National Anthropological Archives

MS 2671 Four versions of the Fox story of Apaiyashihagi and an untitled text collected by Truman Michelson

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS2671
Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
Leaf, Bill
Shapochiwa
Sakihtanohkweha, 1875-1957
Dates:
1912-1913, undated
Languages:
In
Meskwaki (Fox)
and
English
.
Physical Description:
225 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Four versions of the story of Apaiyashihagi handwritten in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic text by Alfred Kiyana, Shapochiwa (Mrs. Harry Lincoln), and Sakihtanohkweha (Mrs. Bill Leaf), with English translations by Truman Michelson. Sakihtanohkweha authored two versions, dated 1912 and 1913; only the 1912 version is translated. A note regarding "clans known to Harry Lincoln" can be found at the end of that translation. On the first page of Sakihtanohkweha's 1913 text Michelson notes, "This is a version of lodge-boy thrown away. The first part is nearly identical with the version written by her in the fall of 1912." On page 42-61 of the same text is a different story by Bill Leaf.

Administration

Existence and Location of Copies
Digital surrogates are available online.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 2671, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 2671

Local Note

Local Note
Title changed from "Apaiyashihagi Legend" 4/4/2014.

Bibliography

Bibliography
Published in volume 9 of the American Ethnological Society Publications. Also in Ives Goddard's Songs in Fox (Mesquakie): Linguistics and Philology in Papers of the Twenty-Fourth Algonquian Conference (1993).


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