MS 4971 Notes on the Manners and Customs, Beliefs and Superstitions of Soo-Boo' -Soo's Band of the Maydoo Indians, Formerly inhabiting Yuba, and parts of adjoining counties, in California
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content: NAA MS 4971
label: Local Note
content: manuscript document
name: label: Creator
content: Harris, Wyatt
label: Names
content: Soo-Boo'-Soo, Chief
topic: label: Topic
content: Biography -- Soo-Boo'-Soo, Chief
label: Topic
content: Maidu Indians
label: Topic
content: Religion
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Harris, Wyatt
culture: label: Culture
content: Maidu
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Based on Harris' observations while engaged as a placer miner, ca. 1852 - ca. 1860.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 49 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1884
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Sent to Bureau of American Ethnology by the author January 25, 1885; transmittal letter in Bureau of American Ethnology Letters Received; Manuscript removed and separately catalogued, 5/1971.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4971
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Included with Wyatt Harris correspondence on microfilm of Bureau of American Ethnology letters received (selected correspondents).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes brief Maidu vocabulary and biographical note on Chief Soo-Boo'-Soo (died 1852). Also note by J. Owen Dorsey to Director, Bureau of American Ethnology recommending retention of the manuscript and enclosing an outline of its contents. February 9, 1885. Typescript document. 2 pages.