MS 288 Texts of the Shetimacha Language, spoken in Charenton, St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 288-a and NAA MS 288-b
name: label: Creator
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
culture: label: Culture
content: Chitimacha
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 13 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: December 1881 and January 1882
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS288
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 288-a "Texts of the Shetismasha Language, spoken in Charenton, St. Mary's Parish, La. Collected in Dec. 1881 and Jan 1882 in Charenton, by Albert S. Gatschet.  To accompany accompany his Dictionary of the Same Language [MS 349]."  With interlinear English translation.  Autograph document signed.

288-b Swanton's copy of Gatschet's texts in Manuscript Number 288-a.  Contains changes in orthography and in the interlinear English. Typescript document with annotations.   Swanton worked with the Chitimacha in Charenton, Louisiana between 1908 and 1931, according to Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 30, page 18; AR 32, page 18; AR 38, page 4; AR 39, pages 13-14; AR 40, page 4; AR 41, page 7; and AR 48, page 5.