Seminole
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content: Sturtevant, William C.
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content: William C. Sturtevant papers
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content: William C. Sturtevant papers / Series 2: Research Files
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.2008-24, Subseries 2.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: Seminole culture was Sturtevant's primary research focus. This subseries represents fifty years of his work among the Florida Seminoles. Sturtevant began his work with the Seminole as a graduate student in 1950. His dissertation, "The Mikasuki Seminole: Medical Beliefs and Practices," focused on Seminole medicine, but he also studied Seminole worldview, religion, history, inter-ethnic relations, material culture, economy, kinship, language, and social organization. During his early research he collected ethnographic materials for the Yale Peabody Museum as well as hundreds of plants for which Josie Billie, one of his informants, provided Mikasuki and Muskogee names as well as detailed information on their use.