National Anthropological Archives

MS 4145 Papers on social organization

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4145
Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Contents: Provision of Food, Clothing and Shelter...as a collective obligation in primitive society, 20 pages; The Social Organization of the Northwestern Indians (Written about 1910-15-never printed and now out of date--J.R.S.), 50 pages; Interchange of commodities between Old and New Worlds, 6 pages; Culture in primitive society, notes, 4 pages; notes on population, 15 pages; Memorandum on the Exploration of Indian Mounds as a Means of Giving Work to the Unemployed, 5 pages; Paper "Prepared to further archeological work in the Southeast," 12 pages; Ethnological Background for the assistance of archeologists in the Southeast, 29 pages; New Evidence Regarding the Southeastwardly Drift of the Muskhogean People, 4 pages; The Persistence of Place Names, 6 pages; A Possible Explanation of Certain Discoidal Stones, 3 pages. Map of North America showing types of social organization among the North American Indians, 1 page.

Administration

Custodial History
Previously titled "Miscellaneous papers."

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4145, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4145


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
American Indian Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Social structure Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
population Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mounds Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Muskogean Indians Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Migration Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Names, place Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Muskogee (Creek) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Maps Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southern states Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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