Scope and content

The Vocabulaire Chacta is a slender notebook assembled in about 1820 by an unidentified author containing vocabulary words in French with Choctaw equivalents. The vocabulary includes parts of the body, basic nouns and a few verbs, with numerals and simple phrases added at the end of the volume. The six phrases elicited are of particular interest, and are suggestive of the interests and attitudes of the collector:



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