With transliterations and notes. The songs appears to be medical formulae. Pages 68-72 contain list of archeological and ethnological specimens collected in Tennessee and on "Reservation" for National Museum; catalog nos. given are 62751-63186. Ref. is made to 3rd. AR, BAE, 1881-2 (1884). The material in syllabary is in Swimmersʹ hand. (Ident. by J.F. Kilpatrick, 3/63).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4479
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4479, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photostat of letter by Pete Messabie in Timagami Chippewa transmitted by A.P. Taylor. Also a page of Truman Michelson's notes on words and phrases in the letter with English translations.
Copies of correspondence between George J. Gibbs and others on a variety of topics, especially anthropological, ornithological, and geneological. Included is corresponsence with Spencer Baird and Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution; John Evans; Joseph Hutchings; W.R. Inglis, "late" president of the Turks and Caicos Islands; J.H. Lefroy, "fomer" governor of Bermuda; Sir Anthony Musgrage, governor of Jamaica; and Joseph Hutchings. Also included are photographs of Baird, Evans, Hutchings, Inglis, Lefroy, and Musgrave; a copy of James Smithson's will; sketches of artifacts; geneological information regarding the original colonists of the Bermudas, and excerpts from other sources.
Arrangement:
chronological
Biographical / Historical:
Virtually no biographical information is available. From the text, a birthdate for George J. Gibbs of ca. 1833 has been deduced. In the manuscript, Gibbs states that his father was the Honorable George Gibbs "of these islands" and that his uncle was William H. Gibbs who died ca. 1876. G.J. Gibbs lived on Grand Turk Island of the British West Indies, at that time a Jamaican dependency, was married, and had children (number unknown). According to the text, he became an invalid due to an illness ca. 1875.
Local Note:
Date of birth determined by extrapolation from text: on page 286, 1878, Gibbs says that for 42 years he knew no illness, but "three years ago" [1875] he became ill from exposure on a hunting trip and has ever since been an invalid. [1875 - 42 years = 1833, hypothetical birth date.]
Other Title:
"A correspondence relative to Ancient Stone Implements etc., etc. between George J. Gibbs of Grand Turk and Caicos Islands, W.I. and John Evans Esquire F.R.S. & F.S.A., Honorary Secretary of the Geological and Numismatic Societies of London etc., etc. (the author of a work established in London in the year 1872 entitled ʻAncient Stone Implements, etc. of Great Britainʼ) also with Joseph Henry Esquire Secretary and Diretor of the Smithsonian Intitute and of the National Museum of the United States of America at Washington, D.C. and with other partners on various subjects."
Provenance:
B.G.E. St.Aubyn, Windsor House, Cayman Islands, British West Indies gift July, 1973 74-1
Topic:
Archaeology -- Stone tools -- West Indies Search this
Anthropology -- Indians -- Americas -- West Indies Search this
Natural history -- Ornithology -- West Indies Search this
Social history -- geneology -- Bermuda -- West Indies -- England Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Letters
Citation:
Manuscript 7173, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Two notebooks containing Rupert House Cree stories by Charles Steven. The first notebook contains the stories written in Rupert House Cree syllabary, while the second notebook contains handwritten English translations.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3416
Local Note:
Title changed from "Rupert's House Cree (Montagnais) syllabic text 1936" 6/6/2014.
Includes text and drawings, 2 sketch maps, 21 native drawings, 3 pages musical scores.
Contents: 1 [Introduction], page 1; and Ethnohistory and History, 22 pages. 2. Traditions and Myths..., pages 1-89. 3. Songs..., pages 52-56. 4. Games..., pages 45-51. 5. The Quileute Children's Pastime, pages [1]-4. 6. Native coloring Material..., pages 43-44. [text and drawings] 7. ...Methods of Hunting and Trapping [text and drawings] [10] 8. Native Medicines, 1 page. 9. ...Dances..., pages 57-65. 10. Shamanistic Performances, pages [1]-10. 11. Shakerism, pages [1]-18. 12. The Potlatch, pages [1]-8. 13. Marriage Ceremonies, pages [1]-2. 14. Birth Ceremonies, 1 page. 15. Puberty Customs, 1 page. 16. Mortuary Customs, pages [1]-4. page. 17. Miscellaneous Notes, pages [1]-15, [16]. 18. The Retarding Influence of the Chinook Jargon, 1 page. The Thunder Bird. (Copied from a grave slab at Quileute) [Illustration] 1 page. 212 pages total. Quileute Indian Village and Vicinity [sketch map, 20" x 28"] 1 page. James Island or Ah-Kah-Lot. [sketch map, 20" x 28"] 1 page. [Drawings by native artists; all or part by students at the Indian School, Lapush, Washington.] 21 pages. Music to Songs used at the Quileute Shaker Meetings, pages 6, 7, 11. 238 pages total.
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.
Notebook (labelled "1936 III") containing Albany Cree syllabic texts; Attawapiskat Cree syllabic texts; Weenusk Cree syllabic text; mixed Moose Cree and Rupert House Cree phonetic transcription of a syllabic text in Manuscript 3397; another version of the same text in Rupert House syllabary; and Albany Cree kinship terms. Truman Michelson obtained these texts and notes through his work with Patrick Steven, Sydney Hester, Agnes Hester, and William Allan.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3417
Local Note:
Title changed from "Syllabic texts 1936" 6/6/2014.
Other Archival Materials:
See MS 3415 for English translation of Albany Cree text, MS 3411 for English translation of Attawapiskat Cree and Weenusk Cree texts, and MS 3397 for original mixed Moose Cree and Rupert House Cree syllabic text.
Notebook (labelled "1936 IV") containing linguistic and ethnological notes and stories collected by Truman Michelson during his research on the Cree at James Bay and Hudson Bay in Canada in 1936. Includes Fort George, Attawapiskat, and Weenusk Cree phonetic texts; English translations of Attawapiskat and Weenusk Cree syllabic texts in MS 3417; and an English translation of a Moose Cree syllabic text in MS 3413. Also notes on kinship and kinship terms in Attawapiskat, Weenusk, Albany, and Moose Cree; general Weenusk Cree vocabulary; dialects spoken by other Cree; Attawapiskat and Weenusk land boundaries; anthropometric measurements of Weenusk Cree; and index cards with Weenusk Cree linguistic notes. People that Michelson worked with include William Etherington(?); David Sutherland; Stanley Lutet (or Loutet); John Fletcher; Harvey Smallboy; and William Allan.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3411
Local Note:
Title changed from "Texts 1936" 6/5/2014.
Other Archival Materials:
See Manuscript 3417 for associated Attawapiskat and Weenusk Cree syllabic texts and Manuscript 3413 for associated Moose Cree syllabic text.
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.
Notebook (labelled 1936-I) containing phonetic transcriptions of Harvey Smallboy's Moose Cree syllabic texts in Manuscript 3398. The transcriptions are based on readings by Smallboy and William Allan. On the last page of the notebook are ethnological notes from John Fletcher. There are also loose pages with vocabulary from the texts and notes on Moose Cree sandhi.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3414
Local Note:
Title changed from "Texts 1936" 6/5/2014.
Other Archival Materials:
See Manuscript 3398 for the original Moose Cree syllabic texts
