MS 4332 Truman Michelson field notes from Bersimis, Natashquan, and Seven Islands
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content: NAA MS 4332
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Truman Michelson field notes from Bersimis, Natashquan, and Seven Islands, 1937" 6/9/2014.
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Fontaine, Alec
label: Creator
content: MacKenzie, Sylvester, 1876-
label: Creator
content: Moreau, Mathieu
label: Creator
content: Napes, Pierre
label: Creator
content: Picard, Batiste
label: Creator
content: Rabbit Skin, Joseph
label: Creator
content: Roc, Sylvester
label: Creator
content: St. Ange, Daniel
place: label: Place
content: Betsiamites Indian Reserve (Québec)
label: Place
content: Natashquan (Québec)
label: Place
content: Sept-Iles (Québec)
topic: label: Topic
content: Montagnais language
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content: Cree language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Linguistics
label: Topic
content: Ethnology
label: Topic
content: Kinship
label: Topic
content: Pessamit
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Fontaine, Alec
label: Creator
content: MacKenzie, Sylvester, 1876-
label: Creator
content: Moreau, Mathieu
label: Creator
content: Napes, Pierre
label: Creator
content: Picard, Batiste
label: Creator
content: Rabbit Skin, Joseph
label: Creator
content: Roc, Sylvester
label: Creator
content: St. Ange, Daniel
culture: label: Culture
content: Montagnais Innu
label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Items (0.17 linear feet (10 notebooks and 30 cards)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Miscellaneous manuscript material taken from Dr. Michelson's office shortly after he became ill and prior to his death on July 26, 1938.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4332
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Field notes
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Vocabulary
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
label: Genre/Form
content: Folklore
label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Vocabulary
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Collection of 10 notebooks containing notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson at Bersimis, Natashquan, and Seven Islands in Quebec, Canada, in 1937. Also a set of index cards with linguistic notes, some of which are marked Weenusk (Eastern Swampy Cree). The field notebooks consist primarily of Innu-aimun (Montagnais) linguistic notes, including kinship terms and general vocabulary, and stories in Innu-aimun with phonetic transcriptions and English translations. There are also some ethnological notes and notes on Indians in neighboring areas and at James Bay and Hudson Bay. The English translations of some of the stories in the Natashquan notebooks are based on French translations (not present) of the Innu-aimun texts. Michelson worked with Sylvester Roc at Bersimis; Mathieu Moreau (from St. Augustine) and Pierre Napes (from Mingan) at Natashquan; and Alec Fontaine, Batiste Picard, Joseph Rabbit Skin (from Lake Kaniapiskan), Daniel St. Ange (of Moisie and Shelter Bay), and Sylvester MacKenzie (of Moisie and Bersimis) at Seven Islands.