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National Anthropological Archives
MS 3710 Fragment of a manuscript about the Cherokee
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3710
- Creators:
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Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852Holway, Frances Hope Kerr, 1886-
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Includes part of creation myth, notes on fire-making, houses, the invention of the Cherokee alphabet by Sequoya, and his demonstration of it to Col. Lowrey. n.d. 4 pages Also 1-page letter from Mrs. Hope Holway, Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 30, 1959, suggesting source of this fragment.
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Citation
Manuscript 3710, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Condition
Though by Mrs. Holway to be in the hand of John Howard Payne and possibly a copy from material in the Cherokee Phoenix, August, 1828, since an article based on that source (John Fordyce, "Sequoyah in Arkansas," Arkansas Gazette Magazine August 13, 1933) "uses some of the phrases in your document exactly."
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Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 3710
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Folklore -- Cherokee | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Fire making -- Cherokee | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Dwellings -- Cherokee | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Writing systems -- Cherokee | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Cherokee | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Lowrey, John, Colonel | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Sequoyah, 1770?-1843 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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