National Anthropological Archives

MS 2204 Mo'skem. Told by John Armstrong, Nov. 28, 1883, at Versailles N.Y

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2204
Creators:
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Armstrong, John
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Dates:
1883
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
4 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Text with interlinear English translation.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Curtin worked at the Cattaraugus Reservation beginning in September, 1883 (Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 5, Washington, D.C., 1887, page xxxi). Hewitt did record the same origin myth in Munsee from the same informant, but this is Manuscript Number 16. He also recorded the Seneca origin myth in 1896 on the Cattaraugus Reservation from this informant, "Mr. John Armstrong, of Seneca-Delaware-English mixed blood..." (cf. Bureau of American Ethnology AR 21, 1903, page 137 and pages 221 ff.).

Administration

Existence and Location of Copies
On negative Microfilm reel Number 56.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2204, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2204

Local Note

Local Note
Title page carries A. notation by J.N.B. Hewitt: "The Legend of Moskim, the Life God, in Delaware, Algonquian, Recorded by J.N.B. Hewitt." However, the text itself and the title quoted above are in Curtin's handwriting.
Local Note
Autograph document


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Folklore -- Munsee Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Delaware (Lenape) Topical 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
Mo'skem Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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