MS 4201 Southeast ethnographic and vocabulary notes
Billy, Baptiste
Billiot, Billy
Verdine, Yeet
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Includes: census of Indian families in several Louisiana towns, pages 2 and 200; Houma vocabulary, pages 3, 198, and 4; Alibamu belt design, page 8; Hitchiti and Creek stories, pages 29-33, 172-169; and diagram of "Stomp ground in Greenleaf Mtns. for Natchez and Cherokee," page 58. Diary of May 2-22 [1907] in Louisiana; then proceeds to Indian Territory. In stenographic notebook …
MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
bulk 1870-1895
Reverend James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895) was a missionary and Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist who conducted extensive research on Siouan tribes and languages.The papers of James Owen Dorsey comprise mostly ethnographic and linguistic materials on various tribes of the Siouan language family as well as tribes from Siletz Reservation in Oregon. These materials include texts and letters with interlineal translations; grammar notes; dictionaries; drawings; and his manuscripts. In addition, the collection contains Dorsey's correspondence, newspaper clippings, his obituaries, and reprints.
MS 4231 Chickasaw notes for Swanton
Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
Mikey, Josiah
The material includes: Note on Biloxi; list of villages where the Biloxi lived; origin legend of Choctaw and Chickasaw; Chickasaw ethnology and linguistics; letter from Josiah Mickey to Dr. Speck; brief stories, etc. and newsclipping, "How Indians catch fish."
MS 933-b Biloxi vocabulary with some cognate forms in Catawba, Santee, Yankton and Teton Dakota, Hidatsa, Kansa and Tutelo In Department of the Interior schedule
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
173 entries in printed U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey "Comparative Vocabulary" form. Corrections of entries 92 and 93 by J. Owen Dorsey.
MS 4234 Comparative notes on Siouan languages
8 Items (slips )
Contents: Comparative vocabulary, 117 items, in English, Hidatsa, Ofo, Mandan, Dakota, Biloxi, Tutelo, Osage and (a few) Winnebago. 3 pages. Comparison of 24 words: English, Catawba, Ofo, Tutelo, Dakota and Quapaw. 1 slip. Synonyms for the name "Ofo". 1 slip. Summary of history of classification of Tutelo, Catawba, and Woccon as Siouan. 1 slip.
MS 933-a Words and sentences of the Biloxi Lanuage
MS 7058 Copy of Tunica and Biloxi Articles of incorporation and initial report
MS 1347 Letter to the Director of the Bureau of Ethnology
Announces his discovery of the Biloxi and Tunica languages and encloses brief vocabularies.
MS 4195 Letter to John R. Swanton
Includes an account of Biloxi history based on field work in Texas and Mexico.
MS 2193 List of "Saponi Names"
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
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List compiled by Mooney. Includes letter from Dorsey to H.W. Henshaw, giving comparative information from other Siouan languages. October 14, 1890. Typescript and autograph letter signed. 2 pages. Also note from Gatschet to Mooney giving some Biloxi, Catawba and Tutelo comparisons. No date. Autograph letter. 1 page.
