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Date:1926-1959
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 | Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975 | Sayles, E. B. (Edwin Booth), 1892-1977 | Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 | Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994 | McQuown, Norman A. | Weitlaner, Robert J., 1883-1968 | Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
Subject:Linguistics | Archaeology | Guatemala--History | Honduras--History | Architecture | Geography
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Drafts | Speeches | Notes | Bibliographies | Essays
Extent:Circa 455 leaves; circa 635 pages; photographs
Description: The Central America materials, John Alden Mason Papers include correspondence regarding linguistic, archaeological, and ethnological work in Mexico and Guatemala; meetings; etc. Regarding archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama. Regarding Piedras Negras, Guatemala; Chichen Itza; archaeological work in Guatemala and Mexico. Regarding archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and Texas. Regarding Pima; Yaqui; Piedras Negras, Guatemala; Maya glyphs and architecture; archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and British Honduras. The bulk of the material is from 1933-1939 and concerns archaeological work at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Some discussion of the Mayan calendar, the ruins at Yaxchilan, Mexico, and a 1953 expedition to the Caracol Ruins, Honduras. Scholarly materials: Article for [Lilly de Jongh] Osborne's handbook of Guatemala regarding the ruins of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. A paper entitled, "Los cuatro grandes filones linguisticos de Mexico y Centroamerica" for the International Congress of Americanists, Mexico, August 1939. A paper read at meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 1938, on the genetic classification of Middle American languages. Bibliographies of books and a few manuscripts on Indians of Central America, Mexico, and South America; letter from Zelig Harris to Mason; Mason's reply. Paper sent to Mason to be read at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Discusses Hokan-Siouan Phylum, Tarascan, Macro-Otomanguean Phylum, Macro-Penutian Phylum, and Macro-Chibchan Phylum. Notes on genetic relationships and geographic distribution. Mostly from published sources. A compilation and juxtaposition of various opinions. A talk given before Sociedad de geografia e historia de Guatemala regarding the architecture of Piedras Negras. English original which was translated into Spanish for publication in Anales 15 (December 1938): pages 202-216. A paper "Middle American Linguistics, 1955" by Norman A. McQuown; draft of a paper by Mason discussing that of McQuown; a copy of Mason's paper as delivered at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17, 1955, Boston; a copy of Mason's paper as corrected for correspondence with Robert J. Weitlaner and Gordon R. Willey.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
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Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Date:1826
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:7 pages
Description: The "Chontal" materials in this collection consist of one manuscript listed in the finding aid as item 26, Rafinesque's "Vocabulary of the Chontal language and its dialects reading from Guatimala to Panama & Darien," which includes some commentary on comparative linguistics of indigenous languages of Guatemala. Given his association of the language with Guatemala, the language may be Chol, which he lists as a "Chontal type" in the "The American Nations," published in 1836.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Date:1836-1907
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862 | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | Morison, Ella M. | Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895 | Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
Subject:Linguistics | Guatemala--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Items relating to Kaqchikel materials at the American Philosophical Society, including an 1836 exchange of correspondence relating to donated manuscripts and printed works on Kaqchikel Pilling's requests in the 1880s for copies of various publications for Bureau of American Castell's 1897 request for a copy of Daniel Garrison Brinton's paper on Kaqchikel language (1884); and two 1907 letters concerning a Kaqchikel manuscript [Uae rugotzlem Sant Andres Apostol (#495)] in American Philosophical Society Library
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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Language:English
Date:1966-1972
Contributor:Campbell, Lyle | Canger, Una | Simeon, George
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:13 pages
Description: The Mam materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Campbell, Canger, and Simeon.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Date:1971, 1972, 1977, 1992-1993
Contributor:Adams, Walter Randolph | Hellmuth, Nicholas M. | Kilroe, Patricia | Campbell, Lyle
Subject:Chiapas (Mexico)--History | Guatemala--History | Linguistics | Religion
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Essays | Photographs | Reports
Extent:416 pages, 74 photographs
Description: The Maya materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of several items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Adams, Campbell, Hellmuth, and Kilroe.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Date:1950s-1990s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sedat, Guillermo | Yool G., Juan
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Guatemala--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Maya file consists mostly of copies of others' publications, in particular texts produced by the SIL and other publishers in Guatemala (Series 2). He also performed ethnopoetics analysis on Mayan texts in preparation for a taught course in 1985, and drew a map of the languages of Central America.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Poqomam includes: Pokomam
Date:1968-1972
Contributor:Simeon, George
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics | Medicine
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:9 pages
Description: The Poqomam 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 Simeon.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Language:English | Xinca | Zoque, Copainalá
Date:1924
Contributor:Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:4 pages
Description: The Xinca materials in the ACLS collection consist of one item in the "Xinca" section of the finding aid, recorded by Roland Dixon in 1924 titled "Zoque and Xinca compared with Penutian" (item Mz.1). This has handwritten additions by Edward Sapir. See also "Hokan compared with various Middle and South American languages" (item H.4) by Alfred Kroeber, in the "Hokan" section of the finding aid, which consists of vocabularies of 21 English items with equivalents in Yuman, Hokan, Subtiaba, Xinca, Lenca, Chibcha, Guayom, Chibchan, Zoque, and Mixe, taken from published and unpublished sources.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Xinca includes: Xinka
Date:1968-1972, 1976
Contributor:Campbell, Lyle | Simeon, George
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Elicitation sessions | Field notes | Vocabularies
Extent:122 pages
Description: The Xinca materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Campbell and Simeon.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)