MS 4118-a Materials relating to the Tlingit
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4118-a
label: Other Title
content: How the Raven Beat the Devil
label: Other Title
content: How the Badger Came to Have Four Toes
label: Other Title
content: How There came to Be Mosquitoes
name: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
topic: label: Topic
content: Botany
label: Topic
content: Folklore
label: Topic
content: Gathering
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Totem poles
label: Topic
content: Toys and games -- gambling sticks
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
culture: label: Culture
content: Tlingit
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4118A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: In Swanton's handwriting (mostly in pencil, and rather faint): (1) Notes on songs. 80 pages. Refers to "Roll Nos." I-XLI; possibly related to cylinder recordings ? (2) Myths: How the Raven Beat the Devil, How the Badger Came to Have Four Toes, How There came to Be Mosquitoes. 4 pages, typed. (3) Vocabulary notes and other miscellaneous notes. Disordered; intended order uncertain. 51 pages. (4) Plant names. 11 pages. (5) "Names in Emmons' Work." 10 pages. (6) Miscellaneous vocabulary and linguistic notes. 10 pages. (7) Notes on technology and food gathering. Approximately 50 slips, various sizes. Materials not in Swanton's hand, but evidently received by him from others: (8) History of the [Seattle] Totem Pole. 23 pages, numbered 558-580. (9) Notes on gambling sticks. 14 pages. Some carry notations in Swanton's hand, though written by others.