C. Hermann Berendt's copy of vocabularies in Zapotec, Zoque, and Mixe (pp. 6-27) and ethnographic notes (pp. 29-53) gathered by E. A. Fuertes for the Smithsonian Institution during a U. S. Navy expedition to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Includes Berendt's corrections of and annotations to Fuertes's work and a lithograph of Dr. C. H. Berendt's analytical alphabet for Mexican and Central American languages (American Ethnological Society, 1868) pasted inside the lower cover. Loose notes (9 items, 10 leaves), originally pasted inside the covers and now shelved with the manuscript, include drafts of material in the manuscript and a letter to Joseph Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian, criticizing the contents.

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Mexico

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