Caddoan
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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content: MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1889 - 1889
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content: undated
label: Date
content: 1881 - 1882
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4800, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: According to the Third annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Dorsey "collected vocabularies of the Pani, Arikara, Kaddo, Kichai, and Wichita languages, to be used by the Director for comparison purposes." This series contain those notes as well as vocabulary from other Caddoan languages, notes on social structure, the names of Caddoan language tribes, and a letter from Henry Henshaw. The vocabulary that Dorsey collected was likely used in his work on Indian synonomy.