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The Man-in-Nature Project; Tzotzil: Chenalhó recordings (N.A. McQuown, 1957)

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Subject Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Primary Languages: 
Spanish
Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Spanish
Locations: 
Chiapas
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Norman McQuown, speaking Spanish, reads the 140 tokens from a "lista de CALI" to a male consutant, who translates them into Tzotzil. (Here the letters C-A-L-I are construed as being an acronym (for...?)).
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are the original field recordings. WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
Unnamed

The Chiapas Project; Tzotzil: North Tzotzil survey (N. Hopkins, 1961)

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Subject Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Primary Languages: 
San Andrés Larrainzar Tzotzil
Languages: 
San Andrés Larrainzar Tzotzil
Spanish
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Locations: 
Chiapas
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Hopkins, speaking Spanish, reads from the standard vocabulary list, and the native consultants (all male) supply the Tzotzil equivalents.
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tapes are the original field recordings. (It is not clear whether "North Tzotzil survey 3" and "4" are missing, or whether they were put in another series.) WAVE files are now converted to MP3s.
Contributor: 
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Tzotzil: Sisim recording

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Subject Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Primary Languages: 
Spanish
Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Spanish
Locations: 
Chiapas
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Male interviewer (Nick Hopkins?) reads from the standard vocabulary list, and a male consultant provides the Tzeltal (?) equivalents.
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Contributor: 
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The Chiapas Project; Tzotzil: Interview with a man from Chalchihuit’an (N. Hopkins, 1960)

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Subject Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Primary Languages: 
Spanish
Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Spanish
Locations: 
Chiapas
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
N. Hopkins, speaking Spanish, reads from the standard vocabulary list, and the native speaker (male) supplies the Tzotzil equivalents. The locale of the recording is Chenalhó, and the dialect specified here is "Tzotzil norteño".
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape is Band One of the tape, spliced together by Hopkins on 9/18/61 with the the Manuel Vasquez Suun interview (q.v.). It is the original field recording. WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
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NEH backups

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Languages: 
Yucatán Maya
Zinacantán Tzotzil
Zapotec
Oxchuc Tzeltal
San Andrés Larrainzar Tzotzil
Chamula Tzotzil
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Bachajón Tzeltal
Locations: 
United States
Chicago
Cook
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
18 DVDs from the first back up of the NEH project in the summer of 2005, in effort to clear storage space.
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The Chiapas Project; Tzotzil: Santa Marta [Santa Martha] interview

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Subject Languages: 
Huixtán Tzotzil
Bachajón Tzeltal
Primary Languages: 
Bachajón Tzeltal
Languages: 
Bachajón Tzeltal
Chamula Tzotzil
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Huixtán Tzotzil
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Hopkins administers the standard Spanish vocabulary list to a young boy, who supplies the Tzotzil equivalents. (In the "Roster" the dialect here is specified as "Tzotzil norteño".)
Collection Technical Notes: 
Tape combines two tapes: 1) the original field-recorded tape from a five-inch reel and 2) a dub of the same made back in Chicago in 1961. WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
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Prayer in Tzotzil to cure čonbilal č’ulelal (U. Köhler, 1971)

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Subject Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
Primary Languages: 
German
Languages: 
Chenalhó Tzotzil
German
Collection Descriptive Notes: 
Köhler, speaking English, introduces this recording with the words: "Prayer in Tzotzil to cure čonbilal č’ulelal, a kind of illness caused by the fact that one or more of the souls of the patient have been sold; sung by Mariano Gómez Takiwah from San Pablo Chalchuitán, Chiapas, Mexico; recorded on February 22nd, 1971, by Ulrich Köhler". At the end of the recording Köhler gives a reference to a book with the text and interpretation of the prayer.
Collection Technical Notes: 
The DMA's copy is one apparently made for N.A. McQuown by Köhler. The text (pp. 44-96) is an excerpt of the full typescript made to accompany the tape. WAVE file is now converted to an MP3.
Contributor: 
Gómez Takiwah, Mariano