Historical information: Jesse O. Sawyer (1918-1986) received his Ph.D. in English and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. From 1957-1962 he was the director of the English Program for Foreign Students in the Department of Speech at UC Berkeley, then a Senior Lecturer in linguistics from 1962 until his death in 1986. From 1961 onwards he was also the Director of UC Berkeley's Language Lab, now the Berkeley Language Center. Over the course of his career he worked on a variety of topics related to the indigenous languages of California, especially the documentation of Wappo in close cooperation with speaker Laura Fish Somersal.
Scope and content: The Papers document Sawyer's nearly three decades of research on indigenous languages of California, especially members of the Yukian family. The collection includes Wappo field notes collected from the late 1950s to the 1980s and derived materials such as vocabulary files and descriptive and comparative articles. His principal Wappo consultant was Laura Fish Somersal, with additional data provided by Jack Wobo. Sawyer's Yuki consultants were Minnie Fulwider, Arthur Anderson, and Leland Fulwider. The collection also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Laura Somersal and Jesse O. Sawyer. Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages, Sawyer, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC309Q.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 56, LA 88, LA 90, LA 102).
Historical information: Sydney M. Lamb is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Houston, Texas. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Yale University (1951) and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1957). His doctoral dissertation was a grammar of the Mono language based on fieldwork conducted around North Fork, California in the summers of 1953 and 1954. He was a Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley from 1958-1964 and Yale University from 1968-1977. He left academia to work in the computer industry from 1977-1981, but subsequently joined the faculty of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University, where he has spent the remainder of his academic career.
Scope and content: The Papers document Lamb's research on Indian languages of California and surrounding areas from 1953-1955. One microfilm reel in the collection also includes copies of Victor Golla's notebooks from his fieldwork on Hupa at Hoopa Valley in the summer of 1963; for more details, see details under the Victor Golla Papers on the Hupa Language.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Lucy Kinsman and Sydney M. Lamb. Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages, Lamb, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2JW8BTD.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 31, LA 60, LA 80, LA 235, LA 236).
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories. English glosses provided. Translation to or from English.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Mary Chico, Sydney M. Lamb, and Hansjakob Seiler. The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings, LA 80, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10101.
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).
Description: Twelve pamphlets on topics related to the history, ethnography, and biography of California Indians. Issued by the Book Club of California. Includes undated letter to Sawyer from Jack Werner Stauffacher of Greenwood Press.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: California Indian keepsakes, Sawyer.105, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2597.
Preferred citation: Coyote and Bear, LA 80.001, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15732.
Preferred citation: Coyote and his sister mouse., LA 80.020, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15751.
Preferred citation: Elicitation from stickman diagrams (Pictures 43, 46, 50, 30, 41, 40, 47)., LA 80.019, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15750.
Preferred citation: Elicitation from stickman drawings (21-24) and elicitation of words and phrases., LA 80.006, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15737.
Preferred citation: Elicitation from stickman drawings (Pictures 1-15, 20-24, 26-29, 31-33, 36, 39, 42, 43)., LA 80.017, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15748.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of basic and complex sentences eg. use of the present continuous., LA 80.016, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15747.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of basic words and phrases on a variety of topics eg. weather, fruit, verbs, etc., LA 80.003, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15734.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of expressions concerning the weather, LA 80.022, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15753.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of names and sounds of animals., LA 80.007, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15738.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of numbers, LA 80.004, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15735.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of numbers, LA 80.008, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15739.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of phrases, LA 80.013, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15744.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases, LA 80.005, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15736.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases, LA 80.024, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15755.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and phrases (including action words i.e. stab, kill, etc.), LA 80.018, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15749.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words and short phrases, LA 80.010, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15741.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words for body parts, LA 80.009, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15740.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words pertaining to the weather, LA 80.011, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15742.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of words related to animals, LA 80.012, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15743.
Preferred citation: Identification of Indian tribe Tubatulabal, LA 80.014, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15745.
Preferred citation: Identification of words and phrases related to the weather, nature, etc. Also names of Indian tribes., LA 80.015, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15746.
Description: Mimeographs of Parts 2-4 of "Readings in American Indian Linguistics", dated 1963, accompanied by three extra copies of Part 3. Also contains mimeographs of thumbnail sketches by Haas and her students on miscellaneous California languages. (The digital files associated with this Item include a series of scanned images from original physical objects. These images are aggregated at lower resolution in the file Haas.063.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Haas.063.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Haas.063-image_metadata.txt.)
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Readings in American Indian linguistics, Haas.063, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X20G3H32.
Preferred citation: Short discussion about the Tubatulabal tribe name, LA 80.023, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15754.
Preferred citation: Story: Title included on the recording, LA 80.002, in "The Sydney M. Lamb and Hansjakob Seiler collection of Tubatulabal sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15733.
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