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Box 44

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Mam i Español / Manuel García Elgueta, 1900

 File — Box: 44, Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 279 Series 8 Sub-Series 2 Sub-Series 11
Scope and Contents Contains Elgueta's 17-page manuscript and a three page typescript of a portion of Elgueta. Spanish-Mam vocabulary, compiled by Father Manuel Elgueta probably around 1900. Miscellaneous Spanish words and phrases are arranged in list format, followed by equivalents in Mam. There is also a brief Mam-Spanish word list. In addition, there are specialized Spanish-Mam vocabularies for colors, clothing, fruits, herbs, illnesses, birds of prey, types of doves, bees, wasps, flying insects and...
Dates: 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 279, William Gates papers / William Gates collection of Mesoamerican source materials / William Gates collection of source materials on grammars and vocabularies of native languages / William Gates collection of Mam source materials

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