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Luiseño language -- Vocabulary

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

The heetay chant, undated

 File — Box 3
Identifier: CICSC01_03-18
Scope and Contents

Typescript and handwritten notes regarding the heetay chant. Notes state that "this is just a list written by José Luís Albanas to remember the order of these words in certain songs. Not a chant. JLA notes had 2 versions of this list."

Dates: undated

The Old Man & Raven / Nahanmal Pe Ka-we-alwut, undated

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-70
Scope and Contents

Handwritten story draft and notes for story "Old Man and Raven" (noted as "Nahanmal Pe Ka-We-Alwut" in Luiseño) by Henry Rodriguez. Some notes contain Luiseño vocabulary. Last two pages of story draft contain notes on Luiseño ceremonies, dance, and song.

Dates: undated

Tools [Bone, chitin, and keratin], undated

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-53
Scope and Contents

Handwritten listing of animal bone, chitin and keratin, and their uses as tools. Some Luiseño names for tools included.

Dates: undated

[Tools, Clay], undated

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-54
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typescript descriptions, drawings, and measurements of earthenware vessels.

Dates: undated

Tools [Houses], 1982-12-16

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-55
Scope and Contents

Handwritten description of materials used in house construction.

Dates: 1982-12-16

Tools [Musical instruments], undated

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-56
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typescript notes regarding a Paaayat, a rattle made of land turtle shell.

Dates: undated

[Tools, Plants], undated

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-57
Scope and Contents

Handwritten list of plants pertaining to their use in the creation of tools: lines, canoes, ceremony.

Dates: undated

Tools [Rock], undated

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-58
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and typescript notes and drawings regarding tools made from rock, including descriptions for mortar, pestle, and bowls.

Dates: undated

Tools [Wood], undated

 File — Box 1
Identifier: CICSC01_01-59
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes regarding tools made primarily from wood, including musical instruments and bows and arrows. Documentation on bows and arrows also contains information on animal and plant parts used in bow making, fletching, and quivers.

Dates: undated

tʃaatu xilliniʃ, undated

 File — Box 3
Identifier: CICSC01_03-17
Scope and Contents

Typescript and handwritten notes regarding song "tʃaatu xilliniʃ." Notes state that this song was to call the wind. Notes also state: "This is one of the songs sung by José Luís Albanas in 1882, which brought such a snowfall that several people died. Before singing the songs in that year, he asked Maria Jesus Omish if she wd. prefer rain or snow, she said snow. The result was the 12 ft. deep snowfell."

Dates: undated