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South Carolina, Undated

 Item — Box: 18, Folder: 44
Identifier: 5.8.2.40

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The USU Student Folklore Genre Collection: Group 7: Etiological Legends consists of approximately 750 individual items of legends collected by undergraduate students. Most items include informant, context, text (the folklore item), texture (stylistic notation), and collector data.

From the Collection:
  1. Celestial Phenomena and Meteorological Events
  2. Origin of Earth and Geographic Features
  3. Origin of Animals/Animal Characteristics
  4. Origin of People/Human Characteristics
  5. Origin of Plants
  6. Origin of Beliefs
  7. Origin of Customs
  8. Place Names
  9. Other Names
  10. Origin of Products, Items, Objects
From the Collection:

Forms one of nine subgroups in the Utah State University student genre collection, housed in the Fife Folklore Archives. Guide to folklore collecting assignments.

For items submitted since December 2017, please see Student Folklore Fieldwork, housed in DigitalCommons.

Dates

  • Creation: Undated

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Collection materials are in English.

Restrictions

Open to public research. To access the collection a patron must have the following information: collection number, series number, sub-series number, if applicable, box number and folder number (or image number).

Extent

From the Collection: 2 boxes (ca. 750 items) (3 linear feet)

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Repository Details

Part of the Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Repository

Contact:
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
3000 Old Main Hill
Logan Utah 84322-3000 United States
435 797-8248
435 797-2880 (Fax)