MS 1335 Kickapoo notes and texts from Joseph Murdock
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1335
label: Local Note
content: See MS 1203 for rabbit cycle legend in Kickapoo.
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Murdock, Joseph
topic: label: Topic
content: Kickapoo language
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Linguistics
label: Topic
content: Kickapoo Indians -- Kinship
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Murdock, Joseph
culture: label: Culture
content: Kickapoo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 185 Items (ca. 185 pages)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1335
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Narratives
label: Type
content: Field notes
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Folklore
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Microfilm-University of Michigan, Anthropology. 10/52. Sol Tax-9/11/56.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Folklore
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Truman Michelson conducted research among the Kickapoo in 1929 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. During this time, he worked with Joseph Murdock, a Mexican Kickapoo and former student at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. This collection contains an assortment of Kickapoo lingustic notes, ethnographic notes, and stories that Michelson obtained from Murdock. Topics include sin and social crimes, clan organization, childbirth, puberty, ceremonies and rituals, and daughter and father-in-law taboos. Among the stories is an English translation of the rabbit cycle legend (see MS 1203 for Kickapoo text), Murdock's experiences as a boy, and stories illustrating bashfulness before mothers-in-law.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The following is a list of other stories, which are in Kickapoo without English translations: Exchanging tooth with a garter snake; How corn came to be on this earth; Wisakea and the mallard duck; Wisakea and the skunk; Legend of witches; Why people began to kill each other; Why it is that some people can understand children before they talk and why they understand dogs; Woman and dog; The maiden and the man who frightened her; A thunderer is captured and made prisoner; Wisakea bungling host stories; Boy told by the giant to feed the lion straw and the horse meat; Skunk and opossum; Garter snake tooth; The one who was left behind.