Details

Other Title:

Darien--bayano

Subjects:

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

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

Spanish and the dialect of Cuna (?) spoken by the Bayano Indians.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary of 24 words, including the numbers 1 to 10, and 100, in the dialect of the Bayano Indians of Panama, 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 vocabulary on p. 179-181. Also included are four words of Bayano mentioned by Moritz Wagner in his article Eine Reise in das Innere der Landenge von San Blas und der Cordillere von Chepo in der Provinz Panama, in Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen (vol. 8, 1862, p. 132). In both cases, Berendt provides Spanish entries, with the Bayano equivalent, whereas Seemann and Wagner write in English and German, respectively. For another transcription by Berendt of Seemann's Bayano vocabulary, along with other vocabularies in the same article by Seemann, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 170.

Notes:

Ms. component part.
Title from component title page (p. 1).
Item 218, in contemporary paper covers, is the 8th 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, 6 leaves; ii (paper endleaves) + 2 + ii (paper endleaves); [1-2], 3-4; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.
Origin: Probably written circa 1873; the manuscript uses the same paper as other items on the topic of Darien languages dating from Berendt's stay in New York in 1873, 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 Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 67-68 (no. 387, document 8).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 218

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

713833724