Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: stories; linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Thomas Talbot Waterman. The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings, PHM 71, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11071.
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:Keeling catalog note: "The text is transcribed in Waterman's notes (1911: Notebook #5, pp. 8-30 and 40-43). Customs relating to girls' puberty are discussed in J. Johnson (1978:366). Songs used in girls' puberty ritual are heard on 24-2051 through 24-2053." Original cylinders 14-1671 through 14-1677. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Account of a ceremony for adolecscent girls, 24-2040, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14638.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Account of the fate of souls after death, 24-2039, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14637.
Availability: Paper materials available in person. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan it for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Copy of “Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey, No. 40: An Introduction to Yana Archaeology”, by M. A. Baumhoff, dated Oct. 20, 1957, with a few notes written in it; pages 46-47, 62, 69-73, 122, 125, 133, and 250 of a document describing Yana/Yahi materials deposited in archives, possibly limited to materials kept at UC Berkeley, and encompassing work by T.T. Waterman, C.E. Kelsey, E. Sapir, and R.B. Dixon; a photocopying order form the American Philosophical Society filled out by Bruce Nevin for materials on various Californian languages; photocopies of a resource listing manuscripts relating to American Indian Tribes, Language families, and areas, with some notes; copy of Chapter XXIX of Powers and Powell (1877), “Tribes of California: Vol. 3”, entitled “The No’zi, etc”. The materials all originate from a folder labeled “Archive Notes”.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Archive Notes, 2014-21.004.011, 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/23137.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Bow Song (for warding off bullets or arrows of enemies), 24-2096, 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/13106.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1727.txt (7473 bytes) 14-1727.wav (18419244 bytes) 14-1727_filtered.wav (18419244 bytes)
Availability: Paper materials available in person. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan it for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description: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.
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: hainapo yahainapo." Keeling catalog note: "This tape contains original cylinders 14-1814 (1'53") and 14-1815 (1'54"), the latter being a slightly louder re-recording of the former. For musical transcriptions see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Original cylinders 14-1814 and 14-1815. 125 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dancing song of dead people in the other world, 24-2138, 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/13118.
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Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Deer Song (for dancing), 24-2077, 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/13096.
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Description:Keeling catalog note: "The same song is duplicated on 24-2152 (14-1829) and 24-2153 (14-1830). Musical transcriptions in Nettl (1965:475) and among Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Museum catalog note: "Words: yati watiwa." Original cylinder 14-1710. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Deer Song (not for dancing), 24-2078, 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/13097.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1710.txt (6272 bytes) 14-1710.wav (10780644 bytes) 14-1710_filtered.wav (10780644 bytes)
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: yati watiwa." Keeling catalog note: "This is a repeat performance of the song on 24-2078 (14-1710). Nettl provides a separate musical transcription (1965)." Original cylinder 14-1829. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Deer Song (not for dancing), 24-2152, 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/13132.
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Description:Keeling catalog note: "This is another repeat performance of the song on 24-2078. Nettl provides a separate musical transcription (1965)." Original cylinder 14-1830. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Deer Song (not for dancing), 24-2153, 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/13133.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1830.txt (8108 bytes) 14-1830.wav (12883644 bytes) 14-1830_filtered.wav (12883720 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Dentalium Song, 24-2074, 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/13093.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1706.txt (6184 bytes) 14-1706.wav (8178444 bytes) 14-1706_filtered.wav (8178444 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Description of fishing, 24-2042, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14640.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1679.txt (8591 bytes) 14-1679.wav (14783244 bytes) 14-1679_filtered.wav (14783244 bytes) 14-1680.txt (9282 bytes) 14-1680.wav (14706444 bytes) 14-1680_filtered.wav (14706444 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Doctor's (?) Bow-String Song, 24-2072, 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/13091.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1704.txt (7706 bytes) 14-1704.wav (10098444 bytes) 14-1704_filtered.wav (10098444 bytes)
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: ai kuwe kuwe kuwe." Keeling catalog note: "This is a repeat performance of the item on 24-2072 (14-1704)." Original cylinder 14-1827. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Doctor's (?) Bow-String Song, 24-2150, 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/13130.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1827.txt (10064 bytes) 14-1827.wav (14900140 bytes) 14-1827_filtered.wav (14900216 bytes)
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: aipirir ipaltsawanomi. Towards end of song other words occur." Keeling catalog note: "Musical transcriptions in Nettl (1965:474) and among Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Original cylinder 14-1703. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Doctor's Arrow Song (for extracting arrows from the body), 24-2071, 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/13090.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1703.txt (6409 bytes) 14-1703.wav (10576844 bytes) 14-1703_filtered.wav (10576844 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Doctor's Bow Song, 24-2070, 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/13089.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1702.txt (7864 bytes) 14-1702.wav (10669244 bytes) 14-1702_filtered.wav (10669244 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Doctor's Song Against Rattlesnake Bite, 24-2076, 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/13095.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1708.txt (8895 bytes) 14-1708.wav (12381036 bytes) 14-1708_filtered.wav (12381036 bytes)
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: he wenowe owina he wenowe owinowi howina." Keeling catalog note: "Musical transcriptions in Nettl (1965:475) and among Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Original cylinder 14-1713. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Doctor's Song for Sucking Sickness, 24-2081, 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/13100.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1713.txt (7497 bytes) 14-1713.wav (15177844 bytes) 14-1713_filtered.wav (15177844 bytes)
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: aini kenyuweni." Keeling catalog note: "For transcriptions of music and text see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11). Music is transcribed in Nettl (1965:475)." Original cylinder 14-1715. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Fire-Eating Doctor's Song, 24-2083, 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/13102.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1715.txt (7606 bytes) 14-1715.wav (12282244 bytes) 14-1715_filtered.wav (12282244 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Fish (galahi) Song, 24-2079, 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/13098.
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Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: a' aini'inuwen a'inwwen." Keeling catalog note: "For transcriptions of music and text see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11)." Original cylinder 14-1728. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Fish (tasi) Song (for shooting fish with arrows), 24-2097, 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/13107.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1728.txt (8494 bytes) 14-1728.wav (21839244 bytes) 14-1728_filtered.wav (21839244 bytes)
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: iyannumi iyan numi, djibal minum djibal minaa." Keeling catalog note: "For transcriptions of music and text see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11). Musical transcription in Nettl (1965:475)." Original cylinder 14-1724. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Flint Song, 24-2093, 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/13103.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1724.txt (7126 bytes) 14-1724.wav (11332524 bytes) 14-1724_filtered.wav (11332524 bytes)
Description:Museum catalog note: "Words: etiten pantkomeya tinti i pant kin howeyena." Keeling catalog note: "24-2054a (1'54") contains original cylinder 14-1688a, and 24-2054b (1'52") contains original cylinder 14-1695 (apparently the same song). Musical transcriptions are found among the Kroeber Papers (Carton 11) and in Nettl (1965:473). Notes in 14- Catalogue identify this as a 'man flint' song and as a 'doctor's song for curing'." Original cylinders 14-1688a and 14-1695. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Flint Song (man flint), 24-2054, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14652.
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Description:Museum catalog note: "Words of: owiyana edidenban." Keeling catalog note: "A note in the 14- Catalogue identifies this as a 'woman flint' song. For musical transcriptions see Kroeber Papers (Carton 11) and Nettl (1965:472). Text notes among Kroeber Papers (ibid.)." Original cylinder 14-1688b. 150 speed.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Flint Song (woman flint), 24-2055, in "The T.T. Waterman collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14653.
Digital assets in this Item (not available for download): 14-1688.txt (8660 bytes) 14-1688b.wav (5158044 bytes) 14-1688b_filtered.wav (5158044 bytes)
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Foot Song (used against tiredness in travel), 24-2073, 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/13092.
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