MS 2651 Thirteen Fox stories by Frank Shawata and an unidentified writer
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content: NAA MS 2651
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content: Title changed from "Mascoutens Miscellaneous legends" 3/27/2014.
name: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
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content: Shawata, Frank
topic: label: Topic
content: Fox language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
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content: Shawata, Frank
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
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content: Mascouten Indians
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content: 209 Pages
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2651
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Thirteen stories handwritten in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic text collected by Truman Michelson. Six of the texts are by Frank Shawata, the younger brother of Alfred Kiyana. The translated titles of Shawata's texts are "Rabbit," "Beaver," "Fox," "Those who had power," "Wildcat," and "Mouse." The remaining seven texts are by an unidentified writer. The titles are "Summer hunters," "A woman who was captured by the Sioux long ago," "Old men who gambled long ago," "Men on the warpath," "Sauk and Mesquakie gamblers," "Indian summer hunters," "A Sioux who was a berdache but had power," and "When a Frenchman coaxed the Peorias in what to do." Among the 13 stories is a text on Mascoutens.