MS 4600 Frans M. Olbrechts Papers relating to studies of the Cherokee of North Carolina
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content: NAA MS 4600
name: label: Creator
content: Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958
label: Correspondent
content: Allen, Louis
label: Correspondent
content: Holt, R.D.
label: Correspondent
content: Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955
label: Correspondent
content: Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
topic: label: Topic
content: Medicine -- Cherokee
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content: Folklore -- Cherokee
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content: Ethnobotany -- Cherokee
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content: Masks -- Iroquois
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content: Texts -- Cherokee
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content: Wilnoti formulas
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
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content: Indians of North America -- Southern states
creator: label: Creator
content: Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958
label: Correspondent
content: Allen, Louis
label: Correspondent
content: Holt, R.D.
label: Correspondent
content: Reichard, Gladys Amanda, 1893-1955
label: Correspondent
content: Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
culture: label: Culture
content: Cherokee
label: Culture
content: Iroquois
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Frans M. Olbrechts was trained in linguistics and folklore in his native Belgium and became one o fhis country's leading anthropologists, recognized for his museum work, teaching, and scholarly writing. In all of those areas, his work became particularly concerned with art, magic, and popular culture.
label: Biographical / Historical
content: Olbrecht's earliest work outside Europe was among American Indians. In 1925, while studying linguistics and folklore with Franz Boas as a postdoctoral fellow of the Education Foundation of the Committee for the Relief of Belgians, he was introduced by Boas to the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology. It was subsequently arranged that he would carry out field work among the Cherokee of North Carolina, using as a basis of his inquiries the so-called Swimmer manuscript of Cherokee formulas that had been copied by James Mooney, of the Bureau of American Ethnology. His work resulted in James Mooney, The Swimmer Manuscript: Cherokee Sacred Formulas and medicinal Prescriptions, revised, completed, and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99, Washington, 1932.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 28 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1926 - 1931
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by Mrs. Frans M. (Margriet) Olbrechts, Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium, and transmitted in 1960 by A. E. Meeussen, Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren, Belgium. Correspondence in Bureau of American Ethnology accession files, under Olbrechts.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4600
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: (1) Vocabularies; (2) vocabularies, phonology, morphophonemics, and syllabary; (3) grammar; (4) texts with no translation; (5) texts with translations; (6) disease-name papers; (7) Wilnoti formula papers; (8) botanical notes and specimens; (9) myths and miscellaneous ethnographic notes; (10) photographs of Iroquois masks; (11) personal, unidentified, and reference material
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Microfilm
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Box 1-11, (1) Vocabularies; Box 12, (2) - (15) Vocabularies, Phonology, Morphophonemics, and Syllabary; Box 13 (16) - (32) Grammar; Box 14 (33) - (47) Texts, no translations; Box (15), (48) - (65) Texts with translations; Box 16 (66) - (73), Disease-name papers; Box 17 (74) Disease-name papers; Box 18 (75) - (83) Disease-name papers; Box 19 (84) - (88) Wilnoti formula papers; Box 20 (89) - (93) Wilnoti formula papers; Box 21 (94) Botany; Box 22 (95) - (98) Botany; Box 23 (99) Botany (Plant specimens, oversize carton); Box 24 (100) - (118) Myths, Miscellaneous Ethnographic notes; Box 25 (119) Photographs (Iroquois masks); Box 26 (120) - (123) Personal, Unidentified, and Reference materials; 27-28 (123) Reference materials.
label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers in this collection are largely limited to the materials Olbrechts collected during the course of the work with the Cherokee, though a few miscellaneous other materials are included. In addition to the material indicated below, there are copies of manuscripts of James Mooney and a fewmiscellaneous other material are included. In addition to the material indicated below, there are a few diaries and expense notes. There are also a very small amount of correspondence.