Extent:11.91 linear feet (24 boxes, 2 binders, and 1 envelope)
Historical information:As a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, Abraham M. Halpern (1914-1985) conducted field research on Quechan (Yuma) (1935 and 1938) and Pomoan languages (1936 and 1939-1940). He was an instructor and professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago from 1941-1946, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1947. Following the Second World War, Halpern embarked on a second career as a political scientist specializing in the East Asian region. He returned to the study of American Indian languages in 1977, working as a research associate in linguistics at the University of California, San Diego from 1977 until his death in 1985, during which period he conducted additional field research with speakers of Pomoan languages .
Scope and content:Most of the material in this collection documents Halpern's ethnographic and linguistic field research on Pomoan languages; also included are ethnographic and linguistic materials related to his work on Patwin and Quechan (Yuma). The Pomoan material includes original notebooks from field trips conducted in 1936, 1939-1940, and the early 1980s, plus derived materials such as vocabulary file slips, manuscript articles, text transcriptions, and geneologies. Halpern's language consultants included the following people: Steve Parrish, Jenny Pike, and Esther Ward (Central Pomo); Joe Augustine (Eastern Pomo); Mary James and Julia Marrufo (Kashaya); Santiago McDaniel (Northeastern Pomo); Lowe Anderson, Edna Campbell, Nancy McCoy, and Mack Williams (Northern Pomo); John Kelsey, Effie Kelsey, Thomas Leon, George Patch, and Clifford Salvador (Southeastern Pomo); Elsie Allen and Annie Burke (Southern Pomo); Daisy Lowell Lorenzo (Hill Patwin).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elsie Allen, Joe Augustine, Annie Burke, Edna Campbell, Grant Jake, John Kelsey, Nancy McCoy, Santiago McDaniel, Steve Parrish, George Patch, Jenny Pike, Clifford Salvador, Esther Ward, Mack Williams, and Abraham M. Halpern. Abraham M. Halpern Papers on Pomoan Languages, Halpern, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2WS8R5X.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 202, LA 203, LA 204, LA 250). Other collections of materials related to Halpern's Pomoan, Yuman, and Wintuan research are held by the Bancroft Library (Berkeley, California) and the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Historical information:These recordings were produced by students of the field methods course in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley between September 2006 and May 2007. The course was taught by Professor Leanne Hinton and the language consultant was Loretta Kelsey. All other listed contributors were students in the course.
Scope and content:This collection consists of 188 audio recordings that derive from elicitation sessions conducted during biweekly class meetings held throughout the course of the academic year.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Loretta Kelsey, Eugenia Antic, Charles Chang, Thera Crane, Donna Fenton, Hannah Haynie, Leanne Hinton, Jisup Hong, Shira Katseff, Russell Lee-Goldman, Lindsey Newbold, Marta Piqueras-Brunet, and Yao Yao. Berkeley Field Methods: Southeastern Pomo Sound Recordings, LA 252, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JD4TTV.
Historical information:Eero Vihman (1927-2000) was a linguist who specialized in the study of Pomoan languages. He left his native Estonia in 1944, arriving in the United States in 1952. In 1964 he joined the graduate program in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, conducting fieldwork on Northern and Central Pomo in 1966-1967.
Scope and content:The Papers document Vihman's research on Pomoan languages from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, notably field notes from his 1966-1967 work on Northern Pomo. His main Northern Pomo consultants were Annie Lake and Edna Guerrero, with some additional material provided by Angelina Campbell; he also collected Central Pomo material from Frances Jack. Also included in the collection are Vihman's comparative notes on other Pomoan languages compiled from a variety of sources, and several draft chapters of a grammar of Northern Pomo.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Edna Guerrero, Annie Lake, and Eero Vihman. Eero Vihman Papers on the Northern Pomo Language, Vihman, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26W9803.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 25). Some materials are copies of notebooks included in the Abraham M. Halpern Papers on Pomoan Languages (MSS Halpern).
Extent:34.21 linear feet (69 boxes and 1 envelope)
Historical information:George Grekoff (1923-1999) was a graduate student in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he never completed a dissertation, he held a teaching position in linguistics and Russian at the University of Washington before pursuing a career outside the field of linguistics. However, he remained an avid scholar of Chimariko, and spent much of his spare time organizing the existing documentation of Chimariko.
Scope and content:The Papers document Grekoff's research on Chimariko and other indigenous languages of North America from the late 1950s until his death in 1999. There were no remaining speakers of Chimariko during Grekoff's lifetime, so the bulk of the collection consists of various notes and organizations of data collected by other linguists, especially John Peabody Harrington. This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture. The collection also contains a small quantity of material on other indigenous languages of North America, including Grekoff's original field notes on Southeastern Pomo from 1957 and field notes on Nuu-chah-nulth, Skagit, and Kwak'wala from Grekoff's time at the University of Washington from 1962-1967, portions of which were collected as part of field methods courses taught by Grekoff. Grekoff's consultants were John and Effie Kelsey (SE Pomo), Odelia Hunter, Hyacinth David, and Winifred David (Nuu-chah-nulth), and Louise George (Kwak'wala).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: George Grekoff. George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language, Grekoff, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NC5Z4H.
Historical information:Gretchen Hillard conducted research on Central Pomo in the mid-1970s.
Scope and content:The Papers document Gretchen Hillard's research on Central Pomo and other Pomoan languages, including field notes from work with Central Pomo consultant Salome Bartlett Alcantara in 1975-1976. The collection also includes secondary materials such as vocabulary file slips and Hillard's notes on Central Pomo grammar.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Salome Bartlett Alcantra and Gretchen S. Hillard. Gretchen S. Hillard Papers on the Central Pomo Language, Hillard, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28050J3.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 251).
Historical information:These recordings were made by Gretchen S. Hillard in August and September of 1975 with two different speakers of Central Pomo (a Pomoan language), Salome Bartlett Alcantra (1909-1991) and Sidney Parrish (1907-1978), and deposited with the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages on April 3, 2006. The boxes that contain the reels that were digitized include some metadata, which is quoted verbatim in the Description field of individual items. Metadata that was added by the Survey worker is included in brackets. Page numbers in the metadata refer to the notebooks housed in the Survey and referenced under Associated Materials.
Scope and content:Twenty nine WAV files digitized from twenty two reels; extensive elicitation of lexical items and sentences targeting various grammatical domains; some narrative texts
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Salome Bartlett Alcantra, Sidney Parrish, and Gretchen S. Hillard. Gretchen S. Hillard Sound Recordings of the Central Pomo Language, LA 251, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2H9936N.
Associated materials:See the Gretchen S. Hillard Papers on the Central Pomo Language.
Dates:approximately 1928-1935 and undated (bulk undated)
Extent:0.83 linear feet (2 boxes)
Historical information:A medical doctor by training, Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) became interested in anthropology and linguistics in the 1910s. He joined the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley from 1920-1922, during which time he conducted linguistic research on Pomo and Achumawi (Pit River). De Angulo held a research appointment in Mexico's Department of Anthropology from 1922-1923 and documented several indigenous langauges of Mexico. On returning to the United States, de Angulo resumed his research on the languages of California in collaboration with Lucy S. Freeland, publishing grammatical descriptions and texts for Achumawi, Karuk, Miwok, Pomo, and Northern Paiute in the 1920s and early 1930s. De Angulo was also a well-known poet and literary figure in California, and a collection of poems and short stories was published under the title Indians in Overalls (1950).
Scope and content:The Papers document a portion of de Angulo's linguistic research. Original documents in the collection include notes on Achumawi and Miwok grammar, an unpublished grammatical description of Eastern Pomo based on information from William Ralgonal Benson (co-authored with L.S. Freeland), and a field notebook with Otomi data provided by speaker Maria Rosa Gutierrez. Also in the collection are copies of materials related to Pomo, Shasta, and Konomihu, the originals of which are held by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, PA.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: William Ralgonal Benson, Maria Rosa Gutierrez, L.S. Freeland, and Jaime de Angulo. Jaime de Angulo Papers on Indigenous Languages of California and Mexico, Angulo, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2MW2F24.
Associated materials:Originals of some photocopied materials in the collection are held by the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Most of de Angulo's linguistic materials are held by Special Collections and Archives at the University of California, Santa Cruz library.
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).
Catalog history:Formerly Berkeley Language Center (BLC) series LL (Linguistics Lectures), with specific series numbers indicated in the catalog history of each file bundle
Historical information:The staff of the University of California, Berkeley Language Laboratory, now the Berkeley Language Center (BLC), recorded lectures related to language across the campus on request. The resultant master reel tapes were rediscovered in 2019.
Scope and content:Audio recordings of lectures related to language at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily consisting of colloquia in the Department of Linguistics
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Linguistics Lectures, 2019-11, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2N58JJ0.
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).
Historical information:Samuel Alfred Barrett (1879-1965) was born in Conway, Arkansas. He studied Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and became the first student to complete a doctorate under Alfred Kroeber in 1908. During his time as a graduate student (circa 1902-1908) Barrett conducted ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork among several California communities. After graduating, he accompanied the George G. Heye expedition and conducted fieldwork among the Cayapa of Ecuador. Barrett held the position of Curator of Anthropology at the Milwaukee Public Museum from 1909-1920, and subsequently served as the museum's director from 1920-1940.
Scope and content:The Papers include field notes, texts, file slips and notes on ethnological and linguistic topics, chiefly relating to Barrett's field work in California and Ecuador. The largest amount of material relates to texts and dictionaries in several Pomoan languages. Cayapa material includes word lists and a draft of a grammar. The Papers also include vocabulary and ethnographic notes on Eskimo, Karuk, Maidu, Patwin, Tsimshian, Wappo, Wintu, Yokuts and Yuki. Consultants include Jo Bill, Josie Buck, Bill Fetch, Bill James, Jim Murphy, Bob Pat, and four consultants identified by first name: Tall River Jack, Big Dick, Idaho Pete and Fernando.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Bill James, Jim Murphy, Bob Pat, and S.A. Barrett. Samuel Alfred Barrett Papers, Barrett, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2X63JTH.
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.
Historical information:Sylvia M. Broadbent was a student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1960. Her dissertation, entitled A Grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok, was based on fieldwork conducted on five summer field trips spanning 1955-1958 and 1961. This grammatical description published as The Southern Sierra Miwok Language (University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 38, 1964), which also included a collection of texts and a dictionary. After leaving Berkeley, Broadbent held positions at Barnard College and the University of California, Riverside, where she pursued research interests in the ethnohistory and archaeology of Chibchan cultures of central Colombia.
Scope and content:The Papers document Sylvia Broadbent's field research on Miwok languages in 1955-1958 and 1961. The collection includes her original field notebooks and vocabulary file slips, as well as diaries she kept while in the field. Her primary Southern Sierra Miwok linguistic consultants were Chris Brown (a.k.a. Chief Leeme), Castro Johnson, Emma Lord, and Rose Watt. Additional consultants represented in the collection include John Lawrence (Southern Sierra Miwok) and Ned Aleck, George Clifford, Rose Darrow, and Mrs. Henry Miller (Northern Sierra Miwok). The collection also includes an undated set of notes on Ohlone recorded with speaker Mary Tapia.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Castro Johnson, Emma Lord, Rose Watt, and Sylvia M. Broadbent. Sylvia M. Broadbent Papers on the Southern Sierra Miwok Language, Broadbent, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D21VHD.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 93, LA 140, LA 141).
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: William Ralgonal Benson and A. Warburton. The A. Warburton collection of Pomo sound recordings, PHM 43, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11043.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data. English glosses provided; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Esther Ward and Abraham M. Halpern. The Abraham Halpern collection of Central Pomo sound recordings, LA 202, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10008.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Joe Augustine, William Graves, and Francis A. Riddell. The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings, PHM 44, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11044.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson. The Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson collection of Pomo sound recordings, PHM 29, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11029.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: stories; linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Frank Quinn. The Frank Quinn collection of California Indian sound recordings, PHM 13, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11013.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Alvis Brown, William Graves, and Fritz Riddell. The Fritz Riddell collection of California Indian sound recordings, PHM 7, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11007.
Historical information:These recordings were made as part of the research for Moshinsky's (1970) Berkeley PhD dissertation 'Southeastern Pomo Grammar'.
Scope and content:Eight WAV files digitized from four original reels; recordings include word lists, basic sentences, and narrative texts.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Jim Brown, Harry Johnson, John Kelsey, Albert Thomas, and Julius Moshinsky. The Julius Moshinsky Collection of Southeastern Pomo Sound Recordings, LA 239, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2VM499S.
Associated materials:See associated field notes in Moshinsky.001-003 in Miscellaneous Papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: William Graves, Oscar McDaniel, Steve Parrish, and Peter Abraham. The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings, PHM 53, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11053.
Collection number: 2014-21
Relations to this Collection:2018-32 derives from this Collection
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, 2014-21, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2028PGT.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Materials can be accessed online through the California Language Archive. In particular, audio recordings are located in The William H. Jacobsen, Jr. collection of Antoniaño Salinan sound recordings (LA 69), The William H. Jacobsen, Jr. collection of Washo sound recordings (LA 53), and the William H. Jacobsen, Jr. collection of Makah sound recordings (LA 52).
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: A woman's song, 24-135.25, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13602.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Acorn Song, 24-132.2, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14020.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Acorn Song, 24-132.1, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14009.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: An exploration of the affinity of Wappo and some Hokan and Penutian languages, Oswalt.004.057, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2355.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Batu (Doctoring) Song, 24-131.7, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14006.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Batu (Doctoring) Song, 24-131.6, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14005.
Description:Spoken cues identify this as a recent song of its type, and the dance is best described in Meighan and Riddell (1972). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 9, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Bighead Dance Song, 24-131.12, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13999.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Bighead Song, 24-131.13, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14000.
Description:Twelve pamphlets on topics related to the history, ethnography, and biography of California Indians. Issued by the Book Club of California. Includes undated letter to Sawyer from Jack Werner Stauffacher of Greenwood Press.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: California Indian keepsakes, Sawyer.105, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2597.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Closing Dance Song (Gea hai no), 24-132.7, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14036.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Closing Song Out-Doors (Hoho lilan hoye), 24-132.8, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14037.
Description:Sung for dance while coming out to the centerpole. Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-136. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 13, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Coming Out Song, 24-136.3, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13626.
Description:Cue is ambiguous. The Whiskey Dance is evidently a post-contact phenomenon of which published sources tell us nothing. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Coming-Out Song (perhaps Whiskey Dance), 24-132.9, in "The Peter Abraham collection of Pomo and Patwin sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14038.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Coming-Out Song for Gilak Dance, 24-135.24, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13601.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Coming-Out Song of Dance, 24-135.6, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13607.
Description:A "lively-up song" (Hutil gane). Performers for 24-130 are William Graves, Stephen Knight, and Leland Fullwider, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 9, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song, 24-130.2, in "The Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11756.
Description:Performers for 24-130 are William Graves, Stephen Knight, and Leland Fullwider, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 9, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song, 24-130.3, in "The Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/11757.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song, 24-135.3, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13604.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song, 24-135.26, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13603.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song (Heye ana), 24-135.21, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13598.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song (Heyney waido), 24-135.22, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13599.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song (Hutil mana), 24-135.20, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13597.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song (Wahima dedi), 24-135.19, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13595.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song (Wahimai ho), 24-135.18, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13594.
Description:Joe Augustine accompanies William Graves on some items under catalog number 24-135. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dance Song (with clapsticks), 24-135.16, in "The Frances Riddell collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13592.
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