Historical information:Elizabeth Bright (née Halloran) conducted fieldwork on Patwin in 1952.
Scope and content:The Papers document Bright's field research on Patwin in the summer 1952. Included in the collection are her original field notebooks, handwritten drafts of a Patwin grammar, and lexical file slips. Her linguistic consultants were Nora Lowell (Hill Patwin), Sara Jane Gonzales, Ida Mitchum, and Minnie Bill (River Patwin), and Daisy Lorenzo (Tebti or Hill Patwin).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Mrs. Sara Jane Gonzales, Daisy Lowell Lorenzo, Nora Lowell, and Elizabeth Bright. Elizabeth Bright Papers on the Patwin Language, BrightE, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2000010.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 20).
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also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.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:Kenneth Whistler received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University (1972) and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley (1980). His research focused on the Penutian languages of California, chiefly Patwin.
Scope and content:The Papers primarily document Whistler's fieldwork on Patwin and Nomlaki. Whistler's Patwin consultants included Harry Lorenzo (Rumsey Hill Patwin, Brooks, California), Oscar McDaniel (Kabalwen Patwin, Stonyford, California) and Jennie Regalado (Colusa River Patwin, Colusa, California). Whistler's Nomlaki consultants included Joe Freeman (Paskenta Hill Nomlaki, Los Molinos, California). In addition to Whistler's field notes, the Papers contain drafts of a paper on Pomo prehistory by Whistler, notes on Yokuts reconstructions, and a preliminary dictionary of Barbareño Chumash.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Joe Freeman, Oscar McDaniel, Jennie Regalado, and Kenneth W. Whistler. Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages, Whistler, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2CV4FPF.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 105).
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: songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested 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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Account of a death, burial, and the dinner to send the spirit to heaven, LA 105.003, in "The Kenneth W. Whistler collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18882.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Account of bead making, LA 105.005, in "The Kenneth W. Whistler collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18884.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Ball song, LA 20.011, in "The Elizabeth Bright collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18854.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Bluebird song, LA 20.005, in "The Elizabeth Bright collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18848.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Bullethawk song (from story with unknown title), LA 20.008, in "The Elizabeth Bright collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18851.
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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
Suggested 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.
Item number: LA106.020
Date: 1961
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Contrasts, for example "hunt/food/drink", LA 106.020, in "The Donald Ultan Collection of Hill Patwin Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18876.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Cry song from the Old lady bear and old lady deer story, LA 20.002, in "The Elizabeth Bright collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18845.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Dance song (name of dance in Hill Patwin), LA 20.012, in "The Elizabeth Bright collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18855.
Item number: LA106.023
Date: 1961
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elicitation of vocabulary, including "deaf, blind," some color and some food terms, LA 106.023, in "The Donald Ultan Collection of Hill Patwin Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18879.
Item number: LA106.022
Date: 1961
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elicitation of vocabulary, including some family terms and some animal terms, LA 106.022, in "The Donald Ultan Collection of Hill Patwin Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18878.
Item number: LA106.021
Date: 1961
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Elicitation of vocabulary, mainly verbs like "talk, forget, hit," and some short phrases, LA 106.021, in "The Donald Ultan Collection of Hill Patwin Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18877.
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Description:The Bullhead Dance is a local name for the Bighead Dance among the Nomlaki, Wintun, and Patwin. The most specific reference is in Merriam (1955:26-28), but other important sources would include Meighan and Riddell (1972), LaPena (1978:332-33), Goldschmidt (1978:346), Johnson (1978:353), Kroeber (1925:1932a), and Barrett (1919a). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Fifth song of the Bullhead dance as done at Colusa, 24-132.25, 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/14026.
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Description:The Bullhead Dance is a local name for the Bighead Dance among the Nomlaki, Wintun, and Patwin. The most specific reference is in Merriam (1955:26-28), but other important sources would include Meighan and Riddell (1972), LaPena (1978:332-33), Goldschmidt (1978:346), Johnson (1978:353), Kroeber (1925:1932a), and Barrett (1919a). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Finishing song of the Grindstone "Bullhead Dance"., 24-132.20, 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/14021.
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Description:The Bullhead Dance is a local name for the Bighead Dance among the Nomlaki, Wintun, and Patwin. The most specific reference is in Merriam (1955:26-28), but other important sources would include Meighan and Riddell (1972), LaPena (1978:332-33), Goldschmidt (1978:346), Johnson (1978:353), Kroeber (1925:1932a), and Barrett (1919a). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: First Song of the Bullhead Dance, 24-132.14, 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/14014.
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Description:The Bullhead Dance is a local name for the Bighead Dance among the Nomlaki, Wintun, and Patwin. The most specific reference is in Merriam (1955:26-28), but other important sources would include Meighan and Riddell (1972), LaPena (1978:332-33), Goldschmidt (1978:346), Johnson (1978:353), Kroeber (1925:1932a), and Barrett (1919a). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: First song of the Bullhead Dance as done at Colusa, 24-132.22, 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/14023.
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Description:The Bullhead Dance is a local name for the Bighead Dance among the Nomlaki, Wintun, and Patwin. The most specific reference is in Merriam (1955:26-28), but other important sources would include Meighan and Riddell (1972), LaPena (1978:332-33), Goldschmidt (1978:346), Johnson (1978:353), Kroeber (1925:1932a), and Barrett (1919a). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: First song of the Bullhead dance as done at Grindstone, 24-132.16, 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/14016.
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Description:The Bullhead Dance is a local name for the Bighead Dance among the Nomlaki, Wintun, and Patwin. The most specific reference is in Merriam (1955:26-28), but other important sources would include Meighan and Riddell (1972), LaPena (1978:332-33), Goldschmidt (1978:346), Johnson (1978:353), Kroeber (1925:1932a), and Barrett (1919a). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Fourth song of the Bullhead dance as done at Colusa, 24-132.24, 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/14025.
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Description:The Bullhead Dance is a local name for the Bighead Dance among the Nomlaki, Wintun, and Patwin. The most specific reference is in Merriam (1955:26-28), but other important sources would include Meighan and Riddell (1972), LaPena (1978:332-33), Goldschmidt (1978:346), Johnson (1978:353), Kroeber (1925:1932a), and Barrett (1919a). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Fourth song of the Bullhead dance as done at Grindstone, 24-132.19, 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/14019.
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Description:Perhaps this Ghost Dance song pertains not to the messianic movement that reached California in the 1870s and again in the 1890s but rather to the indigenous Ghost (or Devil) Ceremony as described in Barrett (1917:403-23), Powers (1877:158-60 and 193-94), and Kroeber (1925:263-65). On the other hand, Goldschmidt does point out that the Nevada-influenced cult survived into the 1930s among the neighoring Nomlaki (1978:342). The vocal style (microtonal inflections, no pairing or phrases, etc.) is distinctly Californian and not at all typical of great basin Ghost Dance songs (RK). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Ghost Dance Song, 24-132.13, 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/14013.
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Description:Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Grass Game Song (from Grindstone), 24-132.28, 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/14029.
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Description:Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 10, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Suggested citation: Grass Game Song (from Grindstone), 24-132.29, 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/14030.
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Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Hesi songs, LA 20.010, in "The Elizabeth Bright collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18853.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: How the consultant made a flute, LA 105.006, in "The Kenneth W. Whistler collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18885.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Khosi Muhi "Gambling Song", LA 105.002, in "The Kenneth W. Whistler collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18881.
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