Laguna materials, ACLS collection
Culture:
Laguna includes: Kʾáwáigamʾé, Keres, Kawaika
Language: English | German | Keres, Eastern | Keres, Western
Date: 1919-1925
Contributor: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject: Ethnography | Linguistics | Kinship
Type: Text
Genre: Field notes | Grammars | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent: 477 pages, 25 notebooks, 9600 slips
Description: The Laguna materials in the ACLS collection of several items, primarily located in the "Laguna" section of the finding aid. There is a large set of 24 field notebooks recorded by Franz Boas ("Laguna word lists, paradigms, and texts", item Ke2.5) containing texts, and linguistic and ethnographic notes, some written German shorthand. Additional materials in this section of the finding aid derive from this field work, including extensive lexicons, additional linguistic analysis, texts, and discussion of kinship terms. In the "Keresan" section of the finding aid, see also Boas' additional vocabularies and comparative Keresan lexical files, in which Laguna material is compared with Cochiti.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c