Scope and Contents

Original field notebooks from work among the Southern Arapaho in Oklahoma Territory and the Gros Ventre (Atsina) 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 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.) Also 120 pages on Arapaho dialects and five copies of relevant letters regarding transfer of the material.

Local Numbers

NAA MS 2560

Local Note

Collection previously titled "Grammatical sketch of the Arapaho language and of the Gros Ventres; Arapaho dialects 1916-1920." Title revised October 12, 2011.

Custodial History

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