Vocabulary of the Huatuso Indians / communicated by Dr. Flint.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Bransford, J. F. (John Francis), 1846-1911.

Contributor:

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

Language:

Central American Indian (Other)

English

Subjects (All):

Guatuso language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Guatuso language.

Indians of Central America--Costa Rica--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Language and languages.

Costa Rica--Languages.

Costa Rica.

Genre:

glossaries

Manuscripts, English.

Manuscripts, Latin American.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

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).

Physical Description:

2 leaves : paper ; 204 x 122 mm bound to 215 x150 mm

Contained In:

Languages of Chiriqui and Darien.

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 162

Other Title:

Guatuso

Place of Publication:

[Nicaragua?], 1876.

Language Note:

English and Guatuso.

Summary:

Vocabulary list of 42 words in Guatuso (Huatuso) with English equivalent, originally collected and recorded by J. F. Bransford on 10 April 1876 at Castillo, Nicaragua. The present manuscript is in the form of a copy made by Dr. Earl Flint, who had contact with Bransford around that time; the manuscript was preserved and provided with a title page by C. Hermann Berendt. Flint is variously said to have resided in Rivas or in Granada, both in Nicaragua; Berendt corresponded with him in Granada (see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 161). Bransford states that the Guatuso words were obtained from a boy from Rio Frio (in Costa Rica), who was about 13 years old and had been a captive for two years. Branford indicates that he transcribed the words as closely as possible according to their sound, using the Spanish sounds of the letters.

Notes:

Ms. component part.

Title from component title page (f. 2r).

Item 162, in contemporary paper covers, is the 14th 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, 2; the manuscript proper comprises a single leaf of lined paper tipped onto f. 2r.

Layout: Written in 32 lines on lined paper; vocabulary entries, consisting of the Guatuso word followed by the English, are listed in two uneven columns.

Script: Written in the hand of Earl Flint.

Origin: Copied in 1876, probably in Nicaragua.

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 30 (no. 162).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 641-642 (no. 43).

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 14).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 162

OCLC:

710837224