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National Anthropological Archives
MS 4144 Natchez ethnological notes
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4144
- Creators:
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Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958Sam, Watt, 1876-1944Gurny, John ?
- Dates:
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ca. 1907-1911
- Languages:
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Text with interlinearEnglish.
- Physical Description:
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17 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Also autograph document, 6 pages. Includes: Notes on pottery, baskets, implements, stars and constellations, tribal subdivisions, chiefs, medicine, burials, beliefs and taboos, month names, names of other tribes, personal names, clan names, relationship terms, place names, Natchez counting. Text, "The Snake and the Moon," mentions Nancy Taylor.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4144, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4144
Local Note
Local Note
Informants: Watt Sam; and 3 pages from John Gurny (?).
Local Note
typescript document
Bibliography
Bibliography
Most of the notes have been published in Swanton, "Indians of the lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico," Bureau of American Ethnology-B 43, Washington, D. C., 1911.
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