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MS 606 Muskoki or Creek. Words, grammatical elements and texts collected by Albert S. Gatschet. Vol. 1

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS606
Creators:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Dates:
1878-1891
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
1 Volume
274 pages
Repository:

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.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 606, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Other Archival Materials

Other Archival Materials
See MS 2503 for Volume II of the same title.

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 606

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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