National Anthropological Archives

MS 3401 Albany Ojibwa notes and Weenusk Cree text collected by Truman Michelson

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS3401
Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Martin, John
Allan, William
Smallboy, Harvey, 1879-1947
Dates:
1935 summer
Languages:
In
Ojibwa
and
Cree
.
Physical Description:
16 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Notebook (labelled "1935 VI") containing Albany Ojibwa notes and Weenusk (Winusk) Cree text collected by Truman Michelson during his field research in the region of James Bay and Hudson Bay in 1935. Michelson obtained Albany Ojibwa vocabulary and ethnological notes from John Martin, with William Allan, a Cree speaker, serving as an interpreter. The notebook also contains a sample Cree syllabic text from a Weenusk woman at Moosonee; a phonetic text version dictated by a Roman missionary; and an English translation from Allan based on a reading of the Weenusk text by Harvey Smallboy, a Moose Cree speaker. Also present are two loose leaf pages with slightly different versions of the English translation and phonetic text.

Administration

Sponsor
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 3401, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 3401

Local Note

Local Note
Title changed from "Cree and Chippewa Linguistic (and Ethnological) material 1935" 6/3/2014.


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Ojibwa language Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Subarctic Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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