Historical information: Elizabeth Bright (née Halloran) conducted fieldwork on Patwin in 1952.
Scope and content: The Papers document Bright's field research on Patwin in the summer 1952. Included in the collection are her original field notebooks, handwritten drafts of a Patwin grammar, and lexical file slips. Her linguistic consultants were Nora Lowell (Hill Patwin), Sara Jane Gonzales, Ida Mitchum, and Minnie Bill (River Patwin), and Daisy Lorenzo (Tebti or Hill Patwin).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Mrs. Sara Jane Gonzales, Daisy Lowell Lorenzo, Nora Lowell, and Elizabeth Bright. Elizabeth Bright Papers on the Patwin Language, BrightE, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2000010.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 20).
Historical information: Jane Hill is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966. Her primary area of research is on the Uto-Aztecan languages. She has conducted field work on three of them: Cupeño, Nahuatl and Tohono O'odham. She published a reference grammar of Cupeño in 2003.
Scope and content: The Materials document Hill's field research on Cupeño. The collection is structured as follows. Items in the series beginning HillJ.001.001 contain original field notebooks and notes. Items in the series beginning HillJ.002.001 contain audio recordings. Items in the series beginning HillJ.003.001 contain lexical file slips. Items in the series beginning HillJ.004.001 contain derivative materials and other miscellaneous papers and documents.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Roscinda Nolasquez and Jane Hill. Jane H. Hill Materials on the Cupeño Language, HillJ, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2N877Q5.
Historical information: Kenneth Hill (b. 1938) received a BS from Georgetown University in 1960, an MA from UCLA in 1962, and a PhD in linguistics from UCLA in 1967, with a dissertation supervised by William Bright titled "A Grammar of the Serrano Language." In 1964-1965 he was Acting Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Berkeley, and beginning in 1965 he was a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Michigan, the latter a period from which some of the materials in this collection derive. The bulk of the materials are recordings and field notes of Serrano, a language of the Takic branch of the Uto-Aztecan family traditionally spoken in the San Bernardino Mountains and the adjacent regions of the Mojave Desert. They are the result of a collaboration between Hill, Mrs. Sarah Martin, and Mr. Louis Marcus, and date from June-September 1963 and December 1964. Other materials included are a brief Cahuilla word list (Takic) recorded by William Bright with Katherine Sauvel (HillK.002.001); one of Cusco Quechua recorded by Hill with Aquiles Palomino Ojeda, and one of Efik recorded by Hill and an unidentified speaker (HillK.002.010); and a brief text in Nahuatl by an unidentified speaker (HillK.002.011). Sarah Martin was born Sarah Elizabeth Morongo on April 14, 1890, the daughter of Captain John Morongo and his wife Rose. Mrs. Martin made recordings of Serrano with linguist Guy Tyler in March 1954, October 1969, and January 1972 (see LA214); she passed away September 21, 1975, aged 85. Louis D. Marcus was born in August 1894 in Highland, CA, and passed away July 4, 1971, aged 76. He also made recordings of Serrano with Guy Tyler in December 1970 (ibid.).
Scope and content: Field notes, sound recordings (stories, sentence translations, and word lists), lexical file slips, and mingograms of Serrano; brief sound recordings of Cahuilla, Cusco Quechua, and Efik. The collection is structured into the following short series: HillK.001, field notes; HillK.002, sound recordings; HillK.003, lexical file slips; HillK.004, mingograms.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Louis Marcus, Sarah Martin, Katherine Sauvel, and Kenneth Hill. Kenneth C. Hill Papers, HillK, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26M352Q.
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data. English glosses given.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Ned Jackson and William Bright. The William Bright collection of Hupa sound recordings, LA 12, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10068.
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: stories; ethnographic data; songs; additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts, conversation (English), reminiscences. Some in English.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Nettie Ruben and William Bright. The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings, LA 78, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10145.
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories. Some English glosses.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Sargent Sambo and William Bright. The William Bright collection of Shasta sound recordings, LA 118, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10047.
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; song. Some English glosses; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Weaver Denman and William Bright. The William Bright collection of Wiyot sound recordings, LA 19, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10093.
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Carrie Roberts and William Bright. The William Bright collection of Yurok sound recordings, LA 13, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10062.
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: Annotated draft of a paper published in the Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology. Ethnopoetic analysis of a Karuk text (English translation only).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A Karok myth in 'measured verse': The translation of a performance, BrightW.005, 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/214.
Preferred citation: Bluejay as doctor and Old man turtle (include short songs), LA 78.011, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17950.
Preferred citation: Boy from Itukkuk (includes short songs), LA 78.013, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17952.
Item number: LA78.007
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 contains this Item
Preferred citation: Brush dance song, LA 78.007, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17946.
Description: Miscellaneous notes related to a variety of California Indian languages, including: a handout by Bill Elmendorf entitled, “Yukian Pronouns (AAA, 11/21/1969)”; newspaper articles from the 1960’s concerning Indian affairs in California; a manuscript entitled “Notes on Indian Languages of California” by William Bright (8 pages); a map entitled “Native tribes, groups, dialects, and families of California in 1770”; printed notes entitled “schemata of California Indian Tribes”, accompanied by tables depicting properties of particular words; miscellaneous vocabulary from a wide range of languages.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: California Indian Languages, 2014-21.002.059, 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/23030.
Preferred citation: Conversation, LA 78.014, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17953.
Preferred citation: Conversation and storytelling, LA 78.009, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17948.
Item number: LA78.001
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 contains this Item
Preferred citation: Coyote gambles (includes song), LA 78.001, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17940.
Preferred citation: Coyote's homecoming, LA 78.003, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17942.
Item number: LA78.019
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 has this Item as alternative format
Preferred citation: Deer medicine, Coyote and the sun, and Coyote as priest, LA 78.019, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17958.
Preferred citation: Doctor's song, LA 19.002, in "The William Bright collection of Wiyot sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/16451.
Preferred citation: Evening star, LA 78.004, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17943.
Preferred citation: Ganatchaee, LA 78.008, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17947.
Preferred citation: How Coyote stole fire, LA 118.002, in "The William Bright collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15368.
Preferred citation: How deer were lost and regained, LA 118.001, in "The William Bright collection of Shasta sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/15367.
Preferred citation: Indian doctors, LA 78.010, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17949.
Description: Pedagogical materials for teaching Karuk literacy. Includes a clipping from the Pioneer Press (Vol. 5, no. 49) and correspondence with Jesse Sawyer and Mrs. Elizabeth Beckman.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Introduction to the Karuk language. Lesson 1: Pronunciation and writing., BrightW.004, 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/213.
Item number: LA78.018
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 contains this Item
Preferred citation: Klamath lakes young man, LA 78.018, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17957.
Preferred citation: Love song, LA 78.021, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17960.
Item number: LA78.006
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 contains this Item
Preferred citation: Love songs, LA 78.006, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17945.
Item number: LA78.016
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 contains this Item
Preferred citation: Personal relation, LA 78.016, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17955.
Preferred citation: Song trade (includes songs), LA 78.020, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17959.
Item number: LA78.002
Date: [unspecified]
Relations to this item:BrightW.t001 contains this Item
Preferred citation: The first sweathouse spirit, LA 78.002, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17941.
Preferred citation: Theft of fire, LA 78.005, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17944.
Preferred citation: War dance song, LA 78.012, in "The William Bright collection of Karok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/17951.
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