MS 3189 Kickapoo stories by Joseph Murdock
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA MS 3189
- Local Note
- Title changed from "Legends summer, 1930" 5/22/2014.
- Collector
- Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
- Creator
- Murdock, Joseph
- Topic
- Kickapoo language
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Indians of North America -- Northeast
- Collector
- Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
- Creator
- Murdock, Joseph
- Culture
- Kickapoo
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
- Sponsor
- Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Extent
- 213 Pages
- Date
- 1930
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS3189
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Folklore
- Narratives
- Manuscripts
- Citation
- Manuscript 3189, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Microfilm- University of Michigan, Anthropology Department 10/52.
- Genre/Form
- Folklore
- Narratives
- Manuscripts
- Scope and Contents
- Three notebooks containing stories handwritten in Kickapoo by Joseph Murdock, a Mexican Kickapoo residing in Oklahoma. There are a few titles and notes written in English. The following is a list of the titles, translated into English. The list may not reflect the physical arrangement of the stories.
- Contents: Where the people had a town and the chief had a son; Apparently something on Mide and Wabano; A story of where the people had a town and the man moved; A witch causes death; Hog (the end is very much like the last story in Jones' Kickapoo text and the so-called Meskwaki "Tiger" story from Jack Bullard); An old woman kills her daughter-in-law as she fell in love with her son-in-law (very much like Jones' Fox story. The ending is slightly different); What happened to a woman who hated her son-in-law (much the same as Jones' Fox story "How a girl hated the man who stayed with her parents; the bull frog episode appears in both); Skunk and opossum (almost exactly the same as Jones' Kickapoo story; ending is different); Raccoon tries to steal chickens and is caught by a Frenchman; story something like Wissler's "Split Feather" (the end is like one of Jones' Fox stories); V-dentata; a story almost like Jones' story of the man who married many women (the louse episode occured in both); Wisake and the "Flag"; story that begins like the bear lover, goes on almost like Jones' Kickapoo story (it is closer to the Apaiyashihagi story); The determination of paternity by passing ? the baby; Potiphar's wife (ending different from Jones' Kickapoo); a variant of Jones' Boy and the giant (the mayor's daughter episode is lacking and the ending is different); Snapping turtle on the war path; Snapping turtle runs a race with Black Hawk; White Blooms (a new story); Why Kickapoos did not eat Blackhawk, and the youth who fasted all month; (names of some Kickapoo months; A man lives with his son-in-law; An old man wishes his daughter to marry ("control of goods" under the "control of game"; some European elements); Story of Tootca (= grub worm) Lesbian; Ten men who were brothers together; (on last page apparently a summary of titles of stories running backward one page).
- Record ID
- ebl-1538117433803-1538117433805-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
