Historical information: Sheldon Klein (1935-2005) born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles. He earned a B.A. in anthropology (1956) and a Ph.D. in linguistics (1963) at the University of California, Berkeley. Klein conducted field research on Kawaiisu in Kelso, California in the summer of 1958, data that led to the publication of a comparative study of Kawaiisu and Monachi (1959). Klein's research interests then shifted to the field computational linguistics, and his Ph.D. dissertation focused on the theory of machine translation. After leaving Berkeley, Klein spent two years as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He subsequently joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1966, where he spent the remainder of his academic career. At the urging of scholars in the field of Uto-Aztecan linguistics, Klein returned to his research on Kawaiisu in the early 1980s, working with some of the remaining speakers of the language in Tehachapi, California in 1981-1983.
Scope and content: The Papers document Sheldon Klein's field research on Kawaiisu in 1958 and the early 1980s. Included in the collection are original field notebooks from his research in Kelso, California with Fred and Rosie Collins in the summer of 1958. Also included are notes based on his work in Bakersfield and Tehachapi, California in the early 1980s. This later material was provided by several Kawaiisu speakers, including Carmen Peebles, Lida Girado, Ann Peltier, Rose Barneche, Andy Greene, Della Greene, and Harry Williams. The collection also includes a set of file slips with Kawaiisu vocabulary and grammatical elements and preparatory materials for Klein's published articles on Kawaiisu. Many of Klein's research trips and interactions with Kawaiisu speakers were done together with his wife Carol Klein, who has also played a major role in assembling the material in this collection.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Fred Collins, Rose Collins, and Sheldon Klein. Sheldon and Carol Klein Papers on the Kawaiisu Language, Klein, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2TB14VP.
Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 65).
Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; untitled texts (some in Shoshoni). Translation to or from English.; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Carmen Peebles and Sheldon Klein. The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings, LA 65, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10140.
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Item number: LA65.100
Date: 15 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.015 referenced by this Item; LA 65.113 referenced by this Item; LA 65.101 references this Item; LA 65.120 references this Item
Description: The Fred and Rosie Collins texts are found in LA65.015.003 start to end; Lida Girado texts are from June 10, 1982, including the beginning of LA65.113.001. The recording of Lida Girado translated here has her discussing baskets and their uses, with descriptions based on photos of a basket collection.
Preferred citation: Carmen Peebles translates texts by Fred and Rosie Collins and Lida Girado , LA 65.100, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22078.
Item number: LA65.120
Date: 10 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.100 referenced by this Item; LA 65.096 references this Item; LA 65.101 references this Item; LA 65.113 references this Item
Description: Checking vocabulary from a previous recording session (cf. LA65.100.001). Lida Girado talks about baskets (in photographs supplied by Klein), the stars, what people did when sitting around the fire, childbirth, an Indian powwow.
Preferred citation: Checking vocabulary and discussion of various topics, LA 65.120, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22098.
Item number: LA65.034
Date: 03 Aug 1981
Relations to this item:LA 65.013 referenced by this Item
Description: Discussion of LA 65.013.003 (from 6:12 to end of file); elicitation of items from Klein's 1959 article "Comparative Mono-Kawaiisu" (International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 25 #4). Includes Sheldon Klein explaining to Lida Girado why he is collecting the material and references to Bertha Willie Scott and Charley Haslem. Recorded at Lida Girado's house on H Street in Tehachapi.
Preferred citation: Discussion of stories by Fred and Rosie Collins, LA 65.034, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22012.
Item number: LA65.035
Date: 03 Aug 1981
Relations to this item:LA 65.002 referenced by this Item
Preferred citation: Discussion of stories by Fred and Rosie Collins
, LA 65.035, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22013.
Description: Interlinear text about obtaining horses. Handwritten Kawaiisu text with typed interlinear translation. Text from Lida Girado with interlinear translation by Carmen Peebles. (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 Klein.033.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Klein.033.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Klein.033-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Excerpt from The Kawaiisu Book of the Horse, Klein.033, in "Sheldon and Carol Klein Papers on the Kawaiisu Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22V2D1Z.
Item number: LA65.111
Date: 11 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.117 references this Item
Preferred citation: Lida Girado talks about Indian tobacco and medicinal plants, LA 65.111, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22089.
Item number: LA65.106
Date: 11 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.115 references this Item
Preferred citation: Lida Girado talks about medicinal plants, Indian houses, basket-making, and life in the old days, LA 65.106, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22084.
Item number: LA65.105
Date: 29 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.103 references this Item
Description: Begins with the Coyote who had no fur. Includes discussion of medicinal plants and Lida's first day of school. Sheldon Klein reads stories in English translation as a prompt, possibly from Maurice Zigmond's "Kawaiisu mythology: an oral tradition of south-central California." Out of respect for cultural tradition, please be aware that this recording may include text material that was not to be told during summer months.
Preferred citation: Lida Girado telling stories, LA 65.105, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22083.
Description: Includes a description of making fire and stories about an encounter with a bear, a dream about being chased, patsaaz (bat?), crane, a bear that killed a person, and Coyote and Fox. Out of respect for cultural tradition, please be aware that this recording may include text material that was not to be told during summer months.
Preferred citation: Lida Girado tells her Indian name, followed by several stories, LA 65.108, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22086.
Description: Klein reads some stories in English (probably Maurice Zigmond's "Kawaiisu mythology: an oral tradition of south-central California") to help jog her memory. Out of respect for cultural tradition, please be aware that this recording may include text material that was not to be told during summer months.
Preferred citation: Lida Girado tells stories about making rain with moss and Coyote and the pitch doll, LA 65.107, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22085.
Item number: LA65.112
Date: 11 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.115 references this Item; LA 65.118 references this Item
Description: Lida Girado talks about life in the old days (peoples' daily routines), how to make deer jerky, animals (rabbits, snakes, bears, mountain lion), having a first child, basket-making, celebrations, making and hunting with bows and arrows, finding something nice, and memories of her grandparents and great-grandparents.
Preferred citation: Lida Girado texts, LA 65.112, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22090.
Item number: LA65.113
Date: 10 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.120 referenced by this Item; LA 65.096 references this Item; LA 65.100 references this Item; LA 65.101 references this Item; LA 65.114 references this Item
Description: Lida Girado talks about going to a powwow (continuation of LA65.120.001), baskets (starting with photo labeled #36), and horses. The discussion of horses includes a text transcribed by Klein and given the title "The Book of the Horse" (starting around 40:30). A copy of the transcription is included in the Sheldon Klein Papers at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages (cataloged as Klein.033).
Preferred citation: Lida Girado texts, LA 65.113, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22091.
Item number: LA65.114
Date: 10 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.113 referenced by this Item; LA 65.096 references this Item; LA 65.101 references this Item
Description: Lida Girado talks about the care, feeding, and tacking of horses (a continuation of LA65.113.001), baskets (in photographs supplied by Klein), snakes, a picture from the Tehachapi area, a pet dog, memories of people she knew when young (Bob Rabbit, Dewey Collins), and plans for later in the evening.
Preferred citation: Lida Girado texts, LA 65.114, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22092.
Description: Topics covered include family members, how to stop rain, and Coyote stories. Out of respect for cultural tradition, please be aware that this recording may include text material that was not to be told during summer months.
Preferred citation: Lida Girado translates her own texts recorded on June 28-29, 1982 , LA 65.104, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22082.
Item number: LA65.066
Date: 04 Jun 1982
Relations to this item:LA 65.121 references this Item
Description: Includes short texts about life in the old days (going hunting, gathering pinyons, memories of Charlie Haslem, riding horses, playing with other children, making baskets, preparing acorns).
Preferred citation: Sentence elicitation with Lida Girado, including short texts , LA 65.066, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22044.
Description: Some prompts taken from "Ute Reference Grammar" (Ute Press, 1980), starting on p. 63. Lida's daughter Dorothy also present (per Carol Klein, March 2012).
Preferred citation: Sentence elicitation with Lida Girado. , LA 65.065, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22043.
Item number: LA65.103
Date: 10 Jan 1983
Relations to this item:LA 65.105 referenced by this Item
Description: Lida Girado and a woman identified as her daughter translate Lida's texts, recorded June 29, 1982 (starting with LA65.105.001, 20:21), then Lida dictates a letter to Carmen Peebles. The daughter's name is probably Dorothy (per Carol Klein, February 2012).
Preferred citation: Text translation and letter dictation, LA 65.103, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22081.
Preferred citation: Wordlist and grammatical elicitation with Anne Peltier, then with Lida Girado , LA 65.067, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22045.
Description: Checking vocabulary collected with Fred Collins in 1958. Lida's daughter Dorothy enters during the recording session (per Carol Klein, March 2012).
Preferred citation: Wordlist and grammatical elicitation with Lida Girado, LA 65.097, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22075.
Preferred citation: Wordlist and grammatical elicitation with Lida Girado in Tehachapi, California., LA 65.068, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22046.
Preferred citation: Wordlist elicitation with Lida Girado, LA 65.099, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22077.
Preferred citation: Wordlist elicitation with Lida Girado, LA 65.098, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22076.
Description: Includes a story about getting honey and traveling in a wagon, a description of storytelling traditions, and a myth about Coyote and his daughters. Out of respect for cultural tradition, please be aware that this recording may include text material that was not to be told during summer months.
Preferred citation: Wordlist elicitation with Lida Girado, followed by stories , LA 65.110, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22088.
Preferred citation: Wordlist elicitation with Lida Girado., LA 65.109, in "The Sheldon Klein collection of Kawaiisu sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22087.
Description: Notebook 7: texts, elicited words, phrases, and sentences transcribed from audio recordings made in 1982. (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 Klein.010.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Klein.010.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Klein.010-image_metadata.txt.)
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: [Kawaiisu transcriptions], Klein.010, in "Sheldon and Carol Klein Papers on the Kawaiisu Language", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2H41PC5.
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