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also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.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:Robert Louis Oswalt, Pomoan language scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1964. 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 and Southern 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, Laura Fish Somersall, 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
Preferred 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: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; Reminiscences. Some in English.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Arthur Anderson, Jesse O. Sawyer, and Shirley Silver. The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings, LA 56, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10061.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; ethnographic data; additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts; reminiscences (English); untitled texts. Some in English; English glosses for some or all.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Minnie Fulwider, Shirley Silver, and Roy Siniard. The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings, LA 35, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10129.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts. Some English glosses provided. ; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Ike Leaf and Shirley Silver. The Shirley Silver collection of Achumawi/Pit River sound recordings, LA 124, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10000.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Preferred citation: Adjectives (frequency or degree); metals; verbs, LA 35.030, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16909.
Preferred citation: Adjectives; nouns related to food and insects, LA 35.020, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16899.
Preferred citation: Adverbs (a lot of, a bunch of); formation (lined up, in-law, in circle), LA 35.055, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16934.
Preferred citation: Adverbs (locations); phrases (to be looking for), LA 35.048, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16927.
Preferred citation: Adverbs (time), LA 35.049, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16928.
Preferred citation: Age, LA 35.107, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16986.
Preferred citation: Anecdote about the life of the consultant's grandfather, LA 124.002, in "The Shirley Silver collection of Achumawi/Pit River sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17170.
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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.
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Preferred citation: Animals; traditional objects and adjectives, LA 35.006, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16885.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Preferred citation: Antitheses and other, LA 35.091, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16970.
Preferred citation: Antitheses; frequency (more than once), LA 35.082, in "The Roy Siniard and Shirley Silver collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16961.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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