Chipewyan Texts I
Alternate Title
Fanggui Li Collection
Li Collection
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Author/Creator
François Mandeville
Fangui Li
Description
Includes stories and interlinear translations of: "How the Indian children were taught;" "Fishing;" "How copper was first found" (this story continues in the next notebook).
Historical note:
The Li Collection is comprised of 10 volumes containing stories in Dene collected in northern Alberta in 1928 by linguist Fanggui Li. Recorded in the field, these texts consist of phonetic transcriptions of stories elicited from Francois Mandeville and Baptiste Ferrier, with interlinear English translations.