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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1992
Abstract:  

Linguistic field recordings made in Shawnee, Oklahoma, in June 1992 with one consultant. Consists of elicitations in English and Shawnee based on data published in C. F. Voegelin's "Shawnee Stems and the Jacob P. Dunn Miami Dictionary" (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1938-1940). Examples were selected by the researcher to focus on noun incorporation and were assigned numbers.
Call #:  
Mss.Rec.161
Extent:
10 tape(s)



MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

Dates:
1994
Abstract:  

The collection consists of linguistic elicitations of different aspects of Shawnee grammar and vocabulary, and conversation, anecdotes, discussion, and personal narratives relating to Shawnee customs and history. The linguistic material includes elicitation of passive, imperative, hortative verbs, and other verb forrms, vocabulary for times of the day and year, weather, gender and age, color terms, and miscellaneous adjectives and full sentences. The other material includes a narratives given in Shawnee on on traditional roles of men and women and the use of eagle feathers in doctoring, and English anecdotes and conversation relating to topics such as: different types of dances, the Shawnee Indian Agency, economic and agricultural conditions during the Depression, memories of farming and hunting during childhood, traditional medicine, the keeping of fire, how people and tribes were created and how they learned to make fire, the treatment of women in Shawnee society, little people, the passing down of knowledge through elders, doctoring, the use of tobacco and peyote, and personal stories. Recorded in Oklahoma in 1994.
Call #:  
Mss.Rec.236
Extent:
26 tape(s)