National Anthropological Archives

MS 2560 Field notes on Arapaho and Gros Ventre culture and languages

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2560
Creators:
Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
Dates:
1899-1901
Languages:
Arapaho
Atsina
Besawunena
Nawathinehena
Physical Description:
29 Notebooks
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Original field notebooks from work among the Southern Arapaho in Oklahoma Territory, the Northern Arapaho in Wyoming, and the A'aninin or Atsina (Gros Ventre) in Montana. Contains extensive language material and notes on culture, including notes on acquisition of material culture now in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In addition to language material on Arapaho and Gros Ventre, there are notes on two other Arapahoan languages, Besawunena and Nawathinehena (see Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 13, pp. 74-76.). Annotations by Kroeber indicate that notes on Assinboine were removed before the remaining books were sent to the BAE.
In 1914, Alfred Kroeber described the material he was transferring as follows: Nos. 1-14 are from work with the Southern Arapaho in 1899. Nos. 15-20 were not assigned. Nos. 21-22, 24-28 are from work with the Northern Arapaho in 1900. Numbers 41-47 and 49 are from work with the Gros Ventre in 1901.
Also 120 page typescript on Arapaho dialects and five copies of relevant letters regarding transfer of the material. These have been assigned Nos. 29 and 30, but are not part of the original series of field notebooks.

Administration

Custodial History
Received in 1914 as a donation from Alfred L. Kroeber together with Manuscript 2622, a set of card slips.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2560a Arapaho and Manuscript 2560b Gros Ventre, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Related Materials
Kroeber's extensive collection of card slips for linguistic analysis, sent at the same time, are cataloged as NAA MS2622.

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2560

Local Note

Local Note
Collection previously titled NAA MS 2560a-b "Grammatical sketch of the Arapaho language and of the Gros Ventres; Arapaho dialects 1916-1920." Title revised October 12, 2011.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Inunaina (Arapaho) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
A'aninin (Gros Ventre) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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