Paipai/Kiliwa

Object Details

Topic: Paipai language; Kiliwa language; Language and languages -- Documentation; Linguistics; Ethnology; Names, Geographical; Names, Ethnological

Culture: Paipai (Pi-Pi/Pais); Kiliwa Indians; Indians of North America -- California

See more items in: John Peabody Harrington papers; John Peabody Harrington papers / Series 3: Papers relating to the Native American history, language and culture of southern California and Basin

Collection Citation: John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution; The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.

Existence and Location of Copies: Microfilm and digital surrogates of microfilm are available. See Volume 3, reel 171, which also contains materials from other subseries. Only original documents created by Harrington, his collaborators and field assistants, or notes given to him were microfilmed.

Scope and Contents: This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Paipai and Kiliwa. Materials include notes from interviews with Kiliwa speakers Ricardo Roche, Carmen Melendrez, Manuel Manriquez, and Pancho. They also provided comparative terms in Paipai and those dialects designated by Harrington as Rosareno, Domingueno, Borjeno, and Judilla (abbreviated Jud. or J.), the last coming from Maria Roche. The information includes names of persons, local genealogy, vocabulary lists, and a few tribenames. Petra Marron, Marcial, Carmen [Melendrez?], Rito, and Dorotea provided placenames and additional genealogies. Paipai placenames and a vocabulary came from Rita, and Leonardo provided a Kiliwa-Paipai vocabulary as well as placenames and names of local inhabitants. Locations which Harrington either visited or discussed include San Telmo, San Miguel, Socorro, San Regis, and El Rosario. A verse based on Baja California folklore in an unidentified handwriting completes this section.