Collector:

Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this

Creator:

Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918  Search this

Translator:

Brown, Thomas, circa 1891-  Search this

Extent:

2 Notebooks (136 pages)

Culture:

Fox  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Notebooks

Folklore

Narratives

Manuscripts

Date:

circa 1915

Scope and Contents:

Text in Meskwaki (Fox) handwritten in a notebook by Alfred Kiyana on the one who made the eagle sacred bundle. A second notebook contains an English translation by Thomas Brown.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1835

Local Note:

Title changed from "Eagle gens, and The one who made the Eagle Sacred Pack Legend and ethnology" 3/14/2014.

Other Archival Materials:

See Manuscript 1850 for additional texts and translations by Kiyana and Brown, most likely from the same period.

Topic:

Fox Indians -- Kinship  Search this

Fox language  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Medicine bundles  Search this

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Genre/Form:

Folklore

Narratives

Manuscripts

Citation:

Manuscript 1835, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.

Identifier:

NAA.MS1835

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f1e15d60-05ea-43aa-a4e3-b8c1544fcae7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1835