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Other Title:

Darien--sabaneros, cholos, bayanos

Subjects:

Guaymi language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Catio language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Cuna language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Indians of Central America -- Panama -- Languages.
Indians of South America -- Colombia -- Languages.
Indians of South America.
Indians of Central America.
Language and languages.
Cuna language.
Catio language.
Guaymi language.
Colombia.
Panama -- Languages.
Panama.
Colombia -- Languages.

Form/Genre:

Glossaries.
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.

Language:

Spanish and Indian languages probably including Guaymi, Catio, and Cuna, with notes in English.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary of 71 entries, including the numbers 1-10 and 100, in the languages of the Sabanero (or: Savaneric), Cholo (or: Choco), and Bayano Indians of Panama and northwestern Colombia, as recorded by Berthold Seemann, in his article entitled The aborigines of the Isthmus of Panama (Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. 3, 1853, p. 175-182, the vocabularies on p. 179-181). The languages or dialects spoken by these groups might include: Guaymi (for Savaneros, or Buglere, Bocota or Bukueta language); Catio (for Cholo/Choco, or Embera language); and Cuna (for Bayano language). Whereas Seemann's primary entries are in English, Berendt gives them in Spanish. Berendt notes equivalents, when available, from the Darien vocabulary of Lionel Wafer, and the Tule of Edward Cullen (for Berendt's transcriptions of the latter vocabularies, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 169 and Item 174, respectively); and provides a preface in Spanish (p. 3), extracted from Seemann's discussion, about the three groups and their locations: the Sabaneros, in northern Veraguas (Panama); the Cholos, along Pacific coast from the Gulf of San Miguel to the Bay of Choco (Darien province, Panama, and Choco department, Colombia); and Bayano, in vicinity of the Chepo, or Bayano River (in Panamá province, Panama). A fourth group, the Manzanillo, or San Blas Indians (from whom Seemann had no language samples) is also mentioned. In two notes (p. 8, 9) Berendt makes reference to opinions expressed by William Bollaert (as found in Bollaert's: Antiquarian, ethnological, and other researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru and Chile); and in the column for Cholo, Berendt adds (in red ink) Choco vocabulary recorded by Gaspard Théodore Mollien (p. 5, 11; Mollien's vocabulary is given in Bollaert's work). Other notes of Berendt, found opposite the preface (p. 2), concern the geographic area inhabited by the Sabaneros; in one instance, he gives a quotation (in Spanish translation) on this question from an article by Moritz Wagner in Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen (vol. 9, 1863, p. 297). Also included is a transcription, in Berendt's hand, of the original passage (in English) from Seemann's article concerning the same question (tipped in, p. 13; Seemann, p. 177).

Notes:

Ms. component part.
Title from component title page (f. 1r).
Item 170, in contemporary paper covers, is the 7th of 15 manuscripts (Items 162-165, 167-171, 172-175, 218, and 219) bound together in a volume with the spine title: Languages of Chiriqui and Darien.
Pagination: Paper, 10 leaves; ii (paper endleaves) + 7 + i (paper endleaf); [1-3], 4-11, [12-14]; pagination in ink, upper outer corners. A leaf (folded) is tipped in on p. 13; pages 12 and 14 are blank.
Layout: Vocabulary written in four columns of 20 lines (including headings) across facing pages, with Spanish on the far left, followed by Sabanero, on the left-hand page; and Cholo and Bayano (from left to right) on the right-hand page. In some instances (p. 5, 7, 11), one or two additional columns are added in the right-hand margin of the right-hand page, for the Darien of Wafer, in red ink, and/or the Tule of Cullen, in blue ink, respectively.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.
Origin: Probably written in New York circa 1873; the manuscript uses the same paper as other items on the topic of Darien languages dating from that time and found in the same bound volume.

Penn Provenance:

From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on verso of front free endpaper of bound volume).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 30-31 (no. 170).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 676 (no. 157).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 67-68 (no. 387, document 7).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 170

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

713659089