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Language:English
Date:50 pages, 2 slides
Contributor:Reeve, Mary-Elizabeth
Subject:Peru--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Correspondence | Slides
Extent:1987-1991
Description: The Quechua 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 Reeve.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1919-1920; 1953-1954
Contributor:Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973
Subject:Oceanography | Peru--History | Antiquities | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:2 items
Description: One item, "Peruvian littoral expedition of the Brooklyn Museum," describes a voyage to study oceanic conditions relating to littoral animal life and guano production. The author comments on the employment of Indians in guano extraction, dress of Indian passengers, Indian leaders; with observations at private museum of Incaic and Peruvian artifacts. Discusses opening of an Indian burial. Miscellaneous lesser references to Peruvian Indians. The other item, "Visit to Peru," was compiled from a visit to study ecology for guano and anchovy production. Describes exhibits at Bolivar museum, Lima. Mentions and gives details of excavation at ancient Pachacamac.
Collection:Robert Cushman Murphy journals (Mss.B.M957)
Language:English
Date:1837-1840
Contributor:Rodgers, J. Kearny (John Kearny), 1793-1851 | Couthouy, Joseph Pitty, 1808-1864 | Wood, S. | Combe, George, 1788-1858 | Cooper, William, 1798?-1864 | Vargas, José María, 1786-1854 | Pentland, Joseph Barclay, 1797-1873
Subject:Grave robbing | Human remains | Skulls | Phrenology | Anthropometry | Peru--History | Anthropometry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes
Extent:10 items
Description: Correspondence regarding Morton's efforts to rob graves and collect Indigenous ancestors' remains from Peru and elsewhere. Topics include skulls, mummies, and artifacts from Peru; analysis of skull shapes and features; Morton's Crania Americana (1839), particularly Combe's thoughts on his review copy of the manuscript and an anti-phrenological review published by Dr. Forbes; the Phrenological Society and New York Lyceum as sources of skulls to examine.
Collection:Samuel George Morton Papers (Mss.B.M843)
Culture:
Language:English | Shipibo-Conibo
Date:1940-1941
Contributor:Lauriault, Erwin
Subject:Peru--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Panoan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Stories | Essays
Extent:31 pages
Description: Materials relating to Shipibo [Shipibo-Conibo] myths. Includes Erwin Lauriault's correspondence with John Alden Mason; Shipibo myths with interlinear English translation; and grammatical analysis of the myths.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:circa 1925-1967
Contributor:Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Wonderly, William L. | Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004 | Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985 | Peeke, M. Catherine
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Brazil--History | Colombia--History | Peru--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Drafts | Notes | Essays | Maps
Extent:12 folders
Description: There are many items relating to South American languages in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. This entry is intended as a catch-all for materials that cover South American languages in general and might not show up in narrower searches. Researchers should also view the entries for specific languages (i.e., Quechua, etc.). In Subcollection I, there is relevant correspondence with John H. Rowe and William L. Wonderly in Series I. Correspondence; a bibliography for sources on Arawakan languages placed unexpectedly at the end of Ojibwa Folder #4 in Series II. "Ethnological Research Opportunities in Colombia," "Living Language Families," and "Peopling of the New World (South America After North America)" in Series III. Works by Voegelin, Subseries III-B: Works Authored by Voegelin; George P. Murdock's "Maps for South America" (Arranged by Florence Robinett from "Outline of South American Culture"), M. Catherine Peeke's "Divisive Criteria for Auca World Classes," and William L. Wonderly's "List of Central American Indian Languages" in Series IV. Works by Others; a file on "Amazon Indian Languages" (containing typed classifications of languages of the Amazon, Putomayo, and Caqueta regions of Brazil, with population numbers) and folder on South American and Other Latin American Languages (which includes Central America and Mexico and contains a list of languages and notes on some of them) in file in Series V. Research Notes, Subseries V-A: Language Notes [see also the associated material in Oversized]; and a map of "South America and other Latin American languages" in Series VII. Photographs. Several references throughout the collection are made to "Island" and "Central American" Carib.
Collection:C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Culture:
Tiwanaku includes: Tiahuanaco, Tiahuanacu
Language:English
Date:Circa 1940s
Subject:Archaeology | Peru--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Reports
Extent:2 minutes
Description: The Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers contains one recording by an unidentified speaker giving measurements of numbered Tiwaniku statues, found in Series VII: Recordings.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Language:English
Date:[1943]
Contributor:Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Peru--History | Bolivia--History
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:22 pages
Description: This paper by John Peabody Harrington expresses the author's belief that Uru-Puquina is Arawakan and that Campa and Mojo are related to Uru-Puquina, and discusses the position of the Uru in the Inca Empire, the distribution of Uru, and works on Uru and Arawak.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)