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Culture:
Kwtsaan includes: Quechan, Yuma, Yuman
Language:English
Date:1953
Contributor:Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984
Subject:Linguistics | Rites and ceremonies | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:4 leaves
Description: Correspondence of Ruth M. Underhill with John Alden Mason regarding linguistic relatives of the Yumans (Kwstaan) and the existence of warrior's purification in Mexico.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Culture:
Kwtsaan includes: Quechan, Yuma, Yuman
Date:undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Langdon, Margaret, 1926-2005 | Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Drafts
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Kwtsaan, or “Yuma” as Haas referred to it, appears in comparative linguistics work, mostly in the form of lexical slip files in Series 9. The most extensive of these lexica is from work by A. M. Halpern, covering several hundred cards, and there are also lexical files with dedicated comparison to Karuk and Yana.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Kwtsaan includes: Quechan, Yuma, Yuman
Date:1978
Contributor:Emerson, Lee
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Reports
Extent:16 pages
Description: The Quechan materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Halpern.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture:
Kwtsaan includes: Quechan, Yuma, Yuman
Date:ca.1955-2006
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Munro, Pamela | Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985 | Moser, Edward W.
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Drafts
Extent:3 folders
Description: William Bright produced a list of stem morphemes from A. M. Halpern's publications (Series 4). He also corresponded with Edward W. Moser on possible neighboring language cognates, as well as in extensive general correspondence with Pamela Munro. These can be found in Series 1.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1917; 1924
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:2 page
Description: The Yuman material in the ACLS consists of two brief, 1-page items. In the "Yuman" section of the finding aid, there is Gifford's "Vocabulary in five Yuman languages" (item H8.1) from 1917, which consists of 35 English words, including numerals, with equivalents in "Cocopa, Southern Diegueno, Northern Diegueno, Kamia, and Yuma." Speakers are identified at head of each column. In the "Hokan" section of the finding aid, there is Kroeber's "Hokan compared with various Middle and South American languages" (item H.4) which includes Yuman terms.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)