Eskimo and Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson at Great Whale River
Eskimo and Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson at Great Whale River
Eskimo and Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson at Great Whale River
MS 3396 Eskimo and Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson at Great Whale River
NAA MS 3396
Handwritten texts and linguistic and ethnological notes from Truman Michelson's 1935 research among the Cree and Inuit at Great Whale River in Quebec, Canada. Among the people that Michelson worked with were David Masty and Thomas, speakers of Great Whale Cree; Rhoderick, a speaker of Rupert House Cree; and Cookie and Harrold, speakers of Great Whale River Inuit. The texts include stories by Masty in Cree syllabary with English translations by Rhoderick. Also present is an English translation by Harrold of Cookie's Inuit syllabic text in Manuscript 3393. The notes largely focus on the vocabulary and kinship systems of the Cree and Inuit of Great Whale River. There are also Rupert House Cree vocabulary as well as notes on the Cree and Inuit in neighboring areas at Hudson Bay and James Bay.
Manuscript 3396, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Digital surrogates are available online.
See MS 3393 for the original Inuit text of Cookie's story.
Title changed from "Eskimo tales and vocabulary; some Indian tales; ethnology; kinship system summer of 1935" 6/3/2014.