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
Suggested 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 This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture.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
Suggested 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:Hans Jørgen Uldall (1907-1957) was a Danish phonetician and a leading proponent of the Glossematic theory of linguistic structure. Early in his career, Uldall spent two years as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1930-1932), during which time he conducted research on a number of California languages, notably Nisenan (a.k.a. Southern Maidu) and also including Achumawi, Eastern Pomo, and Karuk. This research led to the publication of descriptions of the phonetics and phonology of Achumawi (1933) and Maidu (1954). After leaving Berkeley, Uldall spent a year as an instructor in phonetics at Columbia university before returning to Denmark. In the late 1930s he worked closely with Loius Hjelmslev to lay the foundation for Glossematic theory. Uldall subsequently worked for the British Council, holding appointments at Edinburgh University (1951-1952) and the University of Ibadan (1954-1957).
Scope and content:The Papers document Uldall's research on languages of Northern California based on fieldwork conducted while a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley from 1930-1932. Although the word "Maidu" appears in the titles of many items in the collection, Uldall worked primarily on Nisenan (Southern Maidu) with speaker William Joseph, and it is likely that these materials are based on Nisenan rather than the language commonly known as Maidu today (i.e., Northeastern or Mountain Maidu). The bulk of the collection consists of Uldall's notes and drafts of a grammar of Maidu (Nisenan) and a collection of Nisenan texts that were eventually published through the efforts of William Shipley. Also included in the collection are Uldall's original field notes on Achumawi, a set of Karuk texts, notes on the phonology of Eastern Pomo and a short Nez Perce text. His Achumawi consultants were Jack Folsom, Artie Griffith, and a speaker identified only as "Jessie"; a speaker "Hattie" is identified in his Karuk notes.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: William Joseph and Hans Jørgen Uldall. Hans Jørgen Uldall Papers on the Nisenan Language, Uldall, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21V5BXM.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 230).
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
Suggested 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).
Historical information:In the mid-2000s, Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley) and Susan Gehr (Karuk tribal linguist, archivist, and language program coordinator) worked together to create an online searchable version of William Bright and Gehr's "Karuk dictionary" (2005), in a website hosted by the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department. In 2008 and 2009, Gehr and Karuk language program coordinator Ruth Rouvier invited Garrett to work with Karuk community members on data management and archiving for language documentation. From this emerged a Karuk language documentation project involving collaboration among Berkeley linguists, the Karuk Tribe, and Karuk tribal members. The project was led at Berkeley by Line Mikkelsen and Andrew Garrett (and initially Alice Gaby, who subsequently left Berkeley); other participants included Karuk first-language speakers Lucille Albers, Sonny Davis, Vina Smith, and Charlie Thom Sr.; second-language speakers, learners, and teachers Tamara Alexander, LuLu Alexander, Crystal Richardson, and Florrine Super; and UC Berkeley graduate students Erik Hans Maier and Clare Sandy. Active documentation began in 2010 and continued through at least 2017. (Elders Thom, Albers, and Smith passed away in 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively.) Among other research activities, this project involved extensive work with texts, including the creation of digital versions of legacy texts (e.g. all texts published in William Bright's 1957 "The Karok language"), transcribing new texts, and analyzing texts. The text analysis also involved preparation of a treebank of syntactically parsed Karuk sentences.
Scope and content:The collection consists mainly of field recordings made by Berkeley faculty and students with Karuk elders as well as younger language learners and second-language speakers. Most of the items in the collection are organized as follows: recordings made on a single research trip (on one or more days) are bundled together as digital assets of a single item. One item in the collection contains grant applications (e.g. for a National Science Foundation grant); another item contains handouts and posters from conference presentations by Berkeley project participants. The field recordings include a wide range of texts, text types, and methodologies (elicitation, free texts, responses to stimuli, discussion of legacy recordings); they cover a variety of linguistic topics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Sonny Davis, Crystal Richardson, Vina Smith, Charlie Thom Sr., LuLu Alexander, Tamara Alexander, Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, Clare S. Sandy, and Florrine Super. Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project, 2017-04, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2RR1WFX.
Historical information:Verdena Parker was born and raised in 1936 in Hoopa Valley, California, and speaks Hupa as her first language. She later moved with her family to Winston, Oregon but continued to speak Hupa daily until the death of her mother in 1997. One of the few remaining first-language speakers of Hupa, in the early 2000s she got involved with Hupa revitalization and documentation activities, serving as a consulting expert on the Hupa language for various projects and classes in Hoopa Valley. Beginning in 2005 she also collaborated with researchers based in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Scope and content:The recordings in this collection are the result of Verdena Parker's longstanding collaboration with researchers affiliated with the Hupa Language Documentation Project, which originated at UC Berkeley in 2005. Ramón Escamilla and Justin Spence joined the project in 2007, and they have continued the research effort since moving to the University of Central Arkansas and the University of California, Davis, respectively. As of October 2021, this deposit covers project team members' work with Mrs. Parker from 2005-2008 and from 2015 to 2021. Some of the recordings from 2008 were produced with support from an Endangered Languages Documentation Programme grant (co-PIs Amy Campbell and Lindsey Newbold). Recordings produced from 2015 to 2020 were funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Documenting Endangered Languages program (BCS #1500851) to co-PIs Spence and Escamilla. The recordings cover a broad range of topics: original texts told by Mrs. Parker, including narrations of 8mm films she recorded in the 1960s; sessions in which recordings are transcribed and/or translated; elicitation of paradigms, grammatical phenomena such as evidentiality, purpose clauses, and indefinites, and words and phrases for use in language revitalization programs; re-transcription and translation of unpublished texts found in archival sources. Some of the recordings that were transcribed and translated are part of existing collections at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, or they are part of the the present deposit. Others were created by the Hupa Language Documentation Project from 2009-2014 and will be deposited at a later date.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Verdena Parker, Amy Campbell, Ramón Escamilla, Lindsey Newbold, and Justin Spence. Materials of the Hupa Language Documentation Project, 2017-06, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22R3Q2G.
Associated materials:The following archival collections are mentioned in the metadata descriptions of particular bundles. 1) Barnett, Homer Garner. 1934-1973. Homer Garner Barnett Papers 1934-1973. National Anthropological Archives. 2) Campbell, Amy and Lindsey Newbold. 2014. Expanding the Documentation and Description of Hupa (Athabaskan). Endangered Languages Archive. Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0002-A9CF-5. 3) Curtin, Jeremiah. 1888-1889. Terms for divisions of time in Wintun, Hupa, and Yurok. National Anthropological Archives, NAA MS 3805. 4) Goddard, Pliny Earle. 1902-1907. Chilula materials. American Philosophical Society Na20g.1. 5) Goddard, Pliny Earle. 1903-1906. Hupa materials. American Philosophical Society Na20a.2. 6) Goddard, Pliny Earle. c. 1905. Unpublished texts in Chilula and in some other unidentified California Athapaskan language circa 1905. Bancroft Library, CU-23.1 (BANC FILM 2216): 12.2. 7) Goddard, Pliny Earle. 1907. Whilkut field notes. American Philosophical Society Na20j.1 8) Goddard, Pliny Earle. n.d. Hupa verb paradigms. Bancroft Library, CU-23.1 (BANC FILM 2216): 12.14.1. 9) Jackson, Louisa, Ned Jackson, and Victor Golla. The Victor K. Golla collection of Hupa sound recordings, LA 119, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10025. 10) Woodward, Mary. 1953. [Hupa texts notebooks]. Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Woodward.002. http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2319SVZ.
Historical information:Robert Louis Oswalt, Pomoan language scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. 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, Southern Pomo, and Central 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, 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
Suggested 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
Suggested 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:Linguistic field recordings: stories; linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Alfred L. Kroeber. The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings, PHM 39, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11039.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Derrik N. Lehmer. The D.N. Lehmer collection of American Indian sound recordings, PHM 45, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11045.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: stories; ethnographic data; songs; additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts, conversation (English), reminiscences. Some in English. Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Nettie Ruben and William Bright. The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings, LA 78, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10145.
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
Suggested 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).
Availability: Paper materials for Item number BrightW.005 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan them for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Annotated draft of a paper published in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. Ethnopoetic analysis of a Karuk text (English translation only).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: A Karok myth in 'measured verse': The translation of a performance, BrightW.005, 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/214.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Bluejay as doctor and Old man turtle (include short songs), LA 78.011, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17950.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Boy from Itukkuk (includes short songs), LA 78.013, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17952.
Item number: LA78.007
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 includes this Item
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Brush dance song, LA 78.007, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17946.
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
Suggested 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: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Conversation, LA 78.014, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17953.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Conversation and storytelling, LA 78.009, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17948.
Item number: LA78.001
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 includes this Item
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Coyote gambles (includes song), LA 78.001, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17940.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Coyote's homecoming, LA 78.003, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17942.
Item number: LA78.019
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 has this Item as an alternative format
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Deer medicine, Coyote and the sun, and Coyote as priest, LA 78.019, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17958.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Evening star, LA 78.004, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17943.
Availability: Online access to Item number 24-2712 by request.
Description:Musuem catalog note: "Translation: Here comes my enemy. He has on a white shirt ready to battle." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 10, side B. Original cylinder 14-2502. 115 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Fighting Song, 24-2712, in "The D.N. Lehmer collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13748.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Ganatchaee, LA 78.008, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17947.
Availability: Online access to Item number 24-859 by request.
Description:Keeling catalog note: "For musical transcription (by Kretschmer) see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Museum catalog note: "Bright refers to song as 'Flower Dance' (as it is called by neighboring Hupa)." Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side B. Original cylinder 14-329a. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Girl's Puberty Dance Song (Karok), 24-859, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13031.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 14-329.txt (7605 bytes) 14-329a.wav (5395544 bytes) 14-329a_filtered.wav (5395620 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Girl's Puberty Dance Song (Karok), 24-860, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13032.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 14-329.txt (7605 bytes) 14-329b.wav (5869972 bytes) 14-329b_filtered.wav (5870048 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Indian doctors, LA 78.010, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17949.
Availability: Paper materials for Item number BrightW.004 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan them for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Pedagogical materials for teaching Karuk literacy. Includes a clipping from the Pioneer Press (Vol. 5, no. 49) and correspondence with Jesse Sawyer and Mrs. Elizabeth Beckman.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Introduction to the Karuk language. Lesson 1: Pronunciation and writing., BrightW.004, 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/213.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Karok War Dance Song, 24-2543, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13231.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 14-2341.txt (8038 bytes) 14-2341b.wav (9682368 bytes) 14-2341b_filtered.wav (9682428 bytes)
Availability: Online access to Item number 24-828 by request.
Description:In Keeling's catalogue, 24-828 was erroneously associated with a song from 24-827. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 2, side A. Original cylinder 14-297. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Karuk War Dance Song, 24-828, in "The Alfred L. Kroeber collection of American Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13000.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 14-297.txt (6568 bytes) 14-297.wav (10161316 bytes) 14-297_filtered.wav (10161392 bytes)
Description:"Elicitation on topics including: narration of ""The Three Bears"" using Carolyn ""Lyn"" Risling's ""The Three Bears"" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013); basket vocabulary; lexicalized words with durative aspect suffix '-tih'; miscellaneous vocabulary; verbs with past tense suffix '-at.' Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings. "
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, April 2014, 2017-04.029, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24370.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: depictives and resultatives; palatalization in reduplication; body parts, meronymy, and metaphoric extensions; directionals; descriptions of various scenes using toys and props; use of modal circumfix 'kupa-...-ahi'; various vocabulary. Also includes listening and translation of legacy recordings.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, April 2015, 2017-04.034, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24375.
Description:Elicitation on topics including: vocabulary for going to the doctor; appositional use of Karuk pronoun 'uum'; reduplication with inflection.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, April 2016, 2017-04.041, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24383.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 2017-04.041_file_metadata.txt (1223 bytes) karuk-2016-04-02-sd-1.wav (10312748 bytes) karuk-2016-04-02-sd-2.wav (204069932 bytes) karuk-2016-04-02-sd-3.wav (1148788268 bytes) karuk-2016-04-03-sd-1.wav (402554924 bytes) karuk-2016-04-03-sd-2.wav (775623212 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: vocabulary and sentences about washing hands; terms for squirrel and acorn board game; playing squirrel and acorn board game in Karuk.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, August 2016, 2017-04.045, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24387.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 2017-04.045_file_metadata.txt (557 bytes) karuk-2016-08-20-sd.wav (1584227470 bytes) karuk-2016-08-21-sd-2.wav (880827790 bytes)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, August 2016: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.052, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24728.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 2017-04.052_file_metadata.txt (301 bytes) karuk-2016-08-21-sd-1.wav (657739918 bytes)
Description:Elicitation on topics including: use of Karuk 1st-person prefixes 'ni-' and 'na-' in expression of personal states; monomorphemic words in isolation and in sentences for accent contrasts; verbs of position; possessives; how to say 'where is X?'; non-geminating consonants; locatives; relative clauses.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Karuk field recordings, December 2011, 2017-04.011, in "Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24349.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request): 2017-04.011_file_metadata.txt (2212 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-1.WAV (25408556 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-2.WAV (67104044 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-3.WAV (239307308 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-4.WAV (166180652 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-5.WAV (302381612 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-6.WAV (148347692 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-7.WAV (278210348 bytes) karuk-2011-12-21-vs-8.WAV (255354668 bytes)
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