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, Oswalt, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2C24TDG.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 98).
Description:Vocabulary, morphology (questions, motion and location, tense/aspect), sentences, and texts. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.001-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo field notebook], Oswalt.001.001, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2X63JVZ.
Description:Vocabulary, morphology (paradigms, verbs of motion, possessives, instrumental prefixes, switch reference, personal names, causatives, directionals, body parts, "inanimate imitatives", sentences, and texts. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.002.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.002.part1.zip and Oswalt.001.002.part2.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.002-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo field notebook], Oswalt.001.002, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2SF2T4N.
Description:Elicited sentences in Southern Pomo, place names in Wappo and Southern Pomo, Wappo texts. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.003.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.003.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.003-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo and Wappo field notebook], Oswalt.001.003, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NP22D9.
Description:Vocabulary (personal names),notes from listening to 1965 Elizabeth Dollar stories. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.004.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.004.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.004-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo field notebook], Oswalt.001.004, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HX19N4.
Description:Handwritten notes and questions for elicitation of vocabulary and morphology. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.005.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.005.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.005-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo fieldwork notes], Oswalt.001.005, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D50JXQ.
Description:Handwritten loose pages containing vocabulary, including animal names. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.006.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.006.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.006-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo field notes], Oswalt.001.006, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28C9T6V.
Description:(The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.007.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.007.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.007-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Pomoan vocabulary], Oswalt.001.007, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24M92HZ.
Description:Partially completed "Short California Word List". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.008.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.008.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.008-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo vocabulary list], Oswalt.001.008, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20Z716Z.
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Extent:1 folder
Description:Handwritten morphological paradigms, comparing Halpern's notes from Annie Burke to Elizabeth Dollar.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo morphological notes], Oswalt.001.009, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2069.
Description:"100 words--diagnostic list". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.010.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.010.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.010-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo vocabulary list], Oswalt.001.010, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2W66HQK.
Description:"100 words--supplementary list". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.011.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.011.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.011-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo vocabulary list], Oswalt.001.011, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RF5S08.
Description:"100 words--diagnostic list". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.012.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.012.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.012-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo vocabulary list], Oswalt.001.012, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MP517G.
Description:"100 words--supplementary list". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.013.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.013.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.013-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo vocabulary list], Oswalt.001.013, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2GX48HR.
Description:"100 words--diagnostic list". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.014.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.014.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.014-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo vocabulary list], Oswalt.001.014, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2C53HSB.
Description:Mimeograph of 112 page word list, only partially completed. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.015.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.015.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.015-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo vocabulary list], Oswalt.001.015, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X27D2S3G.
Availability: Paper materials available in person. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan it for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Photocopy of Oswalt.001.002 with hand annotations.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo field notebook], Oswalt.001.016, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2076.
Description:Photocopy of typed text, with list of vocabulary. For related list of vocabulary, see Sawyer.005. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.017.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.017.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.017-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo text], Oswalt.001.017, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23R0QS2.
Description:Typed transcription and translation of Warm Springs Dam dedication texts, in Southern Pomo and Wappo. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.018.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.018.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.018-image_metadata.txt.) (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.018.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.018.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.018-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Pomo and Wappo texts], Oswalt.001.018, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X200002F.
Description:Vocabulary (kin terms, body parts, numbers, plants, animals, food, clothing, cultural terms), morphology, sentences, and texts. Labeled "S. W. Pomo Book 1". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.019.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.019.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.019-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kashaya field notebook], Oswalt.001.019, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2V69GJR.
Description:Vocabulary, morphology (imperatives), sentences, and texts. Oswalt.021 was tucked between p. 122 and p. 123. Labeled "S. W. Pomo Book 2". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.020.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.020.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.020-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kashaya field notebook], Oswalt.001.020, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QF8QT1.
Description:Vocabulary and sentences. Originally tucked between p. 122 and p. 123 of Oswalt.020. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.021.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.021.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.021-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kashaya field notes], Oswalt.001.021, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2KP8033.
Description:Central Pomo vocabulary (numbers, kin terms, body parts) and Kashaya vocabulary, morphology, and texts. Labeled "S. W. Pomo Book 3". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.022.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.022.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.022-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Central Pomo and Kashaya field notebook], Oswalt.001.022, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2FX77CC.
Description:Texts and songs; includes Southern Pomo lullaby. Labeled "Kashaya Book 10". (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.023.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.023.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.023-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kashaya field notebook], Oswalt.001.023, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2B56GPD.
Description:Vocabulary (personal names, Spanish loanwords), morphology, texts (about naming and other ceremonies), transcription of personal letters. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.024.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.024.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.024-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kashaya field notebook], Oswalt.001.024, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26H4FCD.
Description:Sentences, texts, songs, and conversations. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Oswalt.001.025.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.025.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.025-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kashaya field notebook], Oswalt.001.025, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22R3PNP.
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