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MS 1635 Truman Michelson linguistic and ethnological notes on Ottawa and Munsee

Catalog Data

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Extent:
50 Pages
Culture:
Odawa (Ottawa)  Search this
Munsee Delaware  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Place:
otta mich
Date:
1922 August 29-September
Scope and Contents:
Notepad containing Truman Michelson's Ottawa and Munsee linguistic and ethnological notes. In pencil in writing tablet as follows: pages [1-21]. Ottawa. Michigan. August 29- September, 1922. (23 pages, total; 2 pages written on backs.) pages [22-23]. Munsee. Moraviantown Reserve, Canada. September, 1922. pages [33-45]. Munsee. Six Nations Reserve, Canada. September, 1922.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1635
Local Note:
Pages 33-45 are written in very hard pencil and the writing is very faint. See typed transcript of ethnographic notes, but not vocabulary lists, on these pages, filed with the Manuscript in October 1971.
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Munsee language  Search this
Ottawa language  Search this
Linguistics  Search this
Ethnology  Search this
Delaware (Lenape)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1635, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS1635
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw33890b109-45a1-4a6e-bd5b-24931afe5eb4
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1635