Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Field notes
Vocabulary
Place:
Concho (Okla.)
Date:
1929 July
Scope and Contents:
Notebook containing Truman Michelson's handwritten notes from his work among the Southern Cheyenne in Concho, Oklahoma. The notes consist primarily of vocabulary with some ethnological notes interspersed. The vocabulary includes comparative terms in Só'taeo'o (Sutaio). Ethnological topics include medicine bundles, "doctors" who can understand babies, "shaking lodge," and singing medicine arrow and sun dance songs. There is also an index card with notes on prophecy lodge.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3343
Local Note:
Title changed from "Cheyenne Vocabulary, with occasional ethnographic notes fJuly 1929" 5/28/2014.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Field notes
Vocabulary
Manuscripts
Place:
Concho (Okla.)
Date:
1928
Scope and Contents:
Handwritten Arapaho linguistic and ethnological notes and texts from Truman Michelson's fieldwork in Concho, Oklahoma, during the summer of 1928. These notes are primarily from Michelson's work with Cleaver Warden. Max Van Horn and Mike [possibly Mack?] Haag, two Cheyenne men from Calumet, Oklahoma, may have also provided some information. Michelson's notes include vocabulary and information regarding military societies. The Arapaho texts contain interlineal English translations.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3087
Local Note:
Title changed from "Linguistics and ethnology Summer 1928" 5/21/2014.
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Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Collection Title, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
[Wife of James Deer, S.I. Negative Number 54565. ??]
"No. 15 Killing Beef" apparently lettered across bottom of original negative. "Punjo Guy / Concho, Okla. / Caddo / John Inikishba [?] written in pencil on reverse of mount.
Black and white copy negative
Topic:
Indians of North America -- Southern states Search this
