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Date:1915; 1933-1941
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Marriage customs and rites | Religion | Rites and ceremonies
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:2 slips; 300+ pages
Description: The Hopi materials in the ACLS collection consist of materials primarily in the "Hopi" section of the finding aid. The earliest item is a brief word list recorded in 1915 by Edward Sapir (item U3a.4). The remaining items in this section are all by Benjamin Lee Whorf, including an initial linguistic report sent to Sapir, a grammatical sketch, an interlinear text on marriage customs, and a brief discussion of verb classes. In the "Bella Bella (Heiltsuk)" section of the finding aid, Boas' "Bella Bella suffix list" (item W1b.4) includes Hopi ethnographic materials on ceremony and religion written on the reverse side of sheets.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
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Totonac includes: Totonaca
Language:English | Spanish | Totonac, Highland
Date:1936, 1940
Contributor:McQuown, Norman A. | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Folklore | Linguistics | Puebla (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Text
Genre:Dissertations | Grammars | Stories
Extent:28 pages
Description: The Totonac materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of one item, "Los totonacos y su idioma" (item AM6), primarily in Spanish. Revision of Yale doctoral dissertation; includes introduction, explication of new Totonac alphabet, grammatical notes, and one text, "The Man and the Hawk," with English and Spanish translations. This item can be found in the "Totonac" section of the finding aid. There is also "Macro-Penutian" (item P1.1) by Benjamin Whorf in the "Linguistics, General" section of the finding aid, which may contain some Totonac data.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)