National Anthropological Archives

MS 3311 English-Creek vocabulary

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS3311
Creators:
Marnette, J. T.
Yellow Cloud
Dates:
ca. 1935
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
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

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
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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