MS 1807 Natchez texts
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1807
label: Local Note
content: Informant: Watt Sam (according to Bureau of American Ethnology-B 88, page 1).
label: Local Note
content: autograph document
name: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Informant
content: Sam, Watt, 1876-1944
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Natchez
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Informant
content: Sam, Watt, 1876-1944
culture: label: Culture
content: Natchez
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 372 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: fall, 1908
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1807
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Negative microfilm on file folder 6 only.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Also typescript document with A. notations. Texts are arranged in the order that the stories appear in Swanton, "Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians," Bureau of American Ethnology-B 88, Washington, D. C., 1915. The Manuscript texts include all the Natchez stories in Bureau of American Ethnology-B 88 except stories 11, 16, and 17. The typescript text for story 1 only, "The Flood," includes a grammatical analysis (20 pages).