MS 1772 Kickapoo legends from Joseph Murdock
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1772
label: Local Note
content: Title changed from "Mexican Kickapoo Legends 1929" 6/10/2014.
name: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Murdock, Joseph
label: Translator
content: Abraham, Alice
place: label: Place
content: Shawnee (Okla.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Kickapoo language
label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Kikapoo, Kikapú
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Collector
content: Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
label: Informant
content: Murdock, Joseph
label: Translator
content: Abraham, Alice
culture: label: Culture
content: Kickapoo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 98 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929, 1967
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: English translations by Alice Abraham were mailed to Paul H. Voorhis and received and transmitted to Archives by him as follows: "Spying eye." pages 1-4. June 5, 1967. "This is about what two virgins did." (Girls who married stars.) pages 5-6.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1772
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Folklore
label: Type
content: Narratives
label: Type
content: Manuscripts
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Microfilm- University of Michigan, Anthropology 10/52.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Folklore
label: Genre/Form
content: Narratives
label: Genre/Form
content: Manuscripts
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Truman Michelson conducted research among the Kickapoo in 1929 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. During this time, he worked with Joseph Murdock, a Mexican Kickapoo and former student at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. This collection contains legends in Kickapoo syllabary collected by Michelson from Murdock. The collection also partial interlineal English translations dictated by Alice Abraham and handwritten by her granddaughter Susan in 1967.
label: Scope and Contents
content: List of stories: Eye juggler; Girls who marry the stars; Snapping turtle goes to war; Wisakea (reflection of deer in the water); Wisakea and the "little frightener"; Wisakea and the snapping turtle quarrel; Wisakea and the wife of the sun; Wisakea and the French saloon keeper; Speech of Waupakiche at a dance in the evening; Wisakea and the place where speaking is forbidden; Adventures with Apaiyashiage brothers, Wisakea flies with ducks; Lynx and rabbit; Ten Brothers together.