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 This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture.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.
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: Shirley Silver (1926-) is Professor Emerita at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. She received a bachelor's degree (1949) and Ph.D. (1966) from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral thesis was a description of the Shasta language based on fieldwork condicuted in 1957-1961. Over the course of her career she published widely on a variety of topics related to the native languages of California.
Scope and content: The Papers document Shirley Silver's research on the indigenous languages of California. This includes a microfilm copy of her Shasta field notes collected in the summers of 1957-1961. Sargent Sambo was her main Shasta language consultant, and she recorded additional material with Clara Wicks (Shasta) and Lily Montgomery (Yana). The collection also includes copies of wordlists for Shasta and Southern Pomo collected by Silver, a pre-publication draft article on Hokan botanical vocabulary, notes on Yuki grammar, and a set of slides featuring the Kashaya alphabet.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Sargent Sambo and Shirley Silver. Shirley Silver Papers on California Indian Languages, Silver, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2DV1GTT.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 48, LA 124).
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; ethnographic data; conversation, reminiscences. Some English glosses and explanations provided.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Sargent Sambo and Shirley Silver. The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings, LA 48, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10126.
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories. Some English glosses.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Sargent Sambo and William Bright. The William Bright collection of Shasta sound recordings, LA 118, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10047.
Collection number: 2014-21
Relations to this collection:Jacobsen replaced by 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).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A Shasta vocabulary, Grekoff.024.006, in "George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2500.
Preferred citation: A girl reaches puberty, LA 48.049, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15418.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.049.001.wav (46705606 bytes)
Preferred citation: A new born baby, LA 48.047, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15416.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.047.001.wav (27569256 bytes)
Preferred citation: Account of a ten-pointer, LA 48.048, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15417.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.048.001.wav (33701056 bytes)
Preferred citation: Account of four Indians kill a miner. Includes English discussion., LA 48.001, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15370.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.001.001.wav (181211230 bytes)
Preferred citation: Account of killing first deer, LA 48.022, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15391.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.022.001.wav (23714868 bytes)
Preferred citation: Account of the Indians helping the first white men across the river, LA 48.028, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15397.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.028.001.wav (23724120 bytes)
Preferred citation: Account of working with Roland B. Dixon, LA 48.063, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15432.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.063.001.wav (108525916 bytes)
Preferred citation: Anecdote of Charlie's horse, LA 48.123, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15492.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.123.001.wav (36724828 bytes)
Preferred citation: Antelope child, LA 48.094, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15463.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.094.001.wav (132336120 bytes)
Preferred citation: Antepole child. Version 1., LA 48.108, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15477.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.108.001.wav (61440432 bytes)
Preferred citation: Antepole child. Version 2., LA 48.109, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15478.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.109.001.wav (36518334 bytes)
Preferred citation: Autobiographical text of Sargent Sambo, LA 48.064, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15433.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.064.001.wav (311300934 bytes)
Preferred citation: Basketry. Includes an English discussion., LA 48.006, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15375.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.006.001.wav (140880222 bytes)
Preferred citation: Bat and thunder, LA 48.112, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15481.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.112.001.wav (46035138 bytes)
Preferred citation: Bear and lizard child, LA 48.107, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15476.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.107.001.wav (64339338 bytes)
Preferred citation: Black wolf beats thunder in a race. Includes an explanation., LA 48.018, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15387.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.018.001.wav (43488120 bytes)
Preferred citation: Buckskin bags filled with gold, LA 48.002, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15371.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.002.001.wav (213190530 bytes)
Preferred citation: Bunny and his grandmother, LA 48.088, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15457.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.088.001.wav (80028120 bytes)
Preferred citation: Bunny and the grandmother, LA 48.098, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15467.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.098.001.wav (104976120 bytes)
Preferred citation: Buzzard and water dog, LA 48.070, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15439.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.070.001.wav (75852120 bytes)
Description: Miscellaneous notes related to a variety of California Indian languages, including: a handout by Bill Elmendorf entitled, “Yukian Pronouns (AAA, 11/21/1969)”; newspaper articles from the 1960’s concerning Indian affairs in California; a manuscript entitled “Notes on Indian Languages of California” by William Bright (8 pages); a map entitled “Native tribes, groups, dialects, and families of California in 1770”; printed notes entitled “schemata of California Indian Tribes”, accompanied by tables depicting properties of particular words; miscellaneous vocabulary from a wide range of languages.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: California Indian Languages, 2014-21.002.059, in "William H. Jacobsen Materials on Indigenous Languages of North America", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/23030.
Preferred citation: Conversation about an unknown topic, LA 48.021, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15390.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.021.001.wav (285604938 bytes)
Preferred citation: Conversation about an unknown topic, LA 48.023, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15392.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.023.001.wav (138029976 bytes)
Preferred citation: Coyote and eagle, LA 48.119, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15488.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): LA48.119.001.wav (26982810 bytes)
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