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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Listeros:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>If any of you have come across manuscripts with alphabetic texts in Otomi,
or native pictorial manuscripts from otomi-speaking towns, I would appreciate
hearing from you. I'm currently compiling a database of such material for a
forthcoming supplement to the <FONT face=Arial size=2>Handbook of Middle
American Indians; general editors are Michel Oudijk y María Castañeda de la Paz,
both of the Institute of History of Religions, Copenhagen.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In return for your colaboration all I can offer is a mention in the list of
collaborators and marking catalogue entries with the initials of their
authors.</DIV>
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<DIV>If anybody has material of this sort, I propose the following course of
action, to avoid duplicating our efforts: I would like to receive a brief note
mentioning the material that should be included, of which you have reproductions
or access to originals, together with the signatures. If this material is not
yet in my data base I will send models for writing up the catalogue entries. One
of the fields is a transcription of the first two or three lines of text; if
this is a problem (Otomi has a lot of strange phonemes) I can work together with
you on this.</DIV>
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<DIV>The idea is to put together a catalogue as complete as possible, to support
future studies of indigenous manuscripts in Otomi and other languages.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sincerely,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David
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