National Anthropological Archives

MS 868 Obispeno Chumash vocabulary

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS868
Creators:
Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
Alikano, Chumash
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
24 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Handwritten in ink. The 1884 portion is apparently a neat copy from the Obispeno portion of Number 296, with the addition of a note identifying the informant. To this has been added in a different shade of ink material obtained from the same informant in 1888.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
From Alikano, a full-blood Indian living on Mr. Jasper's ranch near San Luis Obispo. October 19-28, 1884; and 1888.

Digital Content


Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 868, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 868

Bibliography

Bibliography
This is the manuscript utilized by Heizer in University of California Anthropological Records, Volume 15, Number 2, 1955, and referred to by him as Number 852-a (a number which the manuscript erroneously carried at the time it was filmed for Heizer).


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chumash [San Luis Obispo Mission] Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chumash Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- California Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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