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National Anthropological Archives
MS 2997 Autobiography of Lucy Lasley, a Fox Indian woman, collected by Truman Michelson
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2997
- Creators:
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938Lasley, LucyPeters, JoePoweshiek, Ida
- Dates:
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1927 June
- Languages:
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InMeskwaki (Fox)andEnglish.
- Physical Description:
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400 Itemsca. 400 pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Two notebooks containing an autobiography of Lucy Lasley, handwritten in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabary by Lasley and Joe Peters with an English translation by Ida Powesheik.
Administration
Sponsor
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital surrogates are available online.
Digital Content
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 2997, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 2997
Local Note
Local Note
This manuscript is not the same autobiography published in the 40th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Fox language | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Autobiographies | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Manuscripts | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Fox | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Northeast | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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