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Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages
- Collection number: Shepherd
- Finding aid: Shepherd_finding_aid.pdf
- Additional contributors: Haruo Aoki (author), Howard Berman (author), Dorothy Lee (researcher), Skye Mitchell (consultant), Jack Whitehead (author), A.L. Kroeber (author), Mary R. Haas (author), Catherine A. Callaghan (annotator), William Elmendorf (author), Virginia Miller (author), Cora DuBois (researcher), Ives Goddard (author), Jenny Curl (consultant), Ida Fan (consultant), Jo Bender (consultant), Jesse O. Sawyer (author), Jo Charles (consultant), Renee Coleman (consultant), Sadie Marsh (consultant), Alice Shepherd (compiler, donor, annotator, author, researcher)
- Languages: Yukian, Yuki, Yana (ynn), Wappo (wao), Northern Pomo (pej), Coast Yuki, Penutian, Northern Yukian (yuk), Yurok (yur), Uto-Aztecan, Huchnom, Wintu (wnw), Esselen (esq)
- Dates: 1974-1998
- Extent: 36.94 linear feet
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Preferred citation: Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages, SCL Shepherd, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11077
- Associated materials:
Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages
- Collection number: Sawyer
- Primary contributors: Laura Somersal (consultant), Jesse O. Sawyer (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Shirley Silver (editor), Richard Dillon (author), Ardis M. Walker (author), Elsie Allen (consultant), Charles Li (author), William J. Wallace (author), Roy Siniard (researcher), Laura Somersal (depicted, participant), William Elmendorf (researcher, editor, author), Donald I. Segerstrom (author), Arthur Anderson (consultant), Sydney M. Lamb (author), Lawrence E. Dawson (author), Norman L. Wilson (author), Jack Wobo (consultant), Jack Werner Stauffacher (editor), Henry Ke'a'a'la Azbill (author), Leland Fullwider Jr. (consultant), Francis A. Riddell (author), Jesse O. Sawyer (participant, author), Harry R. Goff (editor), Carl Schaefer Dentzel (author), Minnie Fulwider (consultant), Bob Western (photographer), William Graves (consultant), Sandra Thompson (author), Dorothea J. Theodoratus (author), Michael Harrison (editor), Don Meadows (author), Alice Shepherd (researcher, donor)
- Languages: Yukian, Tohono O'odham, Western Numic, Yuki, Patwin (pwi), Coast Miwok (csi), Wappo (wao), Ohlone, Karuk (kyh), Maidu (nmu), Bodega Miwok, Northeastern Pomo (pef), Klamath-Modoc (kla), Tubatulabal (tub), Hill Patwin, Pomo, Konkow (mjd), Hupa, Central Pomo (poo), Luiseño (lui), Chukot (ckt), Southern Sierra Miwok (skd), Nahuatl, Northern Yukian (yuk), Yurok (yur), Nisenan (nsz), Wintuan, Eastern Pomo (peb), Wintu (wnw), Miwok, Diegueño (dih), Wailaki, Lake Miwok (lmw), Southern Pomo (peq), Nomlaki (nol)
- Dates: late 1950s - 1986
- Extent: 17.79 linear feet (36 boxes)
- Historical information: Jesse O. Sawyer (1918-1986) received his Ph.D. in English and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. From 1957-1962 he was the director of the English Program for Foreign Students in the Department of Speech at UC Berkeley, then a Senior Lecturer in linguistics from 1962 until his death in 1986. From 1961 onwards he was also the Director of UC Berkeley's Language Lab, now the Berkeley Language Center. Over the course of his career he worked on a variety of topics related to the indigenous languages of California, especially the documentation of Wappo in close cooperation with speaker Laura Fish Somersal.
- Scope and content: The Papers document Sawyer's nearly three decades of research on indigenous languages of California, especially members of the Yukian family. The collection includes Wappo field notes collected from the late 1950s to the 1980s and derived materials such as vocabulary files and descriptive and comparative articles. His principal Wappo consultant was Laura Fish Somersal, with additional data provided by Jack Wobo. Sawyer's Yuki consultants were Minnie Fulwider, Arthur Anderson, and Leland Fulwider. The collection also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Preferred citation: Laura Somersal and Jesse O. Sawyer. Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages, SCL Sawyer, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC309Q
- Associated materials:
Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages
- Collection number: Oswalt
- Finding aid: Oswalt_finding_aid.pdf
- Primary contributors: Clara Williams (consultant), Elsie Allen (consultant), Robert L. Oswalt (researcher), Milton "Bun" Lucas (consultant), Oscar McDaniel (consultant), Edna Guerrero (consultant), Achora Hanyava (consultant), Elizabeth Dollar (consultant), Bernice Scott Torrez (consultant), Sharky Moore (consultant), Essie Parrish (consultant), Annie Lake (consultant)
- Additional contributors: Dan Alford (author), Suzie Gomez (consultant), S.A. Barrett (researcher, author), Arthur Anderson (consultant, participant), Violet Parrish Chapelle (consultant), James R. Gibson (author), Jesse O. Sawyer (author), Mary Jean Kennedy (author), Hans Jørgen Uldall (researcher), Lowe Anderson (consultant), F. Scarioni (consultant), Sidney Parrish (consultant, participant), Wallace L. Chafe (author), Gretchen S. Hillard (author), Julius Moshinsky (author), Charles Li (author), A. A. Istomin (author), Annie Burke (consultant, participant), Viktor Petrov (author), Alice Shepherd (author), Skip Willits (author), Frances Jack (author), Ruth Almstedt (author), Greene Scott (consultant), Sally McLendon (researcher, author), John Kelsey (consultant), David Antone (consultant), Leanne Hinton (author), Janice Comstock (author), P. Kostromitonov (author), Susan Steele (author), Nancy Webb (author), James Clifford (author), Kathryn Seller (consultant), Victoria Dickler Kaplan (author), Abraham M. Halpern (consultant, translator, author, researcher), Frank Luff (consultant), Eben Tillotsen (consultant), Peter Kalifornsky (participant), Tom Larsen (author), Gladys James Gonzales (consultant), Kenneth W. Whistler (author), Carolyn F. Wall (author), Kira Hall (author), James M. Kari (author, participant), Bernard W. Aginsky (author), Bill Frank (consultant), Eugene Buckley (researcher, author), George M. Foster (researcher), Martha Anderson (participant), Lawrence Morgan (author), Bernice Scott Torrez (author, participant), Louise Tanous (author), David Gamon (author), Salome Bartlett Alcantra (consultant), Helen McCarthy (author), Guillermina Nelson-Rodrigues (consultant), Effie Mabel Luff (consultant), Mary James (consultant), Oswalt family (donor), Ralph Moore (consultant), Tammy Lucas (participant), Homer Durham (author), Mary Swift (author), Kate Marando (consultant), John P. Marr (author), Frank Logan (consultant), Sydney M. Lamb (researcher), Marianne Mithun (author), Old Toby (consultant), Nelda Grace Martinez (participant), Milton "Bun" Lucas (participant), Ralph Holder (consultant), Kent G. Lightfoot (author), Linda J. Farnum (author), Johanna Nichols (author), Randall Milliken (author), Edna Campbell (consultant), Olive Fulwider (consultant), Philip W. Davis (author), Eero Vihman (author), Laura Somersal (consultant), Lula Jackson (consultant), Charlie Doorman (consultant), Ann M. Schiff (author), Jennie Goodrich (author), Mary Catherine O'Connor (author), Vivian Wilder (consultant), Lula Johnson (consultant), T. Yokomori (author), Lucy Andrews Macy (consultant), Ross Saunders (author), Cora DuBois (author), Allen James (consultant), Mauricio J. Mixco (author), Shirley Silver (author), George Moore (consultant), Otis Parrish (author), Thomas A. Wake (author), Sandra Thompson (author), Vana Parrish Lawson (consultant), George Grekoff (researcher), Herman James (consultant), Biten Yasumoto (author), Essie Parrish (translator, participant), Katherine Turner (author), Michelle Caisse (author), Cecilia Logan (consultant), Robert L. Oswalt (translator, author, donor, annotator, participant, photographer), Glenn J. Farris (translator, author), June Nieze (author), Julia Pinola Marrufo (consultant)
- Languages: Tonkawa (tqw), Salinan (sln), Ineseño (inz), Maricopa (mrc), Southeastern Pomo (pom), Yuki, Mutsun (css), Coast Miwok (csi), Klamath, Patwin (pwi), Aztecan, Mojave (mov), Havasupai (yuf), Yana (ynn), Yokuts (yok), Wappo (wao), Tanaina (tfn), Chinook Jargon (chn), Yuma (yum), Karuk (kyh), Maidu (nmu), Aleut (ale), Northeastern Pomo (pef), Kashaya (kju), Pomo, Nuxalk (blc), Hualapai (yuf), Northern Pomo (pej), Tajuasohn (tja), Kiliwa (klb), Cocopa (coc), Luiseño (lui), Northern Yukian (yuk), Central Pomo (poo), Chochenyo, Yurok (yur), Huchnom, Eastern Pomo (peb), Chumashan, Lacandon (lac), Esselen (esq), Lakota (lkt), Paipai (ppi), Miwok, Bribri (bzd), Diegueño (dih), Southern Pomo (peq)
- Dates: 1956-2005
- Extent: 30.2 linear feet (69 boxes)
- Historical information: Robert Louis Oswalt, Pomoan language scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. His fieldwork on Kashaya (Southwestern Pomo) began in 1957 and led to his dissertation, A Kashaya Grammar, and the publication of the book Kashaya Texts in 1964. Dr. Oswalt continued to work on Pomoan languages until 2005, conducting fieldwork on Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo, and Central Pomo and exploring the historical relationships within the Pomoan family. The Kashaya and Southern Pomo dictionaries that Dr. Oswalt compiled during his decades of fieldwork on those languages were never published.
- Scope and content: These Papers document the linguistic work of Robert Oswalt, including his fieldwork on Pomoan languages and Yuki, Kru-Gbato, Aleut, and Bribri, his research on historical linguistics and other linguistic topics, and his professional activities. The papers include field notebooks containing vocabulary and elicited sentences for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Northern Pomo and Central Pomo, with additional longer texts in Kashaya and Southern Pomo, vocabulary file slips for Kashaya, Southern Pomo, and Central Pomo, as well as notes on grammar and Pomoan cognates. His primary consultants for Kashaya were Essie Parrish and Bernice Scott Torrez, and his Kashaya consultants also included David Antone, Violet Parrish Chappelle, Gladys James Gonzales, Allen James, Herman James, Mary James, Milton (Bun) Lucas, Vana Lawson, Kate Marando, Julia Pinola Marrufo, Sidney Parrish, Laura Fish Somersall, and Vivian Wilder. His primary consultants for Southern Pomo were Elsie Allen and Elizabeth Dollar and his Southern Pomo consultants also included Olive Fulwilder Effie Mabel Luff, Lucy Andrews Macy, and Laura Fish Somersall. His Northeastern Pomo consultants included Oscar McDaniel and Sharky Moore, his Northern Pomo consultants included Annie Lake and Edna Guerrero, and his Central Pomo consultants included Salome Bartlett Alcantra, Frank Luff, and Clara Williams. He conducted Aleut fieldwork with consultant Kathryn Seller and Bribri fieldwork with consultant Guillermina Nelson-Rodrigues. His consultants for Yuki included Arthur Anderson and Bill Frank. The Papers include oral histories collected from linguist Abraham Halpern and Pomoan language consultants Essie Parrish, Elizabeth Dollar, Elsie Allen as well as photocopies of Kashaya and Southern Pomo genealogical and census records and other documents and material related to Pomoan languages, ethnography, and history. Research notes and photocopies of materials on methods for historical linguistics and several other linguistic topics are also contained in the Papers. Drafts of manuscripts and conference handouts created during Dr. Oswalt's career, including incomplete drafts of his Kashaya dictionary, are also included in the collection.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Preferred citation: Elsie Allen, Elizabeth Dollar, Edna Guerrero, Achora Hanyava, Annie Lake, Milton "Bun" Lucas, Oscar McDaniel, Sharky Moore, Essie Parrish, Bernice Scott Torrez, Clara Williams, and Robert L. Oswalt. Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages, SCL Oswalt, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2C24TDG
- Associated materials:
Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages
- Collection number: Lamb
- Primary contributors: Sydney M. Lamb (researcher), Lucy Kinsman (consultant)
- Additional contributors: John Blossom (consultant), Minnie McGown (consultant), Pike Piper (consultant), Arthur Anderson (consultant), Margaret Bob (consultant), Sadie George (consultant), Clayton (consultant), Minnie Mike (consultant), Lucy Pete (consultant), Jim Nevers (consultant), Susan Johnson (consultant), Ned Belles (consultant), Mamie Taylor (consultant), Cy Thomas (consultant), Rob Harry (consultant), Mike Reilly (consultant), George Little (consultant), Jose Vera (consultant), Mrs. Wiatt (consultant), Helen Belles (consultant), Hausen Lavell (consultant), Willy Edmo (consultant), Joe Kinsman (consultant), Mrs. Harry Miller (consultant), Willy Wagonner (consultant), Robert Hicks (consultant), Molly Pimono (consultant), Minnie Williams (consultant), George Gregory (consultant), Irene Edmo (consultant), Harry Austin (consultant), Fred Collins (consultant), Steve Tulley (consultant), Bill Sherman (consultant), Grover McCloud (consultant), Elizabeth Bethel (consultant), Manda Marvin (consultant), Maggie Marvin (consultant), Hazel Johnson (consultant), Charlie Evening (consultant), May Meredith (consultant), Annie Jefferson (consultant), Tom Marshall (consultant), Charles Goodwin (consultant), Daisy Coleman (consultant), Tony Pablo (consultant), Lester Jones (consultant), Kitt Joe (consultant), Tom Primo (consultant), Emma Duckey (consultant), Nancy Wyatt (consultant), Gilbert Bethel (consultant), George Decroy (consultant), Mary Chico (consultant), Andrew Glenn (consultant), Frank Logan (consultant), Stefana de Salazar (consultant), Cayuse Mike (consultant), Anita Pryor (consultant), Maggie Spencer (consultant), Nellie Enom (consultant), Mike Phillips (consultant), Johnny Gibbs (consultant), Gladys Mankins (consultant), Harry Miller (consultant), George Cashbaugh (consultant), Mark Jones (consultant), Laura Somersal (consultant), Tommy Thacker (consultant), Maggie (consultant), Rosie Piper (consultant), Mike Pablo (consultant), Jim Osborne (consultant), Susie (consultant), Lula Johnson (consultant), Dorothy (consultant), Minnie Fulwider (consultant), Willy Pimono (consultant), Winnie Jones (consultant), Tom Stone (consultant), Pete Snap (consultant), Bob Somerville (consultant), Mary Williams (consultant), Addie Walsay (consultant), Lizzie Edmo (consultant), Rosalie Bethel (consultant), Doris Yee (consultant), Ira Miller (consultant), Andy Slaven (consultant), Jim Wright (consultant), Minnie Chatovich (consultant), Roy Chatovich (consultant), George Dick (consultant), Florence Duckey (consultant), Annie Wenz (consultant)
- Languages: Salinan (sln), Koyeti, Yuki, Koso Shoshone, Northern Paiute (pao), Wappo (wao), Shoshone (shh), Tubatulabal (tub), Konkow (mjd), Wiyot (wiy), Southern Sierra Miwok (skd), Chukchansi, Western Mono, Northern Yukian (yuk), Mono (mnr), Huchnom, Owens Valley Paiute, Miwok, Kawaiisu (xaw)
- Dates: 1955, 1963 and undated
- Extent: 10 items
- Historical information: Sydney M. Lamb is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University (1951) and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1957). His doctoral dissertation was a grammar of the Mono language based on fieldwork conducted around North Fork, California in the summers of 1953 and 1954. He was a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1958-1964 and Yale University from 1968-1977. He left academia to work in the computer industry from 1977-1981, but subsequently joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University, where he has spent the remainder of his academic career.
- Scope and content: The Papers document Lamb's research on Indian languages of California and surrounding areas from 1953-1955.
  One microfilm reel in the collection also includes copies of Victor Golla's notebooks from his fieldwork on Hupa at Hoopa Valley in the summer of 1963; for more details, see details under the Victor Golla Papers on the Hupa Language.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Preferred citation: Lucy Kinsman and Sydney M. Lamb. Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages, SCL Lamb, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JW8BTD
- Associated materials:
William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America
- Collection number: 2014-21
- Relations to this collection: SCL Jacobsen replaced by this Collection
- Finding aid: 2014-21_finding_aid.pdf
- Primary contributor: William H. Jacobsen (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Herman Holbrook (consultant), Michael Porter Nichols (researcher, depicted), Soemarmo (researcher), Vernelle Frank (consultant), Blind Mike (consultant), Jay Powell (researcher), Tommy Alto (consultant), Marianne Mithun (researcher, depicted), Thomas Talbot Waterman (researcher), William Elmendorf (researcher), William H. Jacobsen (transcriber, developer, annotator, depicted, participant, performer), Carnegie Smokey (recorder), Lee R. hfeldt (researcher), Richard B. Applegate (researcher), Frank Morgan (consultant), Anne Biggoose (participant), Michael Silverstein (researcher), Nora Barker (consultant), Brooke Mordy (researcher), Alice Harris (researcher), Florence Brown (consultant), Mable Robertson (consultant), Terrence Kaufman (depicted), Sylvia Andrews (developer, consultant), Julia Chin Kwan (researcher), Howard Wahnetah (editor), John Frank (consultant), David A. Pharies (researcher), Martin Brown (consultant), Elario Quintana (consultant, author), Elwood Wyatt (consultant), Amy Barber (consultant), Robert L. Oswalt (researcher, depicted), E. Phelps (researcher), Sebastian LaChester (consultant), Charles Keeler (researcher), Henry Moses Rupert (illustrator), Richard N. Boneno (illustrator), Mary R. Haas (researcher), Raymond Sastil (researcher), Tina Wyatt (consultant), Howard Collett Jr. (recorder, editor), Julia A. Sableski (researcher), George Snooks (consultant), William Bright (researcher), Bill Fillmore (consultant), Dr. S.L. Lee (author), Phillip Barker (recorder), Sally McLendon (researcher), Gloria Cranmer Webster (consultant), Clara Frank (consultant), Terry J. Klokeid (researcher), Eleanore Smokey (developer, consultant), Florence E. Arnett (researcher), George Okoli (consultant), Haruo Aoki (depicted), Edward Sapir (researcher), Chris Pane (consultant), Robert Ridgeway (researcher), Steven James (consultant), Connie Hunter (consultant), Stanley Starosta (annotator), Art George Jr. (consultant), Jaime de Angulo (researcher), Wayne Suttles (researcher), M.A. Baumoff (author), Harvey Jim (participant), Marvin Dressler (participant, consultant), Paul R. Turner (researcher), Warren d'Azevedo (researcher, recorder), Benny Fillmore (consultant), John Harrington (researcher), Daniel McDonald (consultant), Joanne Martinez (consultant, participant), Laurence C. Thompson (researcher), Hank Pete (consultant), Tiva Bear Wahnetah (participant), Alfred S. Hayes (developer), Mary Chipps (consultant), David Burkeuroad (researcher), John Wiger (consultant), Ishi (consultant), Margaret Langdon (depicted), Theresa Jackson (consultant), Grace Dangberg (researcher, author), M. Terry Thompson (researcher), Hunter Fillmore (participant), Agnes George (consultant), Arlington A. Flinn Jr. (author), Marie Kizer (consultant), Gordon Marsh (researcher), Dave Mora (consultant), Darla Garey-Sage (researcher), Alan Lomax (recorder, compiler), Henry W. Henshaw (researcher), Mauricio J. Mixco (researcher), Joshua Edgar (consultant), William Shipley (recorder), Lisa Wahnetah (developer, author, participant), Ralph LaChester (consultant), John Wager (consultant), Molly Higgins (consultant), Wilson Duff (author), Charlie Jones Sr. (consultant), Gloria James (developer), Charles Butler (consultant), Stephen Powers (researcher), Henry Higgins (consultant), Henry Davis (author), Werner Winter (researcher), Adele James (developer, participant, consultant), Richard Rhodes (researcher), Fred Sam (consultant), Rachel Wojdak (author), Lizzie Evans (consultant), Lyda Colfax (consultant), Bertha Holbrook (consultant), Rena J. Enjady (developer), Roy James (consultant), Lloyd B. Anderson (researcher), Viola Johnson (consultant), Victor Golla (researcher), Isabel Ides (consultant), Sam Dick (consultant), Madison Beeler (researcher), Helen Fillmore (developer), Barbara Efrat (researcher), Jim Goss (researcher), Carolyn J. Jenkins (researcher), Amy Cohn (researcher), Harold Ides (consultant), Bill Cornbread (consultant), Robert Austerlitz (researcher), Garry Arrowsmith (researcher), Ed Mara (consultant), James P. Green (researcher), Hildred Ides (consultant, annotator), Walter Dyk (researcher), Bruce E. Nevin (annotator, researcher), Ronald Langacker (researcher), Morris Swadesh (researcher), Yoeliko Tagaskira (researcher), John Walker (consultant), Darlene Ammons (researcher), Kenneth W. Whistler (researcher), Irene Ward (consultant), Haltie Charlie (consultant), Aert H. Kuipers (researcher), Laura Fillmore (recorder, developer, author, researcher, participant), G. Sloan (researcher), Shirley Frank (consultant), Barrick Van Winkle (researcher), Wally John (consultant), Dolores Encinales (consultant), Roma James (consultant)
- Languages: Ibo (ibo), Na-Dené, Achumawi (acv), Central Sierra Miwok (csm), Yana (ynn), Muskogean, Cotoname, Yuma (yum), Kiowa, Salinan (sln), Quileute (qui), Tsimshian (tsi), Southern Sierra Miwok (skd), Island Halkomelem, Pomo, Tagalog (tgl), Atakapa (aqp), Penutian, Coahuilteco, Lake Miwok (lmw), Uto-Aztecan, Kiliwa (klb), Seri (sei), Abaza (abq), Basque (eus), Nuu-chah-nulth (noo), Kawaiisu (xaw), Maidu (nmu), Tonkawa (tqw), Haisla (has), Solano, Wiyot (wiy), Hill Patwin, Shoshone (shh), Kashaya (kju), Chumashan, Mono (mnr), Luiseño (lui), Worora (wro), Kui (kxu), Diegueño (dih), Chontal (chf), Shasta (sht), Karankawa, Mohawk (moh), Cora, Atsugewi (atw), Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (hei), Maiduan, Comanche (com), Algonquian, Lencan (len), Tarahumara, Makah (myh), Salishan, Northern Yana, Yuman-Cochimi, Haida (hai), Yuman, Southern Paiute, Washo (was), Spanish (spa), Kyoquot (dialect), Barbareño (boi), Tubatulabal (tub), Mojave (mov), Yokuts (yok), Tlingit (tli), Chukchansi, Karuk (kyh), Northern Paiute (pao), Ineseño (inz), Nuxalk (blc), Plains Miwok (pmw), Finnish (fin), Hokan, Kwak'wala (kwk), Kiowa-Tanoan, Northern Yukian (yuk), Chemakum, Chinook Jargon (chn), Yahi, Athabaskan, Yaqui (yaq), Skagit, Chimariko (cid), Jicaque (jic), Hopi (hop), Nivkh (niv), Northern Sierra Miwok (nsq), Esselen (esq), Chimakuan, Wakashan, Comecrudo, Ditidaht (noo)
- Dates: 1952-2004
- Extent: 36 boxes, 14.17 linear feet
- Catalog history: The Materials replace SCL Jacobsen, the "William H. Jacobsen Papers on Indigenous Languages of North America"
- Historical information: William H. Jacobsen (1931-2014) was born on November 15, 1931 in San Diego, CA to Cmdr. William H. Jacobsen, USN ret., and Julie Froatz Jacobsen. He graduated from Point Loma High School, San Diego, in 1949, and went on to graduate from Harvard University in 1953. Jacobsen then pursued graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley where he engaged in fieldwork on Salinan and Washo under the auspices of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. While at UC Berkeley, he also worked on an early machine language translation project. He received his Doctoral Degree from UC Berkeley in 1964 with a thesis entitled “A Grammar of the Washo Language”, supervised by Mary Haas, which endures as the most complete grammar of Washo published to date. He also worked as an assistant professor of anthropology (1961-1962) and linguistics (1962-1964) at the University of Washington, spending many of his summers in Neah Bay, WA, working with Makah elders to record their language. Most of Jacobsen’s academic career was spent as a professor of linguistics at the University of Nevada, Reno where he taught for thirty years (1965-1994). Throughout his academic career Jacobsen was a prolific and versatile scholar, devising writing systems, creating materials for teaching tribal members Washo and Makah, and publishing many papers on linguistic topics. Jacobsen was an active contributor within the Americanist linguistic community not only through his research, which touched upon a diverse array of languages from Hokan to Wakashan and beyond, but also through steady correspondence and collaboration with colleagues and students. In addition to his work on indigenous languages of North America, Jacobsen was well-known for his extensive work on Basque, which he engaged in through his involvement in the Center for Basque Studies at UNR. Altogether, Jacobsen was familiar with all the main Romance languages and Sanskrit in addition to being a specialist in Washo, Makah, Salinan, Nez Perce, Nootkan, and Basque. He served as president of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas, received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the University of Nevada, and received the Nevada Humanities Award. Jacobsen officially retired from UNR in 1994 but continued to engage with the linguistics community as an emeritus professor. Jacobsen passed away on August 18, 2014 in Reno, NV, at age 82.
- Scope and content: These materials document the linguistic work of William H. Jacobsen on various indigenous languages of North America, especially Washo, Makah, and Salinan, as well as on other languages and linguistic topics Jacobsen came into contact with throughout his academic career. The collection includes Jacobsen’s original field notebooks from work on Washo, Makah, and Salinan, as well as smaller aggregates of field notes on Diegueño, Northern Paiute, Kwak’wala, and Cowichan. In addition to original field notes, the collection includes derived research notes; many of these derived materials were organized by Jacobsen into separate folders by topic, and have been catalogued as they were found in order to reflect Jacobsen’s own organization. These research notes encompass work on Washo, Makah and other Southern Wakashan languages, Salinan, Yana and other Hokan languages, other Californian languages, and other topics related to general linguistic theory. A set of finished or near-finished manuscripts and handouts is also included, in many cases constituting completed work derived from Jacobsen’s research notes. Also included are transcriptions of texts and conversations in Washo and Makah, notes from collaborative work with Grace Dangberg on Washo texts, and materials Jacobsen developed in order to teach both Washo and Makah. Original file slips from Jacobsen’s work in organizing lexical material from Washo, Makah, Salinan, comparative Wakashan and Hokan, and Tagalog are also included. In addition to materials from Jacobsen’s original fieldwork and research, the collection includes a wealth of materials that Jacobsen obtained from other researchers. These obtained materials include an extensive collection of original Washo field notebooks originally belonging to Grace Dangberg, Gordon Marsh, Walter Dyk, Phillip Barker and William Shipley, and Brooke Mordy. In addition, the collection includes file slips and derived field notes from various sources. On Washo, these materials include Gordon Marsh’s file slips, research notes from Grace Dangberg and Walter Dyk, and photocopies of various vocabulary lists obtained from the Smithsonian Institution; on Wakashan, this includes a set of file slips from an unknown source; and on Yana, this includes a variety of research notes and a box of file slips obtained from Bruce Nevin, along with various photocopied materials on Yana obtained from museums. Other obtained materials include derived work on Washo texts by Brooke Mordy and on Yahi by T. T. Waterman, a collection of rare, unpublished, or difficult to obtain manuscripts concerning various North American indigenous languages, and published curricular materials on Washo and Makah. Various materials related to Jacobsen’s academic, scholarly, and teaching activities are catalogued as a separate series in the collection, in addition to being scattered throughout Jacobsen’s research notes. Finally, the collection includes a set of sound recordings that were discovered in Jacobsen’s possession but are not otherwise catalogued in earlier CLA collections. These recordings include recordings of Washo, Makah, Bella Coola, Ibo, Abaza, and at least one other unidentified language; some of the recordings were made by Jacobsen with various identified consultants, while others were obtained from colleagues including Brooke Mordy, Laura Fillmore, and Warren d’Azevedo, among possible others.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Preferred citation: William H. Jacobsen. William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America, SCL 2014-21, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2028PGT
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