Alabama ethnographic material (Series 8)
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content: NAA MS 4658 (8)
name: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Lyda Averill
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content: Taylor, Lyda Averill
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Taylor, Lyda Averill
culture: label: Culture
content: Alibamu
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content: MS 4658 Field notes and ethnographic material on Alabama, Choctaw, and Koasati (latter incomplete), plus a partial Southeast comparative ethnology of southeastern U.S.
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content: 452 Items
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Divided into 16 folders:
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content: (1) Alabama Ethnography 5 items
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content: (2) Alabama Ethnography - Hunting, Fishing, Agriculture, Food and its Preparation 44 items
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content: (3) Alabama Ethnography - Structures 7 items
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content: (4) Alabama Ethnography - Clothing and Body Decoration 12 items
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content: (5) Alabama Ethnography - Transportation 1 item
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content: (6) Alabama Ethnography - Property and Inheritance 3 items
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content: (7) Alabama Ethnography - Crime, Punishment, Warfare 23 items
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content: (8) Alabama Ethnography - Material Culture 37 items
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content: (9) Alabama Ethnography - Life Cycle 77 items
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content: (10)Alabama Ethnogrpahy - Social Organization 20 items
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content: (11) Alabama Ethnography - Folklore and Religion- Ballgame; Buried; Clothing; Fishing;Hunting; Loose Notes; Material Cultures; Religion Supernaturals, Structures 64 items
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content: (12) Alabama Ethnography - Cosmography 2 items
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content: (13)Alabama Ethnography - Games and Ceremonies 3 items
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content: (14) Alabama Ethnography - Medicine 12 items
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content: (15) Alabama Ethnography - Miscellaneous 1 of 2 82 items
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content: (16) Alabama Ethnography -Miscellaneous 2 of 2 60 items
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content: Arranged into topical folders following subject outline by Lyda A. Taylor at front of box.
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content: This material seems to be a series of preliminary drafts for a proposed monograph on the Ethnography of the Alabama Indians (never published) and is compiled in part from information found in the field notebooks.