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John P. Harrington Papers 1907-1959 THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME SEVEN A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE OF MEXICO/CENTRAL AMERICA/ SOUTH AMERICA I:DITRD Br Elaine L. Mills KRAUS INTER AJ 10 L Pl BLIC 110 Di ision of Kraus-Thom Jl )r 1lI1.allon LUl11tcd THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME SEVEN A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: Native American History, Language, and Culture of Mexico/Central America/South America Prepared in the National Anthropological Archives Department ofAnthropology National Museum ofNatural History Washington, D.C. THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME SEVEN A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: Native American History, Language, and Culture of Mexico/Central America/South America EDITED BY Elaine L. Mills KRAUS INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS A Division of Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited White Plains, N.Y. © Copyright The Smithsonian Institution 1988 All rights reserved. No part ofthis work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means-graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or taping, information storage and retrieval systems-without written permission ofthe publisher. First Printing Printed in the United States of America §TM The paper in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science- Permanence of Papers for Contents Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data INTRODUCTION VII / V1/l Harrington, John Peabody. Scope and Content ofthis Publication VII / vu The papers ofJohn Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907 -1957. A guide to History ofthe Papers and the Microfilm Edition VII / viil the field notes. Editorial Procedures VII / x "Prepared in the National Anthropological Archives, Acknowledgements VII/xii Department of Anthropology, National Museum of History, Washington, D.C." An official inventory for the microfilm edition of Harrington's papers in the Smithsonian Institution, NOTES TO RESEARCHERS VII/xv 1907-1957. Using the Guide VII I xv Volumes 3 & 4 edited by Elaine L. Mills and Ann J. Brickfield. Using the Microfilm VII / XVl Includes bibliographies. Note on Terminology VII / xvil Contents: v. 1. Native American history, language, and culture of Alaska/Northwest Coast-v. 2. Native American history, language, and culture of Northern PHOTOGRAPHS VII/ XlX and Central California- -v. 7. Native American history, language, and culture of Seri Woman and Man VII / xx Mexico/Central America/South America. Eduarda Macari VII / xx 1. Harrington, John Peabody-Archives-Catalogs. 2. Indians-Manuscripts-Catalogs. 3. Indians­ Harrington at Guadalupe Lake VII / xx Languages-Manuscripts-Catalogs. 4. National Arizonac Creek and Ranch VII / XXl Anthropological Archives-Catalogs. I. Mills, Elaine L. Nahuatl Group VII / XXl II. Brickfield, Ann J. III. Title. Z1209.H33 1981.E58 970.004'97 81-7290 ISBN 0-527-84243-5 (v. 1) VII/vi John Peabody Harrington Cipriano Alvaredo and William Gates VII/xx'll Harrington at Mayan Ruins VII/xxii Domingo Aguilar VII/xxii Cuna Speakers with Group ofScientists VII/xxiii Map ofPanama VII/xxiv SERIES DESCRIPTIONS and REEL CONTENTS VII / 1 Pima / Papago / Seri / Opata VII / 1 Nahuatl VII / 10 Quiche VII / 18 Cakchiquel VII / 24 Yucatec VII / 27 Cuna VII / 38 Introduction Records Relating to South American Languages VII / 44 General and Miscellaneous Materials VII / 63 SCOPE AND CONTENT APPENDIX VII / 65 OF THIS PUBLICATION Abbreviations and Special Uses ofTerms VII / 65 "A Guide to the Field Notes: Native American History, Language, and Culture of Mexico/Central America/South America," is the seventh volume ofa nine-volume official inventory for the microfilm edition of The Papers ofJohn P. Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907­ 1957. This inventory supersedes any other published or unpublished finding aids describing the collection. Volume One covers Alaska/ Northwest Coast, Volume Two covers Northern and Central Califor­ nia, Volume Three covers Southern California/Basin, Volume Four covers the Southwest, Volume Five covers the Plains, and Volume Six covers the East. Subsequent volumes of this inventory will be issued as each section of the microfilm edition becomes available, and will cover Harrington's notes and writings on special linguistic studies as well as his correspondence and financial records. In addition, these volumes will be issued in a cumulated hardbound volume at the completion of the project. The materials described herein represent the results ofJohn P. Harrington's study of the native languages and cultures of the west- VII/vii VII/viii John Peabody Harrington Southern California Basin VII/ix ern hemisphere outside of the United States and Canada. Most of the guist-ethnologist had expressed th~ wish th~t his field not~s be given to work was done either by bringing native speakers to Washington, D.C., some institution in California, MISS HarrIngton recognIzed that the or by examining various secondary sources, although Harrington did approximately one million pages were actually government prop~rtyas make several fieldtrips to Mexico, first in 1930 and again in 1950 and they had been created while her father was a federal employee. A SIzable 1951. All of the field notes and writings were recorded during his portion of these California-based pape.rs.was actually.loan.ed on a l?ng­ employment as ethnologist by the Bureau of American Ethnology term basis to the Department ofLIngUIstIcs at the UnIversIty ofCahfor­ (1915 - 1954); the earliest date from 1921 and the latest from around nia, Berkeley, under the charge ofProfessor Mary R. Haas.. A~ter e.xt~n­ 1952. The documents focus primarily on linguistic data, although they sive use there by several generations of graduate stu~ents In hngulst.lCS, also include some ethnographic and historical information. cultural anthropology, and archeology, they were shIpped to the SmIth­ Only original documents created by Harrington, his co­ sonian during the period from 1976 to 1979. workers and field assistants, or field notes given to him by others are Work on organizing the Harrington Papers began almost ~s contained in this publication. Related materials collected by Harring­ soon as the first boxes of documents arrived at the archives. Early In ton such as printed matter, journals, and books are not included. Photo­ 1962, Catherine A. Callaghan, then a graduate student at U.C., Berke­ stats, microfilm and typed and handwritten copies of publications and ley, was hired on a temporary appointment to tackle the monumental manuscripts which lack his annotations have likewise been omitted. task of preparing a box list for several tons of notes. She spent several Some additional field notes from Harrington's work in Mex­ months identifying as many bundles as possible by tribe or language, at ico, Central America, and South America may be housed among his least down to the family level. papers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. The anthro­ Refinement of this initial sorting was continued by the then pologists on the staffplan to inventory and microfilm those documents, current archivist Margaret C. Blaker and later, in the early 1970s, by a funding permitting. Other smaller blocks ofHarrington's papers can be member ofher staff, jane M. Walsh. Throughout this period the papers found outside the Smithsonian Institution - notably at the Southwest were available to researchers, some ofwhom were able to make sugges­ Museum and the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley tions for improving the identification ofsmall portions ofthe collection. -and additional items may subsequently come to light. This publica­ A new energy was infused into the work on the papers after tion presently represents the majority of Harrington's output in the the arrival in 1972 ofNational Anthropological Archives Director He~­ area. man j. Viola. He not only encouraged the application ofmodern a~chl­ val methods to avoid the piecemeal efforts of the past, but also actlv~ly sought ways to improve the accessibility of the mat~rial to a steadIly HISTORY OF THE PAPERS growing number of researchers. Encouraged by the Interest ofa ~um­ AND THE MICROFILM EDITION ber ofnlicrofilm companies in publishing the papers on film, he de~lded The original documents comprising The Papers ofJohn Peabody Harring­ in 1975 to submit a proposal for funding such a project to the NatIonal ton are housed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropologi­ Historical Publications and Records Commission (N.H.P.R.C.). cal Archives (N.A.A.) where they were brought together after Harring­ A major consultant in developing the documentation for t.his ton's death in 1961. Some of the papers were already located on the proposal was Geoffrey L. Gamble, then a Smithsonian Fellow d~lng Smithsonian premises in the archives of the Bureau of American Eth­ work on Harrington's Yokuts field data. During his year at the arc~lv~s, nology (B.A.E.) having been deposited by him as individual manuscripts he began integrating the Berkeley-based ma~er.ial with the materIal. In while in the bureau's employ. Others were located at various ware­ Washington and compiled the first systematIc Inventory of th~ entIre houses in the Washington, D.C., area and elsewhere. collection. Through correspondence and attendance at meetIngs he The great bulk ofthe papers was sorted in anumber ofstorage helped to marshall support for the archives' project among members of locations in California by his daughter Awona Harrington and sent to the anthropological profession. Washington, D.C., over a period of several years. Although the lin­ In December 1976 the Smithsonian Institution receIved a VII/x John Peabody Harrington Southern California Basin VII/xi grant from the N .H.P.R.C. for the first year ofan envisioned five-year sheets and slips. The contents offolders and envelopes might not match venture, and work on the "Harrington Microfilm Project" officially the outside labels if the containers had been reused.
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