MS 3861 Material relating to "A Dictionary of the Osage Language," Bureau of American Ethnology-B 109
Includes miscellaneous notes and sentences in Omaha, and transcriptions of phonograph cylinders in Osage. Some of the Osage material was apparently not published in the dictionary and is marked "Hold for future reference."
MS 2787-a Truman Michelson notes on verbs in Omaha and Osage
Truman Michelson's handwritten notes on the conjugations of "to laugh" and "to hold" in Omaha and "to hold" and "to see" in Osage.
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 3096 English-Osage Dictionary
MS 1346 Copy of Dr Murray's Osage vocabulary
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
With marginal notes and 1 page note by J. Owen Dorsey, August 24, 1881.
Osage Naming Ceremony video
Video record of an Osage Naming Ceremony (1994). Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive …
MS 2701 Sauk Legend
Bacon Rind (Osage Indian), 1860-1932
MS 4804 Osage census list and lists of personal names
MS 7321 Note about a shield Saucy Calf inherited from his father
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.
