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Date:1950s-1990s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sedat, Guillermo | Yool G., Juan
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Guatemala--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Maya file consists mostly of copies of others' publications, in particular texts produced by the SIL and other publishers in Guatemala (Series 2). He also performed ethnopoetics analysis on Mayan texts in preparation for a taught course in 1985, and drew a map of the languages of Central America.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Language:Spanish
Date:1785; circa 1800
Contributor:Unknown
Subject:Mexico--History | Antiquities | Material culture | Stone carving | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Sketches | Notes | Essays
Extent:2 items
Description: Two of the various items related to the Dupaix expeditions of 1806 (totaling four loose notebooks with 23 ink and pencil sketches of Mexican ruins and hieroglyphics featuring fragmented text, in Spanish, with images of construction and decoration on stonework, pottery and buildings of various native ruins of the Yucatan). "Notas varias y Caprichosas; Tehuantepec, Tonila, etc." discusses means of construction and decoration of stone work in various Mexican and Mayan sites (One sheet bears reference to 2nd Mixtecan expedition, 1806, i.e., DuPaix's 1806 expedition). "Pyramide de Paplanta [sic]. Description Ic[o]nografica, de la antigua y famosa Piramide o Adoratorio del Pueblo de Papantla" consists of two items relating to the pyramid at Papantla.
Collection:Notes on Mexican Antiquities (Mss.913.72.N84)
Culture:
Wolastoqiyik includes: Wəlastəkwewiyik, Malecite, Maliseet
Yuchi includes: Euchee
Tsimshian includes: Ts'msyan, Ts'msyen, Zimshian
Wabanaki includes: Wabenaki, Wobanaki
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Mi'kmaq includes: Micmac
Naskapi includes: ᓇᔅᑲᐱ, Iyiyiw, Skoffie
Kwakwaka'wakw includes: Kwakiutl
Inuit includes: Inuk, Eskimo (pej.), ᐃᓄᐃᑦ
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Innu includes: Montagnais, Mountaineer
Catawba includes: Iswa
Cayuga includes: Gayogohó:no
Choctaw includes: Chahta
Catawba includes: Iswa
Dakota includes: Dakȟóta
Date:1904-1950
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Cole, Fay-Cooper, 1881- | Gilmore, Melvin R. (Melvin Randolph), 1868-1940 | Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940 | Edgerton, Franklin, 1885-1963 | Gusinde, Martin, 1886-1969 | Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974 | Hiller, Wesley R. | Mooney, James, 1861-1921 | Nelson, Dorothy M. | Norton, Jeannette Young | Smith, Edgar F. (Edgar Fahs), 1854-1928 | Birket-Smith, Kaj, 1893-1977 | Ball, Carl | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Chase, Fannie S. | Cobb, Rodney Dale, 1907- | Dunnack, Henry E. | Field, Clark | La Rue, Mabel G: Myres, John Linton, Sir, 1869-1954 | Oak, Liston M., 1895-1970 | Staub, Peter | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Burgesse, J. Allan | Douglas, Frederic H. (Frederic Huntington), 1897-1956 | Raynolds, Frances R. | Eskew, James W. | Meier, Emil F. | Turner, Geoffrey
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Social life and customs | Hunting | Motifs | Specimens | Wampum | Material culture | Birch bark | Religion | Museums | Art | Masks | Basketry
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Notebooks | Bibliographies | Essays | Reports | Drafts | Maps
Extent:46 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's research and other professional activities. Items include Speck's notes taken during graduate work at Columbia University under Franz Boas, and utilized for his own anthropology courses at the University of Pennsylvania; Speck's miscellaneous notes comprising circa 500 bibliographic cards and reading notes sorted out by tribe and/or language, dealing with tribes and countries in which Speck did no field work [other entries of this type are to be found among the various groups of materials in the Speck collection, according to tribe]; correspondence concerning exhibits and specimens for the Chicago World's Fair and for the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts in New York City; two letters from Boas regarding the work of the Committee on Research in Native American Languages; correspondence regarding topics such as the double-curve motif, family hunting areas, indigenous foods and cooking methods, wampum, silverwork, birch-bark technique, baskets, Speck's research and publications, the research and publications of others, obtaining indigenous material cultural specimens for Speck, purchases of indigenous material culture specimens (baskets, masks, etc.) from Speck, Speck's identification of items in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University, Speck's bibliography, and Speck's obituary; letters requesting copies of Speck's publications, or acknowledging the transmission of publications between Speck and others; copies and/or drafts of several of Speck's presentations and publications, including "Lectures on Primitive Religion," "Land Ownership Among Hunting Peoples in Primitive America and the World's Marginal Areas," "Review of Lowie's Introduction to Cultural Anthropology," and "The Double-Curve Motive in Northeastern Algonquian Art"; a bibliography of Speck's publications through 1942; rough drafts of miscellaneous papers, 1928-1948; Speck's notes on topics such as crane posture; Birket-Smith's 1946 "Plan for Circumpolar Research"; ten distribution maps for circumpolar culture traits, colored in with crayon to show distribution of traits including divination and miracle shamanism, sweat bath, turtle Atlas myth and world-tree concept, bone divination, bear veneration, curative power of mystic words and formulae, dog-ancestor myth, dog as soul leader, curvilinear patterns, and confession to cure taboo violation; and a prepublication manuscript of Hallowell's "The nature and function of property as a human institution" with additions and corrections.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1939 and undated
Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Language families | Penutian languages | Uto-Aztecan languages | Migrations | Archaeology | Anthropology | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:2 items
Description: Two items: Radin's undated "Aboriginal history of North America," an outline considering physical and archaeological evidences for various waves of migration to North America, and Whorf's "Remarks on Utaztecan and Macro-Penutian," a discussion of Utaztecan, Penutian, and Mayan and probable linguistic relationship.
Collection:Paul Radin papers (Mss.497.3.R114)
Date:1527-1964
Contributor:Reina, Ruben E.
Subject:Crime | Guatemala--History | Politics and government | Religion | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Baptismal records | Books | Censuses | Legal documents | Photographs
Extent:23 linear feet
Description: The materials in the Ruben Reina papers pertaining to the Peten region of Guatemala are found primarily in Series II of the collection. This series consists of extensive ethnohistory materials including oral histories and photocopies of documents from numerous local community archives, both within and outside the Peten region, the Archivo General de Centroamerica (AGCA), and the Archivo General de Indias (AGI) in Seville. The material dates from the 15th century through the 1960s. Reina copied the material with portable photocopy and photographic equipment under poor conditions. The series includes 5 subseries: Encomiendas y Tierras; Libros Antiguos de Cofradias; Ethnohistorical Data; Peten Court Records; and Transcriptions. Each section contains a description of the conditions under which the materials were collected and the provenance of the materials, including whether the materials are still in existence. The Mayan langauges identified above should be regarded only as probable given the locations from which documents originated. Additional relevant materials may be found in Series VI, VII, VIII, XI, and XII.
Collection:Ruben E. Reina Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.67)
Culture:
Sacapulteco includes: Sacapultec, Sakapultek
Language:K'iche' | Sacapulteco | Spanish
Date:1549-1950
Contributor:Reina, Ruben E.
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics | Politics and government
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Censuses | Dictionaries | Records | Transcriptions
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: The materials in the Ruben Reina papers relating to the Sacapulas region of Guatemala are concentrated in Series IV of the collection. This series consists of notes and photocopies of documents relating to the Sacapulas region of Guatemala. Included are copies of priests' records, language material including a "Mayan" dictionary (probably Sacapulteco or K'iche'), and other documents from the Archivos General de Centro America (AGCA). Additional relevant materials may be found in Series VI, VII, VIII, XI, and XII.
Collection:Ruben E. Reina Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.67)
Date:1727
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862
Subject:Guatemala--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Sermons
Extent:1 volume, 338 leaves.
Description: Sermons for holy days, the title of the whole manuscript is derived from the title of the first volume. Written in Kaqchikel with Spanish marginalia. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1905-1947
Contributor:Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948
Subject:Archaeology | Expeditions | Orthography and spelling
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:39 volumes
Description: Beginning with his college life as an undergraduate at Harvard (1905-1906), Morley's diaries continue through his earliest travels and explorations of Central America (1907-1944), with information on the study of Mayan hieroglyphs, publications, the study of Central American ruins, and the manners and customs of the native people. Five volumes are devoted to four separate archaeological expeditions: Copan expedition (1937), Uxmal expedition (1941-1942), Central American expedition (1944), and Guatemala and Honduras expedition (1947). Formal and detailed field notes form the bulk of Morley's archaeological work. Includes 106 ink sketches and 105 pencil sketches by archaeologist Sylvanus Morley to illustrate his excavation descriptions of Mayan sites in Yaxchilan (1931), Calakmul (1932), Copan (1937, 1947), and Uxmal (1941-42). Primarily Mayan glyphs, images include diagrams of stairways, pyramids, and ball courts. Originals at Peabody Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Collection:Sylvanus Griswold Morley diaries (Mss.B.M828)
Date:1553, 1605
Contributor:Vico, Domingo de, 1485-1555 | Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862
Subject:Guatemala--History | Religion | Theology
Type:Text
Genre:Essays
Extent:1 volume, 185 leaves
Description: The Theologia Indorum ("Theology for the Indians" or "Theology of the Indians") was written by the Spanish Dominican friar Domingo de Vico from 1552-1554. It is considered the first original Christian theology written in the Americas and the longest single text written in an indigenous language of the Americas in the colonial era. Written in K'iche' (sometimes written as "Quiché," a Mayan language of Guatemala, it played a major role in evangelization of the Highland Maya. Previous identifications of the content of the manuscript misidentified it as being in the Kaqchikel language and as consisting of sermons and biblical translation. The content, however, is an original theological work that utilizes indigenous religous beliefs and cultural practices to explain Christian doctrine. This version is the first of two volumes of the Theologia Indorum, pertaining to topics from the Old Testament. Other versions of the Theologia exist at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and at Princeton University. This is the oldest manuscript in the APS Library's collections written in an indigenous language of the Americas. Donor, Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala, through Mariano Gálvez, 1836.
Collection:Mayan Language Texts, 1553-1727 (Mss.497.43.V42)
Date:1959-1962
Contributor:Robles Uribe, Carlos | Romney, A. Kimball | Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn
Subject:Orthography and spelling | Antiquities | Kinship | Medicine
Type:Text
Description: The Tzeltal materials in the Lounsbury Papers are fairly brief, limited to work done by other scholars interested in linguistics, history, and medicine, all found in Series II.
Collection:Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)