A short vocabulary of the language of the Cholo Indians : inhabiting part of the Isthmus of Darien, east of the River Chuquanaqua, which is watered by the River Paya and its branches in and about lat[itude] 8° 15' n[orth] and long[itude] 77° 20' w[est] / collected by D[octo]r Ed[ward] Cullen.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Cullen, Dr.

Contributor:

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

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

Language:

English

German

South American Indian (Other)

Subjects (All):

Catio language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Catio language.

Choco languages--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Choco languages.

Indians of Central America--Panama--Languages.

Indians of Central America.

Indians of South America--Colombia--Languages.

Indians of South America.

Language and languages.

Colombia.

Panama--Languages.

Panama.

Colombia--Languages.

Genre:

glossaries

Manuscripts, American.

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:

6 leaves : paper ; 204 x 126 mm bound to 215 x150 mm

Contained In:

Languages of Chiriqui and Darien.

Berendt-Brinton Linguistic Collection. Item 171

Other Title:

Cholo

Place of Publication:

[1873?]

Language Note:

English and a Choco language, probably Catio, with brief notes in German.

Summary:

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary of 32 words or phrases, in English and the dialect of Cuna (?) spoken by the Cholo (or: Choco) Indians of Panama, collected by Edward Cullen and published in R. G. Latham's article: Note upon the language of Central America (Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, London, vol. 20, 1851, p. 189-190). The area designated in the subtitle is in either the eastern part of Darien province, Panama, or the northern part of Choco department, Colombia, in an area inhabited by the Embera Indians; the Choco language in question is possibly Catio. Berendt also includes a note (tipped in, p. 5) concerning Latham's article On the languages of Northern, Western, and Central America (Transactions of the Philological Society, London, 1856, p. 57-115, especially p. 109, 111-113); and lists the words for the numbers 1 to 10 in the Cunacuna vocabulary given by Adriano Balbi and the Darien from Lionel Wafer. (For Berendt's fuller transcriptions from Balbi and Wafer, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 167 and Item 169, respectively.) Berendt refers to Latham's remarks on the similarity of Cholo to these vocabularies of Cunacuna and Darien, as well as to specimens of the Mithridates (Adelung/Vater?). Another note by Berendt, in German (affixed to the sheet tipped in, p. 5), concerns Moritz Wagner's statement that Cholos was a local designation for Mestizos, or people of mixed Indian and European heritage (Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen, 1863, p. 297); and also a reference by Philipp J. J. Valentini to usage in Costa Rica.

Notes:

Ms. component part.

Title from component title page (p. 1).

Item 171, in contemporary paper covers, is the 9th 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) + 3 + i (paper endleaf); [1-3], 4, [5, 6]; pages 2 and 6 are blank; pagination in ink, upper outer corner. A leaf (folded) is tipped in on p. 5, and a small rectangular piece of paper is, in turn, tipped in on that leaf; pages 2 and 6 are blank.

Script: Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.

Watermark: PIRIE'S Old Style.

Origin: Written circa 1873; the manuscript uses the same paper as other items dating from Berendt's stay in New York in 1873 and found in the same 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. 171).

Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 649 (no. 66).

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 9).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 171

OCLC:

713879697