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Five years in America : the Menominee collection of Antoine Marie Gachet /

"In the course of a sojourn in North America between 1857 and 1862 the Capuchin priest Antoine Marie Gachet from Fribourg spent nearly three years among the Menominees of Wisconsin. As part of his pastoral and missionary work he engaged in ethnographic and linguistic studies resulting in a Meno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kasprycki, Sylvia S. (Author)
Other Authors: Rotzetter, Anton (Contributor), Ruegg, François (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fribourg, Switzerland : Altenstadt, Germany : Pro Ethnographi©a ; ZFK Publishers, [2018]
Series:Pro Ethnographica collections ; volume 1.
Subjects:
Gachet, Antoine-Marie > Ethnological collections.
Menominee Indians.
Indians of North America.
Ethnology > Wisconsin.
Ethnology.
Wisconsin.
Collection catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Editor's introduction: the Gachet Collection in Fribourg: a precious link in a long chain
  • Interest as vocation: on the biography of the Capuchin Antoine Marie Gachet (1822-1890)
  • Antoine Marie Gachet: missionary ethnographer among the Menominees, 1859-1862)
  • Antoine Marie Gachet's ethnographic heritage: comparative and contextual notes
  • Antoine Marie Gachet's ethnographic collection with a catalogue raisonné.