Americas Ancient Writings v1.0.0: SOURCES.md

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+# SOURCES — Americas Ancient Writings Parallel Corpus v1.0.0
+
+License verdicts per source. GO = included; CONDITIONAL = included only under
+the named condition; NO-GO = deliberately excluded.
+
+## GO (all included, per-row attribution in corpus)
+
+1. **Daniel G. Brinton, "Ancient Nahuatl Poetry" (Gutenberg #12219)** — PD (1890
+   publication). 27 poems, Nahuatl + English verse pairs.
+2. **Brinton, "Rig Veda Americanus" (Gutenberg #14993)** — PD (1890). 20 sacred
+   Nahuatl hymns from Sahagún's Madrid MSS; Brinton's English is an avowed
+   paraphrase (flagged per row).
+3. **Brinton, "The Annals of the Cakchiquels" (Gutenberg #20775)** — PD (1885).
+   Original Kaqchikel (c. 1562) + English. 1885 text spells it "Cakchiquel";
+   modern Kaqchikel noted. §§165–185 (Kaqchikel-only, untranslated) excluded.
+4. **Brinton, "The Maya Chronicles" (Gutenberg #20205)** — PD (1882). Colonial
+   Yucatec Maya + English.
+5. **Brinton, "The Lenâpé and Their Legends," vol. 5 (Gutenberg #46422)** —
+   PD (1885). Walam Olum 184 pictograph verses; 183 built (V:34–35 image-only
+   in the edition). Authenticity-disputed flag per row.
+6. **Open Khipu Repository (github.com/khipulab/open-khipu-repository)** —
+   MIT license. 593 khipus with knot data; numeric interpretations only.
+7. **Natalie Curtis Burlin, "The Indians' Book" (1907)** — PD. 10 Hopi songs
+   (Oraibi 1903–1905); flagged as oral-tradition transcriptions, not script.
+8. **Clements R. Markham (trans.), "Narratives of the Rites and Laws of the
+   Yncas" (Hakluyt Society, 1873)** — PD. 9 Molina prayers in Quechua +
+   English (hand-separated interlinear columns; OCR fixes documented per row).
+
+## CONDITIONAL (included only under the named condition)
+
+9. **Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs (aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org)** —
+   CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Included as a SEPARATE file (americas-ancient-NC.jsonl),
+   non-commercial only, at Guy's explicit acceptance 2026-10-19.
+
+## PENDING (not included yet)
+
+10. **FAMSI Montgomery Dictionary of Maya Hieroglyphs** — policy: free for
+    scholarly study, publication requires permission. Permission request
+    drafted at FAMSI-permission-draft.md; DO NOT send without Guy's approval.
+11. **Popol Vuh (Ohio State, library.osu.edu/projects/popolwuj/)** —
+    UNVERIFIED: AWS WAF captcha blocks fetch; Wayback holds only folio images;
+    translation identity/license unconfirmable. No rows until verified.
+
+## NO-GO (deliberately excluded)
+
+- Florentine Codex digital edition (Getty); Codex Mendoza modern editions
+  (Berdan & Anawalt) — copyrighted scholarly editions.
+- Maya Vase Database (mayavase.com) — articles copyrighted; Kerr photos
+  non-commercial; a living scholar's personal archive.
+- classicmayan.org papers — copyrighted.
+- UVA "Machine-Readable Mayan Text" — no public downloadable dataset.
+- MHD UC Davis — dead (HTTP 410). TWKM Bonn — inscription archive not public.
+- Brinton "Books of Chilan Balam" (#31610) — no parallel native text.
+- Spence "Popol Vuh" (1908) — English-only retelling, no K'iche' text.
+- Salomon & Urioste 1991 Huarochirí — modern, copyrighted.
+- Guaman Poma Nueva Corónica facsimile — PD by age but no PD English
+  translation located.
+- Fewkes Hopi works (Gutenberg #70076, #70166, #71003) — no transcribed songs.
+- Stephen "Hopi Journal" (1936) — copyrighted.
+- León-Portilla/Garibay Cantares; Anderson & Dibble Florentine — copyrighted.
+- Zapotec (MAPSA registry not public; script undeciphered), Mixtec codices
+  (no parallel transliteration standard), Olmec / Teotihuacan / Nazca
+  (undeciphered or not writing).
+- ctext.org (anti-scraping) and ETCSL (permission required) — carried over
+  from the AncientScripts build.
+
+## General rule (his standing doctrine, applied throughout)
+Public domain or explicit academic-open ONLY, with per-row attribution.
+Zero license risk in americas-ancient.jsonl. NC material quarantined in the
+separately-labeled NC split, never mixed in.