Historical information:Eero Vihman (1927-2000) was a linguist who specialized in the study of Pomoan languages. He left his native Estonia in 1944, arriving in the United States in 1952. In 1964 he joined the graduate program in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, conducting fieldwork on Northern and Central Pomo in 1966-1967.
Scope and content:The Papers document Vihman's research on Pomoan languages from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, notably field notes from his 1966-1967 work on Northern Pomo. His main Northern Pomo consultants were Annie Lake and Edna Guerrero, with some additional material provided by Angelina Campbell; he also collected Central Pomo material from Frances Jack. Also included in the collection are Vihman's comparative notes on other Pomoan languages compiled from a variety of sources, and several draft chapters of a grammar of Northern Pomo.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Edna Guerrero, Annie Lake, and Eero Vihman. Eero Vihman Papers on the Northern Pomo Language, Vihman, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26W9803.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 25). Some materials are copies of notebooks included in the Abraham M. Halpern Papers on Pomoan Languages (MSS Halpern).
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
Preferred 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:Leanne Hinton is Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Director of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 1977. Her doctoral dissertation was a study of Havasupai songs. She has done research on various languages of the Southwest, Mexico, and California, and she has been a leading figure in the study of endangered languages and language revitalization.
Scope and content:The Papers consist primarily of Leanne Hinton's notes and related documents and recordings from linguistics field methods classes held at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego. This includes materials for Navajo, Quechua, Ashaninka Campa, Hopi, Q'anjob'al, K'ichean, Mixtec, Yowlumne Yokuts, Paraguayan Guaraní, and Yucatec Maya. Also included are materials related to the Yahi Translation Project.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Leanne Hinton. Leanne Hinton Papers on Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Hinton, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/26.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 161, LA 177, LA 189).
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:Linguistic field recordings: songs; reminiscences.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Scope and content:No restrictions, letter date: Jul 1 2005 12:00:00:000AM, reply date: Apr 14 2007 12:00:00:000AM
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Oscar McDaniel and Kenneth W. Whistler. The Kenneth W. Whistler collection of Hill Patwin sound recordings, LA 105, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10024.
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:Copy of a typescript paper by Ken Whistler.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A short survey of literature on the Gabrielino Indians, Haas.068.020, 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/2646.
Preferred 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.
Preferred 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.
Description:One .pdf file. From page vii of the document: "The English-Chumash index included in this dictionary would not have been possible without the heroic efforts of Mike Macko, Sally Schultz, Kim Lawson and Dana Howe, who helped produce the zillions of little slips it takes to produce an index by hand."
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: An Interim Barbareño Chumash Dictionary (of Barbareño as spoken by Mary Yee), Whistler.006, in "Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26489.
Preferred 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.
Preferred 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.
Preferred citation: Kule:le Muhi, LA 105.001, 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/18880.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Pomo prehistory: A case for archaeological linguistics, Whistler.003, in "Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1994.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Pomo prehistory: A case for archaeological linguistics, Oswalt.003.114, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2282.
Description:Photocopy of typed manuscript by Marr on J. P. Harrington. Includes mimeograph "Roster of linguists specializing in California and Oregon languages, 1978", compiled by Whistler.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Presentation for the American Indian Languages Group at Berkeley, March 14, 1989, Oswalt.003.122, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2290.
Preferred citation: Story of Billy Bush, LA 105.004, 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/18883.
Preferred citation: Story of Yeko, a werebear, LA 105.010, 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/18889.
Preferred citation: Story of a 19th century war in Indian VAlley between the Lake Pomo and the Salt Pomo, LA 105.011, 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/18890.
Preferred citation: Story of a condor, LA 105.007, 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/18886.
Preferred citation: Story of a salt raid and fight between the Salt Pomo and Lake Pomo, LA 105.008, 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/18887.
Preferred citation: Story of the abandonment of a settlement on Brother Moore's land, LA 105.009, 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/18888.
Preferred citation: The creation of the world, LA 105.012, 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/18891.
Description:Annotated draft of U.C. Berkeley Ph.D. thesis by Ken Whistler.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Draft of "Proto-Wintun kin classification: A case study in reconstruction of a complex semantic system"], Haas.068.030, 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/2739.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Ethnobiological specimens with Patwin labels], Whistler.001, in "Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1991.
Description:Audio recording of Hill Patwin stories and songs. 4 recorded tapes; 8 unused; about 20 stories and songs. Moved to the Berkeley Language Center 6/1997.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Hill Patwin audio recordings: Stories and songs], Whistler.t001, in "Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1996.
Description:Materials from courses taught by Mary Haas on Nuu-chah-nulth with a small amount of material on Makah and Ditidaht. Includes readings, term papers, and notes. Handouts, readings, and other texts include (by Mary Haas unless otherwise noted): Nootka Classifiers, Nootka Body Part Suffixes, a copy of Metaphors in Makah Neologisms by William Jacobsen, Structure of the Nootka Aspect System by Kenneth Whistler, A Nootka Text: Kwatyat and the Sunbeam Girls, Nootka Materials: The Consonant System & The Aspect System, Noun and Verb in Nootkan by William Jacobsen, Some Orthographic SYstems Used for Nootka and Nitinat, Bibliography on Nootkan Languages, The Solar Myth, notes on What Are Mosquitos Made Out of, notes on Taboos for Sea Mammal Hunting, Incremental Suffixes, notes on Deer and the Wolves, notes on Bluejay Transformer, handouts from Kenneth Whistler on the Nootka Aspectual System and also Personal and Placename Suffixes, notes on a text called Advice, a draft of a paper by Kenneth Whistler called Inverse Person Marking in Nootkan, a chart showing the Nuu-chah-nulth, Ditidaht, and Nuxalk consonant inventories, and an annotated copy of an excerpt from Sapir and Swadesh's Nootka Texts.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Materials from courses on Nuu-chah-nulth], Turner.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/14847.
Description:Folder containing correspondence with various researchers Jacobsen encountered in his academic life; includes a manuscript by Madison S. Beeler and Kenneth Whistler entitled “Coyote, Hawk, Raven, and Skunk (Barbareño Chumash)”; a two-page handout concerning Uto-Aztecan reconstruction, by Lloyd B. Anderson; a hand-drawn diagram entitled “Structure of the Nootka Aspect System” by Kenneth Whistler; and a manuscript by Alice C. Harris entitled “Transitivity and Rule Alignment” (Preliminary version, 1981).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Miscellaneous academic correspondence], 2014-21.005.004, 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/23177.
Description:Miscellaneous materials on Pomoan languages. Includes 4 x 6 cards with E. Pomo phonemes and Spanish loans; mimeographed and typed copies of Northern Pomo texts; a copy of Vihman's paper "Northern Pomo numerals: A quadriquinary vigesimal system"; handouts from the 1980 Hokan-Penutian conference; "California-Oregon languages newsletter" dated June 16-1981.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Miscellaneous materials on Pomoan languages], Vihman.033, in "Eero Vihman Papers on the Northern Pomo Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1936.
Extent:124 digital images (TIFF), approximately 6 GB
Description:Digital images of field notebook A I. (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 Whistler.005.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Whistler.005.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Whistler.005.001-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Patwin Notebook A I], Whistler.005.001, in "Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2930R3T.
Extent:124 digital images (TIFF), approximately 6 GB
Description:Digital images of field notebook B II. (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 Whistler.005.002.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Whistler.005.002.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Whistler.005.002-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Patwin Notebook B II], Whistler.005.002, in "Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X25B00CG.
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