National Anthropological Archives

MS 4275 Two New Vocabularies from Texas Tribes

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4275
Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Dates:
ca. 1916
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
16 Pages
5 Items
photoreproductions
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Discusses Karankawa, Attacapa and Akokisa vocabularies extracted by Swanton from a copy of a memoir by Jean Berenger (Beranger) seen by him in September, 1916, in the Ayer Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Swanton's visit to the Newberry Library is dated September 1916 from Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 38, page 4.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 4275, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4275

Local Note

Local Note
typescript and autograph document

Bibliography

Bibliography
Marked by Swanton: "Withdrawn on publication of copy of original by Du Terrage and Rivet." See Marc de Villiers du Terrage and Paul Rivet, "Les Indiens du Texas et les Expeditions Francaises de 1720 et 1721 a la Baie Saint-Bernard," JSAP, volume 11, 1919, 403-442, where the vocabularies are published from the original manuscript in the French National Archives.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Atakapa Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Atakapa Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Karankawa Indians Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southern states Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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