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Title

Authors

• Seemann, Berthold, 1825-1871

Other related names

• Berendt, C. Hermann 1817-1878, former owner
• Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899, former owner

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Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949799003503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713661201
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4979900

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Origin

Date

1873?

Place

New York?

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of a vocabulary of 71 entries, including the numbers 1-10 and 100, in the languages of the Sabanero (or: Savaneric), Cholo (or: Choco), and Bayano Indians of Panama and northwestern Colombia, as recorded by Berthold Seemann, in his article entitled The aborigines of the Isthmus of Panama (Transactions of the American Ethnological Society, vol. 3, 1853, p. 175-182, the vocabularies on p. 179-181). The languages or dialects spoken by these groups might include: Guaymi (for Savaneros, or Buglere, Bocota or Bukueta language); Catio (for Cholo/Choco, or Embera language); and Cuna (for Bayano language). Whereas Seemann's primary entries are in English, Berendt gives them in Spanish. Berendt notes equivalents, when available, from the Darien vocabulary of Lionel Wafer, and the Tule of Edward Cullen (for Berendt's transcriptions of the latter vocabularies, see Ms. Coll. 700, Item 169 and Item 174, respectively); and provides a preface in Spanish (p. 3), extracted from Seemann's discussion, about the three groups and their locations: the Sabaneros, in northern Veraguas (Panama); the Cholos, along Pacific coast from the Gulf of San Miguel to the Bay of Choco (Darien province, Panama, and Choco department, Colombia); and Bayano, in vicinity of the Chepo, or Bayano River (in Panamá province, Panama). A fourth group, the Manzanillo, or San Blas Indians (from whom Seemann had no language samples) is also mentioned. In two notes (p. 8, 9) Berendt makes reference to opinions expressed by William Bollaert (as found in Bollaert's: Antiquarian, ethnological, and other researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru and Chile); and in the column for Cholo, Berendt adds (in red ink) Choco vocabulary recorded by Gaspard Théodore Mollien (p. 5, 11; Mollien's vocabulary is given in Bollaert's work). Other notes of Berendt, found opposite the preface (p. 2), concern the geographic area inhabited by the Sabaneros; in one instance, he gives a quotation (in Spanish translation) on this question from an article by Moritz Wagner in Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen (vol. 9, 1863, p. 297). Also included is a transcription, in Berendt's hand, of the original passage (in English) from Seemann's article concerning the same question (tipped in, p. 13; Seemann, p. 177).

Notes

• Ms. component part.
   
• Title from component title page (f. 1r).
   
• Item 170, in contemporary paper covers, is the 7th 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.
   

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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).
   

Subjects topical

• Guaymi language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Catio language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Cuna language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
• Indians of Central America--Panama--Languages
• Indians of South America--Colombia--Languages

Genres

• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, Spanish--19th century

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