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Extent: 1 binder, 123 pp.

Description: Mimeographed copy of the Survey's "Topical word list: California" plus a photocopy of the "200 item test list". This does not include Yuki data, but indicates which items in the list are included in a separate Yuki vocabulary file.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder, 9 pp.

Description: Photocopy of Dell Hymes’ article “Hail and Bead: Two Penutian Etymologies” with handwritten notes by Alice Shepherd on three small slips of paper and one letter-size sheet.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder

Description: Related to Yuki references, this item contains: a brochure from News from Native California with a reference on the back, 3x5 inch index cards with references, and two miscellaneous sheets with references. The correspondence includes that to Harvey Pitkin from Ives Goddard regarding an article on Yuki to be published in the Handbook of North American Indians. The correspondence also includes a letter and related papers from Jesse Sawyer to Elaine Mills (Project Editor of the Harrington Papers at the Smithsonian) regarding questions about the content of some of John Peabody Harrington’s materials. Also in the correspondence is a letter from Mary Haas to Alice Shepherd.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder

Description: Contains 3 miscellaneous notes, typed draft titled “General remarks on the structure of the language,” handwritten collection of notes titled “notes on Yuki verb morphology,” and a handwritten grammatical sketch of the language which includes information on the phonemic inventory of Yuki, its morphology, pronouns, nouns, “number and classificatory devices,” numerals, color terms, verbs, “lexical resemblances in verbal suffixes,” syntax, and semantics.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder

Description: Contains a handwritten draft of a description of Yuki phonology, a non-identical typed draft of a description of Yuki phonology, and several handwritten sheets suggesting additional material to be incorporated.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder

Description: Contains file slips with individual loanwords from English and Spanish as well as two typed papers possibly derived from the contents of the file slips which list English and Spanish loanwords in Yuki.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder

Description: Contains lists comparing vocabulary of Coast Yuki, Yuki, and Wappo with reconstructed Uto-Aztecan; list comparing vocabulary of Yuki and Karuk; and handwritten notes related to “Roots of Yuki.” Handwritten notes include charts of segmental correspondences between Yuki, Coast Yuki, Huchnom, and reconstructed Uto-Aztecan.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder

Description: Contains a typed list setting up correspondences between Wappo and Proto-North Yukian. Also contains various handwritten notes related to establishing sound correspondences between Wappo and Proto-Yukian as well as Proto-Northern Yukian.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder

Description: Contains a copy of Alfred Kroeber’s 1932 Anthropos article “Yuki Myths” and typed renderings of Kroeber’s Yuki texts, originally handwritten. The original Yuki texts include, according to the naming in Kroeber’s article, I. Origins: Taikomol, IV. Coyote and the World, V. The Thunder Twins, VII. Wildcat, and VIII. Coyote and Crow. Includes a photocopy of the handwritten original version of IV. Coyote and the World for comparison with the typed rendition. Also contains two short texts, both typed, whose identities are uncertain.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages

Extent: 1 folder, 2 pp.

Description: Contains two photocopied pages of Jack M. Whitehead’s 1968 UC Berkeley Anthropology dissertation, “The Physical Anthropology of the Yuki Indians,” with handwritten notes by Alice Schlichter.

Collection: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages

Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages