Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages, Shepherd, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11077.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 113, LA 152).
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also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.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, Sawyer, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC309Q.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 56, LA 88, LA 90, LA 102).
Scope and content: The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection includes a variety of maps showing the boundaries of indigenous languages and groups as well as settlement locations. Included are some of the classic maps from the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78 by Alfred Kroeber.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection, Maps, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11082.
Description: Typed manuscript, accompanied by correpondance between Patterson and Jesse Sawyer about manuscript.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Wappo ethnobotany, Patterson.001, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1468.
Description: Item includes Plates No. 26, 27, 36, 47, 48, 57, and 74. Each plate can be found on an individual sheet and on a poster-size sheet that includes all those plates. There are: 3 copies of the poster-size sheet; 1 copy each of Plates 26, 27, 47, 48, and 74; 4 copies of Plate 36; and 5 copies of Plate 57. Plate 26 is titled "Yukian Divisions." Plate 27 is titled "Settlements of the Wappo and Lake Miwok." Plate 36 is titled "The Pomo and Their Subdivisions." Plate 47 is titled "The Southern and Central Yokuts." Plate 48 is titled "Part of the Habitat of the Chumash and Alliklik." Plate 57 is titled "Native Sites in Part of Southern California." Plate 74 is titled "Ritual Cults of California." A laminated copy of the poster-size reproduction including all the above-mentioned plates is available for examination.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [BAE Bulletin 78, Plates 26, 27, 36, 47, 48, 57, 74], Maps.002.004, in "Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14787.
Description: Elmendorf's correspondence with Jesse Sawyer, including discussion of issues in the comparison of Wappo and Yukian languages.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Correspondence between William Elmendorf and Jesse Sawyer], Elmendorf.010, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/377.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Ghost Dance], Sawyer.t002, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1677.
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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Notes on sound correspondences between Wappo and Proto-Yukian as well as Proto-Northern Yukian], Shepherd.001.008, in "Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14717.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Schlichter dissertation correspondence], Shepherd.002.007, in "Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14725.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [The Yuki Ghost Dance], Sawyer.t001, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1676.
Description: Materials related to comparing vocabulary of Yukian languages to other languages and language families. Contains a map, handout, and list comparing Yukian with Ritwan; a photocopy of handwritten notes titled "Uto-Aztecan and Yukian Lexical Parallels"; a photocopy of a handout titled "Yukian Sharings" with annotations by Victor Golla and presented at the 1984 Hokan-Penutian Workshop at University of California, Berkeley; a photocopy of a handwritten draft of a handout for the 1986 Haas Festival titled "Some Utian-Yukian Resemblant Forms" by William Elmendorf and Catherine Callaghan; and a photocopy of handwritten notes titled "Resemblant Forms - Miwok : Yukian (Draft)." (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 Elmendorf.013.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Elmendorf.013.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Elmendorf.013-image_metadata.txt.)
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Yukian comparative lists], Elmendorf.013, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HD7SMK.
Description: Contains two letters from William Elmendorf to Alice Schlichter related to his paper “Features of Yukian Pronominal Structure,” of which there are two typed copies annotated by Alice Shepherd.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [“Features of Yukian Pronominal Structure” with notes and correspondence], Shepherd.002.005, in "Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14724.
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