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Date:1983
Contributor:Ortiz Gomez, Francisco
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: The only Mam item in William Bright's papers is a Spanish-language grammar of Qyol Mam (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Mangue includes: Chorotega, Choluteca
Date:1939
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:15 pages
Description: The Mangue materials in the ACLS collection consists of one item in the “Mexico” section of the finding aid: “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Mangue vocabulary.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Date:1664
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862 | Saz, Antonio del
Subject:Guatemala--History
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume, 101 leaves
Description: Includes 20 brief religious discourses; table of contents. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Culture:
Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Language:Spanish | Matlatzinca, San Francisco | Matlatzinca, Atzingo
Date:1940
Contributor:McQuown, Norman A.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:12 pages
Description: The Matlatzinca materials in the ACLS collection consists a single item located in the "Matlazinca" section of the finding aid. This is item is a 300-word Spanish-Matlazinca vocabulary (item Mt.1). The specific variety of Matlatzinca is not identified.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Language:English | Matlatzinca, San Francisco | Spanish | Matlatzinca, Atzingo
Date:1967
Contributor:Bartholomew, Doris | Hernández, Ezequiel
Subject:Linguistics | Mexico (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:44 pages
Description: The Matlatzinca materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 1 item. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bartholomew. The materials may be in either variety of Matlatzinca.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Language:Matlatzinca, San Francisco | Spanish
Date:1966
Contributor:Bartholomew, Doris | Hernández, Ezequiel
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Vocabularies
Extent:2 sound tape reels (2 hr., 17 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Includes verb paradigms for past, present, and future tenses, and first, second, and third person singular forms; Text; translation of an Otomi primer. Consultant: Ezequiel Hernandez, age 14. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Matlazinca verbs (Mss.Rec.60)
Culture:
Date:1827-1959
Contributor:Warden, David Bailie, 1772-1845 | Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 | Cresson, Hilborne Thomson | Harris, Thaddeus Mason, 1768-1842
Subject:Mayan languages | Antiquities | Orthography and spelling | Linguistics | Hieroglyphics | Ohio--History | Archaeology
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Compendia | Certificates
Extent:8 items
Description: Materials relating to Mayan culture and language materials at the American Philosophical Society. Topics include Warden's article on Ohio antiquities and Palenque [Warden (1827)]; several items on Cresson's work on Mayan glyphs, including "Remarks upon the graphic system of the ancient Mayas" and Cresson's thoughts on interpretation of Mayan glyphs, the Troano manuscript, the Dresden Codex, and the Zapotec calendar; Gatschet's thank-you note, enclosing photograph of inscribed stone from Palenque, Mexico, now in Smithsonian; Harris on superiority of volumes by Dupaix and Viages at the APS; and a 1959 citation from the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania for aid in restoring Tikal.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English | French | Yucateco | Spanish | Mayan, Classical
Date:1963-1995
Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Prem, Hanns J., 1941- | Borodatova, A. A., (Anna A.) | Boyd, John Paul, 1939- | Kozhanovskaya, Irina | Rees, Michael J. | Roberts, John M. | Baudez, Claude F | Bricker, Harvey M. | Bricker, Victoria Reifler, 1940- | Aveni, A. F. (Anthony F.) | Coe, Michael D. | Schlak, Arthur Edmund | Smith, John P. | Miller, Jeffrey H. | Berlin, Brent | Sturtevant, William C. | Frake, Charles O., 1930- | Kantum, Abundio | Acuña, René | Ainsworth, Jerry L. (Jerry Lamar) | Anderson, Lloyd B. | Arata, Luis Oscar, 1950- | Anderson, Lloyd B. | Aveni, A. F. (Anthony F.) | Berlin, Brent | Brotherston, James Gordon | Campbell, Lyle | Chafe, Wallace L. | Coe, Michael D. | Drucker, R. David | Dutting, Dieter
Subject:Orthography and spelling | Kinship | Linguistics | Hieroglyphics | Archaeology | Astronomy | Material culture
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Notes | Essays | Prints | Teaching notes | Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Calendars
Description: The Maya materials in the Lounsbury Papers are extensive. The correspondence in Series I includes a Motul (Mayan) dictionary, discussion about translating Maya glyphs and calendrical calculations, the Popol Vuh. Series II consists of articles and manuscripts from a project identified as "Maya kinship unfin. project." Much of this work is focused on interpreting Maya hieroglyphs. In Series VII there are a number of recordings of Yucatec Maya made in the 1960s focused on vocabulary. The correspondence, in Series I, includes a dictionary by Rene Acuna, Lloyd Anderson's Etymologies of Mayan calendrical and astronomical terms, Anthony Aveni's interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs, Brent Berlin's decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs, Gordon Brotherston's comments on FGL's manuscript on Maya dates, Lyle Campbell's bibliography of Mayan linguistics, Wallace Chafe on how FGL got into the study of Maya hieroglyphics, Michael Coe's report that Soviets were successful in using a computer to translate Maya hieroglyphs, R. David Drucker's comparison of Aztec and Maya calendars, Dieter Dutting on Maya hieroglyphs; transformational analysis of Yucatec.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture:
Language:Spanish | English | Mayan (macrolanguage)
Date:bulk 1960s-1980s (copies of materials back to 16th century)
Contributor:Farriss, Nancy M.
Subject:Honduras--History | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History | Campeche (Mexico : State)--History | Quintana Roo (Mexico : State)--History | Guatemala--History | Belize--History | Archaeology | Catholic Church | Government relations
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Government Documents and Records | Government documents | Bulletins | Censuses | Church records | Correspondence | Genealogies | Legal documents | Magazines | Maps | Transcripts | Transcriptions | Surveys | Notebooks | Newspaper clippings | Microfilms | Copies of documents from other archives
Description: The entire Nancy M. Farriss Papers contain research materials on the history of Maya society of Yucatán and surrounding areas (including Campeche, Quintana Roo, Guatemala, Honduras, and possibly Belize) since Spanish colonial occupation, and their experience under occupation. The majority of the collection (Series II to Series V) is copies of colonial archival documents from various archives in Yucatán, Mexico City, Spain and elsewhere. Series I contains copies of rare publications, notes on the materials, and other information relating to the research. Most of the material is in Spanish and English - a small folder in Series I titled "Yucatec language and literature" discusses Yucatec Maya, and there may be documents in Spanish with Yucatec Maya influence.
Collection:Nancy M. Farriss Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.184)
Culture:
Date:undated
Contributor:Kendall, Daythal | Martin, Laura | Hofling, Andrew | Andrews, E. Wyllys (Edward Wyllys), 1916-1971
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies
Extent:4 folders
Description: Daythal Kendall annotated a copy of "Correspondencias Fonologicas Entre la Lenca y una Lengua Mayance" with Quechua and Takelma (Series 2). He also kept Essays from the American Anthropological Association (Series 7) and a one-page description of the Maya vigesimal numeral system.
Collection:Daythal L. Kendall Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.148)