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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)
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Date:August 20, 1834; undated
Subject:Antiquities | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Outlines
Extent:2 items
Description: Corroy is critical of Waldeck's claim to be the Champollion of Mexico. Mentions Del Rio, Cabrera, Bemarions, and Castaneda. Rafinesque mentions ancient Mexican and Mayan civilization in an undated outline for a lecture on American history.
Collection:C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque correspondence and writings (Mss.B.R124)
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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)
Language:English
Date:1938
Contributor:Dieseldorff, E. P. (Erwin Paul), 1868-1940
Subject:Motifs | Art | Calendars | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:1 folder
Description: Letters discussing the double curve motif in Aztec-Maya art. Discusses relation of double fret in Mayan art to double-curve motif in North American art; importance of calendar to society.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Date:ca.1981-1986
Contributor:Furbee, N. Louanna | Hanks, William F. | McClaren, Marlys
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Dictionaries
Extent:5 folders
Description: Jane Rosenthal's Maya materials are mostly Tojolabal, consisting of others' publications, conference presentations and notes, in addition to a microfiche of N. Louanna Furbee's text Concordance and dictionary, published by the University of Missouri-Columbia. There is also a draft of a William F. Hanks paper on historiography in Maya texts, and an excerpt from Marlys McClaren's dissertation on creating a Yucatec dictionary. Everything can be found in Series 5.
Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)
Language:English
Date:1917; 1930-1939
Contributor:Andrade, Manuel José, 1885-1941
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Photographs | Correspondence
Extent:6 pages; 56 prints; 58 negatives
Description: The Maya materials, John Alden Mason Papers consist of correspondence regarding Andrade's work on Maya and Huastec; Mason's query concerning subgrouping of Mayan languages and photos of Uxmal, Chichen Itza, etc. Includes negatives.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
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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)
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Language:English
Date:February 23, 1834
Contributor:Barabino, Joseph
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter discussing grave robbing of Indigenous ancestors' remains. Barabino hopes to go to Yucatan to procure materials for Morton.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
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Language:Spanish
Date:1805-1807
Contributor:Dupaix, Guillermo
Subject:Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Sketches
Extent:2 volumes
Description: Volume 1-186 leaves of text. Volume 2-179 leaves of sketches and ink washes. One of several copies made of the drawings of Josef Castaneda and the accompanying text of Dupaix, describing archaeological discoveries made upon three expeditions to Palenque, Mitla, etc., during the years 1805-1807. The drawings lack the Egyptian and Hebraic distortions found in the published versions; the text has been collated to follow King (1831), but an older system of numbering and crossed-out portions of text follow Baradere (1834).
Collection:Viages Sobre las Antiquedades Mejicanas (Mss.913.72.D92v)
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)