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Digitized Content MS 1854 Potawatomi and Ojibwa notes collected by Truman Michelson
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Dates:
1922
Size:
75 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1854
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Undated notebook containing anthropometric measurements and notes on the linguistics and ethnology of the Potawatomi and Ojibwa, collected by Truman Michelson in Wisconsin. According to Explorations and Field Work, Smithsonian Institution (Pub. 2711), Michelson traveled to Wisconsin to conduct research on the Potawatomi near Arpin and the Ojibwa ne...

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Digitized Content MS 1912 Assorted historical texts
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Creators:
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Preston, William Col
Springstone, William
Dates:
undated
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1912
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contains copy of letter dated August 9, 1780, addressed to Col William Preston, relative to a threatened attack by the Indians (Cherokee), signed by Jas. Martin. Also copy of an affidavit by William Springstone, formerly a trader in the Cherokee town of Sciligo (Tciligo) referring to a "treaty" between Raven Chief of the Cherokee and the British Ag...

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MS 1998-86 Lucien A. Spencer reports on the Seminole
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Creators:
Spencer, Lucien A.
Dates:
circa 1913-1928
Size:
55 Items (5.5 linear inches.)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1998-86
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

This collection consists of reports, dictionaries and indexes relating to Indians of North America and to the Seminole Indians in Florida in particular, circa 1913-1928. The materials were compiled using the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology by Lucien A. Spencer, who was Special Commissioner to the Florida Seminoles for what was then call...

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MS 2001-18 Bringer of the Mystery Dog
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Creators:
Clark, Ann
Howe, Oscar, 1915-1983
Afraid-of-Hawk, Emil
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Dates:
United States Indian Service,, 1943
Size:
1 Book
Collection ID:
NAA.MS2001-18
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Story about a young boy who brings the first horse to his Plains Indian tribe, the Antelope Band, around the year 1700. Book published by the United States Indian Service in 1943 with both English and Sioux texts. English text by Ann Clark, Sioux text by Emil Afraid of Hawk, and illustrations by Oscar Howe.

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MS 3241 Lists by William Jones of his Sauk and Fox collection at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
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Creators:
Jones, William, 1871-1909
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934
Dates:
1914
Size:
16 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3241
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Two lists made by William Jones of his collection of Sauk and Fox ethnological and ethnobotanical specimens at the Field Museum of Natural History. The lists were requested by Truman Michelson and sent to him by Berthold Laufer, curator of Asian Anthropology at the Field Museum. A transmittal letter dated December 29, 1914 from Laufer to Michelson ...

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MS 3436 Smithsonian Institution Comparative Vocabularies
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Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896
Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
Bergland, Eric, 1844-1918
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Dates:
1870s-1880s
Size:
2 Volumes
530 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3436
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The materials are included in volumes (Smithsonian Institution Comparative Vocabulary, May 1863) marked "2" and "3." Volume 1 has not been found. Included are both originals and copies of vocabularies that come from several different sources. Most of the material concern Indians of North and South America but there are also vocabularies of Cantones...

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Digitized Content MS 3418 Photostat of letter by Pete Messabie in Chippewa
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Messabie, Pete
Dates:
1936
Size:
2 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3418
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photostat of letter by Pete Messabie in Timagami Chippewa transmitted by A.P. Taylor. Also a page of Truman Michelson's notes on words and phrases in the letter with English translations.

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MS 4234 Comparative notes on Siouan languages
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Creators:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Dates:
undated
Size:
3 Pages
8 Items (slips )
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4234
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

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.

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MS 4515-a Reginald Noel Atkinson report, photographs, and map relating to Okanagan artifacts
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Creators:
Atkinson, Reginald Noel, 1897-
Dates:
1943
Size:
20 Pages
14 Gelatin silver prints
1 Map (hand-drawn )
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4515A
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Copy of "The Artifacts of the Okanagan Indians in British Columbia and Washington State," paper presented by Reginald Noel Atkinson of Penticton, British Columbia, before the Okanagan Society for the Revival of Indian Arts and Crafts meeting, held on January 18, 1943 in Oliver, British Columbia. Also includes transcript of discussions of the paper,...

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MS 4739 American Indians as Orators
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Creators:
Hodson, Clarence, 1868-1928
Dates:
undated
Size:
22 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4739
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Text includes speeches by the following Indians: Chief Logan, a Mingo, 1774; Red Jacket, a Seneca, 1805; Tecumseh, a Shawnee, 1810; Pushmataha, a Choctaw, 1824; Black Hawk, a Sauk, 1832; Peter Wilson, a Cayuga, 1847.

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