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Vocabulario de la lengua de los indios cholos / por Berthold Seeman.

Author/Creator:
Seemann, Berthold, 1825-1871.
Publication:
[New York?], [1873?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
8 leaves : paper ; 202-203 x 126 mm bound to 215 x150 mm
Contained In:
Languages of Chiriqui and Darien.
Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 219
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Other Title:
Cholo
Subjects:
United States Darien Exploring Expedition (1871 and 1873).
Catio language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Choco languages -- 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.
Choco languages.
Catio language.
Colombia.
Choco Indians.
Panama -- Languages.
Panama.
Colombia -- Languages.
Colombia -- Description and travel.
Form/Genre:
Glossaries.
Maps (documents)
Manuscripts, Spanish.
Manuscripts, American.
Manuscripts, Latin American.
Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
Controlled vocabularies.
Language:
Spanish and words from one or more Choco languages, possibly Catio, and/or Chamí, Epena Saija, or Waunana; with a clipping in English.
Summary:
C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary of 57 words or phrases, including the numbers 1 to 6, in a dialect of Cuna (?) spoken by the Cholo, or Choco 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). Choco languages that could be the source of the vocabulary include the Embera languages Catio, Chamí, and Epena Saija, and Waunana language. Whereas Seemann's primary entries are in English, Berendt gives them in Spanish. (For another transcription by Berendt of this same vocabulary, along with other vocabulary given in Seemann's article, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 170.) The manuscript includes a clipping from the New York Herald, 5 May 1873, with the heading (handwritten by Berendt): Description of the Chocos; the article concerns the United States Darien expedition under Captain Selfridge, and describes, in a report dated 26 April 1873, during the members' voyage home, the way of life of the Indians of the Choco tribe encountered by the expedition in the valley of the Atrato River, in the vicinity of the Cuia River, with mention of the town Quibdó and the village Vejia (f. 4r-5r). Also included are two maps (f. 5v, 6r) depicting the central and eastern portions of Panama, with the names of Indian tribes labeled, including: Savaneros, or Sabaneros; Bayanos; Cholos or Chocos; Doraces; Guaimis (Guaymis); Dolegas; and Manzanillo or San Blas. The manuscript has a remnant of a note that was tipped in and evidently removed (f. 3v).
Notes:
Ms. component part.
Title from component title page (f. 1r).
Item 219, in contemporary paper covers, is the 10th 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.
Foliation: Paper, 8; ii (paper endleaves) + 6; [1-6]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Partial leaf bearing a map (tipped in, f. 5v); and a second, fold-out map (tipped in, f. 6r).
Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Decoration: Two hand-drawn maps showing parts of Panama and Colombia: the first map (tipped in, f. 5v) extends from the area around Remedios and Tole (Panama) eastward to western Colombia (Chocó province); the second map (tipped in, fold-out; f. 6r) shows a portion of Panama, from a little west of the city of David, eastward to a little east of the Chepo River.
Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.
Origin: Probably written in New York in 1873, as indicated by the inclusion of a clipping from a New York newspaper of May 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 Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 67-68 (no. 387, document 10).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 219
Contributor:
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.
OCLC:
714114536