Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
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Pages
Date:
1916-1917
Scope and Contents:
Contents: "Key to Comparative vocabularies," a numerical key to English equivalents of the Indian terms in the vocabularies. Typescript and autograph document. 2 pages. Comparative vocabulary of Natchez, Tunica, Chitimacha, and Attacapa. Autograph document. 22 pages. Comparative vocabulary of Creek, Choctaw, Alabama, and Hitchiti. Autograph document. 23 pages. Comparative vocabulary of Tonkawa, Comecrudo, Coahuilteco, Cotoname, and Karankawa. Autograph document. 22 pages. Comparative vocabulary of Koasati, Creek, Hitchiti, Alabama, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Natchez. Typescript and autograph document. 2 pages. Comparative vocabulary of Timucua and other Southeastern languages. Typescript and Autograph document. 19 pages. Comparison of Natchez vocabulary, phonology and structure with other Muskhogean languages. Typescript Document with A. notations. 57 cards.
Biographical / Historical:
According to Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 38, pages 5-6, Swanton worked on a comparative vocabulary of these languages in 1916-1917.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4121
Local Note:
typescript and autograph document
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
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Date:
ca. 1916
Scope and Contents:
Discusses Karankawa, Attacapa and Akokisa vocabularies extracted by Swanton from a copy of a memoir by Jean Berenger (Beranger) seen by him in September, 1916, in the Ayer Collection, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.
Biographical / Historical:
Swanton's visit to the Newberry Library is dated September 1916 from Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 38, page 4.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
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Date:
November 7, 1906
Scope and Contents:
Letter requests tribal identifications for an enclosed list of personal names of Indians from an unspecified source. Also includes Enclosure: Typescript document (with A. notations by Swanton). 11 pages. Work sheet by Swanton: personal names exrtracted from Bolton's list. [1906.] Typescript document with A. annotations. 2 pages.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
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Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Includes typescript document, 1 card.
Biographical / Historical:
The typed words were "recorded by Dr J. O. Dyer of Galveston, Texas, from Guy M. Bryan, on old patient, and [are] perhaps Karankawa," or perhaps from Spanish.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4944
Local Note:
autograph document
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4944, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
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Sheets
Date:
September and October 1884 and 1889
Scope and Contents:
On U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey Form. Parallel words added from the Karankawa language, Texas Coast, February 1889. Also additional words added by James Mooney in 1898.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1014-b
General:
Previously titled "Vocabulary."
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1014-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Date:
December, 1888
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Contents:
MS 502-a Linguistic and ethnological material on the Karankawa tribe, "taken down from the recollection of Mrs Alice W. Oliver, at Lynn Massachusetts, in November, 1888." Approximately 71 pages in notebook. ("Karankawa" printed on edge of binding.
MS 502-b A report on the information, 4 pages, accompanied by letter of transmittal to the Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 502-a-b
General:
Previously titled "Texts."
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 502-a-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Summary of ethnological objects in the National Museum of Natural History associated with the Karankawa culture / prepared by Charles W. Smythe and Priya A. Helweg
Title:
Karankawa culture
National Museum of Natural History Karankawa ethnographic summary report
The Karankawa Indians, the coast people of Texas. By Albert S. Gatschet. With notes by Charles A. Hammond and Alice W. Oliver, and a vocabulary obtained from Alice W. Oliver
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Gatschet, Albert S (Albert Samuel) 1832-1907 Search this