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National Anthropological Archives
MS 1635 Truman Michelson linguistic and ethnological notes on Ottawa and Munsee
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1635
- Creators:
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
- Dates:
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1922 August 29-September
- Languages:
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Notes are inEnglish,Ottawa, andMunsee.
- Physical Description:
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50 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Notepad containing Truman Michelson's Ottawa and Munsee linguistic and ethnological notes. In pencil in writing tablet as follows: pages [1-21]. Ottawa. Michigan. August 29- September, 1922. (23 pages, total; 2 pages written on backs.) pages [22-23]. Munsee. Moraviantown Reserve, Canada. September, 1922. pages [33-45]. Munsee. Six Nations Reserve, Canada. September, 1922.
Administration
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Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Existence and Location of Copies
Negative microfilm on file: Reel 56.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital surrogates are available online.
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Citation
Manuscript 1635, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 1635
Local Note
Local Note
Pages 33-45 are written in very hard pencil and the writing is very faint. See typed transcript of ethnographic notes, but not vocabulary lists, on these pages, filed with the Manuscript in October 1971.
Bibliography
Bibliography
This field work is referred to in 41st A.R., Bureau of American Ethnology, page 83. (The year is there misprinted as "1923," but 1922 is confirmed as the correct year by comparison with page 57 in the same report, referring to the work of 1921, and page 106, referring to the work of 1923.)
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Munsee language | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Ottawa language | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Linguistics | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Ethnology | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| otta mich | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Delaware (Lenape) | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Odawa (Ottawa) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Munsee Delaware | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- Northeast | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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