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Date:1950-1972
Contributor:Albó, Xavier, 1934- | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Zuidema, R. Tom, (Reiner Tom), 1927-2016 | Farfán, José M. B. | Tschopik, Harry, 1915-1956 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | American Bible Society | Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001 | Tulchin, Joseph S., 1939-
Subject:Linguistics | Kinship | Ethnography | Archaeology | Folklore | South America--History | Religion
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies | Stories | Grammars | Vocabularies | Notes | Sketches
Description: The Aymara materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist of comparative linguistics and studies of kinship in Series II. Of particular interest are the audio recordings in Series VII on the folklore of the Ayar Incas. The correspondence, in Series I, contains information of the geographic distribution of the language, Lounsbury's analysis of the language and its relationship to Quechua, Christian scriptures in Aymara, Morris Swadesh's work on genetic classification of Native American languages, and geographic distribution of Aymara population.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
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Language:English
Date:1884
Contributor:Middleton, Thomas C. (Thomas Cooke), 1842-1923
Subject:South America | Missions | South America--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 pages
Description: Three letters to Henry Phillips, Jr. concerning the American Philosophical Society manuscript by Parras, #1531. Middleton fails to identify Parras for Phillips. Padre Francisco Pedro Joseph de Parras wrote a travel narrative [#1531]devoted in part to travels in Spain and to descriptions of Montevideo and Buenos Aires. One half of the work is the author's relation of a trip through Paraguay, visiting various mission pueblos. He provides a general description of life, education, and Christian teaching for the Indians, and a list of Jesuits at various missions.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
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Contributor:Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Altamirano, Oscar | American Bible Society | Beukema, Ron | Hammel, Eugene A. | Mangin, William | Schaedel, Richard P. | Tulchin, Joseph S., 1939- | Weiss, Andrew | Zuidema, R. Tom, (Reiner Tom), 1927-2016
Subject:Linguistics | South America--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars
Description: The Quechua materials in the Lounsbury Papers consist of Vocabularies in Series II and 13 boxes of word slips in Series VI. The correspondence in Series I includes Oscar Altamirano's work on Quechua, Christian scriptures in Quechua, Ron Beukema's work on phonology and morphology, Eugene Hammel's notes on Quechua kinship and marriage, William Mangin's work on Quechua in Peru, Richar Schaedel's Quechua work on Mochik or Yunga (Chipaya), Joseph Tulchin in Quechua language geographic distribution, and Andrew Weiss's study of Quechua in Bolivia.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
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Taíno includes: Arawak
Language:English
Date:1922
Contributor:La Varre, William, 1898-1991
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. Taino (Carib) materials include Folder "A:9780. South America" (1922) in Series I. Trait Files, Box #65, which contains a journal article titled "Discovering Diamonds in British Guiana: An American's Adventure in Opening Up the Treasure House on the Upper Mazaruni River" by William J. LaVarre, Jr., in which the author tells of locating diamond deposits through his association with Carib (Taino) villagers. The article includes textual descriptions and photos of indigenous individuals.
Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)
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Wayuu includes: Goajiro, Guajiro
Date:1957-1983;
Contributor:Wilbert, Johannes | Goulet, Jean-Guy
Subject:Kinship | Linguistics | Ethnography | South America--History
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries
Description: The Wayuu material in the Lounsbury collection is sparse. Of interest is a manuscript, by Johannes Wilbert, of a partial "Guajiro" dictionary.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)