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National Anthropological Archives
MS 4056 Letter to Professor Otis Tufton Mason, referring to a Manuscript "Choctaw Traditions"
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4056
- Creators:
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Berlin, Alfred Franklin, 1848-1925Immatahah, ChahtaLincecum, Gideon, 1793-1874Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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4 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
It is taken from Chahta immatahah, and written by Dr. Gideon Lincecum in 1822 or 1823, and to his earlier correspondence with Professor Baird and Major Powell, regarding the same Manuscript. Reading. Pennsylvania. May 12, 1879. Filed with the above Manuscript is a typescript copy of Powell's cover letter, returning a Choctaw manuscript, to Mrs. S.L. Doran (Dr. Lincecum's daughter.) Washington. June 25, 1889.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Supplied information is from Doran's letter to Powell, February 21, 1889, and to Professor J. Henry, April 17, 1889 (Reference: Bureau of American Ethnology Letters Received, 1889, Doran file). No record of Berlin's earlier correspondence with Baird and Powell is found in Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence files, 11/71.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4056, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4056
Local Note
Local Note
Annotated letter signed
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Choctaw | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- Southern states | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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