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MS 4277 Tunica texts

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS4277
Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
27 Pages
2 Items
cards
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Texts from Gatschet's Manuscript Number 1301, with interlinear English translations. Also English translations of Tunica texts. No date. Typescript document with A. notations. 14 pages. Copied from Manuscript Number 1301, which includes Gatschet's Tunica texts with interlinear French translation. Swanton copied the Tunica texts, but wrote his own interlinear and running English translations. Includes (page numbers refer to those in Gatschet's Manuscript Number 1301): "Biographic Notice of [William Ely] Johnson," pages 53-55; "The Living Tunica," pages 85-86; untitled text, page 97; untitled text, page 98; "The Tonika Ascend the Mississippi and Settle at Avoyelles," pages 109-112; The Orphan," pages 145-167; "Mortuary Customs," pages 195-203; "Performance of Tonika Shamans," pages 221-227. The back of the typed paper contains fragments of A. manuscript notes that have been crossed out. The back of one of the pages contains a list of Tunica Indian names.

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Citation
Manuscript 4277, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 4277

Local Note

Local Note
typescript document with A. notations

Other Title

Other Title
Biographic Notice of William Ely Johnson
Other Title
The Living Tunica
Other Title
The Tonika Ascend the Mississippi and Settle at Avoyelles
Other Title
The Orphan
Other Title
Mortuary Customs
Other Title
Performance of Tonika Shamans


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Tunica Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southern states Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Johnson, William Ely Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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