Kilpatrick collection of Cherokee manuscripts
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1870-1966
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
Conditions Governing Use
Many Cherokee tribal members consider the medical formulae in this collection to be sacred or esoteric knowledge. Traditionally, their use is circumscribed by local protocols.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
9.38 Linear Feet (23 boxes)
Language of Materials
Cherokee
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick
Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts
Processing Information
Former call numbers: Uncat WA MS 1a, Uncat WA MS 1b
Short titles are used for The Shadow of Sequoyah (Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1965); "Echota funeral notices," typescript, Western Carolina University; Notebook of a Cherokee Shaman (Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1970); "The Foundation of Life: The Cherokee National Ritual." American Anthropologist 66(6): 1386-1391; Cherokee Hymns compiled from several authors and revised (Park Hill, Oklahoma, Mission Press, E. Archer, Printer, 1854).
- Cherokee Indians
- Cherokee Indians -- Economic conditions
- Cherokee Indians -- Ethnobotany
- Cherokee Indians -- Genealogy
- Cherokee Indians -- History
- Cherokee Indians -- Medicine
- Cherokee Indians -- Religion
- Cherokee Nation
- Cherokee language -- Texts
- Cherokee mythology
- Indians of North America -- Medicine
- Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick
- United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma
- Title
- Guide to the Kilpatrick Collection of Cherokee Manuscripts
- Author
- by Lisa Conathan and Hartwell Francis
- Date
- 2015
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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