MS 1722 Miscellaneous legends
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1722
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: P., J.
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Fox
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: P., J.
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 148 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1722
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The description of this manuscript was updated in 2024 based on information provided by Dr. Patricia Afable, Research Assistant to the Linguistic Editor of the Handbook of North American Indians, and Dr. Lucy Thomason, National Museum of Natural History Museum Technician (linguistics).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains three tales by Jim Peters in Meskwaki syllabary with English translations by Horace Poweshiek. The first is a story about a hunter's mishaps with uncooperative game animals in winter when the people are hungry. The second is a story about a married couple on a hunting trip who, when spied on by Sioux enemies, escape by canoe through the virtue of the wife's childhood fasting visions; the husband tries to get his wife to take the war honors for an enemy they kill en route, but she gives them to her brother in her place; later, during a truce with the Sioux, the husband meets and swaps stories with the men he evaded. The third is a story about a young man who has some adventures with strangers whose language he does not speak; en route home, he and his fellow Meskwakis who came to retrieve him kill two enemies by virtue of their leader's childhood fasting visions, claiming war honors when they reach their camp.