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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)
Date:1935
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 | Wisdom, Charles
Subject:Guatemala--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Extent:3 folders
Description: The Ch'orti' materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of two folders of Charles Wisdom correspondence and manuscripts found in Subcollection II, Series I, "Professional Correspondence", and "Chorti - Notes" in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes." Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Date:1596-1984
Contributor:Reina, Ruben E.
Subject:Folklore | Guatemala--History | Politics and government | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Censuses | Interviews | Photographs | Stories
Extent:7.5 linear feet
Description: The materials in the Ruben Reina papers relating to the Chinautla region of Guatemala are found primarily in Series III of the collection. This series consists of material relating to the Chinautla region and neighboring areas of Guatemala, including primarily Poqomam-speaking peoples. This section includes an extensive amount of copies from the Archivo General de Centroamerica (AGCA), local archives, and oral history interviews.
Collection:Ruben E. Reina Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.67)
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)
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:
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)
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)
Date:1527-1964
Contributor:Reina, Ruben E.
Subject:Crime | Guatemala--History | Politics and government | Religion | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Baptismal records | Books | Censuses | Legal documents | Photographs
Extent:23 linear feet
Description: The materials in the Ruben Reina papers pertaining to the Peten region of Guatemala are found primarily in Series II of the collection. This series consists of extensive ethnohistory materials including oral histories and photocopies of documents from numerous local community archives, both within and outside the Peten region, the Archivo General de Centroamerica (AGCA), and the Archivo General de Indias (AGI) in Seville. The material dates from the 15th century through the 1960s. Reina copied the material with portable photocopy and photographic equipment under poor conditions. The series includes 5 subseries: Encomiendas y Tierras; Libros Antiguos de Cofradias; Ethnohistorical Data; Peten Court Records; and Transcriptions. Each section contains a description of the conditions under which the materials were collected and the provenance of the materials, including whether the materials are still in existence. The Mayan langauges identified above should be regarded only as probable given the locations from which documents originated. Additional relevant materials may be found in Series VI, VII, VIII, XI, and XII.
Collection:Ruben E. Reina Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.67)
Culture:
Yaqui includes: Hiaki, Yoeme
Tepehuán includes: Tepehuanes, Tepehuano
Tohono O'odham includes: Papago
Tarahumara includes: Rarámuri
Mayo includes: Yoreme
Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Huichol includes: Wixáritari
Cora includes: Naáyarite
Akimel O'odham includes: Pima
Language:English | Spanish | Cora, El Nayar | Huichol | Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Opata | Tepecano | Tohono O'odham | Tubar | Yaqui | Mayo | Tarahumara, Central | Tepehuan, Southwestern | Tepehuan, Southeastern | Tepehuan, Northern
Date:1914-1962
Contributor:Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 | Herzog, George, 1901-1983 | Kelley, David H. | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject:Linguistics | Uto-Aztecan languages | Anthropology | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Notes | Correspondence | Essays | Vocabularies
Extent:21 items
Description: Materials relating to John Alden Mason's interest and research in Uto-Aztecan languages and cultures. Items include notes and letters on Uto-Aztecan historical Mason's "Some initial phones and combinations in Utaztecan stems," an abstract and full text of a paper delivered at the Philadelphia meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1951); unattributed corresondence discussing that 1951 paper; Mason's correspondence with Edward Sapir regarding Mason's work on the Tepehuan, Papago [Tohono O'odham], Sonoran and Yaqui languages, Sapir's work on Paiute and Hupa, and mentioning Boas, Rivet, Speck, Spier, and Whorf; earlier correspondence with Sapir relaying Tepehuan, Tepecano, Papago [Tohono O'odham], and Nahua examples, data from Mason for Sapir's use in Uto-Aztecan comparative work, Sapir's comments on Mason's data and analysis, and Sapir's views on Uto-Aztecan historical Mason's corresondence with Ruth Benedict regarding work on Papago [Tohono O'odham], Pima, and Yaqui languages, an honorarium for Franz Boas, and Ruth Underhill's Papago Rites and ceremonies; correspondence with George Herzog regarding Tepehuan music and language, Pima-Papago language, and mentioning Franz Boas, Gene Weltfish, Edward Sapir, Ruth Underhill, Frank G. Speck, and others; correspondence with David H. Kelley regarding comparison of Polynesian and Uto-Aztecan languages (Kelly's dissertation); part of Kelley's Harvard University doctoral dissertation regarding the borrowing of Uto-Aztecan words into Polynesian; Benjamin Lee Whorf on Uto-Aztecan languages, including a table of relationships and a photo reproduction of Whorf's Azteco-Tanoan tree; correspondence with Whorf regarding Whorf's grant application to the Social Sciences Research Council to work on modern Nahuatl, and also touching on Uto-Aztecan phonology, Maya glyphs, Nahuatl, Papago [Tohono O'odham], Tepecano, Tepehuan, Yaqui, and subgrouping; and correspondence with Morris Swadesh regarding establishing an official Aztec alphabet, Swadesh's glotto-chronological work in Uto-Aztecan, disagreement between Mason and Swadesh over the number of stop series in Papago [Tohono O'odham], Swadesh's retraction (to be published in Word) of his criticisms of Mason's Papago [Tohono O'odham] grammar, and copies of letters from Swadesh to [Dean] Saxton and Andre Martinet. Undated linguistic materials include notes, Vocabularies, vocabularies, comparisons with notes about correspondences, comparative vocabularies, notes on numerical systems, cognates with English glosses, cognates with Spanish glosses, lexicostatistical compilations, etc. Languages represented (and not merely mentioned) include Huichol, El Nayar Cora, Nahuatl, Opata, Tarahumara, Tepecano, Tepehuan, Tohono O'odham, Tubar, Yaqui, and Mayo; it is unclear, however, which specific Tarahumara and Tepehuan languages are represented.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)