MS 2191 Historical sketches of the Cherokees: Together with some of their Customs, Traditions and Superstitions
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2191
label: Local Note
content: Autograph Document
name: label: Creator
content: Keys, Lucy L. (Lucy Lowrey), 1831-1912
label: Creator
content: Keys, Lucy L. (Lucy Lowrey), 1831-1912
label: Collector
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
label: Names
content: Lowrey, George (Cherokee)
label: Names
content: Sequoyah, 1770?-1843
label: Names
content: Sequoyah, 1770?-1843
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Keys, Lucy L. (Lucy Lowrey), 1831-1912
label: Creator
content: Keys, Lucy L. (Lucy Lowrey), 1831-1912
label: Collector
content: Mooney, James, 1861-1921
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Letter states: "The name Wah ne nau hi, signed to the manuscript, is my own Cherokee name. You are at liberty to use either Cherokee, or English name in connection with the Manuscript. Major George Lowrey was my grandfather and I was at his house when George Guess (Sequoyah) left for the West, also when his companions returned without him."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Pages
phystech: label: Condition
content: Parts of this manuscript are quoted by James Mooney in "Myths of the Cherokee," 19th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1900, Part 1, where it is referred to only by the authorʹs Cherokee name.
label: Condition
content: Publishd as Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 196, Anthro. Pap. 77, Washington, D.C. 1966. (ed. and introd. by Jack Frederick Kilpatrick.) *Note. This catalog card and 6 pages of copies of transmitted correspondence referred to above were not included on the microfilm copy.
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchased from Mrs. Lucy L. Keys (Wah-ne-nau-hi), of Vinita, Indian Territory, 1899. Letters of transmittal in Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology correspondence files, dated September 4 and November 8, 1889. Letter of November 14 from J. W. Powell to Mrs. Keys transmits voucher for ten dollars for purchase of manuscript.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2191
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Negative microfilm
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Text includes biographical notes on Sequoya, principally pages 30-37, and on Major George Lowrey, pages 30-70.