Woman from San Antonio, Toledo, B.H.

Content description Contents (from the back of the box):

Side 1, Part 1: “Woman from San Antonio, Toledo, British Honduras
[Belize]. [Translates from a] 100 word Swadesh word list.
Recorded 1/68, Belize City. Mopan.”
Side 1, Part 2: [“Felix Uk, from Succotz, Cayo, British Honduras [Belize].
100 word Swadesh list. Recorded 2/4/68, Altun Ha
(Rockstone Pond), Belize District. Yucatec.” [The voice of
another native speaker is also heard.]]
Side 2: “Texts by Cecilio Tzir, San Antonio, Toledo, British Honduras
[Belize]. Recorded 7/17/65. Mopan.”
Object Type PhysicalObject
Medium 1/4 inch audio tape
Contributor Jones, Grant D. (interviewer); Tzir, Cecilio (consultant); Unnamed naitve speaker (female) (consultant); Unnamed English speaker (male) (participant)
Notes The spread in dates and the quarter-track format suggest that these are excerpts from Jones's field tapes. How this item came to be in the collection is unknown. Penciled notes by N.A. McQuown on the back of the box are dated 5/5/79, but a slip written in an unknown hand and tucked inside the box reads "3/13/72 / Copy for Bill Fisher of Grant Jones' mopan tape. Service Request #109".
Discourse Type Narrative
Linguistic Data Type Field Recording
Creation Date c. 1972

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