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Other Title:

Darien--Tule

Subjects:

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.
Colombia.
Panama -- Languages.
Panama.
Colombia -- Languages.

Form/Genre:

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

Language:

English and Tule dialect of Cuna.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 286 vocabulary entries, in English and the language of the Tule Indians (a dialect of Cuna), of the Darien region, in eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. The vocabulary, which includes entries for 18 numbers, for counting 1 to 100, and 75 phrases, was collected by Edward Cullen during various journeys between 1849 and 1852. Berendt provides a preface (p. 3-4) that gives an overview of the four different versions of the vocabulary that Cullen published, beginning with the earliest one, in the Journal of the Royal Geographic Society in 1851 (p. 241-242); Cullen then included it with additions and corrections in his book Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal (second edition, London, 1853, p. 99-102), and later published it again in the Transactions of the London Ethnological Society in 1866 (vol. IV, p. 26) and 1868 (vol. VI, p. 15). Berendt's transcription represents his own arrangement, and his collation of the different versions. He uses two different symbols to mark certain entries that appeared only in the two earlier publications, 1851/1853, or the two later ones, 1866/1868. Based on Cullen, Berendt describes the population as the Tule or the San Blas Indians, inhabiting the rivers and the coast from the mouth of the Atrato River to Mandingo Point. Berendt notes that the name Yule instead of Tule in the 1851 publication was a misprint; and that Cullen later clarified that Tule (also: Tooleh, Toole), in the language, means: people.

Notes:

Ms. component part.
Title from component title page (p. 1).
Item 174, in contemporary paper covers, is the 13th 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, 16 leaves; ii (paper endleaves) + 12 + ii (paper endleaves); [1-3], 4 [5], 6-23, [24 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Vocabulary written in 19-21 lines; words and numbers written in two columns, with English on the left and Tule on the right, and phrases (p. 16-23) written on facing pages, with English on the left and Tule on the right.
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 and is similar in appearance to other items on Darien languages dating from that time and contained 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. 31 (no. 174).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 649 (no. 67).
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 13).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 174

Contributor:

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

OCLC:

720328913