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Yucatec Maya: Pisté field recordings (1958-59) Yucatán Maya
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- archival Tape no. 18: Interview with the Ts'ip brothers Contents: Blair, speaking English, introduces the recording. After one brother reads (?) a short narrative, the interview begins. The interviewer, speaking Spanish, asks some questions, and the other brother (?) responds in Maya. The woman, speaking Maya, joins the conversation.
- archival Interview with a group Contents: Unnamed interviewers engage in conversation with several native speakers. (No code number was assigned to this tape.)
- archival Tape no. 19: Three-way conversation with theTs'ip brothers and Louisa Contents: Blair, speaking English, introduces the recording. Then, speaking Spanish, he joins in the "three-way conversation". (A Spanish-speaking female interviewer is also heard in the background.)
- archival Tape no. 26: Yucatec Maya tones Contents: Blair reads a series of word and phrases in English in order to evoke pairs of Maya tokens that demonstrate how a change of tone signals a change in meaning.
- archival Tape no. 20: Maya conversation (with "Dña M.") Contents: Blair, speaking English, introduces the recording. A Maya conversation involving several persons follows with Blair and another American (unnamed) conducting the proceedings. "Doña M." appears to be the principal speaker, while a woman named "Louisa" and some men also participate.
- sound yua-piste-5859-grp-ed Contents=Track 1 of the tape, edited (There is no Track 2.)