Consists of samples of a larger set of material excerpted by the collector from his original field recordings. Conversations, elicited word lists with Spanish equivalents, and texts in three Guatemalan languages. Recorded in Guatemala in 1969.
The Phillips Fund Collection consists of materials submitted to the APS by recipients of grants from its Phillips Fund for Native American Research. The materials vary in scope, ranging from linguistics to ethnography, musicology, religion, ethnobotany, and ethnohistory, and including studies of Indigenous peoples of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Materials in this collection include brief project reports, dissertations, published and unpublished manuscripts, dictionaries and vocabularies, field notes, and audiovisual materials.