Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Alice Shepherd. Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages, Shepherd, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11077.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 113, LA 152).
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).
Availability: Paper materials available in person. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can scan it for you.
Extent:1 folder
Description:Photocopy of excerpt from DuBois' article with Oswalt's hand annotations.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: The 1870 Ghost Dance, Oswalt.003.101, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/2269.
Description:Large format (11x14 inch) photocopies of 43 typed and handwritten texts originally collected by Cora A. DuBois and Dorothy Demetracopoulou Lee. The texts included are: “Coyote as Doctor” (Jo Bender), “tcalimleluheres and Loon Woman” (Jo Bender), “olhiwit (Lee Barnes)” (Sadie Marsh; in English and handwritten by A. Shepherd), “tcalimleluheres and Rolling Head Loon Woman” (Sadie Marsh), “Anecdote” (Sadie Marsh), “Coyote and Fly (death controversy)” (Syke Mitchell), “Coyote as Doctor” (Syke Mitchell), “nini (Love Story)” (Jenny Curl), “Coyote and Death” (Jo Charles, 1930), “sehinomtcabaDu” (Jenny Curl), “Thunder and Lightning” (Jenny Curl), “Origin of kukup’iwiD” (Jenny Curl), “kukup’iwit and the Old Woman” (Jenny Curl), “winiwiniD and su’Btcit” (Jenny Curl), “winiwiniD and su’Btcit” (author unknown), “nomlestawar” (Jenny Curl), “winiwiniD and su’Btcit” (Syke Mitchell), “Bear and Deer” (Jo Bender), “DoBiwaik’alalDe” (Jo Bender), “Rolling Head” (Syke Mitchell), “Form of Ending Myths” (Jenny Curl), “yiyehunenes big time (love story)” (Syke Mitchell), “Grosbeak and Mountain Lion” (Syke Mitchell), “Coyote and the Stump” (Sadie Marsh), “Coyote and the Wolves” (Sadie Marsh), “Hummingbird” (Sadie Marsh), “Coyote and his Granddaughter” (Syke Mitchell), “Coyote and the Ducks” (Syke Mitchell), “Anecdote” (Sadie Marsh), “Form of Ending Myths” (Sadie Marsh), “kukup’iwit and the Child” (Jo Bender), “The Woman and the Mountain Being” (Jo Bender), “kukup’iwit and the Woman” (Jo Bender, 1929), “Coyote and his Daughter” (Jenny Curl, 1974), “Bininwa” (Jenny Curl, 1930), “ba’lastconos” (Sadie Marsh), “Jim Reed” (Sadie Marsh), “Charlie Klutchie” (Sadie Marsh), “Ida Fan’s Prophecy” (Sadie Marsh), “The Last Scalp-Dance” (Sadie Marsh), “olhiwit (Lee Barnes)” (Sadie Marsh), “My Story” (Sadie Marsh), and “Brawl” (Sadie Marsh).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [DuBois and Demetracopoulou Wintu Texts], Shepherd.001.012, in "Alice Shepherd Papers on Yukian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/14730.
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