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MS 4201 Southeast ethnographic and vocabulary notes

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4201
Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Billy, Baptiste
Billiot, Billy
Verdine, Yeet
Bohanan, Anthony
Lewis, Jackson
Dates:
May, 1907
Languages:
Materials in
Ofo
(Ofogoula),
Houma
(Choctaw),
Alabama
(Alibamu),
Atakapa
(Attacapa),
Hitchiti
(Mikasuki),
Creek (Muskogee, Muskoki)
,
Biloxi
,
Natchez
,
Tunica
, and
English
.
Physical Description:
163 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Includes: census of Indian families in several Louisiana towns, pages 2 and 200; Houma vocabulary, pages 3, 198, and 4; Alibamu belt design, page 8; Hitchiti and Creek stories, pages 29-33, 172-169; and diagram of "Stomp ground in Greenleaf Mtns. for Natchez and Cherokee," page 58. Diary of May 2-22 [1907] in Louisiana; then proceeds to Indian Territory. In stenographic notebook. Is numbered 1-100 on on side of pages and 101-200 running back the other way on reverse; but notes have been taken in normal order. Partial outline of contents prepared summer, 1970 by M. C. Blaker gives page numbers in order inscribed, Incomplete outline of contents left with manuscript.-- MCB, 6/1972.

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Citation
Manuscript 4201, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4201

Local Note

Local Note
autograph document


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