Records Relating to Personal Names
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: Accession #1976-95
name: label: Creator
content: Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
label: Collection Creator
content: Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
topic: label: Topic
content: Names, Personal
label: Topic
content: Nicknames
label: Topic
content: Linguistics
creator: label: Creator
content: Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
setName: label: See more items in
content: John Peabody Harrington papers
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content: John Peabody Harrington papers / Series 8: Notes and Writings on Special Linguistic Studies
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1907-1909
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1976-95, Subseries 8.13
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Field notes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Microfilm and digital surrogates of microfilm are available. See Volume 8, reel 12, which also contains materials from other subseries. Only original documents created by Harrington, his collaborators and field assistants, or notes given to him were microfilmed.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This subseries of the Notes and writings on special linguistic studies series contains several small files which Harrington compiled while employed as a teacher at Santa Ana High School during the period 1907 to 1909.

One set of notes deals with the origin of children's nicknames. It includes a sheet of instructions which Harrington circulated among other teachers requesting participation in his survey. This is followed by the slips of paper returned to him by students in the 5th through 8th grade, providing their sex, any nicknames, and brief explanations of their derivation. One slip is dated December 14, 1908. There is also an alphabetical slip file which Harrington made of some of the names. An Acoma term is on the reverse side of one of the slips.

A second set of notes labeled "Patronymics" is a file of American surnames arranged into ten categories according to etymology (occupations, towns and estates, nature, and so forth). The similarity of the paper suggests that this file was prepared at about the same time as that on nicknames. There are also an alphabetical list of names--probably a class list--and a note on placenames used as surnames.