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MS 3417 Cree texts and kinship terms collected by Truman Michelson

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS3417
Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Allan, William
Hester, Agnes
Hester, Sydney
Steven, Patrick, 1868-
Dates:
1936
Languages:
In Moose
Cree
, Eastern Swampy
Cree
, East
Cree
, and
English
.
Physical Description:
86 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Notebook (labelled "1936 III") containing Albany Cree syllabic texts; Attawapiskat Cree syllabic texts; Weenusk Cree syllabic text; mixed Moose Cree and Rupert House Cree phonetic transcription of a syllabic text in Manuscript 3397; another version of the same text in Rupert House syllabary; and Albany Cree kinship terms. Truman Michelson obtained these texts and notes through his work with Patrick Steven, Sydney Hester, Agnes Hester, and William Allan.

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 3417, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Other Archival Materials

Other Archival Materials
See MS 3415 for English translation of Albany Cree text, MS 3411 for English translation of Attawapiskat Cree and Weenusk Cree texts, and MS 3397 for original mixed Moose Cree and Rupert House Cree syllabic text.

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 3417

Local Note

Local Note
Title changed from "Syllabic texts 1936" 6/6/2014.


Keywords

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Kinship Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cree language Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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