Totonac materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Totonac includes: Totonaca
Language: English | Spanish | Totonac, Highland
Date: 1936, 1940
Contributor: McQuown, Norman A. | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject: Folklore | Linguistics | Puebla (Mexico : State)--History
Type: Text
Genre: Dissertations | Grammars | Stories
Extent: 28 pages
Description: The Totonac materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of one item, "Los totonacos y su idioma" (item AM6), primarily in Spanish. Revision of Yale doctoral dissertation; includes introduction, explication of new Totonac alphabet, grammatical notes, and one text, "The Man and the Hawk," with English and Spanish translations. This item can be found in the "Totonac" section of the finding aid. There is also "Macro-Penutian" (item P1.1) by Benjamin Whorf in the "Linguistics, General" section of the finding aid, which may contain some Totonac data.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c