MS 68 A.S. Gatschet Notebook with vocabularies, texts, notes
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- NAA MS 68
- Other Title
- Story of the fox and the wolf
- Story about the end of the world
- Waputhua story
- Great rabbit story
- Collector
- Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
- Informant
- Bottineau, Jno. B. (John B.)
- Toposh, A. J. (Chippewa)
- Bluejacket, Charles, 1817-1897
- Names
- Pokagon, Simon, 1830-1899
- Topic
- Eschatology
- Shawnee language
- Chippewa language
- Ojibwa language
- Potawatomi language
- Natchez language
- Narragansett language
- Folklore -- Shawnee
- Kinship -- Shawnee
- Kinship -- Chippewa
- Names, tribal -- Shawnee
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Indians of North America -- Northeast
- Indians of North America -- Southern states
- Collector
- Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
- Informant
- Bottineau, Jno. B. (John B.)
- Toposh, A. J. (Chippewa)
- Bluejacket, Charles, 1817-1897
- Culture
- Shawnee
- Natchez
- Potawatomi
- Narragansett
- Indians of North America -- Subarctic
- Extent
- 54 Pages
- Date
- mainly 1878-1879
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.MS68
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Pages
- Citation
- Manuscript 68, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Scope and Contents
- Contents: Shawnee, 48 pages. (3-19; 48-62, even pages only; 72-93). Includes texts with interlinear translation: Story of the fox and the wolf, pages 3-6; story about the end of the world, page 18; Waputhua (great rabbit) story, pages 18-19. Vocabulary includes Shawnee names for other tribes, pages 76-79; Shawnee clans, page 80. Informant for part of data, Blue Jacket, Vinita, I. T. Chippewa, 22 pages. (23-65, odd pages only). Mainly vocabulary from Jean Baptiste Bottineau, Pembina Band; includes clans of Pembina Band, page 59. Pottawatomi, 7 pages (22-32a, odd pages only). Mainly vocabulary, from A. J. Toposh, Dowagiac, Michigan. Obituary of Simon Pokagon, Pottawatomi chief (died January 27, 1899), page 30. Narragansett notes, 4 pages. (94-97). Natchez word, page 97. Miscellaneous Algonquian vocabulary notes, 1 page (back cover).
- Record ID
- ebl-1538137219888-1538137219891-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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