MS 4277 Tunica texts
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content: NAA MS 4277
label: Local Note
content: typescript document with A. notations
label: Other Title
content: Biographic Notice of William Ely Johnson
label: Other Title
content: The Living Tunica
label: Other Title
content: The Tonika Ascend the Mississippi and Settle at Avoyelles
label: Other Title
content: The Orphan
label: Other Title
content: Mortuary Customs
label: Other Title
content: Performance of Tonika Shamans
name: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Names
content: Johnson, William Ely
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
culture: label: Culture
content: Tunica
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 27 Pages
label: Extent
content: 2 Items (cards )
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4277
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Texts from Gatschet's Manuscript Number 1301, with interlinear English translations. Also English translations of Tunica texts. No date. Typescript document with A. notations. 14 pages. Copied from Manuscript Number 1301, which includes Gatschet's Tunica texts with interlinear French translation. Swanton copied the Tunica texts, but wrote his own interlinear and running English translations. Includes (page numbers refer to those in Gatschet's Manuscript Number 1301): "Biographic Notice of [William Ely] Johnson," pages 53-55; "The Living Tunica," pages 85-86; untitled text, page 97; untitled text, page 98; "The Tonika Ascend the Mississippi and Settle at Avoyelles," pages 109-112; The Orphan," pages 145-167; "Mortuary Customs," pages 195-203; "Performance of Tonika Shamans," pages 221-227. The back of the typed paper contains fragments of A. manuscript notes that have been crossed out. The back of one of the pages contains a list of Tunica Indian names.