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MS 4750 Way of burying dead among Lower Klamath

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Catalog Data

Creator:
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906  Search this
Extent:
5 Pages
Culture:
Yurok  Search this
Klamath  Search this
Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this
Indians of North America -- California  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
ca. 1880's
Scope and Contents:
Handwritten. Found with Curtin's Saia vocabulary of November 1884 (Manuscript 1458) and separately catalogued 7/65.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4750
Local Note:
The title as written is, "Way of burying dead among Upper [sic] Lower Klamath." Presumably this refers to people of the Lower Klamath River, or Yurok.
Topic:
Mortuary customs -- Yurok  Search this
Mortuary customs -- Klamath  Search this
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4750, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4750
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3f1adc671-53d9-4fc7-8320-92f86d0a9464
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4750