National Anthropological Archives

MS 269-a Notes on vocabulary, myths, and customs by Jeremiah Curtin

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS269A
Creators:
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Jake
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Includes notes on "Nosa" (Yana) myths and customs from "Jake," October 13, 1884 ?, 1 page; "Nosi" story, 1 page; miscellaneous vocabulary notes, partially identified as Nosa from Curtin's vocabulary Number 2060, 9 pages; fragment of a draft concerning analogies between Magyar and North American Indian myths, 3 pages; vocabulary notes, unidentified language (not Nosa), 4 pages. 18 pages total.

Administration

Existence and Location of Copies
Filmed for University of California, Berkeley, 4/60.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 269-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 269-a

Local Note

Local Note
Found with Curtin's Karok myths, which had formerly been catalogued as Wintun myths recorded by Powell; therefore these notes had also formerly been assumed to be Wintun, and are incorrectly listed in Harvey Pitkin's Wintun bibliography, International Journal of Linguistics, Volume 28, Number 1, 1962, page 45, item 12.

General

General
Previously titled "Miscellany in Curtin's handwriting."


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Yana Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Folklore -- Yana Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Folklore -- Magyar Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Magyars Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- California Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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