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Central American materials, James V. Neel Papers

Culture:
Ngäbe includes: Guaymi, Ngobe
Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca
Language:English
Date:1979-1991
Contributor:Neel, James V., (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000
Subject:Costa Rica--History | Genetics | Panama--History
Type:Text
Genre:Charts | Drafts | Correspondence | Maps
Extent:10 folders
Description: The Central American materials in the James V. Neel papers consists materials related to Neel's genetics and populations studies among some indigenous people in Costa Rica and Panama, primarily Chibcha and Ngabe peoples. These materials are located in "Series Iia: Amerindian" and "Series IIIa: Amerindian."
Collection:James V. Neel Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.96)

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Hokan materials, ACLS collection

Culture:
Washo includes: Wašiw, Washoe, Waashiw
Xinca includes: Xinka
Yana
Yuki includes: Huchnom
Subtiaba includes: Subtiava
Ngäbe includes: Guaymi, Ngobe
Lenca
Chibcha includes: Muysca, Muisca
Coahuiltecan
Achumawi includes: Pit River, Achomawi, Ajumawi
Language:Achumawi | Chibcha | English | Lenca | Ngäbere | Subtiaba | Washo | Xinca | Yana | Yuki
Date:1917-1925, 1931
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Subject:Caddoan languages | Coahuiltecan languages | Hokan languages | Language families | Linguistics | Muskogean languages | Siouan languages
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:1 page, circa 1,300 cards and slips
Description: The Hokan materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of two items in the "Hokan" section of the finding aid. The main item is Sapir's "Hokan-Siouan comparisons" lexical file (item H.3). This consists of comparisons among various families of the proposed Hokan-Siouan phylum. Dividers separate sections as follows: Hokan-Siouan (Yuki; Muskogean: Caddoan; Siouan; Hokan-type Coahuiltecan-Butiaba); Washo-Hokan; Hokan-Coahuiltecan; Yana-Hokan. It is subdivided by stems, grammatical categories, and occasionally by meaning. There is an additional brief document by Kroeber, item H.4 "Hokan compared with various Middle and South American languages", with wordlists of 21 English items with equivalents in Yuman, Hokan, Subtiaba, Xinca, Lenca, Chibcha, Guayom, Chibchan, Zoque, and Mixe, taken from published and unpublished sources. In the "Achumawi" section of the finding aid, there are two items by Jaime de Angulo examining the relationship of Achumawi to the proposed Hokan language family (items H.1 and H.2).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)

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