Recorded in the field on aluminum discs beginning on January 19, 1935 under the supervision of Manuel J. Andrade. The copies owned by the APS are tape duplicates made from the original aluminum discs in 1972 on to three tape reels by the collector, Norman McQuown, who retained the originals and later deposited them at the University of Chicago Library.
Provenance
Donor, Norman A. McQuown, July 1972.
General physical description
3 sound tape reels (7 hr., 15 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track, mono ; 7 in.
Related material
Transcriptions and translations of the recordings are available in the microfilm collection, Quiche Texts (Film 1295).
Genre(s)
- Sound recordings
Subject(s)
- Mayan languages
- Quiché language--Texts
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