National Anthropological Archives

MS 94 Mescalero Apache vocabulary and note concerning proper names of individuals

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS94
Creators:
Cremony, John C. (John Carey), 1815-1879
Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
Bristol, Henry B.
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
9 Pages
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Also includes "Apache words required for Captain John Cremonyʹs vocabulary," handwriting unidentified.

Administration

Custodial History
Original prepared by Captain John C. Cremony, 2nd Cavalry, California Volunteers at Fort Sumner, Bosque Redondo, on the Pecos River [New Mexico], in 1863 and forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution by Brigadier General James H. Carleton, Commanding, Department of New Mexico. (Note by Gibbs on page 7).
Custodial History
Cremony, in his Life Among the Apaches, Tucson, 1951, page 211 (original edition, 1868), tells of recording this vocabulary from Juan Cojo, a Mexican captive living with the Apache for about 20 years, and checking the material with "the leading warriors of the tribe."
Custodial History
The document "Apache words required..." appears to be handwriting of Lt. Henry B. Bristol; cf. 1865 correspondence signed by Bristol, in File No. 97. This Mescalero vocabulary seems to have been transmitted by Bristol at same time (1865) as his Navaho vocabulary (No. 97).

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 94, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 94


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Apache Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mescalero Apache Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mexicans Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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