MS 2560 Field notes on Arapaho and Gros Ventre culture and languages
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2560
label: Local Note
content: Collection previously titled NAA MS 2560a-b "Grammatical sketch of the Arapaho language and of the Gros Ventres; Arapaho dialects 1916-1920." Title revised October 12, 2011.
name: label: Creator
content: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
culture: label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: A'aninin (Gros Ventre)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
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content: MS 2560 Field notes on Arapaho and Gros Ventre culture and languages
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 29 Notebooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1899-1901
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Received in 1914 as a donation from Alfred L. Kroeber together with Manuscript 2622, a set of card slips.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2560
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Notebooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Original field notebooks from work among the Southern Arapaho in Oklahoma Territory, the Northern Arapaho in Wyoming, and the A'aninin or Atsina (Gros Ventre) in Montana. Contains extensive language material and notes on culture, including notes on acquisition of material culture now in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In addition to language material on Arapaho and Gros Ventre, there are notes on two other Arapahoan languages, Besawunena and Nawathinehena (see Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 13, pp. 74-76.). Annotations by Kroeber indicate that notes on Assinboine were removed before the remaining books were sent to the BAE. 

In 1914, Alfred Kroeber described the material he was transferring as follows:
Nos. 1-14 are from work with the Southern Arapaho in 1899.
Nos. 15-20 were not assigned.
Nos. 21-22, 24-28 are from work with the Northern Arapaho in 1900. 
Numbers 41-47 and 49 are from work with the Gros Ventre in 1901.

Also 120 page typescript on Arapaho dialects and five copies of relevant letters regarding transfer of the material. These have been assigned Nos. 29 and 30, but are not part of the original series of field notebooks.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Kroeber's extensive collection of card slips for linguistic analysis, sent at the same time, are cataloged as NAA MS2622.