MS 4144 Natchez ethnological notes
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4144
label: Local Note
content: Informants: Watt Sam; and 3 pages from John Gurny (?).
label: Local Note
content: typescript document
name: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Informant
content: Sam, Watt, 1876-1944
label: Informant
content: Gurny, John ?
label: Names
content: Taylor, Nancy
topic: label: Topic
content: Pottery -- Natchez
label: Topic
content: Basket making -- Natchez
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content: Tools and implements -- Natchez
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content: Astronomy -- Natchez
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content: Names, tribal -- Natchez
label: Topic
content: Names, Personal -- Natchez
label: Topic
content: Numbers -- Natchez
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content: Medicine -- Natchez
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content: Mortuary customs -- Natchez
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
label: Informant
content: Sam, Watt, 1876-1944
label: Informant
content: Gurny, John ?
culture: label: Culture
content: Natchez
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 17 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: ca. 1907-1911
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4144
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Most of the notes have been published in Swanton, "Indians of the lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Coast of the Gulf of Mexico," Bureau of American Ethnology-B 43, Washington, D. C., 1911.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Also autograph document, 6 pages. Includes: Notes on pottery, baskets, implements, stars and constellations, tribal subdivisions, chiefs, medicine, burials, beliefs and taboos, month names, names of other tribes, personal names, clan names, relationship terms, place names, Natchez counting. Text, "The Snake and the Moon," mentions Nancy Taylor.