Collector:

Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  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:

Two handwritten Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic texts by an unidentified author, collected by Truman Michelson in Tama, Iowa. The first text is a story of men on the warpath. The second text is the beginning of another story, which is continued in MS 2769.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2768

Local Note:

Title changed from "Story of those who went to war, and portion of another story" 4/28/2014.

Related Materials:

See MS 2769 for continuation of the second story.

Topic:

Fox language  Search this

War  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox  Search this

Genre/Form:

Folklore

Narratives

Manuscripts

Citation:

Manuscript 2768, 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.MS2768

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2768