Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Title on back of binding reads, "Maskoki I." Dates within the notebook range from December 23, 1878, to January 8, 1891. Includes much of material from other sources as well as material collected by Gatschet himself. Most of the material is Creek or Hitchiti, but other Southeastern Indian languages and a few Plains Indian languages are represented. (See Gatschet's index on pages 271-274, and list of contents following main entry; copy filed with volume.) Includes list of gentes, colors, birds, insects, local names, numerals, personal names, and grammatical material as well as notes on the Red Stick War, mythology, etc. Also notes on Samuel Perryman (Thenahta Tustenugga) and a list of songs.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Much of the Creek and Hitchiti was used in Gatschet's "A Migration Legend of the Creek Indians," Volume I (Brinton's Library of Aboriginal Literature, Number 4), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1884. and Volume II (Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences), St. Louis, Missouri, 1888.
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