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Six Omaha and one Oto myth

National Museum of Natural History

Six Omaha and one Oto myth
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Object Details

sova.naa.ms4800_ref288
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b54006e4-4c9f-4f08-ab2a-360e4d07d2c5
Collection Creator
Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers / Series 1: Siouan-Catawban / 1.3: Dhegiha
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
1880 - 1880
Container
Box 31, Item 198
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Manuscript 4800 James O. Dorsey papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Collection Rights
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Scope and Contents
Contents: Omaha: 1. How the Rabbit killed the (male) Winter. 2. The brothers, Sister and the Red Bird. 3. Haxige. 4. How the Rabbit killed the Black Bears. 5. How the Rabbit caught the Sun in a trap. 6. Ictinike and the Buzzard. Oto: The Rabbit and the Grasshoppers. Includes Letter to J. W. Powell, Director, Bureau of Ethnology. Hedgesville, West Virginia. November 3, 1880. With interlinear and free translations and notes. All Omaha texts are published in "The Cegiha Language," Contributions to North American Ethnology VI. The Oto text appears in American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal, volume III, number 1, pages 24-27.
Collection Restrictions
The James O. Dorsey Papers are open for research. Access to the James O. Dorsey Papers requires an appointment
NAA.MS4800_ref288
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b54006e4-4c9f-4f08-ab2a-360e4d07d2c5
NAA.MS4800
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1503512914364-1503512914430-3

  • MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers

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