Truman Michelson notes on Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho story
Truman Michelson notes on Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho story
MS 3188-b Truman Michelson notes on Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho story
NAA MS 3188-b
Handwritten Cheyenne linguistic and ethnographic notes and anthropometric data collected by Truman Michelson in Oklahoma. Much of the information is from his work with Mack Haag. The materials include vocabulary and notes on grammar and phonetics; a short story in Arapaho about spider with an interlineal English translation; notes on Cheyenne family and kinship relationships, marriage, divorce, adultery, illegitimacy, incest, pregnancy, death, etc.; and anthropometrical data on 22 Cheyenne adult males, identified by name and age.
Manuscript 3188-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Digital surrogates are available online.
Citation corrected from 3188 (part) to 3188-b on 2/28/12.
Title changed from "Miscellaneous notes June 9, 11, 13, 1930" 5/22/2014.
Place supplied from 47th Annual Report of Bureau of American Ethnology, page 2.