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Language:Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Nahuatl, Isthmus-Pajapan | English | Spanish
Date:ca.1940s-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Canger, Una | Karttunen, Frances | Campbell, Lyle | Lockhart, James | Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Language study and teaching | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Coyote tales | Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies | Grammars | Dictionaries | Poems | Field notes | Stories
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Nahuatl materials are sizeable and cover his entire research life, mostly consisting of his own work from the 1960s and 1990s (Series 4), and many copies of small publications throughout his life (Series 2). Of note in the small publications is almost every issue of “Nahua Newsletter” (Indiana University) between 1986 and 2004, issues 1-18 of “Mexihkatl Itonalama”, and several 1940s-1960s SIL-archived publications. From his own work (Series 4) are interlinear glosses of Nahuatl texts, materials in preparation for taught courses at UCLA, products of brief fieldwork in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, 1966, working versions of two of his own publications, and further linguistic analysis. He also corresponded with several linguists on Nahuatl varieties (Series 1), including Una Canger, who gave him a copy of the Copenhagen Nahuatl Dictionary Project.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1954-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Greenfeld, Philip J.
Subject:Language study and teaching | Linguistics | Folklore | Religion | Place names | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Place names
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright collected books (Series 2) and engaged in correspondence (Series 1) on “Hispanisms” (lexical borrowings from Spanish into Native American languages, collected in Series 5) and Navajo place names.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Language:Pima Bajo | Spanish | Tepehuan, Northern
Date:1951, 1956, 1958
Contributor:Aguilar, Gerónimo | Bascom, Burton William, 1921- | Brugge, David M. | Carrillo, Andrés | Carrillo, Antonio | Carrillo, Dolores | Carrillo, Juan | Coyote, Nacho Lucero | Carrillo, Lorenzo | Carrillo, Carolina Chaparro de | Onteveros, Catalina Carrillo de | Estrella, Julio | Jimenez, Lorenzo | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Molina, Dolores
Subject:Folklore | Material culture | Music | Pottery | Chihuahua (Mexico : State)--HIstory | Sonora (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Songs | Speeches | Stories
Extent:3 sound tape reels (2 hr., 9 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Northern Tepehuan songs and stories originally recorded on wire by John Alden Mason in 1951, 1956, and 1958. Numerous short songs, folkloric and unidentified stories, description of pottery-making, conversation in Spanish on indigenous peoples, and texts and speech in the Macoba dialect of Pima Bajo. Recorded in Baborigame (Chihuahua,) Hermosillo, and Onavas (Sonora.) Tepehuan consultants are Gerónimo Aguilar, Andrés Carrillo, Antonio Carrillo, Celestina Carrillo, Dolores Carrillo, Juan Carrillo, Lorenzo Carrillo, Carolina Chaparro de Carrillo, Catalina Carrillo De Onteveros, Dolores Molina, and Julio Estrella. The Pima Bajo consultant is Nacho Lucero Coyote. Some material was recorded by David M. Brugge or Burton Bascom. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection:Northern Tepehuan language material (Mss.Rec.12)
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Language:Chatino, Western Highlands | Pochutec | Spanish
Date:1912
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Castillo, Andrea | Pastor, Pedro Marcelino | Castillo, Ignacio | Vásquez, Ines | Vásquez, Manuel | Avesilla, Eleuteria | Trinidad, María | Martinez, Sabina | Ramos, Gil | Raquel, Mauricia | Feliciana | Réz, Joaquina | Nicha, Paula | Pina, Estanislao | Pina, Epifanio | Peñafiel, Antonio | Vásquez, Ezéquiel | Castillo, Iguario | María, José
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Diaries | Field notes | Notebooks | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook
Description: The Oaxaca materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of 1 notebook from 1912. This notebook contains vocabularies, including names of speakers from whom they were elicited, and some dates and place names, for "Pochutla" (Pochutec), and Chatino. "[Santiago] Yeitepec" is listed in one Chatino word list, so the specific language may be Western Highlands Chatino. (65 pages) Folkloristic texts and songs in Spanish. The origin of these stories, such as if they are translations of indigenous stories, is not given. (33 pages) Notes on varieties of Zapotec. (2 pages)
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
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Matlatzinca includes: Matlatzinco
Date:1939
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:15 pages
Description: The Ocuiltec materials in the ACLS collection consists of one item in the “Mexico” section of the finding aid: “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Ocuiltec vocabulary.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Ofo includes: Ofoe, Mosopelea
Date:ca.1970s
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958 | Pierette, Rosa
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Drafts
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas did not complete her own fieldwork on Ofo, but did develop on the work of John R. Swanton, who produced among other things a Biloxi and Ofo dictionary (the topic of one of Haas' publications, Series 4 Subseries 3). As a result of the similarities between them, Ofo is often included alongside Biloxi and also Tutelo materials, in Series 2 and with comparisons with other languages in Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Date:1990-2000
Contributor:Rosenthal, Jane M. | Loaysa, Balthasar Xavier | Lombardo, Natal | Shaul, David | Betancourt, Ignacio Guzman
Subject:Linguistics | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Drafts | Correspondence | Translations
Extent:1.5 linear feet
Description: Throughout the 1990s, Jane Rosenthal conducted research at the Archivo General de Mexico and Newberry Library of Chicago on the life and work of Natal Lombardo. This included researching and attempting to produce a facsimile of his “Arte de la Lengua Teguima”, and identifying one document, previously attributed to him, to actually be of Eudeve by Balthasar Xavier Loaysa. Two publications resulted from this. Materials surrounding this include research notes and xeroxes of source materials (Series 2 Subseries 3; Series 5), correspondence (Series 1; Series 5), and digital materials (Series 9). See the description of Series 2 Subseries 3 for more details.
Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)
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Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Language:English | Spanish | Otomi, Temoaya
Date:1912-1950
Contributor:McQuown, Norman A. | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Dictionaries | Grammars | Reports | Vocabularies
Extent:2 slips, 80 pages
Description: The Otomi materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials mainly in the "Otomi" section of the finding aid. Key items includes Radin's "Grammatical sketch of Otomi" (item OtO.1) and "Otomi-English dictionary" (item OtO.2), based upon the Toluca dialect (Temoaya Otomi). Also in this section are the "Sintesis de la discusion en el consejo de lenguas indigenas sobre el alfabeto Otomi" (item OtO.3) and a brief vocabulary by Sapir (item OtO.4). In the “Mexico” section of the finding aid, see “Comparative vocabularies of various Indian languages of Mexico” (item AM5), which includes Otomi vocabulary, and McQuown's “Phonemic systems of various Indian languages of Mexico” (AM3), which includes Otomi information.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Language:Otomi, Mezquital | English | Spanish
Date:ca.1960s-1970s
Contributor:Rosenthal, Jane M. | Frijol, Porfirio Garcia
Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Vocabularies | Drafts | Essays
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Jane Rosenthal's Otomi materials consist of notes toward the paper "Some Types of Subordinate Clauses in Classical Nahuatl", which includes some Otomi data (Series 2 Subseries 3), texts possibly for learning Otomi (Series 5), and the introductory pages to a Nahuatl-English-Otomi dictionary (dictionary not present, Series 2 Subseries 2).
Collection:Jane M. Rosenthal Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.129)
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Otomi includes: Hñahñu, Ñuhu, Ñhato, Ñuhmu
Language:English | Otomi, Mezquital | Spanish
Date:1972, 1974
Contributor:Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940-
Subject:Folklore | Hidalgo (Mexico : State)--History | Humor | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Stories
Extent:69 pages
Description: The Otomi 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 Bernard.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)