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Title

Authors

• Cullen, Dr

Other related names

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

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949872493503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/720321661
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4987249

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Origin

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.

Notes

• Ms. component part.
   
• Title from component title page (p. 1).
   
• Item 174, in contemporary paper covers, is the 13th 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

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

Genres

• Glossaries
• Manuscripts, English--19th century
• Manuscripts, Latin American

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