MS 3394 Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 3394
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Texts Summer of 1935" 5/30/2014.
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Allan, William
label: Creator
content: Ricard, Frank
label: Creator
content: Smallboy, Harvey, 1879-1947
label: Creator
content: Trapper, Emily
place: label: Place
content: Hudson Bay
label: Place
content: James Bay (Nunavut)
topic: label: Topic
content: Cree language
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Linguistics
label: Topic
content: Ethnology
label: Topic
content: Rupert's House
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Creator
content: Allan, William
label: Creator
content: Ricard, Frank
label: Creator
content: Smallboy, Harvey, 1879-1947
label: Creator
content: Trapper, Emily
culture: label: Culture
content: Cree
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Notebooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935 Summer
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS3394
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Notebooks
label: Type
content: Field notes
label: Type
content: Folklore
label: Type
content: Narratives
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content: Manuscripts
label: Type
content: Vocabulary
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
label: Genre/Form
content: Folklore
label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
label: Genre/Form
content: Vocabulary
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Truman Michelson's field notes on the Cree of James Bay and Hudson Bay in Canada. The materials, consisting primarily of texts and linguistic notes and some ethnological notes, were collected as part of Michelson's efforts to make a linguistic map of the area. The coverage of the notes is thus expansive and includes the Cree of Moose River, Rupert House, East Main, Albany River, English River, Severn Island, Weenusk, Waswanipi, Great Whale River, and Fort George. The texts are mostly stories from Frank Ricard and Harvey Smallboy, written in Moose Cree syllabic and phonetic text with English translations. There is also a story from Emily Trapper written in Rupert House Cree syllabary and translated into Moose Cree and English. Michelson worked closely with William Allan, who provided a great deal of linguistic and ethnological information and translated most of the Cree texts into English.
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: Manuscript 3395 contains typescripts of the English translations of the Cree texts, while Manuscript 3415 contains additional phonetic transcriptions.