Extent: 11.91 linear feet (24 boxes, 2 binders, and 1 envelope)
Historical information: As a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, Abraham M. Halpern (1914-1985) conducted field research on Quechan (Yuma) (1935 and 1938) and Pomoan languages (1936 and 1939-1940). He was an instructor and professor of linguistics at the University of Chicago from 1941-1946, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1947. Following the Second World War, Halpern embarked on a second career as a political scientist specializing in the East Asian region. He returned to the study of American Indian languages in 1977, working as a research associate in linguistics at the University of California, San Diego from 1977 until his death in 1985, during which period he conducted additional field research with speakers of Pomoan languages .
Scope and content: Most of the material in this collection documents Halpern's ethnographic and linguistic field research on Pomoan languages; also included are ethnographic and linguistic materials related to his work on Patwin and Quechan (Yuma). The Pomoan material includes original notebooks from field trips conducted in 1936, 1939-1940, and the early 1980s, plus derived materials such as vocabulary file slips, manuscript articles, text transcriptions, and geneologies. Halpern's language consultants included the following people: Steve Parrish, Jenny Pike, and Esther Ward (Central Pomo); Joe Augustine (Eastern Pomo); Mary James and Julia Marrufo (Kashaya); Santiago McDaniel (Northeastern Pomo); Lowe Anderson, Edna Campbell, Nancy McCoy, and Mack Williams (Northern Pomo); John Kelsey, Effie Kelsey, Thomas Leon, George Patch, and Clifford Salvador (Southeastern Pomo); Elsie Allen and Annie Burke (Southern Pomo); Daisy Lowell Lorenzo (Hill Patwin).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Elsie Allen, Joe Augustine, Annie Burke, Edna Campbell, Grant Jake, John Kelsey, Nancy McCoy, Santiago McDaniel, Steve Parrish, George Patch, Jenny Pike, Clifford Salvador, Esther Ward, Mack Williams, and Abraham M. Halpern. Abraham M. Halpern Papers on Pomoan Languages, Halpern, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2WS8R5X.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 202, LA 203, LA 204, LA 250). Other collections of materials related to Halpern's Pomoan, Yuman, and Wintuan research are held by the Bancroft Library (Berkeley, California) and the American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania).
Extent: 34.21 linear feet (69 boxes and 1 envelope)
Historical information: George Grekoff (1923-1999) was a graduate student in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Although he never completed a dissertation, he held a teaching position in linguistics and Russian at the University of Washington before pursuing a career outside the field of linguistics. However, he remained an avid scholar of Chimariko, and spent much of his spare time organizing the existing documentation of Chimariko.
Scope and content: The Papers document Grekoff's research on Chimariko and other indigenous languages of North America from the late 1950s until his death in 1999. There were no remaining speakers of Chimariko during Grekoff's lifetime, so the bulk of the collection consists of various notes and organizations of data collected by other linguists, especially John Peabody Harrington. This includes several boxes of vocabulary slips, preparatory notes for a grammar of Chimariko, and notes and unpublished articles on various other aspects of Chimariko language and culture. The collection also contains a small quantity of material on other indigenous languages of North America, including Grekoff's original field notes on Southeastern Pomo from 1957 and field notes on Nuu-chah-nulth, Skagit, and Kwak'wala from Grekoff's time at the University of Washington from 1962-1967, portions of which were collected as part of field methods courses taught by Grekoff. Grekoff's consultants were John and Effie Kelsey (SE Pomo), Odelia Hunter, Hyacinth David, and Winifred David (Nuu-chah-nulth), and Louise George (Kwak'wala).
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: George Grekoff. George Grekoff Papers on the Chimariko Language, Grekoff, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NC5Z4H.
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).
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: stories; ethnographic data; songs; additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts, reminiscences, some conversation in English.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: John Kelsey and Abraham M. Halpern. The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings, LA 204, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10107.
Historical information: These recordings were made as part of the research for Moshinsky's (1970) Berkeley PhD dissertation 'Southeastern Pomo Grammar'.
Scope and content: Eight WAV files digitized from four original reels; recordings include word lists, basic sentences, and narrative texts.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Jim Brown, Harry Johnson, John Kelsey, Albert Thomas, and Julius Moshinsky. The Julius Moshinsky Collection of Southeastern Pomo Sound Recordings, LA 239, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2VM499S.
Associated materials: See associated field notes in Moshinsky.001-003 in Miscellaneous Papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.
Preferred citation: Ball dance song (includes discussion of song), LA 204.010, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19879.
Preferred citation: Dance songs (includes discussion of songs), LA 204.008, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19877.
Preferred citation: Dreamed song (includes discussion of song), LA 204.009, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19878.
Preferred citation: Flathead dance song (includes discussion of song), LA 204.015, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19884.
Preferred citation: Grass game song (includes discussion of song) and part of another song (title undetermined), LA 204.011, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19880.
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Description: No English glosses. Recording quality poor.
Preferred citation: Hand game songs, LA 204.002, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19871.
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Description: No English glosses. Recording quality poor.
Preferred citation: Hand game songs, LA 204.001, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19870.
Preferred citation: Text: Bear Woman, LA 204.018, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19887.
Preferred citation: Text: Bullet Hawk, LA 204.022, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19891.
Preferred citation: Text: How the Indian people charmed the deer, LA 204.005, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19874.
Preferred citation: Text: Squirrel boys, LA 204.020, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19889.
Preferred citation: Text: about a game and how to make sticks for the game, LA 204.016, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19885.
Preferred citation: Text: about a man who chased a deer, drank water and turned into a rock (title undetermined), LA 204.013, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19882.
Item number: LA204.012
Date: 05 Mar 1984
Relations to this item:Halpern.041 relates to this Item
Preferred citation: Text: about the grass game and gambling, LA 204.012, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19881.
Preferred citation: Text: content undetermined, LA 204.021, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19890.
Preferred citation: Text: content undetermined (possibly about fishing), LA 204.014, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19883.
Preferred citation: Text: description of land, place names, and events that occurred there, LA 204.003, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19872.
Preferred citation: Text: description of the grass game, LA 204.007, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19876.
Preferred citation: Text: foot races, LA 204.017, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19886.
Preferred citation: Text: place names, LA 204.004, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19873.
Preferred citation: Text: storytelling and the importance of location, LA 204.024, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19893.
Preferred citation: Text: title undetermined (about Coyote going to Cash Creek), LA 204.019, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19888.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Texts and word list, LA 239.002, in "The Julius Moshinsky Collection of Southeastern Pomo Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2CJ8BGX.
Catalog history: Digital asset LA204.023.001.wav was formerly segment number 051_1. Digital asset LA204.023.002.wav was formerly segment number 052_1. Digital asset LA204.023.003.wav was formerly segment number 053_1.
Preferred citation: Texts: content undetermined, LA 204.023, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19892.
Preferred citation: Three grass game songs, LA 204.006, in "The Abraham Halpern collection of Southeastern Pomo sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/19875.
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