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Date:circa 1930s
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:9 pages
Description: The Fijian materials in the ACLS collection consists of two items, "Social organization of the Namuavoivoi" (item 39) and "Namuavoivoi" (item PoNa.1), located in the "Non-American and non-linguistic material" section of the finding aid. The first is a comparison of social structure among the Namuavoivoi (Namuaivoivoi) of Fiji with Polynesian and Maori, and the second is a basic description of the language and its social use.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Kraho includes: Craho, Craó, Krahô
Date:1939
Contributor:Quain, Buell H. (Buell Halvor), 1912-1939 | Quain, Fannie Dunn
Subject:Brazil--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Extent:254 pages
Description: The Kraho materials in the ACLS collection consists of one item (ZhKr.1) in the "Craho" section of the finding aid, an incomplete grammar of the language from notes of field work among Kraho on Tocantins River in Maranhao, Brazil. Contains material on phonetics, pronouns, verbs, syntax, 14 folkloristic texts, including some translation and notes.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)