Five Years in America: The Menominee Collection of Antoine Marie Gachet

by Sylvia S. Kasprycki

Over the course of a sojourn in North America between 1857 and 1862, the Capuchin priest Antoine Marie Gachet from Fribourg, Switzerland, spent two and a half years among the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin. As part of his pastoral and missionary work Gachet engaged in ethnographic and linguistic studies, resulting in a Menominee grammar, a diary account of his labors, and an ethnographic collection.

This unusually well documented collection,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3981162099
• ISBN13: 9783981162097
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Zkf Publishers
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 11.3"