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Hans Jørgen Uldall Papers on the Nisenan Language
- Collection number: Uldall
- Primary contributors: William Joseph (consultant), Hans Jørgen Uldall (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Caroline Bisocin (consultant), Jack Folsom (consultant), Artie Griffith (consultant), Mrs. Harrie (consultant), Jessie (consultant)
- Languages: Achumawi (acv), Eastern Pomo (peb), Karuk (kyh), Maidu (nmu), Nez Perce (nez), Nisenan (nsz)
- Dates: approximately 1931-1960
- Extent: 26 folders and 2 boxes
- Historical information: Hans Jørgen Uldall (1907-1957) was a Danish phonetician and a leading proponent of the Glossematic theory of linguistic structure. Early in his career, Uldall spent two years as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1930-1932), during which time he conducted research on a number of California languages, notably Nisenan (a.k.a. Southern Maidu) and also including Achumawi, Eastern Pomo, and Karuk. This research led to the publication of descriptions of the phonetics and phonology of Achumawi (1933) and Maidu (1954). After leaving Berkeley, Uldall spent a year as an instructor in phonetics at Columbia university before returning to Denmark. In the late 1930s he worked closely with Loius Hjelmslev to lay the foundation for Glossematic theory. Uldall subsequently worked for the British Council, holding appointments at Edinburgh University (1951-1952) and the University of Ibadan (1954-1957).
- Scope and content: The Papers document Uldall's research on languages of Northern California based on fieldwork conducted while a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley from 1930-1932. Although the word "Maidu" appears in the titles of many items in the collection, Uldall worked primarily on Nisenan (Southern Maidu) with speaker William Joseph, and it is likely that these materials are based on Nisenan rather than the language commonly known as Maidu today (i.e., Northeastern or Mountain Maidu). The bulk of the collection consists of Uldall's notes and drafts of a grammar of Maidu (Nisenan) and a collection of Nisenan texts that were eventually published through the efforts of William Shipley. Also included in the collection are Uldall's original field notes on Achumawi, a set of Karuk texts, notes on the phonology of Eastern Pomo and a short Nez Perce text. His Achumawi consultants were Jack Folsom, Artie Griffith, and a speaker identified only as "Jessie"; a speaker "Hattie" is identified in his Karuk notes.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: William Joseph and Hans Jørgen Uldall. Hans Jørgen Uldall Papers on the Nisenan Language, Uldall, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21V5BXM.
- Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 230).
Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages
- Collection number: Oswalt
- Finding aid: Oswalt_finding_aid.pdf
- Primary contributors: Elsie Allen (consultant), Elizabeth Dollar (consultant), Edna Guerrero (consultant), Achora Hanyava (consultant), Annie Lake (consultant), Milton "Bun" Lucas (consultant), Oscar McDaniel (consultant), Sharky Moore (consultant), Essie Parrish (consultant), Bernice Scott Torrez (consultant), Clara Williams (consultant), Robert L. Oswalt (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Arthur Anderson (consultant, participant), Lowe Anderson (consultant), Lucy Andrews Macy (consultant), David Antone (consultant), Salome Bartlett Alcantra (consultant), Annie Burke (consultant, participant), Edna Campbell (consultant), Violet Parrish Chapelle (consultant), Charlie Doorman (consultant), Bill Frank (consultant), Olive Fulwider (consultant), Suzie Gomez (consultant), Gladys James Gonzales (consultant), Abraham M. Halpern (consultant, author, researcher, translator), Ralph Holder (consultant), Lula Jackson (consultant), Allen James (consultant), Herman James (consultant), Mary James (consultant), Lula Johnson (consultant), John Kelsey (consultant), Cecilia Logan (consultant), Frank Logan (consultant), Effie Mabel Luff (consultant), Frank Luff (consultant), Kate Marando (consultant), Julia Pinola Marrufo (consultant), George Moore (consultant), Ralph Moore (consultant), Guillermina Nelson-Rodrigues (consultant), Old Toby (consultant), Vana Parrish Lawson (consultant), Sidney Parrish (consultant, participant), F. Scarioni (consultant), Greene Scott (consultant), Kathryn Seller (consultant), Laura Somersal (consultant), Eben Tillotsen (consultant), Vivian Wilder (consultant), Bernard W. Aginsky (author), Dan Alford (author), Ruth Almstedt (author), S.A. Barrett (author, researcher), Eugene Buckley (author, researcher), Michelle Caisse (author), Wallace L. Chafe (author), James Clifford (author), Janice Comstock (author), Philip W. Davis (author), Victoria Dickler Kaplan (author), Cora DuBois (author), Homer Durham (author), Linda J. Farnum (author), Glenn J. Farris (author, translator), George M. Foster (researcher), David Gamon (author), James R. Gibson (author), Jennie Goodrich (author), George Grekoff (researcher), Kira Hall (author), Gretchen S. Hillard (author), Leanne Hinton (author), A. A. Istomin (author), Frances Jack (author), James M. Kari (author, participant), Mary Jean Kennedy (author), P. Kostromitonov (author), Sydney M. Lamb (researcher), Tom Larsen (author), Charles Li (author), Kent G. Lightfoot (author), John P. Marr (author), Helen McCarthy (author), Sally McLendon (author, researcher), Randall Milliken (author), Marianne Mithun (author), Mauricio J. Mixco (author), Lawrence Morgan (author), Julius Moshinsky (author), Johanna Nichols (author), June Nieze (author), Mary Catherine O'Connor (author), Robert L. Oswalt (author, annotator, donor, participant, photographer, translator), Otis Parrish (author), Viktor Petrov (author), Ross Saunders (author), Jesse O. Sawyer (author), Ann M. Schiff (author), Bernice Scott Torrez (author, participant), Alice Shepherd (author), Shirley Silver (author), Susan Steele (author), Mary Swift (author), Louise Tanous (author), Sandra Thompson (author), Katherine Turner (author), Hans Jørgen Uldall (researcher), Eero Vihman (author), Thomas A. Wake (author), Carolyn F. Wall (author), Nancy Webb (author), Kenneth W. Whistler (author), Skip Willits (author), Biten Yasumoto (author), T. Yokomori (author), Martha Anderson (participant), Ramon Billy Jr. (donor), Peter Kalifornsky (participant), Milton "Bun" Lucas (participant), Tammy Lucas (participant), Nelda Grace Martinez (participant), Oswalt family (donor), Essie Parrish (participant, translator)
- Languages: Aleut (ale), Aztecan, Bribri (bzd), Central Pomo (poo), Chinook Jargon (chn), Chochenyo, Chumashan, Coast Miwok (csi), Cocopa (coc), Diegueño (dih), Eastern Pomo (peb), Esselen (esq), Havasupai (yuf), Hualapai (yuf), Huchnom, Ineseño, Karuk (kyh), Kashaya (kju), Kiliwa (klb), Klamath, Lacandon (lac), Lakota (lkt), Luiseño (lui), Maidu (nmu), Maricopa (mrc), Miwok, Mojave (mov), Mutsun (css), Northeastern Pomo (pef), Northern Pomo (pej), Northern Yukian (yuk), Nuxalk (blc), Paipai (ppi), Patwin (pwi), Pomo, Salinan (sln), Southeastern Pomo (pom), Southern Pomo (peq), Tajuasohn (tja), Tanaina (tfn), Tonkawa (tqw), Wappo (wao), Yana (ynn), Yokuts (yok), Yuki, Yuma (yum), Yurok (yur)
- Dates: 1956-2005
- Extent: 30.2 linear feet (69 boxes)
- 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).
The Alfred L. Kroeber and Hans Uldall collection of Yuki sound recordings
- Collection number: PHM33
- Primary contributors: Ralph Moore (consultant), Alfred L. Kroeber (researcher), Hans Jørgen Uldall (researcher)
- Additional contributor: Ralph Moore (consultant)
- Language: Yuki
- Dates: 1931
- Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: stories; songs/chants
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Suggested citation: Ralph Moore, Alfred L. Kroeber, and Hans Jørgen Uldall. The Alfred L. Kroeber and Hans Uldall collection of Yuki sound recordings, PHM 33, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11033.
The Hans Uldall and Jaime de Angulo collection of California Indian sound recordings
- Collection number: PHM63
- Primary contributors: William Joseph (consultant), Hans Jørgen Uldall (researcher), Jaime de Angulo (researcher)
- Languages: Achumawi (acv), Nisenan (nsz)
- Dates: 1931
- Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: songs/chants
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Suggested citation: William Joseph, Hans Jørgen Uldall, and Jaime de Angulo. The Hans Uldall and Jaime de Angulo collection of California Indian sound recordings, PHM 63, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11063.
The Hans Uldall collection of Nisenan sound recordings
- Collection number: LA230
- Primary contributor: Hans Jørgen Uldall (researcher)
- Language: Nisenan (nsz)
- Dates: 1934
- Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; story. Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Hans Jørgen Uldall. The Hans Uldall collection of Nisenan sound recordings, LA 230, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10034.