Artemas Bishop - Vocabulary of the Hawaiian language, ca. 1828

PMB 198

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440651

Microfilm : PMB 198

microfilm reel 35 mm

The Rev. Artemas Bishop (1795-1872) was a missionary sent to Hawaii by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He was the author of a book of English and Hawaiian words and phrases published in Honolulu in 1854. He appears to have been the most probable compiler of the vocabulary described here

A vocabulary of approximately 150 pages with a foreword dated 12 May 1844 and signed A.B. The first page of the vocabulary proper bears the date 1828

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 198
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held by Ethnographic Department, National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark