MS 48 Collectanea upon the Codex Troano, terms of the Maya and other Central American languages
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content: NAA MS 48
name: label: Collector
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
topic: label: Topic
content: Mayas
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content: Pictographs -- hieroglyphs
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content: Writing systems -- hieroglyphics
label: Topic
content: Numbers
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Mexico -- Yucatan
creator: label: Collector
content: Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907
culture: label: Culture
content: Maya
label: Culture
content: Carib
label: Culture
content: Arawak
label: Culture
content: Aztec (archaeological culture)
label: Culture
content: Otomí (Otomi)
label: Culture
content: Narragansett
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 146 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1879
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS48
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Calendars
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content: Calendars
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A collection of ethnographic and linguistic notes from diverse sources, aiming at an understanding of problems of reading Mayan hieroglyphic characters. Most of the notes cover Mayan vocabulary and glyphs, but Gatschet ranges almost at random over other data, ethnographic and linguistic, that may have caught his interest. He touches on the Maya calendar, day names, Landa's alphabet, Maya-Spanish vocabulary from the Motul dictionary at Providence, similar vocabulary from Brasseur, etc., some Narraganset-English vocabulary (page 57 only) from Williams, notes on day signs from Rosny, etc., cultural objects compared with glyphic designs, Brasseur's synonymy of glyph characters, lists of Southeast tribes from a French source, Otomi vocabulary notes especially on the numerals (see pages 84-85), notes on Cariban and Arawakan, etymologies of Mayan words (pages 110, 111), notes from Brinton's Maya Chronicles, notes on Codices Mendoza, Troano, Tellerano-Remensis, notes from Penafiel, Pinart, etc., names of Aztec and Mayan gods, etc. No problems are settled, nor is any problem carefully attended: the notes are all preliminary. H. Landar 7 July, 1969.