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Culture:
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Language:English | German | Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian
Date:1883-1884
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Nunavut--History | Personal names
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Diaries | Drawings | Field notes | Notebooks | Personal names | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:2 notebooks, 1 folder
Description: The Inuit materials in the Boas Field Notebooks and Anthropometric Data collection consist of varied linguistic and ethnographic notes, some in German shorthand, as well as sketches, found in his "Baffinland diary" and "Baffinland notebook" from his first fieldwork trip in 1883-1884. See also his "Inuit Vocabularies and proper names," located in box 3.
Collection:Franz Boas early field notebooks and anthropometric data (Mss.B.B61.5)
Culture:
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)