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Comparative Wakashan Vocabulary

  • Item identifier: 2014-21.004.007
  • Date: 1951 to 1996
  • Contributors: Victor Golla (researcher); William H. Jacobsen (researcher); Edward Sapir (researcher); Morris Swadesh (researcher)
  • Language: Wakashan
  • Description: Photocopy of the index and first 20 pages of Edward Sapir and Morris Swadesh’s manuscript, “Wakashan Comparative Vocabulary” (1951), which is kept in full at the American Philosophical Society (497.3 B63c W la.26) (the item Sapir.001 contains different pages of the same manuscript); a letter from Victor Golla to William H. Jacobsen, dated November 5, 1984, requesting Jacobsen’s opinion on whether to include the manuscript in an edited volume of the Collected Works of Edward Sapir; and a letter from Victor Golla to William H. Jacobsen concerning the publication of a volume containing Edward Sapir’s Nootka materials, requesting assistance.
  • Relations to this item: Sapir.001 relates to this Item
  • Availability: Materials for Item number 2014-21.004.007 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can digitize them for you.
  • Extent: 1 folder, 26 pages
  • Collection: William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: Comparative Wakashan Vocabulary, 2014-21.004.007, in "William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23133.