Collector:

Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this

Informant:

Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918  Search this

Extent:

8 Pages

Culture:

Fox Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Folklore

Narratives

Manuscripts

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Story of Snapping Turtle in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic text by Alfred Kiyana, collected by Truman Michelson in Tama, Iowa.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2687

Local Note:

Title changed from "Snapping Turtle Legend" 4/7/2014.

Parts of pages 7 and 8 were previously in MS 2769 and MS 2835 and reunited with the rest of the manuscript in 1998 and 1999.

Other Archival Materials:

See MS 1376 for English translation of story by Bill Leaf.

Topic:

Fox language  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this

Genre/Form:

Folklore

Narratives

Manuscripts

Citation:

Manuscript 2687, 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.MS2687

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2687