A Samoan Dictionary

A Samoan Dictionary
by George Pratt
Adopted by
Lowell Robinson
on March 9, 2013
Samoan dictionary...with a short grammar of the Samoan dialect

A Samoan dictionary: English and Samoan, and Samoan and English; with a short grammar of the Samoan dialect

By George Pratt. Samoa: The London Missionary Society's Press, 1862.

The Reverend George Pratt, a missionary, lived in Samoa from 1839 to 1879 and was the first person to document the Samoan language. This book is the first edition of his classic dictionary printed in Samoa itself on the Missionary Society's press. This particular copy was owned by Otis T. Mason, curator of ethnology at NMNH from 1884 to 1908. It is the only copy in Washington D.C. and only 12 other copies are known in all of the U.S.

 

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