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MS 3413 Cree notes and text collected by Truman Michelson

Catalog Data

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Creator:
Etherington, William  Search this
Lutet, Stanley  Search this
Fletcher, John  Search this
Extent:
21 Pages
Culture:
Cree  Search this
Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Folklore
Narratives
Manuscripts
Vocabulary
Place:
James Bay (Nunavut)
Hudson Bay
Date:
1936
Scope and Contents:
Assortment of notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson on the Cree at James Bay and Hudson Bay. Includes extracts from notes in Manuscript 3411 on Weenusk boundaries and dialect classifictions of Ghost River Cree, Le Ronge Cree, and Trout Lake Cree; references to publications on Cree; some notes on Island Lake Cree, God's Lake Cree, and Oxford House Cree; Albany Cree vocabulary from William (likely Etherington) and Stanley Lutet (or Loutet); anthropometric measurements of Attawapiskat Cree; and a story in Moose Cree syllabary by John Fletcher.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3413
Local Note:
Title changed from "Texts 1936" 6/5/2014.
Other Archival Materials:
See Manuscript 3411 for English translation of John Fletcher's Moose Cree text.
Topic:
Physical anthropology  Search this
anthropometry  Search this
Cree language  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Linguistics  Search this
Genre/Form:
Folklore
Narratives
Manuscripts
Vocabulary
Citation:
Manuscript 3413, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS3413
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37d42e7ad-e94e-48fe-aee3-75a55156b9ad
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3413