MS 3765 Letter to Henry Wetherbee Henshaw
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3765
label: Local Note
content: The maple sugar story has not been located.
label: Local Note
content: autograph letter signed
name: label: Creator
content: Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
topic: label: Topic
content: Religion -- Menominee
label: Topic
content: Maple sugar -- Menominee
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899
culture: label: Culture
content: Menominee (Menomini)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: August 22, 1890
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3765
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Ref.: W.J. Hoffman, "The Menomini Indians," 14th Bureau of American Ethnology AR, part 1 (1892-93) contains the "maple sugar story": "The Origin of Maple Sugar and of Menstration," pages 173-175.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Letter transmits "a short story relating to the origin of maple sugar" and "some words relating to the maple trees, etc.," giving an account of the Mid'e ceremonies among the Menominee Indians. Also "Notes [vocabulary] relating to Maple Sugar." 1890. Manuscript document. 2 pages.