MS 2776 Truman Michelson field notes from the Munsee in Kansas and the Delaware in Oklahoma
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content: NAA MS 2776
name: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Longbone, Silas
label: Informant
content: Elk Hair
label: Informant
content: Veix, Mr.
label: Informant
content: Veix, Mrs.
label: Informant
content: Caleb, Mr
label: Informant
content: Plake, Mrs
label: Informant
content: Eliot, Mr.
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content: Caleb, Rufus
label: Informant
content: Samuel, Joab
label: Informant
content: Spooner, Mrs.
topic: label: Topic
content: Delaware language
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content: Munsee language
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
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content: Linguistics
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content: Ethnology
creator: label: Creator
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Longbone, Silas
label: Informant
content: Elk Hair
label: Informant
content: Veix, Mr.
label: Informant
content: Veix, Mrs.
label: Informant
content: Caleb, Mr
label: Informant
content: Plake, Mrs
label: Informant
content: Eliot, Mr.
label: Informant
content: Caleb, Rufus
label: Informant
content: Samuel, Joab
label: Informant
content: Spooner, Mrs.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 170 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1913
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2776
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Correspondence
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content: Field notes
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: This field work is referred to in 34th Annual Report, Bureau of American Ethnology. (Washington, 1922), page 16.
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content: Correspondence
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content: Field notes
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Ethnological and linguistic notes collected by Truman Michelson during his fieldwork among the Munsee in Kansas and the Delaware in Oklahoma in 1912. Also letters received in 1913 from Silas Longbone, one of the Delaware with whom Michelson worked closely. The majority of the notes are on the Delaware, and include Delaware stories in English. According to Ives Goddard, most of the information was provided by Elk Hair, the last great Delaware ceremonialist. Longbone served as an interpreter.

Contents of Delaware files: F.1) Letters from Silas Longbone, Dewey. Oklahoma, January 10, 1913. 5 pages; F.2) Ethnological notes. Longbone, informant. 3 pages; F.3) Legend. 8 pages; F.4) Doll Dance. 11 pages. Notes on small sheets, 2 pages; F.5 ) Delaware linguistic notes. 4 unnumbered pages. Text with interl. translation. 8 pages. Notes on small sheets, 5 pages. (17 pages total); F.6) Notes from Elk Hair. December 12 [1912] 11 pages; F.7) [Story of Delawares and White People] 10 pages; F.8) "Doctoring. Otter Skin Dance, ritualistic origin." 9 pages. Plus small sheet numbered "2". (10 pages.); F.9) Story of Wehixamokas, "the Delaware Sampson." Possibly from Longbone, with comments at end by Silas and Elkhair. 21 pages; F.10) Delaware Meeting House. Elk Hair, age 62. English text. 18 and 1 page (Also 3 pages notes on small sheets, possibly unrelated.); F.11) Miscellaneous ethnological and linguistic notes, apparently Delaware of Oklahoma. 8 pages.

Contents of Munsee files: F.12) "Munsee notes," ethnological and linguistic. Informants: Mr and Mrs Veix, Mr Caleb, Mrs Plake, Mr Eliot, Rufus Caleb, Joab Samuel, Mrs Spooner. 6 and 6 and 1 plus 3 pages. (16 pages total); F.13) [Munsee. Mrs Plake mentioned as 1 inft.] Text with interlinear English translation. 10 pages. Vocabulary and other linguistic notes, 9 unnumbered pages and pages numbered 2-8. (26 pages, total)