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MS 4282 Miscellaneous American Indian manuscripts

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Collector:
Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this
Creator:
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852  Search this
Padilla, Augustin Davila  Search this
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749  Search this
Culture:
Muskogee (Creek)  Search this
Choctaw  Search this
Cherokee  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contents: John Howard Payne's account of the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokee ?, from the Continental Monthly, Volume I, 1862, reprinted in the Journal of the Oklahoma Historical Society with notes by Dr J. R. Swanton. Father Augustin Davila Padilla's account of the De Luna expedition. Spanish census of the Indians in some villages of Indian refugees in Florida. The Indians of Chicora, from Latin edition of Peter Martyr's "De Orbe Novo." A section of Mark Catesby's "Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands" bearing on Indians. A "Relation a La Louisiane" by an unidentified French author, in the Ayer Collection of Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. The Choctaw section and some minor portions have been printed in Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association and elsewhere. George Stiggins' Creek History from the Manuscript in the Draper Collection in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Ca. 100 sheets. Title: "A Historical narration of the Genealogy traditiona and downfall of the Ispocoga or Creek tribe written by one of the tribe." "Photocopies of parts of the Memorias of Juan A. de Morfi, the original of which is in the Library of Congress. Parts on Indians translated and printed by Chabot and used from his translation by Myself. May 25, 1944." --John R. Swanton.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4282
Topic:
Dance -- Cherokee ?  Search this
Censuses -- American Indian -- Florida  Search this
Florida -- census of Indians  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4282, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4282
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw39f1d5819-370c-44d9-a750-8662d193da83
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4282