With interlinear English translation. Section VI includes "Sentences" and sections XII and XXIV of autograph document only include "Words that differ in Koasati and Alabama."
Biographical / Historical:
Swanton worked with the Koasati in 1912-1920, according to Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 34, page 13; AR 38, page 6; AR 41, page 7. The typescript was received in Bureau of American Ethnology Archives September 16, 1920 (according to old catalog card).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1818
Local Note:
Informants: Stories "I-XVI and XXXIII-XXXVI from Jackson Langley; the rest from his mother Salin Langley."
The handwritten texts were formerly filed under Manuscript file Number 4145, and were added to this file in 1970.
autograph document
typescript document
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern states Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1818, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
