MS 1899 Fox syllabic text by Joe Peters and Lucy Lasley
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content: NAA MS 1899
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Lasley, Lucy
label: Creator
content: Peters, Joe
topic: label: Topic
content: Fox language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
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content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Lasley, Lucy
label: Creator
content: Peters, Joe
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 122 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929 August
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1899
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Narratives
processinfo: label: Processing Information
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).
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Narratives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This manuscript consists of a winter story by Joe Peters (pages 1-112) and Lucy Lasley (pages 113-122), handwritten in Meskwaki syllabary, whose title can be translated as "The time when people were first given life by the manitou, whichever one it is who is called 'The Gentle Manitou'."