[Mescalero Apache vocabulary and related notes]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: MS 94 Mescalero Apache vocabulary and note concerning proper names of individuals

Index to Indian Vocabularies No. 493
name: label: Correspondent
content: Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873
label: Informant
content: Bristol, Henry B.
label: Informant
content: Cremony, John C. (John Carey), 1815-1879
label: Collection Creator
content: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
creator: label: Correspondent
content: Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873
label: Informant
content: Bristol, Henry B.
label: Informant
content: Cremony, John C. (John Carey), 1815-1879
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Mescalero Apache
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection / Vocabularies recorded by others / Carleton, James H.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1863-1866
container: label: Container
content: Box 4, Folder 8
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains:

(1) Gibbs' copy in a printed Comparative Vocabulary form of a vocabulary obtained by Captain John C. Cremony, 2nd Calvary, California Volunteers at Fort Sumner, Bosque Redondo, on the Pecos River in 1863 and forwarded to the Smithsonian Institution by Carleton. In his memoirs, Cremony indicates he obtained the vocabulary from Juan Cojo, "a Mexican, about forty years old, who had been captive to their [the Apache] 'bow and spear' for twenty odd years and checked the material with "the leading warriors of the tribe (Cremony, John C. Life Among the Apaches A. Roman & Company, 1868. 210-211.)  The original vocabulary and associated correspondence has been lost.

(2) "Apache words required for Captain Jno. C. Cremony's vocabulary."  Appears to be in the handwriting of Henry B. Bristol and may have been transmitted with the Navajo vocabulary forwarded to Henry through Carleton.

(3) Notes by Gibbs about Cremony, the vocabulary, and proper names.