GETE-DIBADJIMOWIN TCHI BWA ONDADISID JESUS CHRIST GAIE JESUS O BIMADISIWIN GAIE O NIBOWIN

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[4],140,[1]pp., including frontispiece numerous in-text illustrations. 16mo. Original cloth-backed green printed boards. Lightly sunned at edges, minor shelf wear. Text evenly tanned. Very good plus. Second edition of the work originally published in 1885. Stories from the Old and New Testament, rendered in a narrative style in the Ojibwe language. Included are retellings of the Creation, Adam and Eve, the Great Flood, Abraham and Isaac, the Ten Commandments, the birth of Christ, the Sermon on the Mount, the Raising of Lazarus, and the Crucifixion, all accompanied by engravings. Reverend Casimir Vogt was a missionary to the Chippewa in Wisconsin, and was a contemporary of the prolific Chrysostom Verwyst. Pilling also notes that a Chippewa man named Jon Gordon from the Red Cliff Reservation assisted in the production of the 1885 edition. PILLING, ALGONQUIAN, p.518 (original ed). AYER, INDIAN LINGUISTICS (CHIPPEWA) 151 (original ed). N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM28884

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