MS 4282 Miscellaneous American Indian manuscripts
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4282
name: label: Collector
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Creator
content: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
label: Creator
content: Padilla, Augustin Davila
label: Creator
content: Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
topic: label: Topic
content: Dance -- Cherokee ?
label: Topic
content: Censuses -- American Indian -- Florida
label: Topic
content: Florida -- census of Indians
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Collector
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Creator
content: Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852
label: Creator
content: Padilla, Augustin Davila
label: Creator
content: Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749
culture: label: Culture
content: Muscogee (Creek)
label: Culture
content: Choctaw
label: Culture
content: Cherokee
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4282
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Stiggins, George, A Historical Narrative...the Ispocaga or Creek tribe...(photostat copy from State Historical Society of Wisconsin): Published as appendix to Theron A. Nunez, Jr., Creek nativism and the Creek War of 1813-1814. Ethnohistory volume 5, number 1, pages 1-47 (Winter, 1958), and volume 5, number 2, pages 131-175 (Spring '58) and volume 5, Number 3, pages 292-301 (Summer 1958).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contents: John Howard Payne's account of the Green Corn Dance of the Cherokee ?, from the Continental Monthly, Volume I, 1862, reprinted in the Journal of the Oklahoma Historical Society with notes by Dr J. R. Swanton. Father Augustin Davila Padilla's account of the De Luna expedition. Spanish census of the Indians in some villages of Indian refugees in Florida. The Indians of Chicora, from Latin edition of Peter Martyr's "De Orbe Novo." A section of Mark Catesby's "Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands" bearing on Indians. A "Relation a La Louisiane" by an unidentified French author, in the Ayer Collection of Americana at the Newberry Library, Chicago. The Choctaw section and some minor portions have been printed in Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association and elsewhere. George Stiggins' Creek History from the Manuscript in the Draper Collection in the Library of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Ca. 100 sheets. Title: "A Historical narration of the Genealogy traditiona and downfall of the Ispocoga or Creek tribe written by one of the tribe." "Photocopies of parts of the Memorias of Juan A. de Morfi, the original of which is in the Library of Congress. Parts on Indians translated and printed by Chabot and used from his translation by Myself. May 25, 1944." --John R. Swanton.