MS 2153 Seven Fox stories by Alfred Kiyana with translations and grammatical notes
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content: NAA MS 2153
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
label: Translator
content: Leaf, Bill
label: Translator
content: Brown, Thomas, circa 1891-
label: Translator
content: Walker, Leo
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: Kiyana, Alfred, 1877-1918
label: Translator
content: Leaf, Bill
label: Translator
content: Brown, Thomas, circa 1891-
label: Translator
content: Walker, Leo
culture: label: Culture
content: Fox
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content: 154 Pages
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content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2153
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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: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
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content: Folklore
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content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
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content: Seven stories in Meskwaki (Fox) syllabic text by Alfred Kiyana with English translations and Truman Michelson's grammatical notes. Collected in Tama, Iowa, the following is a list of the stories: 1.) "Owl" text 8 pages, translation from Bill Leaf 3 pages; 2) "The married couple: the man whose wife was wooed by a bear" text 29 pages, translation 18 pages, grammatical questions 6 pages; 3) "When Possum married Woodchuck" text 8 pages, 2 translations from Leo Walker (one incorrectly labelled "When Raccoon married Badger") 6 pages; 4) "When Raccoon was friends with Badger" text 16 pages, translation 13 pages; 5) "When the Fox chiefs were all killed by the Menominee" text 4 pages, translation from Leo Walker 3 pages; 6) "Me so swa" text 22 pages, translation by Michelson and Thomas Brown 18 pages.