MS 229 Hotcangara [Winnebago] Syllabary
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 229
label: Local Note
content: autograph document signed
name: label: Creator
content: Meeker, Louis L.
label: Annotator
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Meeker, Louis L.
label: Annotator
content: Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
culture: label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 10 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: October 29, 1895
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS229
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Also Meeker to Bureau of American Ethnology, Winnebago, Nebraska transmitting this syllabary October 29, 1895. Autograph letter signed. 3 pages. Presents the native Winnebago syllabary with corresponding transcriptions in a phonetic system improvised by Meeker, and in the Bureau of American Ethnology system. Meeker attempts to establish a root meaning for each syllable. The manuscript has marginal notes in the hand of J.N.B. Hewitt dated November 22, 1896.