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National Anthropological Archives
MS 4148 A Sketch of the Hitchiti Language
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4148
- Creators:
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Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958Haney, Willie
- Dates:
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1921-1922
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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341 Pages
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Includes a Hitchiti story with interlinear English translation, 3 pages, and "Verb Complexes" table, Manuscript Document, 1 page.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Informants: W. E. Haney of Sylvian, Oklahoma, "a Hitchiti Indian able to use the Creek alphabet." This sketch is based in part on a study of the material collected by A. S. Gatschet between 1880 and 1890.
Biographical / Historical
Introduction states that his field work for this manuscript was done with the "Hitchiti speaking Indians in the northern part of the former Seminole Nation, Oklahoma," in 1912. According to the Forty-first Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, page 55, Swanton prepared a grammatical sketch of the Hitchiti language in 1921-1922.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4148, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4148
Local Note
Local Note
Typescript document
Local Note
Manuscript table
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and languages -- Documentation | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Hitchiti Seminole | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of North America -- Southern states | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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