Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA MS 2708
- Local Note
- Title changed from "Miscellaneous stories; some texts and translations part, probably all, 1910" 4/15/2014.
- Creator
- Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
- Informant
- Little Shield
- Wolf Bear
- White Breast
- Creator
- Goggles, John
- Topic
- Arapaho language
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Creator
- Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
- Informant
- Little Shield
- Wolf Bear
- White Breast
- Creator
- Goggles, John
- Culture
- Inunaina (Arapaho)
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains
- Sponsor
- Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Extent
- 187 Pages
- Date
- 1910
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS2708
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Folklore
- Narratives
- Manuscripts
- Citation
- Manuscript 2708, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- Narratives
- Manuscripts
- Scope and Contents
- Arapaho stories collected by Truman Michelson from Little Shield, Wolf Bear, White Breast, and John Goggles, who also served as translator. There are stories handwritten in Arapaho, some of which include interlinear translations in English by Goggles. There are also free English translations by Goggles and Michelson in handwritten and typed form. The stories include: "Found in the grass;" "The girl and the porcupine;" "Blue bird, Elk woman, Buffalo woman;" Arapaho origin story; and the story of why white owls dislike hot weather.
- Record ID
- ebl-1538046660973-1538046660974-0
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