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Catalog Data

Collector:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this
Creator:
Petter, Rodolphe Charles, 1865-1947  Search this
Extent:
40 Items (cards )
Culture:
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this
Algonquin (Algonkin)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Card files
Vocabulary
Date:
circa 1930s
Scope and Contents:
Cards containing Truman Michelson's handwritten notes on Cheyenne vocabulary with comparisons to Central Algonquian (Fox, Cree, Delaware, Ojibwa, etc.) terms. The Bureau of American Ethnology catalog card indicates that some words were "extracted from Petter," most likely a reference to Rodolphe Petter's English-Cheyenne Dictionary (1915).
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3216
Local Note:
Title changed from "Some restored words which are difficult phonetically; some new words extracted from Petter 1930s" 5/27/2014.
Topic:
Cheyenne language  Search this
Algonquian languages  Search this
Algonquin  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Card files
Vocabulary
Citation:
Manuscript 3216, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS3216
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b19c51de-4ca4-4b17-a3b0-7a556206df52
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3216