Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . 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).
Catalog history:Formerly named "The Mary R. Haas Collection of Newari Sound Recordings" (LA17). ZJO changed 2/25/2019.
Historical information:Formerly named "The Mary R. Haas Collection of Newari Sound Recordings" (LA17). Recorded in the context of Linguistics 220A "Linguistics Laboratory," the graduate field methods course in the Berkeley linguistics department, with M.R. Haas as instructor. Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant.
Scope and content:Sound recordings of lexical elicitation
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Sushila Joshi and Mary R. Haas. Berkeley Field Methods: Newari Sound Recordings, LA 17, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10092.
Catalog history:Includes items formerly catalogued as Ellis.001 and LL.003
Historical information:This collection consists of items of different provenance. The audio recording (cassette) and Cree-English file slips were produced as part of Marianne Mithun's research program with Monica I. Brown; the English-Cree file slips were produced as part of Mary Haas's, and drawn from the work of C. Douglas Ellis. All three objects were given by Mary Haas to Amy Dahlstrom when the latter was a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics (UC Berkeley). With that in mind, we incorporate Ellis's description of verbal morphology in different Cree dialects, as well as pedagogical materials written by David Pentland and Florence Angeconeb, both of which were formerly catalogued under "Miscellaneous Papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages."
Scope and content:Audio recording of words, phrases, and short monologic texts; two boxes of file slips, Cree-English and English-Cree; morphological description; pedagogical materials
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Cree Linguistic Materials, 2018-09, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23J3B42.
Historical information:Eero Vihman (1927-2000) was a linguist who specialized in the study of Pomoan languages. He left his native Estonia in 1944, arriving in the United States in 1952. In 1964 he joined the graduate program in linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, conducting fieldwork on Northern and Central Pomo in 1966-1967.
Scope and content:The Papers document Vihman's research on Pomoan languages from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, notably field notes from his 1966-1967 work on Northern Pomo. His main Northern Pomo consultants were Annie Lake and Edna Guerrero, with some additional material provided by Angelina Campbell; he also collected Central Pomo material from Frances Jack. Also included in the collection are Vihman's comparative notes on other Pomoan languages compiled from a variety of sources, and several draft chapters of a grammar of Northern Pomo.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Edna Guerrero, Annie Lake, and Eero Vihman. Eero Vihman Papers on the Northern Pomo Language, Vihman, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X26W9803.
Associated materials:Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 25). Some materials are copies of notebooks included in the Abraham M. Halpern Papers on Pomoan Languages (MSS Halpern).
Catalog history:Formerly Berkeley Language Center (BLC) series LL (Linguistics Lectures), with specific series numbers indicated in the catalog history of each file bundle
Historical information:The staff of the University of California, Berkeley Language Laboratory, now the Berkeley Language Center (BLC), recorded lectures related to language across the campus on request. The resultant master reel tapes were rediscovered in 2019.
Scope and content:Audio recordings of lectures related to language at the University of California, Berkeley, primarily consisting of colloquia in the Department of Linguistics
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Linguistics Lectures, 2019-11, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2N58JJ0.
Scope and content:This collection-in-progress will include materials associated with Mary R. Haas that were not deposited with the American Philosophical Society.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Mary R. Haas. Mary R. Haas Papers, 2019-16, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2ST7N0G.
Scope and content:The Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection includes a variety of maps showing the boundaries of indigenous languages and groups as well as settlement locations. Included are some of the classic maps from the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78 by Alfred Kroeber.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: . Survey of California and Other Indian Languages Map Collection, Maps, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11082.
Scope and content:Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data. English glosses provided; Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Esther Ward and Abraham M. Halpern. The Abraham Halpern collection of Central Pomo sound recordings, LA 202, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10008.
Historical information:Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant
Scope and content:Sound recordings of lexical elicitation
Repository: Berkeley Language Center
Preferred citation: Johnny Jack and Mary R. Haas. The Mary R. Haas Collection of Mattole Sound Recordings, LA 67, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10030.
Historical information:The fourteen wax cylinders of Tunica that comprise this collection were recorded by Mary R. Haas in Louisiana in the 1930s. Haas received her PhD from Yale in 1935, writing a grammar of the language, but temporarily halted work on Tunica until 1938, when she began work on "Tunica Texts." She worked on the language through 1940, when her dissertation was published. Haas mailed at least twelve of the fourteen cylinders from Ann Arbor, Michigan to herself in Richmond, Indiana in August 1943. They later came to be stored at the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages at the University of California, Berkeley in two boxes (twelve cylinders in one, two in another). The 1943 mailing date can be made out from the twelve-item box, but no date can be discerned for the two-item box. In 1979 the twelve cylinders from one of the boxes were transferred to tape, but by that time the other two cylinders had been separated, and it was not until 1985 that the latter were similarly transferred; this latter tape was later digitized by the Berkeley Language Center. In 2014 all 14 cylinders, by this time all housed in the Survey, were used as a pilot for the National Science Foundation-funded project "Linguistic and Ethnographic Sound Recordings from Early Twentieth-century California: Optical Scanning, Digitization, and Access," involving the collaboration of the Department of Linguistics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and University Library.
Scope and content:Fourteen wax cylinder recordings of songs and stories collected by Mary R. Haas in the early 1930s as part of her dissertation fieldwork on Tunica.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Sesostrie Youchigant and Mary R. Haas. The Mary R. Haas Collection of Tunica Sound Recordings, LA 146, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC30B5.
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:Typescript class paper by Takatsugu Oyakawa (Ling 298 - special study with Prof. Richard Stanley).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A Tunica phonology, Haas.068.024, 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/2650.
Description:Typescript class paper by Michael Nichols.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A preliminary comparison of Arapaho and Ojibwa, Haas.068.007, 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/2633.
Description:Copy of a typescript paper by Ken Whistler.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: A short survey of literature on the Gabrielino Indians, Haas.068.020, 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/2646.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Alligator dance, LA 146.002, in "The Mary R. Haas Collection of Tunica Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2KK98R8.
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Alligator dance; singing and drumming, LA 146.006, in "The Mary R. Haas Collection of Tunica Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X23N21C4.
Description:Typescript class paper by Joan R. Scheffreen.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Arapaho sound correspondences, Haas.068.018, 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/2644.
Description:Typescript class paper by Judith Gray (Crawford).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Arapaho sound correspondences, Haas.068.017, 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/2643.
Description:Typescript and manuscript class paper by Lone Takeuchi. Annotations in ink.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Arapaho sound correspondences, Haas.068.006, 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/2632.
Description:Typescript class paper by Daniel Winocour. Includes annotations presumably added by Mary Haas.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Arapaho-Algonkian sound correspondences, Haas.068.004, 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/2630.
Description:Copy of a class paper by Allan R. Taylor. Includes handwritten annotations presumably added by Mary Haas.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Blackfoot historical phonology: A preliminary survey, Haas.068.003, 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/2629.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Chukchansi phonemes (tentative statement), Haas.068.001, 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/2627.
Description:Typescript class paper by Jane Sokolow.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Coos morphology, Haas.068.015, 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/2641.
Description:Photocopy of typed manuscript; includes discussion of phonology and morphology and some texts.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Creek materials, Haas.037, 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/895.
Description:Photocopy of typed manuscript, with hand annotations; dated as "compiled c. 1936". Also includes two texts transcribed by Karen M. Booker, "How Turtle's Shell Got Pieced Together" by Janetta Walker, and "We Used to Listen to Stories" by Mekko Lewis.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Creek vocabulary, Haas.026, 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/884.
Description:Mimeographed copy of a paper by Margaret Hoffman with annotations in pencil.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Diegueno-Cocopa binary comparison, Haas.068.009, 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/2635.
Description:Mimeographed sketch of Eastern Pomo phonology and text (class paper by Sally McLendon).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Eastern Pomo, Haas.068.010, 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/2636.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of nature, animal, and plant terms, LA 67.002, in "The Mary R. Haas Collection of Mattole Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18274.
Preferred citation: Elicitation of numbers, LA 67.001, in "The Mary R. Haas Collection of Mattole Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18273.
Description:A wordlist organized by English entries with Creek equivalents.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: English-Creek, Haas.071, 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/14848.
Description:Typed manuscript with hand annotations. Note by Henry Pitkin (1957-01-25) that it is "completely copied from file box".
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: English-Koasati with some Alabama, Haas.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/861.
Description:Photocopy of typed manuscript with hand annotations. Also includes English-Chitimacha Vocabulary.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: English-Natchez vocabulary, Haas.053, 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/911.
Description:Typed transcript of Mary Haas's Fall 1976 class "History of Linguistics." All lectures except those on September 28, November 1, and December 2 are transcribed and included. Folder 1 contains a table of contents and transcripts of the classes from the beginning of the semester through October 21 (pp. 1-263). Folder 2 contains transcripts of the classes from October 26 through November 30 (pp. 264-542).
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: History of Linguistics, Haas.070, 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/14845.
Description:Verifax of manuscript dated 1932. (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 Haas.058.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Haas.058.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Haas.058-image_metadata.txt.)
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Iterative reduplication of monosyllabic stems in Nitinat, Haas.058, in "Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X24747TC.
Description:Typescript class paper by Russell Ultan.
Collection: Miscellaneous papers from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
Preferred citation: Konkow substantive morphology, Haas.068.028, 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/2668.
Description:English glosses. Words with labial initials; words with dental or alveolar initials; words with affricate, sibilant, and /y/ initials; words with velar or glottal initials. A minimal set and minimal pairs differing in manner of articulation of initial consonants.
Preferred citation: Lexical elicitation for consonant inventory, LA 17.002, in "Berkeley Field Methods: Newari Sound Recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/20343.
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