This card catalog belonged to Christian author and speaker Elisabeth Elliot (1926–2015), who was a missionary to the Waodäni people of Ecuador in the 1950s with her husband, Jim Elliot. Elisabeth chose to stay and live with the tribe after a Waodäni hunting party killed Jim and four other missionaries in 1956. She returned to the United States in 1963. While living with the tribe, Elisabeth used her linguistic skills to help create a writing system for the Waodäni language, which, until then, had only been communicated orally. These notecards contain vocabulary and Elisabeth’s notes on the language’s grammar. They are divided alphabetically and into additional categories.