MS 2020 Four Fox stories by Sam Peters and Joe Peters
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content: NAA MS 2020
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Peters, Sam, 1885-
label: Creator
content: Peters, Joe
label: Translator
content: Poweshiek, Horace
topic: label: Topic
content: Fox language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Peters, Sam, 1885-
label: Creator
content: Peters, Joe
label: Translator
content: Poweshiek, Horace
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 230 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2020
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: The description of this manuscript was updated in 2024 based on information provided by Dr. Patricia Afable, Research Assistant to the Linguistic Editor of the Handbook of North American Indians, and Dr. Lucy Thomason, National Museum of Natural History Museum Technician (linguistics).
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: "Spotted Calf" was published in 40th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, along with an English translation.
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: This manuscript consists of four stories in Meskwaki syllabary by Sam Peters and Joe Peters, with English translations by Horace Poweshiek. The texts are an untitled story by Sam Peters about the society of those who worship the little spotted buffalo; a text by Sam Peters whose title can be translated as "Another one," about Kochipehkwâha and the ghosts that blessed him; a text by Joe Peters and Sam Peters whose title can be translated as "This is one more story about the time when people had manitou powers, long ago;" and an untitled story by Joe Peters and Sam Peters about a man who loved a wife who preferred her Sioux captor. English translations are present for all of the stories except the first. On the back of the tablet, someone other than the Peters brothers wrote titles in Meskwaki syllabary for the last three stories: these can be translated "An old man was blessed by ghosts and made a sacred pack," "The boy who fasted in a stone house," and "The man who loved his wife."
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: See Manuscript 2837-a for the handwritten English translation of "Spotted Calf."