National Anthropological Archives

MS 351 "Upper and Middle Cherokee (Tsălaki)," vocabulary and kinship charts

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS351
Creators:
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Smith, N. J. (Nimrod Jarrett), approximately 1838-1893
Smith, Ross (Cherokee)
Blythe, James (Cherokee)
Blythe, David (Cherokee)
Dates:
1885, 1886 and August - November, 1887
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
159 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Recorded in the schedule of John Wesley Powellʹs Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Mooneyʹs informant in 1885 and 1886 in Washington for the Upper Cherokee was N. J. Smith (Tsálatihĭ), "chief of the East Cherokees," and in North Carolina in 1887 Mooney revised the Upper Cherokee with N. J. Smithʹs brother, Ross Smith. The Middle Cherokee was recorded in 1887 on the reservation from James Blythe, "the official interpreter, and his brother David . . . ." The Middle Cherokee is "written or underlined with red ink." (See title page)

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 351, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 351

Local Note

Local Note
Autograph Document Signed

Place

Place
D.C. Washington
Place
North Carolina Swain County Qualla Reservation


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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