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Alternate forms: Mayan
Language(s): English | Mayan (macrolanguage)
Date: 1924 and undated
Contributor: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Schuller, Rudolf
Subject: Linguistics
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre: Maps | Vocabularies
Extent: 4 pages, 1 map
Description: The Maya materials in the ACLS collection consist of two items in the "Maya" section of the finding aid. The first is a brief word list (item M1a.1) recorded by Edward Sapir containing terms for numerals, natural objects, animals, parts of the body; obtained from the "Mortiniano tribe." (The specific Mayan language the list reflects is currently unidentified). The second item (AM1) is a linguistic map of Chiapas by Rudolf Schiller form 1924, which includes locations of the varieties Lacandon, Chol, Tzotzil, "Tsoke," "Tzendal" (Tzeltal?), and Chicomuceltec.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Language(s): English | French | Yucateco | Spanish | Mayan, Classical
Date: 1963-1995
Contributor: Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn | Prem, Hanns J., 1941- | Borodatova, A. A., (Anna A.) | Boyd, John Paul, 1939- | Kozhanovskaya, Irina | Rees, Michael J. | Roberts, John M. | Baudez, Claude F | Bricker, Harvey M. | Bricker, Victoria Reifler, 1940- | Aveni, A. F. (Anthony F.) | Coe, Michael D. | Schlak, Arthur Edmund | Smith, John P. | Miller, Jeffrey H. | Berlin, Brent | Sturtevant, William C. | Frake, Charles O., 1930- | Kantum, Abundio | Acuña, René | Ainsworth, Jerry L. (Jerry Lamar) | Anderson, Lloyd B. | Arata, Luis Oscar, 1950- | Anderson, Lloyd B. | Aveni, A. F. (Anthony F.) | Berlin, Brent | Brotherston, James Gordon | Campbell, Lyle | Chafe, Wallace L. | Coe, Michael D. | Drucker, R. David | Dutting, Dieter
Subject: Orthography and spelling | Kinship | Linguistics | Hieroglyphics | Archaeology | Astronomy | Material culture
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre: Notes | Essays | Prints | Teaching notes | Vocabularies | Dictionaries | Calendars
Description: The Maya materials in the Lounsbury Papers are extensive. The correspondence in Series I includes a Motul (Mayan) dictionary, discussion about translating Maya glyphs and calendrical calculations, the Popol Vuh. Series II consists of articles and manuscripts from a project identified as "Maya kinship unfin. project." Much of this work is focused on interpreting Maya hieroglyphs. In Series VII there are a number of recordings of Yucatec Maya made in the 1960s focused on vocabulary. The correspondence, in Series I, includes a dictionary by Rene Acuna, Lloyd Anderson's Etymologies of Mayan calendrical and astronomical terms, Anthony Aveni's interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs, Brent Berlin's decipherment of Maya hieroglyphs, Gordon Brotherston's comments on FGL's manuscript on Maya dates, Lyle Campbell's bibliography of Mayan linguistics, Wallace Chafe on how FGL got into the study of Maya hieroglyphics, Michael Coe's report that Soviets were successful in using a computer to translate Maya hieroglyphs, R. David Drucker's comparison of Aztec and Maya calendars, Dieter Dutting on Maya hieroglyphs; transformational analysis of Yucatec.
Collection: Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.95)
Culture: Chinook | Wasco-Wishram | Kathlamet | Klamath | Modoc | Maidu | Tzeltal | Miwok | Takelma | Tsimshian | Yokuts | Zuni
Language(s): English | Chinook | Wasco-Wishram | Klamath-Modoc | Maidu, Northeast | Tzeltal | Takelma | Tsimshian | Yokuts | Zuni
Date: 1952 and undated
Contributor: Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887-1949 | Francescato, Giuseppe | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject: Linguistics | Anthropology | Penutian languages | Shahaptin languages | Mayan languages | Chinookan languages | California--History | Oregon--History | Washington (State)--History
Type:Text
Extent: 14 folders
Description: Several items relating to the Penutian language family have been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. Of particular interest is Subseries VI. Penutian, including Mayan and Zoque, of Subcollection II, Series II. Research Notes. The contents of this subseries includes folders of materials under the following headings: Chinookan-Chinook, Wishram, Kathlamet; Klamath-Modoc; Maidu; Maya (Tzeltal); Miwok; Penutian; Sahaptin; Takelma; Tsimshian; Yokuts; and Zuni. There are also Penutian materials in Subcollection II, Series IV. Works by Others. These include Leonard Bloomfield's "Penutian" sketch; Giuseppe Francescato's masters thesis, "A Structural Comparison of the Californian Penutian" (1952); and Morris Swadesh's "Problems of Long-Range Comparison in Penutian." Researchers should also view the individual entries for distinct Penutian languages.
Collection: C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
Date: 1977, 1981
Contributor: Adams, Walter Randolph
Subject: Chiapas (Mexico)--History | Religion
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre: Correspondence | Essays | Field notes | Photographs | Reports
Extent: 393 pages, 74 photographs
Description: The Tojolabal materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of 3 items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Adams.
Collection: Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Culture: Tzeltal
Date: 1977
Contributor: Adams, Walter Randolph | Perez, Francisco Calvo | Hernandez, Jose | Aguilar, Francisco | Garcia, Ramiro | Jimenez, Hermalindo
Subject: Chiapas (Mexico)--History | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre: Conversations | Speeches | Prayers
Extent: 1 audiocassette (26 hr., 24 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Untranslated monologue in Tzeltal, most likely lowland (Bachajón) dialect. May include oratory and prayers. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection: Recordings concerning religious practices of southeastern Chiapas, Mexico (Mss.Rec.108)
Culture: Tzeltal
Date: 1940
Contributor: Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject: Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre: Vocabularies
Extent: 1 page
Description: The Tzeltal materials in the ACLS collection consist of one Tzeltal-Spanish word list (item M1b.2) with 40 vocabulary items located in the "Tzeltal" section of the finding aid.
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture: Tzeltal
Date: Undated
Contributor: Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
Subject: Linguistics | Anthropology
Type:Text
Genre: Notes
Extent: 1 folder
Description: One item relating to the Tzeltal language has been identified in the C. F. Voegelin Papers. It is in Subcollection II, and consists of a Tzeltal folder in Series II. Research Notes, Subseries VI. Penutian, including Mayan and Zoque. Researchers might also be interested in the general "Mexico" entry for the Voegelin Papers.
Collection: C. F. Voegelin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.68)
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)
Culture: Tzeltal
Alternate forms: Maya
Date: 1973-1978
Contributor: Stross, Brian
Subject: Linguistics | Folklore | Chiapas (Mexico)--History
Type:Text
Genre: Stories | Correspondence
Extent: 1 folder
Description: William Bright received a number of original publications, offprints, photocopies and stories in Tzeltal from Brian Stross (Series 1).
Collection: William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)