MS 3449 Extracts from manuscript on the ethnography and philology of the Cheyennes
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content: NAA MS 3449-a-b-c-d
label: Other Title
content: Cheyenne History and Dictionary
label: Other Title
content: Ethnography, The Present Location of the Cheyennes
label: Other Title
content: Names of Rivers and Localities known to the Cheyennes in the country they have lived, hunted or raided in, as long as the present generation of this tribe have any definite knowledge
label: Other Title
content: Cheyenne Names of Rivers and Localities in the Country they have occupied or roamed over and which are known to the present Generation
label: Other Title
content: Cheyenne Band Names from the Clark Manuscript Soldier Bands of the Southern Cheyenne
name: label: Creator
content: Clark, Benjamin H., 1842-1914
label: Annotator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
topic: label: Topic
content: Names, place
label: Topic
content: Names, tribal -- band names
label: Topic
content: Names, tribal -- soldier bands
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Clark, Benjamin H., 1842-1914
label: Annotator
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne Indians
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3449
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Microfilm negative on file. (1969-SOA target)
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: The whereabouts of the original manuscript is unknown. It is described by Pilling, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 13, 1891, page 557, and there stated to in the possession of Mr G. B. Grinnell, New York City.
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content: Three extracts, as follows: 3449-a. "Cheyenne History and Dictionary." "Ethnography, The Present Location of the Cheyennes," pages 1-35. "Names of Rivers and Localities known to the Cheyennes in the country they have lived, hunted, or raided in, as long as the present generation of this tribe have any definite knowledge," pages 35-56. No title; Cheyenne-English vocabulary, letter "O" only, pages 57-58. 3449-b. "Cheyenne History and Dictionary." Copy of letter of Ben Clark, "To the Publisher or Printer," dated Washington, D. C., March 1, 1887, page [1]. Ethnography, pages [2-38], Philiology, pages [12-38]. Acquired November, 1906, through Miss C. F. Pierce, Librarian of Wellesley Library: Clark, Ben: Cheyenne history and dictionary. Typewritten copy consisting of: Errata 1 (unnumbered), verso (unnumbered), Ben Clark Manuscript, "Ethnography and Philology of the Cheyenne," 1887, in Southwest Museum Library, Los Angeles, according to citation in P. Powell, Sweet Medicine, 1969. [Direction] to publisher or printer, dated Washington, D. C., March 1, 1887, Ethnography pages 2-30, Philology pages 31-37, Cheyenne grammar pages 38-57, Dictionary pages 58-359. Typewritten pages 8" x 13" mounted on sheets 11 3/4" x 15 3/8", cover 12" x 15 3/4", bound in 3/4 goat. Presented to Wellesley College Library by Professor E. N. Horsford. 3449-c. "Cheyenne Names of Rivers and Localities in the Country they have occupied or roamed over and which are known to the present Generation." 13 typed pages numbered 251-263. This section includes only parts of the names given in pages 36-56 of 3449-b. The orthography and comments differ somewhat, and are presumably Mooney's, for page 251 is marked at the bottom in Mooney's hand, "115 local names--Clark / 49--J. M." 3449-D. "Cheyenne Band Names from the Clark Manuscript. Soldier Bands of the Southern Cheyennes." 1 page typed, with annotations by James Mooney. (Found in File Number 2213, miscellaneous Cheyenne notes of Mooney, and transferred July, 1960.)