MS 1831 Sucking-out Doctor Legend
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1831
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Translator
content: Peters, Jim, 1866-
topic: label: Topic
content: Folklore -- Fox
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Translator
content: Peters, Jim, 1866-
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 110 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1831
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
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).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This manuscript contains a text by Jim Peters about a sucking doctor, handwritten in Meskwaki syllabary, with an English translation by Horace Poweshiek. It includes a tale-within-a-tale, the winter story of the Meskwaki culture hero (Wîsahkêha) and Snapping Turtle, as told to the future doctor by his grandfather.