MS 1852 War gens ethnology
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content: NAA MS 1852
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Poweshiek, Horace
label: Informant
content: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
topic: label: Topic
content: War gens -- Fox
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Poweshiek, Horace
label: Informant
content: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox -- War gens
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 50 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1852
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: The description of this manuscript was updated in 2024 based on information provided by Dr. Patricia Afable, Research Assistant to the Linguistic Editor of the Handbook of North American Indians, and Dr. Lucy Thomason, National Museum of Natural History Museum Technician (linguistics).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This manuscript contains Alfred Kiyana's discourse on the Meskwaki War Chief Clan, a lineage of the Fox Clan, titled "What the War Chiefs did." The text is handwritten in Meskwaki syllabary, with an English translation by Horace Poweshiek.