Council house of the Alabamus
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content: It appears that the references by Swanton in one place to de Villiers and in another to du Terrage are OK but incomplete, since the article in JSAP, n.s., volume XIV, 1922 is cited in Murdock's Bibliography (2nd edition, 1953, page 122) as having been written by M. de Villiers du Terrage.
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology negatives / Glass Negatives / Photographer not recorded
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content: 1 Glass negative (Copy)
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.PhotoLot.176, Item Negative 1169 B 1
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content: Reproduced 42nd Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Figure 5, with caption: "One of the beds in the Alabama Square Ground as it appeared in the early part of the eighteenth century. From a contemporary sketch. Medicine pots and spoons to right, on ground; gourd rattles to left; flag over the center pole; notched pole or atasa at either end and another pair some distance in from either end; a pole carrying a scalp at the top of each intermediate post; two full-length cane seats below. Near the left end, under the front of the roof, are written the words "Caban de Conseille." From an article entitled "Documents concernant l'Historie des Indiens de la Region Orientale de la Louisiane.," by the Baron Marc de Villiers, in the Journal de la Societe des Americanistes de Paris, n. s. volume xiv, 1922, page 136. Also reproduced by Swanton, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137, Plate 59 (1), with the attribution, "From a sketch in the French archives reproduced by du Terrage." (Note that of the 3 objects designated by Swanton as gourd rattles, the middle one is probably a conch shell dipper. This reference is OK, except full title is: Documents concernant l'Historie des Indiens de la Region Orientale de la Louisiane. Article contains no reference to du Terrage, as far as I can see. The three documents discussed are from Saurole, Diron and d'Iberville. The letter of Diron is dated 28 june, 1721 and contains a list of the Alabamu villages. Presumably the Alabamu sketch reproduced in Villiers comes from Diron, but I find no reference to it in the Diron text. MCB 10/58.   Reproduced in 42nd Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology, Figure 5. Also reproduced by Swanton, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 137, Plate 59 (1).