains" gives a small glossary of words in the Nahuatl language on p. 12; v. 3, "Moeurs et coutumes des habitans de Nootka" gives a small glossary of words in the Nootka language on p. 13-14; v. 3, "Moeurs et coutumes des Oonalashkains" gives a small glossary of words in an Eskimo language on p. 8; v. 3, "Moeurs et coutumes des Indiens de Quito, province du Perou" gives a small glossary of words in the Quechua language on p. 13-14.
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Languages: Aleut [for Unalaska?] / Mapuche / Nahuatl / Nootka / Quechua / Unalaska /Yupik
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: Arctic / North America / Spanish America
