MS 3311 English-Creek vocabulary
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3311
label: Local Note
content: With a letter of January 10, 1935, Mr Marnette had sent to the Bureau of American Ethnology photographs of himself and his sister in the hope that their tribe could be identified since they were separated from their parents at an early age. Marnette was then 38. The photographs were returned with the statement that it would be impossible to identify their tribe from the photographs. A similar inquiry signed T. L. [sic] Marnette, 2938 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago is dated March 8, 1937; enclosed photographs of "self and Sister" were again returned. Letter of August 28, 1938 signed Thomas Marnett [sic] transmits Cherokee vocabulary, now catalogued as Manuscript Number 4310. Correspondence in Bureau of American Ethnology files.
label: Other Title
content: Origin of Language
label: Other Title
content: Bible of the Mound Builders
name: label: Creator
content: Marnette, J. T.
label: Creator
content: Yellow Cloud
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Marnette, J. T.
label: Creator
content: Yellow Cloud
culture: label: Culture
content: Muscogee (Creek)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 100 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1935
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received from J. T. Marnette (Yellow Cloud), 2816 Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago Illinois, ca. 1935. Letter of May 6, 1935 states he is preparing a dictionary of the Muskoke language and will have it ready by June. No letter of transmittal found.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3311
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Also, "Origin of Language," 2 pages typed, and "Bible of the Mound Builders," pencil sketch and typed comment, 2 pages.