Calusa materials, Frank G. Speck Papers

Culture:
Seminole includes: Yat'siminoli
Catawba includes: Iswa
Calusa
Language: English
Date: 1923-1924
Contributor: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject: Linguistics | Siouan languages | Muskogean languages | Anthropology | Ethnography | Florida--History
Type: Text
Genre: Notes | Correspondence | Essays
Extent: 1 folder
Description: This folder, Section IV(15J2a), "Seminole--Notes on Calusa," contains 9 items relating to the Calusa people of Florida. Materials include an account of the Seminoles and their mixed past; a discussion of the Siouan origin of South Carolina native Francisco de Chicora's terms [Francisco de Chicora was the baptismal name given to an indigenous man captured by Spaniards near the Pee Dee River in 1521. Swanton argued that the man was Catawba, which is a Siouan language.]; a letter from H. Knotts concerning Muscogee and letters from John R. Swanton concerning Speck's trip to Florida with Fewkes, Cusabo-Muskhogean-Siouan boundaries, and Speck as aid to Fewkes in locating Calusa remnants among the Seminoles.
Collection: Frank G. Speck Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.126