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Language:English | Keres, Eastern | Keres, Western
Date:1919-1928
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Keresan languages | Language families | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:Circa 8,000 slips, 1 notebook, 85 loose pages
Description: The Keresan materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items compiled by Franz Boas, located in the "Keresan" section of the finding aid. The "Keresan word list and linguistic notes" (item Ke1.1) includes Cochiti and Laguna grammatical, linguistic, folkloristic, and ethnographic materials. There is also "Keresan lexical file" (item Ke1.2) likely derived primarily from Cochiti and Laguna fieldwork, though the extent of other languages' information is undetermined. Other materials from this collection that primarily relate to Laguna or Cochiti are listed separately in this guide.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Laguna includes: Kʾáwáigamʾé, Keres, Kawaika
Language:English | German | Keres, Eastern | Keres, Western
Date:1919-1925
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Kinship
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Grammars | Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:477 pages, 25 notebooks, 9600 slips
Description: The Laguna materials in the ACLS collection of several items, primarily located in the "Laguna" section of the finding aid. There is a large set of 24 field notebooks recorded by Franz Boas ("Laguna word lists, paradigms, and texts", item Ke2.5) containing texts, and linguistic and ethnographic notes, some written German shorthand. Additional materials in this section of the finding aid derive from this field work, including extensive lexicons, additional linguistic analysis, texts, and discussion of kinship terms. In the "Keresan" section of the finding aid, see also Boas' additional vocabularies and comparative Keresan lexical files, in which Laguna material is compared with Cochiti.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)