National Anthropological Archives

MS 3539-a Creek vocabulary and text

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS3539A
Creators:
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Dates:
ca. 1883
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
13 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Recorded in Department of the Interior Comparative Vocabulary, but does not follow the order of the printed terms in that vocabulary form. The Creek text is written on the blank pages at the end of the schedule.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Jeremiah Curtin compiled a Creek vocabulary in 1883, according to Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 4, page LII.

Administration

Custodial History
Found in J.N.B. Hewitt's office and filed in Bureau of American Ethnology archives in December, 1937.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 3539-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 3539-a

Local Note

Local Note
Contains notes in at least three different handwritings. The conjugation of the verb "to jump" on the back of the front cover is in Jeremiah Curtin's handwriting; none of the other authors has been identified as of 7/1970.
Local Note
Manuscript document


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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