Historical information: Sylvia M. Broadbent was a student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1960. Her dissertation, entitled A Grammar of Southern Sierra Miwok, was based on fieldwork conducted on five summer field trips spanning 1955-1958 and 1961. This grammatical description published as The Southern Sierra Miwok Language (University of California Publications in Linguistics, vol. 38, 1964), which also included a collection of texts and a dictionary. After leaving Berkeley, Broadbent held positions at Barnard College and the University of California, Riverside, where she pursued research interests in the ethnohistory and archaeology of Chibchan cultures of central Columbia.
Scope and content: The Papers document Sylvia Broadbent's field research on Miwok languages in 1955-1958 and 1961. The collection includes her original field notebooks and vocabulary file slips, as well as diaries she kept while in the field. Her primary Southern Sierra Miwok linguistic consultants were Chris Brown (a.k.a. Chief Leeme), Castro Johnson, Emma Lord, and Rose Watt. Additional consultants represented in the collection include John Lawrence (Southern Sierra Miwok) and Ned Aleck, George Clifford, Rose Darrow, and Mrs. Henry Miller (Northern Sierra Miwok). The collection also includes an undated set of notes on Ohlone recorded with speaker Maria Tapia.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Castro Johnson, Emma Lord, Rose Watt, and Sylvia M. Broadbent. Sylvia M. Broadbent Papers on the Southern Sierra Miwok Language, Broadbent, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2D21VHD.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 93, LA 140, LA 141).
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; songs; funeral oration; Chief's talk; additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts; conversation; reminiscences. Some English glosses provided. Brief pauses and blanks throughout; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Chief Leemee and Sylvia M. Broadbent. The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings, LA 93, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10088.
Preferred citation: About Horse, Ox, and Alligator, LA 93.044, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18681.
Preferred citation: Chasing Wild Horses and Mules, LA 93.043, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18680.
Preferred citation: How Coyote Fetched the Sun, LA 93.048, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18685.
Preferred citation: Pywellin, LA 93.049, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18686.
Preferred citation: Stealing horses from Mexicans, LA 93.050, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18687.
Preferred citation: Story of Two Little Bears and Two Little Deer, LA 93.042, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18679.
Preferred citation: Talking Ghosts, LA 93.045, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18682.
Preferred citation: The Black Horse, LA 93.046, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18683.
Preferred citation: The Magic Cane, LA 93.047, in "The Sylvia M. Broadbent collection of Southern Sierra Miwok sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18684.
Description: Eighth of 17 Miwok notebooks. 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 Broadbent.002.008.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Broadbent.002.008.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Broadbent.002.008-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Sierra Miwok field notes], Broadbent.002.008, in "Sylvia M. Broadbent Papers on the Southern Sierra Miwok Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TB14T7.
Description: Fourteenth of 17 Miwok notebooks. 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 Broadbent.002.014.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Broadbent.002.014.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Broadbent.002.014-image_metadata.txt.) (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 Broadbent.002.014.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Broadbent.002.014.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Broadbent.002.014-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Sierra Miwok field notes], Broadbent.002.014, in "Sylvia M. Broadbent Papers on the Southern Sierra Miwok Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21V5BW5.
Description: Twelfth of 17 Miwok notebooks. Vocabulary and elicited verb paradigms. (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 Broadbent.002.012.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Broadbent.002.012.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Broadbent.002.012-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Sierra Miwok field notes], Broadbent.002.012, in "Sylvia M. Broadbent Papers on the Southern Sierra Miwok Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X29884XW.
Description: Ninth of 17 Miwok notebooks. 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 Broadbent.002.009.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Broadbent.002.009.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Broadbent.002.009-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Southern Sierra Miwok field notes], Broadbent.002.009, in "Sylvia M. Broadbent Papers on the Southern Sierra Miwok Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PK0D3X.
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