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Ms. Coll. 700 Item 174 Vocabulary of the language of the Tule Indians (Darien)

Title

Vocabulary of the language of the Tule Indians (Darien)

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Ms. Coll. 700 Item 174
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English and Tule dialect of Cuna

Origin

Probably written circa 1873; the manuscript uses the same paper and is similar in appearance to other items on Darien languages dating from that time and contained in the same bound volume.
Date
ca. 1873

Summary

C. Hermann Berendt's transcription of 286 vocabulary entries, in English and the language of the Tule Indians (a dialect of Cuna), of the Darien region, in eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia. The vocabulary, which includes entries for 18 numbers, for counting 1 to 100, and 75 phrases, was collected by Edward Cullen during various journeys between 1849 and 1852. Berendt provides a preface (p. 3-4) that gives an overview of the four different versions of the vocabulary that Cullen published, beginning with the earliest one, in the Journal of the Royal Geographic Society in 1851 (p. 241-242); Cullen then included it with additions and corrections in his book Isthmus of Darien Ship Canal (second edition, London, 1853, p. 99-102), and later published it again in the Transactions of the London Ethnological Society in 1866 (vol. IV, p. 26) and 1868 (vol. VI, p. 15). Berendt's transcription represents his own arrangement, and his collation of the different versions. He uses two different symbols to mark certain entries that appeared only in the two earlier publications, 1851/1853, or the two later ones, 1866/1868. Based on Cullen, Berendt describes the population as the Tule or the San Blas Indians, inhabiting the rivers and the coast from the mouth of the Atrato River to Mandingo Point. Berendt notes that the name Yule instead of Tule in the 1851 publication was a misprint; and that Cullen later clarified that Tule (also: Tooleh, Toole), in the language, means: people.

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Watermark

PIRIE'S Old Style.

Extent

16 leaves : 207 x 130 (150-160 x 90-100) mm. bound to 215 x150 mm

Foliation

Paper, 16 leaves; ii (paper endleaves) + 12 + ii (paper endleaves); [1-3], 4 [5], 6-23, [24 (blank)]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

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Paper

Layout

  • Vocabulary written in 19-21 lines; words and numbers written in two columns, with English on the left and Tule on the right, and phrases (p. 16-23) written on facing pages, with English on the left and Tule on the right.
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  • Written in the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
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