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Date:ca. 1920s
Contributor:Simango, Columbus Kamba | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Death--Philosophy | Folklore | Ethnography | Religion | South Africa--History
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:ca. 220 pages, 39 notebooks
Description: The Zulu material in the ACLS collection consists of brief references scattered throughout items AfBnd.3 and AfBnd.4, "Ndau lexica and ethnographic slips" and "Texts on Ndau culture" in the "Non-American and non-linguistic material" section of the finding aid. The extent and subjects of the Zulu material have not been fully evaluated, but they are believed to have come from Simango's knowledge, typically with reference to Ndau (Chindau).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Date:1920
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook; Circa 7,000 slips
Description: The Zuni material in the ACLS collection consists of 2 items found in the "Zuni" section of the finding aid. The first is a field notebook (item Zu.1) recorded by Franz Boas with vocabularies and shorthand ethnographic notes, subsequently transcribed elsewhere. The second item is a lexicon (item Zu.2) of approximately 7000 word slips by Ruth Bunzel arranged alphabetically and also by grammatical categories. This lexicon appears based on field notes not at the APS.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)