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Date:1926-1959
Contributor:Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 | Thompson, J. Eric S. (John Eric Sidney), 1898-1975 | Sayles, E. B. (Edwin Booth), 1892-1977 | Harris, Zellig S. (Zellig Sabbettai), 1909-1992 | Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994 | McQuown, Norman A. | Weitlaner, Robert J., 1883-1968 | Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
Subject:Linguistics | Archaeology | Guatemala--History | Honduras--History | Architecture | Geography
Type:Text | Still Image
Genre:Correspondence | Essays | Drafts | Speeches | Notes | Bibliographies | Essays
Extent:Circa 455 leaves; circa 635 pages; photographs
Description: The Central America materials, John Alden Mason Papers include correspondence regarding linguistic, archaeological, and ethnological work in Mexico and Guatemala; meetings; etc. Regarding archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama. Regarding Piedras Negras, Guatemala; Chichen Itza; archaeological work in Guatemala and Mexico. Regarding archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and Texas. Regarding Pima; Yaqui; Piedras Negras, Guatemala; Maya glyphs and architecture; archaeological work in Guatemala, Mexico, and British Honduras. The bulk of the material is from 1933-1939 and concerns archaeological work at Piedras Negras, Guatemala. Some discussion of the Mayan calendar, the ruins at Yaxchilan, Mexico, and a 1953 expedition to the Caracol Ruins, Honduras. Scholarly materials: Article for [Lilly de Jongh] Osborne's handbook of Guatemala regarding the ruins of Piedras Negras, Guatemala. A paper entitled, "Los cuatro grandes filones linguisticos de Mexico y Centroamerica" for the International Congress of Americanists, Mexico, August 1939. A paper read at meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 1938, on the genetic classification of Middle American languages. Bibliographies of books and a few manuscripts on Indians of Central America, Mexico, and South America; letter from Zelig Harris to Mason; Mason's reply. Paper sent to Mason to be read at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Discusses Hokan-Siouan Phylum, Tarascan, Macro-Otomanguean Phylum, Macro-Penutian Phylum, and Macro-Chibchan Phylum. Notes on genetic relationships and geographic distribution. Mostly from published sources. A compilation and juxtaposition of various opinions. A talk given before Sociedad de geografia e historia de Guatemala regarding the architecture of Piedras Negras. English original which was translated into Spanish for publication in Anales 15 (December 1938): pages 202-216. A paper "Middle American Linguistics, 1955" by Norman A. McQuown; draft of a paper by Mason discussing that of McQuown; a copy of Mason's paper as delivered at the meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 17, 1955, Boston; a copy of Mason's paper as corrected for correspondence with Robert J. Weitlaner and Gordon R. Willey.
Collection:John Alden Mason Papers (Mss.B.M384)
Date:1935
Contributor:Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941 | Wisdom, Charles
Subject:Guatemala--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Extent:3 folders
Description: The Ch'orti' materials in the Elsie Clews Parsons papers consist of two folders of Charles Wisdom correspondence and manuscripts found in Subcollection II, Series I, "Professional Correspondence", and "Chorti - Notes" in Subcollection II, Series IV, "Research Notes." Additional relevant material may appear in correspondence folders.
Collection:Elsie Clews Parsons papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.29)
Date:1596-1984
Contributor:Reina, Ruben E.
Subject:Folklore | Guatemala--History | Politics and government | Religion | Social life and customs
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Censuses | Interviews | Photographs | Stories
Extent:7.5 linear feet
Description: The materials in the Ruben Reina papers relating to the Chinautla region of Guatemala are found primarily in Series III of the collection. This series consists of material relating to the Chinautla region and neighboring areas of Guatemala, including primarily Poqomam-speaking peoples. This section includes an extensive amount of copies from the Archivo General de Centroamerica (AGCA), local archives, and oral history interviews.
Collection:Ruben E. Reina Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.67)
Culture:
Chontal, Oaxaca includes: Tequistlatec, Tequistlateco
Date:1826
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies
Extent:7 pages
Description: The "Chontal" materials in this collection consist of one manuscript listed in the finding aid as item 26, Rafinesque's "Vocabulary of the Chontal language and its dialects reading from Guatimala to Panama & Darien," which includes some commentary on comparative linguistics of indigenous languages of Guatemala. Given his association of the language with Guatemala, the language may be Chol, which he lists as a "Chontal type" in the "The American Nations," published in 1836.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Historical and Literary Committee, American Indian Vocabulary Collection (Mss.497.V85)
Culture:
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Seneca includes: Onöndowága
Séliš includes: Salish, Flathead
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Pawnee includes: Chaticks si Chaticks, Chatiks si Chatiks
Sahaptin includes: Shahaptin
Purépecha includes: Tarascan (pej.), P'urhépecha
Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Kiowa includes: Ka'igwu
Haudenosaunee includes: Iroquois, Onkwehonwe
Kaingang includes: Caingangue, Kanhgág
Cree includes: Nēhiyaw, Cri
Language:English
Date:1935-1937
Contributor:Singer, Ernestine H. Wieder
Subject:Anthropology | Archaeology | Economic conditions | Guatemala--History
Type:Text
Genre:Notes
Extent:2 volumes, 150 p.
Description: These items include notes on "primitive economics" (Incan) for A. Irving Hallowell and from seminars with Linton Satterthwaite (on Mayan architecture), E. B. Howard (on problems of the Clovis site in New Mexico), and others at the University of Pennsylvania. There are also notes taken at the 1936 meeting of the American Anthropological Association of papers by various anthropologists in attendance, including Ruth Benedict, Frederica de Laguna, Waiter Dyk, William N. Fenton, Alfred V. Kidder, David G. Mandelbaum, George P. Murdock, Arthur C. Parker, Elsie Clews Parsons, Gladys A. Reichard, William A. Ritchie, Linton Satterthwaite, Gene Weltfish, and others regarding Cree, Flathead, Iroquois (Haudenosaunee), Kaingang (Southern Brazil), Kiowa, Mayan, Natchez, Navajo, Ojibwa, Pawnee, Pueblos, Sahaptin, Saulteaux, Siouan, Tarascan, Tonawanda (Seneca), Zuni, etc.
Collection:Ernestine H. Wieder Singer notes (Mss.970.1.Si6)
Language:English
Date:1942, 1985
Contributor:Danien, Elin | Lincoln, Jackson Steward, 1902-1941
Subject:Guatemala--History | Social life and customs
Type:Text
Genre:Bibliographies | Essays
Extent:1 folder
Description: Material on the Ixil people of Guatemala is located primarily in the folder "Ixil People--Guatemala--Research," located in Series VI of the finding aid. Consists of a photocopy of J. Steward Lincoln's "The Maya Calendar of the Ixil of Guatemala" and a brief paper by Elin Danien written for an advanced anthropology course, covering general historical background, cultural information, and a bibliography on the Ixil.
Collection:Ruben E. Reina Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.67)
Culture:
K'iche' includes: Quiché
Language:English
Date:November 4, 1881
Contributor:Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
Subject:Guatemala--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to J. Peter Lesley discussing Brinton's paper on the Popul Vuh; he has extracted from and used American Philosophical Society manuscripts on Guatemalan languages.
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Date:1836-1907
Contributor:Gálvez, Mariano, 1794-1862 | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | Morison, Ella M. | Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895 | Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910
Subject:Linguistics | Guatemala--History
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:5 items
Description: Items relating to Kaqchikel materials at the American Philosophical Society, including an 1836 exchange of correspondence relating to donated manuscripts and printed works on Kaqchikel Pilling's requests in the 1880s for copies of various publications for Bureau of American Castell's 1897 request for a copy of Daniel Garrison Brinton's paper on Kaqchikel language (1884); and two 1907 letters concerning a Kaqchikel manuscript [Uae rugotzlem Sant Andres Apostol (#495)] in American Philosophical Society Library
Collection:American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1966-1972
Contributor:Campbell, Lyle | Canger, Una | Simeon, George
Subject:Guatemala--History | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Reports
Extent:13 pages
Description: The Mam 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 Campbell, Canger, and Simeon.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
Date:1969
Contributor:Simeon, George
Subject:Botany | Guatemala--History | Medicine
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Elicitation sessions | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1 audiocassette (1 hr., 32 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Consists of samples of a larger set of material excerpted by the collector from his original field recordings. Conversations, elicited Vocabularies with Spanish equivalents, and texts in three Guatemalan languages. Recorded in Guatemala in 1969. (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:Mam, Xinca, and Pocomam Central linguistics (Mss.Rec.91)