MS 2813-a Piegan Blackfoot linguistic notes collected by Truman Michelson from Mabel Monroe
Monroe, Mabel
Handwritten notes on the Piegan Blackfoot language from Truman Michelson's work with Mabel Monroe, whose mother was Piegan. Includes lexical and grammatical notes, text (concerning Trickster) with free translation, and kinship terms.
MS 3609 Statement by Oliver Lamere on the Winnebago Trickster figure
Lamere, Oliver, 1879-1930
1 Item (slip )
MS 2767 Two partial translations of Bill Leaf's Wisahkeha story collected by Truman Michelson
Leaf, Bill
Two partial English translations of Bill Leaf's Meskwaki (Fox) story of Wisahkeha (Wisakea). One is a free translation by Leo Walker, based on a reading of the syllabary by Austin Grant (Sauk). The translator of the second text is unidentified. The original Meskwaki text by Leaf is not present.
MS 1651 Originals of Seneca stories
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Stories: The Great Joker"- Published as "The Trickster," "The Creation," Published as "A Seneca Tradition," "Hagowanen and Othegwe'hda'," and "History of Tall Chiefs."
MS 4080 The religion of the Blackfeet Indians
Includes note of transmittal from Sanderville to M. W. Stirling. June 30, 1934. Gives general description of Blackfoot tribes; myth of sun, moon, morning star, and Napi (Trickster); and account of sun dance.
MS 4652 Myth-Cycles of the Winnebago
Contains brief introduction, brief summary and analysis of the Trickster cycle, and complete texts of the Hare (Transformer), Red Horn ("The Strife of the Demi-Gods"), and Twin ("The Hero-Gods") cycles.
MS 1910-h An old story about an Indian and a Spider or a White Man
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Myth concerns the Dakota Trickster Iktomi's experiences with fishing.
Photographs of Harry Fonseca artwork
429 Copy color slides
Images of art pieces by Harry Fonseca, many of which depict his representation of the mythical figure Coyote. Included are copies of the 115 color slides Fonseca used in his lecture at the Smithsonian in 1989. There are also images of his "Stone Poems" series, each Smithsonian-exhibited piece, and views of the …
MS 4252 Military target record book containing drawings by Silver Horn and others and a pictorial diary by Silver Horn
The collection consists of a bound volume of preprinted US Army forms for recording results of target practice, subsequently filled with drawings of courting, hunting, warfare, Saynday stories, and scenes from the Kiowa Sun Dance by Silver Horn and other Kiowa artists. The artists were probably all Army scouts. The …
H. Arlo Nimmo papers
1963
The papers of H. Arlo Nimmo document his field research among the Bajau (also known as Sama Dilaut) in Tawi-Tawi Province in the southern Philippines in 1963, 1965-1967, 1977, 1982, and 1997. The collection consists of correspondence, field journals, censuses, genealogies, kinship charts, transcripts of songs, unpublished manuscripts, card files, photographs, sound recordings, and maps. Nimmo's initial research focused on social change, but he collected data about other aspects of Bajau culture, including social organization, kinship, religion, fishing, boats, boat-building, art, and music.
