Scope and content:The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection includes a variety of maps showing the boundaries of indigenous languages and groups as well as settlement locations. Included are some of the classic maps from the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78 by Alfred Kroeber.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection, Maps, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11082.
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: stories; linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred 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: songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Emma Aragon, Logan Brown, Gilbert Day, Pandora Pogue, Toorey Roberts, and Dimitri B. Shimkin. The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings, PHM 36, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11036.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: stories; linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Susy Buster, Hank Pete, Stan Freed, and Francis A. Riddell. The Frances Riddell and Stan Freed collection of California Indian sound recordings, PHM 12, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11012.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Julian H. Steward. The Julian H. Steward collection of Western Numic sound recordings, PHM 27, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11027.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; songs/chants
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Bob Beckwith, Karen Beckwith, Frank LaPena, Stella Pancho, Robert Rathbun, and Bill Rathbun. The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings, PHM 48, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11048.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; ethnographic data; songs; other ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts; conversations; reminiscences; untitled texts. Some English glosses provided.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Lucy Kinsman and Sydney M. Lamb. The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Mono sound recordings, LA 31, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10099.
Scope and content:Linguistic Field Recordings: Linguistic data; songs.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Bob Somerville and Sydney M. Lamb. The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Shoshoni sound recordings, LA 235, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10206.
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).
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, 270 pp.
Description:Undated photocopy of a typed dictionary based on 19th century sources, original dated 1976 April 11 and 1978. Research conducted 1967-1973.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: An English-Shoshone dictionary of nineteenth century sources, Shaul.001, 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/1692.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: First Peyote Song, 24-2966, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12226.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Fourth Peyote Song, 24-2969, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12229.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Ghost Dance Song, 24-2971, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12231.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Ghost Dance Song (#1), 24-2972, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12232.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Ghost Dance Song (#2), 24-2973, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12233.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Ghost Dance song called "Shacihipite", 24-2970, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12230.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Handgame Song, LA 235.005, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Shoshoni sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20329.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Handgame song by Shoshone (?) team (with drum and sticks), 24-392.2, in "The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13878.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Handgame song by Shoshone team, 24-393.2, in "The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13887.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Handgame song by Shoshone team (?), 24-394.4, in "The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13895.
Description:Performer unidentified. This tape contains handgame songs only, but teams performing are not clearly identified. See previous entries for more information. This tape was originally recorded half-track at 7.5 ips (one side only; about 30 minutes in duration). The collector's identification number(s): Tape 5, Side A; Tape XY. See collector's notes in accession file #3550. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 23, side A and Northeast region, tape 8, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Handgame songs from the 1980 Maidu Bear Dance in Janesville, 24-398, in "The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13917.
Description:This tape contains a continuation of handgame songs recorded on collector's Tape 5, Side A. The contents of this tape are not clearly identified. This tape was originally recorded half-track at 7.5 ips (one side only; about 28 minutes in duration). The collector's identification number(s): Tape 5, Side A, continued, and Side B, Part One (Tape XY, continued, and Tape PT, Part One). This tape contains a continuation of handgame songs on collector's Tape 5, Side B. The identity of teams performing is not clear, generally, but see collector's notes for Tapes XY and PT (accession file #3550). Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 23, side B and Northeast region, tape 9, side A.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Handgames songs sung at the 1980 Maidu Bear Dance in Janseville, 24-399, in "The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13918.
Description:Performed by an unidentified female. This tape contains a continuation of handgame songs recorded on collector's Tape 5, Side A. The contents of this tape are not clearly identified. This tape was originally recorded half-track at 7.5 ips (one side only; about 20 minutes in duration). The collector's identification number(s): Tape 5, Side B, continued (Tape PT, continued). This is a continuation of Tape 5, Side B (Tape PT), and containd handgame songs recorded in actual context. Accession #3550. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, Sierra region, tape 19, side A and Northeast region, tape 9, side B.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Handgames songs sung at the 1980 Maidu Bear Dance in Janseville , 24-400, in "The Karen Beckwith and Bill Rathbun collection of Maidu, Northern Paiute, and Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/13919.
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 sheet, 34' x 10.5'
Description:Color-coded map showing the locations of various language families within modern-day Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. The language families referenced include "Athabascan, Chemakuan, Hokan, Kitunahan, Penutian (including Alsea-Coos-Siuslaw, Chinook, Kalapuya, Klamath-Modoc, Molale-Cayuse, Sahaptin, Takelma), Salishan, Shoshonean, and Wakashan". The map was published by the Oregon Historical Society, Portland, OR.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Indian Tribes and Languages of the Old Oregon Country, Maps.006, in "Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22643.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Love Song ( 2 singers, unaccompanied), 24-1907, 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/12651.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Personal Sun Dance Song, 24-2963, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12223.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Pipe Song (6 singers, unaccompanied), 24-1908, 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/12652.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Raindance Song, LA 235.006, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Shoshoni sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20330.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Ring Dance Song. Includes some words and phrases., LA 235.001, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Shoshoni sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20325.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Round Dance Song, LA 235.009, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Shoshoni sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20333.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Round Dance Song. Includes fragmented discussion., LA 235.004, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Shoshoni sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20328.
Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Preferred citation: Second or "Watering" Peyote Song, 24-2967, in "The D.B. Shimkin collection of Shoshone sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/12227.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Series of several Shoshoni songs, LA 31.070, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Mono sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18757.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Series of several songs, LA 235.008, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Shoshoni sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20332.
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