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MS 3415 Moose Cree and Albany Cree texts and notes collected by Truman Michelson

Catalog Data

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Creator:
Allan, William  Search this
Ricard, Frank  Search this
Smallboy, Harvey, 1879-1947  Search this
Smallboy, Simon, 1890-1978  Search this
Steven, Patrick, 1868-  Search this
Extent:
1 Notebook (147 pages) and 66 pages)
Culture:
Cree  Search this
Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Notebooks
Folklore
Narratives
Manuscripts
Vocabulary
Field notes
Date:
1936
Scope and Contents:
Collection of Moose Cree and Albany Cree notes and texts compiled through Truman Michelson's work with Frank Ricard; William Allan; Harvey Smallboy; Simon Smallboy, brother of Harvey Smallboy; and Patrick Steven. A notebook, labelled "1936 II,"contains English translations and phonetic transcriptions of Moose Cree and Albany Cree syllabic texts in Manuscripts 3394 and 3417 respecitively. At the end of the notebook are a few pages of notes on kinship systems and terms. There are also two sets of loose pages. One set consists of vocabulary from the notebook texts. The second set is a syllabic text, likely Moose Cree, with an English translation.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3415
Local Note:
Title changed from "Texts 1936" 6/6/2014.
Other Archival Materials:
See MS 3394 for original Moose Cree syllabic texts and and MS 3395 for typescripts of the English translations. See MS 3417 for original Albany Cree syllabic texts.
Topic:
Kinship  Search this
Social structure  Search this
Cree language  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Linguistics  Search this
Genre/Form:
Folklore
Narratives
Manuscripts
Vocabulary
Field notes
Citation:
Manuscript 3415, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS3415
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw33e4f21c1-be6f-4483-9a8b-4eefd530be06
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3415