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also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.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
Suggested 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 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).
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
Suggested 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; ethnographic data; Reminiscences. Some in English. Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested 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.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: Yuki tradition, such as feather basket making, LA 56.007, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16746.
Description:Contains mostly vocabulary. (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 Lamb.001.001.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Lamb.001.001.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Lamb.001.001-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [California field notebooks], Lamb.001.001, in "Sydney M. Lamb Papers on California Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PN93J4.
Description:Reprinted photographs, with negatives. (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 Oswalt.006.005.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.006.005.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.006.005-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Photographs of Oswalt's consultants], Oswalt.006.005, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X28913TH.
Description:Vocabulary, morphology, and sentences. (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 Oswalt.001.067.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.067.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.067-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Yuki field notebook], Oswalt.001.067, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X25H7D71.
Availability: Paper materials for Item number Sawyer.092 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan them for you.
Extent:5 boxes
Description:File slips with Yuki vocabulary and short example sentences.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Yuki vocabulary], Sawyer.092, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1664.
Availability: Paper materials for Item number Sawyer.090 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan them for you.
Extent:4 boxes
Description:File slips with Wappo vocabulary, arranged alphabetically by English gloss (3 boxes) and phonemically (1 box).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: [Yuki vocabulary], Sawyer.090, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1662.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story about Indian land, followed by conjugations comparative, LA 56.108, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16847.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story about Yuki's encounter with the whiteman in Sacramento Valley, LA 56.013, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16752.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story about gambling, followed by sentences related to singing, LA 56.021, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16760.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story about indians' encounter with whitemen, LA 56.012, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16751.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story about reservation, issues between the federal government, a story in Yuki, LA 56.106, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16845.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story of Yuki identity, feeling dn conjucation of "do", LA 56.052, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16791.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story of a woman, followed by words related to animal, LA 56.053, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16792.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story of between Indian and the Unite States, LA 56.066, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16805.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: a story of conflict between tribes, health, prepositions, house, LA 56.074, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16813.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: adjective about time, LA 56.082, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16821.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: adjectives such as easy, often, seldom, sweets, tool, weather, LA 56.069, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16808.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: adjectives, words related to chewing, such as gum and tabacco, LA 56.109, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16848.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: agricultural tools, kinship, LA 56.037, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16776.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: amount such as "half a sack of," kinship and other, LA 56.010, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16749.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: animals, furniture, name, with a story of building a church, LA 56.008, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16747.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: animals, kinship, LA 56.015, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16754.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: basket, possessives, LA 56.114, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16853.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: bird, color, face paint, tattoo, LA 56.056, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16795.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Suggested citation: clock, bell, time, LA 56.060, in "The Jesse O. Sawyer et al. collection of Yuki sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16799.
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