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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Aloha AN-LANG-ers,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Andrea Berez, at the Univ of Hawaii Manoa, has
found "21 boxes of slip files containing flora and fauna names...from... across
Polynesia and Micronesia" in the department computer room. No one in the
department seems to know where they came from. Can anyone out there
in AN-LAND (perhaps someone who spent time at UHM as a student or visiting
professor) help her out? See her message below.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Please respond to Andrea at <A
href="mailto:andrea.berez@hawaii.edu">andrea.berez@hawaii.edu</A> .</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Thanks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Ken Cook</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=andrea.berez@GMAIL.COM href="mailto:andrea.berez@GMAIL.COM">Andrea L.
Berez</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=ling-l@LISTS.HAWAII.EDU
href="mailto:ling-l@LISTS.HAWAII.EDU">ling-l</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 19, 2013 9:29 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Thousands of flora/fauna slip files in the department--any
memory of where these came from?</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Dear Linguists,
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<DIV>During the recent clean-up of our computer room, we came across 21 boxes of
slip files containing flora and fauna names (with English and sometimes Latin
translations) from a wide range of languages across Polynesia and Micronesia.
The cards were made on a typewriter and are in very good condition. There are
probably several thousand here--see the attached scan of just three of
them.</DIV>
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<DIV>The problem is, we don't know the provenance of the cards, and before we
simply dispose of them, we'd like to find out where they came from and if they
should be digitized.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Does anyone out there -- probably someone with more institutional
memory than even Bob Blust or Ken Rehg -- have any clues as to how these cards
came to reside in our computer room?</DIV>
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<DIV>Many thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Andrea</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>--<BR>Andrea L. Berez<BR><FONT size=1>Assistant Professor, Department
of Linguistics</FONT><BR><FONT size=1>University of Hawai'i at Mānoa</FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=1>Director, Kaipuleohone UH Digital Ethnographic
Archive</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=1>Technology editor, <I>Language Documentation &
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