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MS 68 A.S. Gatschet Notebook with vocabularies, texts, notes

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS68
Creators:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Bottineau, Jno. B. (John B.)
Toposh, A. J. (Chippewa)
Bluejacket, Charles, 1817-1897
Dates:
mainly 1878-1879
Languages:
Materials primarily in
Shawnee
,
Chippewa
,
Ojibwa
,
Potawatomi
, and
English
with some
Natchez
and
Narragansett
.
Physical Description:
54 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Contents:
Shawnee, 48 pages. (3-19; 48-62, even pages only; 72-93). Includes texts with interlinear translation: Story of the fox and the wolf, pages 3-6; story about the end of the world, page 18; Waputhua (great rabbit) story, pages 18-19. Vocabulary includes Shawnee names for other tribes, pages 76-79; Shawnee clans, page 80. Informant for part of data, Blue Jacket, Vinita, I. T.
Chippewa, 22 pages. (23-65, odd pages only). Mainly vocabulary from Jean Baptiste Bottineau, Pembina Band; includes clans of Pembina Band, page 59.
Pottawatomi, 7 pages (22-32a, odd pages only). Mainly vocabulary, from A. J. Toposh, Dowagiac, Michigan. Obituary of Simon Pokagon, Pottawatomi chief (died January 27, 1899), page 30.
Narragansett notes, 4 pages. (94-97).
Natchez word, page 97.
Miscellaneous Algonquian vocabulary notes, 1 page (back cover).

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Citation
Manuscript 68, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 68

Other Title

Other Title
Story of the fox and the wolf
Other Title
Story about the end of the world
Other Title
Waputhua story
Other Title
Great rabbit story


Keywords

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Eschatology Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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