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.
One caption reads "Lagoon ? tribe. Two men, one woman," and the other, "Hieroglyphs at Cunninghamʹs Ranch Miles Creek Mirced County, California". Two of the sketches are of the letter . SJB/1970
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1331
Topic:
California -- Archeology -- Pictographs Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 1331, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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Collection Citation:
Zarina Hashmi papers, 1950-2015. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Film reels (50 minutes, black-and-white silent reversal; 1,345 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Travelogues (motion pictures)
Silent films
Place:
Africa, East
Uganda
Egypt
Sudan
Date:
circa 1930
Scope and Contents:
Footage shot during a hunting expedition to east Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, and the Sudan. Footage includes: shipboard ritual of "crossing the equator," passage through the Suez Canal, a local ceremony staged for visitors by Acholi tribesmen, Kikuyu dance, monumental Egyptian sculpture and architecture, and various hunting activities and camps of the safari. A significant feature of this safari footage is the stereotyped interactions of dominance and subordination between African bearers and the wazungu, the local term for Europeans.
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Local Numbers:
HSFA 1983.1.1
Provenance:
Received from Mortimer Fuller c/o Bob Schweitzer, Everhart Museum, in 1983.
Restrictions:
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Records of ancient races in the Mississippi valley : being an account of some of the pictographs, sculptured hieroglyphs, symbolic devices, emblems and traditions of the prehistoric races of America, with some suggestions as to their origin ... / by Wm. McAdams
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
Includes (a) Coiled snakes. (1) (b) Section of ledge, 7 mi. from Springfield. (1) (c) Hieroglyphs. (1) Note: Note ideograph at tail of striking snake. (d) Hieroglyphs: Snake, turtle, frog and dancers holding rattles. (1) (e) Indian hunterʹs record of a hunt. Photographed 12 miles out of Holbrook. (1)
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1671 (part)
Topic:
Arizona -- Holbrook -- Archeology -- Pictographs Search this
Collection Citation:
Manuscript 1671, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
