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National Anthropological Archives
MS 269 Fifteen untitled Karok stories
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS269
- Creators:
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Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
- Dates:
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May, 1889
- Languages:
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Materials primarily inEnglishwith some Karuk (Karok).
- Physical Description:
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197 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Fourteen stories have original in Curtin's hand (difficult to read), plus a typed copy; one story has typed copy only. Typed material totals 56 pages.
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Citation
Manuscript 269, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 269
Local Note
Local Note
These stories had been catalogued for many years as Wintun myths recorded by Powell, and are so described in Harvey Pitkin's Wintun bibliography, International Journal of American Linguistics, Volume 28, Number 1, 1962, page 47, item 48. I recognised in 1960 that the myths were in Curtin's writing, and indicated this on the microfilm copy sent to the University of California, Berkeley, April, 1960. However, in 1966 I noticed that the names of the Karok towns of Katimin and Panomnik (Panamenik), the Karok term for Coyote (piqnefitc) and the word Karok, appear throughout the stories, and consequently recatalogued the manuscripts as Karok at that time --MCB.
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Karok language | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Folklore | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Karuk (Karok) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- California | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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