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National Anthropological Archives
MS 3311 English-Creek vocabulary
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3311
- Creators:
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Marnette, J. T.Yellow Cloud
- Dates:
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ca. 1935
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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100 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Also, "Origin of Language," 2 pages typed, and "Bible of the Mound Builders," pencil sketch and typed comment, 2 pages.
Administration
Custodial History
Received from J. T. Marnette (Yellow Cloud), 2816 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago Illinois, ca. 1935. Letter of May 6, 1935 states he is preparing a dictionary of the Muskoke language and will have it ready by June. No letter of transmittal found.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 3311, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 3311
Local Note
Local Note
With a letter of January 10, 1935, Mr Marnette had sent to the Bureau of American Ethnology photographs of himself and his sister in the hope that their tribe could be identified since they were separated from their parents at an early age. Marnette was then 38. The photographs were returned with the statement that it would be impossible to identify their tribe from the photographs. A similar inquiry signed T. L. [sic] Marnette, 2938 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago is dated March 8, 1937; enclosed photographs of "self and Sister" were again returned. Letter of August 28, 1938 signed Thomas Marnett [sic] transmits Cherokee vocabulary, now catalogued as Manuscript Number 4310. Correspondence in Bureau of American Ethnology files.
Other Title
Other Title
Origin of Language
Other Title
Bible of the Mound Builders
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Muskogee (Creek) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Southern states | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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