Cochiti

Object Details

Topic: Keres language; Language and languages -- Documentation; Linguistics; Ethnology; Numeration; Pueblo

See more items in: John Peabody Harrington papers; John Peabody Harrington papers / Series 4: Native American History, Language, and Culture of the Southwest

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 4, reel 32. 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 Southwest series contains John P. Harrington's Cochiti research. His notes on Cochiti are scanty, and they appear to have been collected during the latter half of 1909 when he was working out of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on a fellowship for the School of American Archaeology. The materials consist of vocabulary, ethnographic notes, notes and drafts, and sketches. John Dixon (Juan de Jesus Pancho) provided short general vocabulary and geographic terms. There are also terms for the numbers one to ten in the Santo Domingo dialect. There is also a sizable amount of ethnographic material, principally from his work with Mrs. L. S. Gallup and Marcial Quintana. Mrs. Gallup and Harrington compiled a Cochiti census from an unidentified source dated July 1, 1909. The subseries also contains notes apparently intended for future publication. "The Stone Idols of Cochiti" is in both manuscript and typescript forms and was written at the request of Edgar L. Hewett. A second brief manuscript touches on Cochiti history and language. The few sketches, two in water color and two consisting of rough pencil outlines, include masks and regalia. The artists are not identified.