Nahuatl Collection of Jane Hill and Kenneth Hill

Colección Nahuatl de Jane Hill y Kenneth Hill

Object Details

Collection LanguageNahuatl, Central
Nahuatl, Michoacán
Language PIDailla:119512
ailla:119694
Title [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Title
TitleNahuatl Collection of Jane Hill and Kenneth Hill
Country(ies)Mexico
Collector(s)Hill, Jane
Hill, Kenneth
Depositor(s)Hill, Jane
Hill, Kenneth
Project/Collector Website
Description [Indigenous]
Language of Indigenous Description
DescriptionThe Hill collection includes recordings in the Nahuatl of Tlaxcala and Cupeño, among others. There are over 100 recordings in the collection, many of which are accompanied by transcriptions and translations.

The preservation of this collection was supported by the grant PD-50003-06 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
ReferencesHill, Jane. (2000.) "Don Francisco Márquez' story." In Kay Sammons and Joel Sherzer, eds., Translating Native Latin American Verbal Art: Ethnopoetics and the Ethnography of Speaking. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. pp.1-12.

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Santo Tlacuachito
The handwritten text (I101) is the original transcription and translation by Alberto Zepeda. Other texts are copies made and annotated by the Hills in later years., El texto escrito a mano (I101) es la transcripción y traducción original por Alberto Zepeda. Otros textos son copias hechos y anotados por los Hills en los años siguientes., 1975: 20.B.1; CII:163-172
Whistling
1983: 3.A

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