Object Details
sova.naa.ms4800_ref1215
- 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
- 1889 - 1889
- undated
- 1881 - 1882
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS4800, Series 3
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- According to the Third annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Dorsey "collected vocabularies of the Pani, Arikara, Kaddo, Kichai, and Wichita languages, to be used by the Director for comparison purposes." This series contain those notes as well as vocabulary from other Caddoan languages, notes on social structure, the names of Caddoan language tribes, and a letter from Henry Henshaw. The vocabulary that Dorsey collected was likely used in his work on Indian synonomy.
- Collection Restrictions
- The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
NAA.MS4800_ref1215
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- Record ID
- ebl-1503512914364-1503512914466-1