MS 2024 Fifteen Fox stories by various authors collected by Truman Michelson
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content: NAA MS 2024
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Peters, Jim, 1866-
label: Creator
content: Peters, Sam, 1885-
label: Creator
content: Pearl Leaf
label: Translator
content: Poweshiek, Horace
topic: label: Topic
content: Fox language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Peters, Jim, 1866-
label: Creator
content: Peters, Sam, 1885-
label: Creator
content: Pearl Leaf
label: Translator
content: Poweshiek, Horace
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 461 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2024
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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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).
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: This collection contains fifteen texts by various authors in Meskwaki syllabary with English translations by Horace Poweshiek. The authors of the Meskwaki texts include Jim Peters, Sam Peters, and Pearl Leaf; the other writers are unidentified. The stories include "War story;" "Princess;" "Toad and Rattlesnake;" "Suicide of <na na wa ki e a>;" "Suicide of <ke de wo ki ma wa>;" "Turtle's race;" "Turtle's fight;" "Two young brothers;" "Twenty on the warpath;" "Fall camping in the south (Whitemen scalped alive);" "'Spirit' kills Mesquakies and is killed by Thunderers;" "Hunting party attacked by Comanches;" "Talking dog;" "War story;" "Death reported by cloud;" "Man and two women;"  "'Squeech Owl' and feet;" "Hell Diver and beads;"   "Mesquakies attacked by thirty, two escape by transformations;" and "Black Hawk's War."