Purepecha materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Date: 1939-1940
Contributor: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Hockett, Charles Francis | Lathrop, Maxwell D. | Leon, Adrian F. | Quintana, Frances Leon | Swadesh, Frances | Velásquez Gallardo, Pablo
Subject: Agriculture | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Interviews | Vocabularies
Extent: 5 notebooks, 26 loose pages, 1000 slips
Description: The Tarascan materials in the ACLS collection consists of items found in the "Tarascan" section of the finding aid. "Tarascan ethnologic and linguistic notes" (item Ta.2) contains linguistic forms, terms for parents, vocabulary of 600 items, list of names of natural and cultural objects, and interviews and material on land division and agriculture. There is also a Purépecha-Spanish lexical file of over 1000 word slips (item Ta.1), plus brief additional writings (items Ta.3 and Ta.4), including a handbook for writing the language. In the “Mexico” section of the finding aid, see “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Purépecha vocabulary.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c