| 1 | Creator: | Gabb, William More, 1839-1878 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | On the Indian Tribes and Languages of Costa Rica
| | | | Dates: | 1875 | | | | Abstract: | A paleontologist and expert in Cretaceous and Tertiary invertebrates, William More Gabb was hired by the Costa Rican government to conduct of natural historical and ethnographic survey from 1873-1875.
Read before the American Philosophical Society on August 20, 1875, Gabb's essay "On the Indian tribes and languages of Costa Rica" was published in full in the APS
Proceedings 14 (1875): 483-602. Dealing with several tribes, including the Bribri, the paper touches on physical description, history, the names of tribes, their political organization, and ethnography. The essay includes a brief grammar of the Bribri language. | | | | Call #: | Mss.572.9728.G11 | | | | Extent: | 0.1 Linear feet | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Bribri language | Gabb, William More, 1839-1878 | Indians of Central America--Costa Rica | Indians of Central America--Languages | Linguistics | |
| 2 | Creator: | Morán, Francisco,fl. 1625. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arte y vocabulario de la lengua Cholti, 1695
| | | | Dates: | 1695 | | | | Abstract: | This is a copy of Moran's "libro grande" (1625-1650), and includes two versions of the grammar (in different hands), confessional materials, and a vocabulary of 500 words which has been added to the others. The first three pages are a narrative of Spanish missions (1689-1692) by Thomas Murillo. For description, see: D. G. Brinton. "Notice of some manuscripts..."
American Journal of Science, 2nd Series, 1869, v. 47, 222-230. | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.4.M79 | | | | Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Beyond Early America | Cholti language--Texts | Chorti language--Grammar, Comparative | Dictionaries. | Guatemala--Languages | Indians of Central America--Languages | Missions, Spanish. | Morán, Francisco,fl. 1625. | Murillo, Thomas. | Prayers. | Vocabularies. | |
| 3 | Creator: | Academia de Ciencias de Guatemala.. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Cakchikel Language Texts, 1553 - ca. 1700
| | | | Dates: | Circa 1553-1700 | | | | Abstract: | The library has several volumes of grammars, vocabularies, sermons, and other religious writings in the Cakchikel language of Central America. Several have been studied, notably by Daniel G. Brinton in APS
Proceedings 21 (1884): 345, and Nora B. Thompson, "Algunos manuscritos guatemaltecos en Filadelfia",
Anales de la Sociedad de Geografia e Historia 23 (1948), Nos. 1 2: p. 3; and all have been described by John F. Freeman, "Manuscript Sources on Latin American Indians," APS
Proceedings 10 (1962): 530, and in Freeman's
Guide to Manuscripts relating to the American Indian (1966). | | | | Call #: | Mss.497.43.V42 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 Volume(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Cakchikel language | Catholic Church -- Guatemala -- Catechisms -- Cakchikel. | Catholic Church -- Guatemala -- Sermons. | Grammars. | Indians of Central America--Languages | Mayan languages | Microfilm Collection | Sermons, Cakchikel. | Sermons. | Varea, Francisco de. | Vocabularies. | |
| 4 | Creator: | University of Chicago. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Manuscripts on Middle American Cultural Anthropology, 1590-1976
| | | | Dates: | 1590-1976 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes field notes and reports, diaries of expeditions, texts, grammars, dictionaries of Indian languages, theses and research papers collected by members of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Chicago in connection with the Carnegie Institution of Washington Middle American Research Program as well as various Middle American governmental agencies. A microfilm publication of the University of Chicago, 1946-1957. Table of contents. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Film.297 | | | | Extent: | 26.0 Microfilm reel(s) | | | | Sections: |
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| | | | Subjects: | Andrade, Manuel José, 1885-1941 | Anthropology--Research--United States | Carr, Malcolm | Diagrams. | Diaries. | Dictionaries. | Doll, Eugene E. | Goubaud Carrera, Antonio | Grammars. | Guiteras Holmes, Calixta, 1905-1988 | Indians of Central America--Languages | Indians of Central America--Social life and customs | Indians of Mexico--Languages | Indians of Mexico--Social life and customs | Key, Harold H. | Kline, Howard F. | Lepine, Jeanne | Lincoln, Jackson Steward, 1902-1941 | Maps. | Microfilm Collection | Noyes, Ernest, 1903- | Redfield, Robert, 1897-1958 | Reports. | Starr, Betty Warren, 1906-1964 | Tax, Sol, 1907-1995 | Theses. | Tumin, Melvin Marvin, 1919-1994 | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941 | Wisdom, Charles | |
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