MS 2764 Nineteen Fox stories by Alfred Kiyana, Bill Leaf, and Sakihtanohkweha
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content: NAA MS 2764
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Legends" 4/28/2014.
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Leaf, Bill
label: Creator
content: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
label: Creator
content: Sakihtanohkweha, 1875-1957
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: Leaf, Bill
label: Creator
content: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
label: Creator
content: Sakihtanohkweha, 1875-1957
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 324 Pages
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2764
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
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: Folklore
label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Nineteen stories handwritten in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabary by Alfred Kiyana, Bill Leaf, and Sakihtanohkweha (Mrs. Bill Leaf). These texts were collected by Truman Michelson in Tama, Iowa. Eight of the stories are by Alfred Kiyana. They are: Red-Leggings; When Bullhead killed two elks; The woman and the toad; The rooster; Turtle; Raccoon, who yelled loud; Kawesakweha and Kochipekwaha; and The man who got lost. Bill Leaf authored 10 of the texts, including: Many men on the warpath, two stories on Fighters, The one who knew how to hunt, This last one is about when Wisahkeha has been seen, Sacred pack, and When I got drunk. Sakihtanohkweha wrote the text on a youth who fasted. No English translations are present.