MS 3710 Fragment of a manuscript about the Cherokee
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3710
name: label: Creator
content: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
label: Creator
content: Holway, Frances Hope Kerr, 1886-
label: Names
content: Lowrey, John, Colonel
label: Names
content: Sequoyah, 1770?-1843
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Cherokee
label: Topic
content: Fire making -- Cherokee
label: Topic
content: Dwellings -- Cherokee
label: Topic
content: Writing systems -- Cherokee
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
label: Creator
content: Holway, Frances Hope Kerr, 1886-
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
phystech: label: Condition
content: Though by Mrs. Holway to be in the hand of John Howard Payne and possibly a copy from material in the Cherokee Phoenix, August, 1828, since an article based on that source (John Fordyce, "Sequoyah in Arkansas," Arkansas Gazette Magazine August 13, 1933) "uses some of the phrases in your document exactly."
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3710
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Includes part of creation myth, notes on fire-making, houses, the invention of the Cherokee alphabet by Sequoya, and his demonstration of it to Col. Lowrey. n.d. 4 pages Also 1-page letter from Mrs. Hope Holway, Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 30, 1959, suggesting source of this fragment.