• A primer for the use of the Mohawk children : to acquire the spelling and reading of their own: as well as to get acquainted with the English tongue, which for that purpose is put on the opposite page.

Collections:

• Cotsen Children's Library
• Indigenous Cultures
• Lloyd E. Cotsen
• Print Culture in Indigenous North America

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9947503463506421

Language:

• English

Creator:

• Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787

Extent:

• 18 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 19-97 pages ; 13 cm (16°)

Format:

• Book

Description:

• Attributed to Daniel Claus (cf. Tremaine, cited below).
• The recto facing p. 18 is blank; pagination continues with p. 19 on verso.
• "The second Mohawk primer published in Montreal (cf. Tremaine, cited below).
• "Though this work bears Mesplet's imprint, it was printed without benefit of his skill, as its uncouth imposition and press work testify. For Mesplet was smouldering in the jail at Quebec from June, 1779 till Sept. 1782, suspect of revolutionary activities in Montreal" (cf. Tremaine, cited below).

Publisher:

• Montreal : Printed at Fleury Mesplets, 1781.

Subject:

• Mohawk language—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800
• English language—Study and teaching—Mohawk speakers
• Indigenous peoples of North America
• Indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere
• Indigenous Studies
• Primers (Instructional books)

References:

• Tremaine, M. Bibliography of Canadian imprints, 1751-1800, 355

Created:

• 1781-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1781

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/dcvq27zz881

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

Range label:

• Logical

Attributed name:

• Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787

Text language:

• Title page in English and Mohawk; text with English and Mohawk on facing pages.

Alternative:

• Waerighwaghsawe iksaongoenwa ...

Binding note:

• Contemporary full mottled dark brown sheep.

Call number:

• Eng 18 46859

Location:

• Special Collections Eng 18 46859