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National Anthropological Archives
MS 1800 Winnebago linguistic notes
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS1800
- Creators:
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Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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211 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous working notes, in various stages of revision; neither field notes nor finished statements. Informant(s), location(s), date(s) not given.
Scope and Contents
Analysis of contents by W. C. Sturtevant, March 1960: 1800-a Notes on morphology keyed to a missing text or other notes. Key numbers run from 310 to 800, with many gaps and duplications (may be more than one text represented); many items have one digit number following comma after above 3 digit number (line, form ?). Date stamp on back of one page: "Bur. American Ethnology Jun 17, 1909". 56 pages, unarranged. 1800-b Miscellaneous notes on mprphology-- paradigms, list of affixes, summary statements, etc. No references to sources. Back of one page has note: "Frances La Mere/Winnebago/Nebraska./City./Thurston County" evidently in LaMere's hand; but this page is semi-analyzed, not original notes. 139 pages, unarranged. 1800-c Notes on phonology. 2 pages. 1800-d Lexical notes. Plant names, food and food preparation, with a few ethnographic notes: 4 pages Kinship terminology: 7 pages; total; total, 11 pages. 1800-e Ponca-Winnebago comparative vocabulary, without indication of sources, without comments or analysis. 5 pages, unarranged.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Described on original catalog card as "Grammar of Winnebago (incomplete)." 30th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, for year 1908-09 (published, 1915), page 24 tells of cataloging a manuscript by Paul Radin on the Winnebago Indians in that year; presumably it was this manuscript.
Administration
Custodial History
Original catalog card marked, "Sent to Dr Radin, N. Y. C., 1/19/38," and manuscript not on shelf, April, 1959. Returned by Doris Woodward Radin 5/21/59; see correspondence of April-May, 1959, in Bureau of American Ethnology accession files, 5 pages, copies of which are filed with manuscript.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 1800-a-b-c-d-e, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 1800-a-b-c-d-e
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Winnebago Indians | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Botany -- Plant names | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Cookery | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Social organization -- kinship terms | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Northeast | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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