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Siouan-Catawban

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

sova.naa.ms4800_ref1204
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3fd2fed42-cfb3-4670-9f31-4cb5fcc13f98
Collection Creator
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
Sponsor
Creation of this finding aid was funded through support from the Arcadia Fund. Digitization and preparation of additional materials for online access has been funded also by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Date
1870 - 1894
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Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.MS4800, Series 1
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Arrangement
This series is organized into the following subseries: 1) General Siouan; 2) Dakota; 3) Dhegiha; 4) Chiwere-Winnebago; 5) Mandan & Hidatsa; 6) Tutelo & Biloxi; 7) Catawba.
Collection Rights
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Scope and Contents
This series contains Dorsey's linguistic and ethnological research on the tribes of the Siouan-Catawba language family, spanning from his days as a missionary among the Ponca to his research as a BAE ethnologist. Materials consist of field notes, census, reading notes, drafts of manuscripts for publication, and papers for presentations. The series also contains dictionaries that he compiled on Omaha, Ponca, Quapaw, and Biloxi, as well as his work editing Steven Riggs' Dakota-English Dictionary. As part of his research, Dorsey also gathered and analyzed the linguistic data collected by his colleagues. These notes and a small amount of correspondence with his colleagues are also in this series.
Collection Restrictions
The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
NAA.MS4800_ref1204
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3fd2fed42-cfb3-4670-9f31-4cb5fcc13f98
NAA.MS4800
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1503512914364-1503512914403-0

  • MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers

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