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  1. Awajún Sound Recordings

    • Collection identifier: 2016-06
    • Primary contributors: Ernesto Ankuash (consultant); "Viejo" Chávez (consultant); Alberto Espejo (consultant); Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Additional contributor: José Shimpukat (participant)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Dates: 1970-1979
    • Extent: 10 cassettes
    • Historical information: This collection consists of the field recordings produced by anthropologist Brent Berlin (PhD 1964, Stanford University) during his ethnozoological research among Chicham (also known as Jivaroan) peoples of western Amazonia in the 1970s. Research was conducted in the Cenepa and Santiago river drainages, two left-bank tributaries of the Marañón River, which joins with the Huallaga River to the northeast to form the Amazon. Chicham languages comprise a dialect continuum of five varieties -- Awajún (aka Aguaruna), Wampís (aka Huambisa), Achuar, Shuar, and Shiwiar -- that span the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border. Due to their relative isolation during the colonial and early national periods of Ecuador and Peru, Chicham languages at the outset of the 21st century remain some of the most vital of Amazonia, with several tens of thousands of speakers across all varieties.
      Metadata not in brackets derives from the original metadata on the cassette tapes. Metadata in brackets results from inspection of the recordings by archive workers.
    • Scope and content: Sixteen digitized recordings including whistle talk, curing ceremonies, traditional narratives, music, and a self-interview by the depositor
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Ernesto Ankuash, "Viejo" Chávez, Alberto Espejo, and Brent Berlin. Awajún Sound Recordings, 2016-06, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2BP00SV.

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    • Item identifier: 2016-06.001
    • Date: 1972 to 1973
    • Contributor: Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Place: Cenepa River, Amazonas, Peru
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV file BB-1A
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Whistle talk 0-44, 2016-06.001, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2HD7SPG.
    • Item identifier: 2016-06.002
    • Date: 31 Jul 1977
    • Contributors: "Viejo" Chávez (consultant); Brent Berlin (researcher, donor); José Shimpukat (participant)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Place: Huampami, El Cenepa, Condorcanqui, Amazonas, Peru
    • Description: The night that OBB's arm was healed, recorded at the home of the indicated participant; consultant is the shaman conducting the curing
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV files BB-3A and BB-3B
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Curing ceremony, 2016-06.002, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2CN71XP.
    • Item identifier: 2016-06.003
    • Date: [unspecified]
    • Contributors: Alberto Espejo (consultant); Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Description: [Probably recorded on the Cenepa River in 1974, as it is Side A of a tape, the Side B of which contains this metadata]
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV file BB-2A
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Story 1], 2016-06.003, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X27W696C.
    • Item identifier: 2016-06.004
    • Date: 1974
    • Contributors: Ernesto Ankuash (consultant); Alberto Espejo (consultant); Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Place: Cenepa River, Amazonas, Peru
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV file BB-2B
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Nungkui Story, Foam on the Pastaza, 2016-06.004, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2445JHD.
    • Item identifier: 2016-06.006
    • Date: [unspecified]
    • Contributors: "Viejo" Chávez (consultant); Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Place: Huampami, El Cenepa, Condorcanqui, Amazonas, Peru
    • Description: [Spanish translation of text exists; two American women and one American man appear to be present]
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV file BB-7A
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Pásuk story, 2016-06.006, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2VQ30PN.
    • Item identifier: 2016-06.007
    • Date: 26 Jul 1978
    • Contributors: Alberto Espejo (consultant); Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Place: Cenepa River, Amazonas, Peru
    • Description: [Stories directed to apparently American speaker of Awajún, who understands and occasionally responds]
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV files BB-8A, BB-8B, and BB-9A
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: Mammal stories, 2016-06.007, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2QZ280S.
    • Item identifier: 2016-06.008
    • Date: 1970
    • Contributor: Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Places: Bagua, Bagua, Bagua, Amazonas, Peru; Lima, Peru
    • Description: [2016-06.008.001: Berlin speaks in English; arrive Lima 8/1 7:30AM, 8-hour flight from L.A.; "typical of many Berkeley mornings" fog; exchange rate is S/.43.38 to $1 USD; stayed at Pensión Alemana on Avenida Arequipa in Miraflores; met German botanist there, whose guide was Ramón Pereira, also Berlin's guide; went to office of Peruvian Times for maps; SIL office was on 14th floor of Ministry of Education building, closed Saturday; called Eugene Loos (then Director of SIL), who lived at Javier Prado 200, wanted appointment on Sunday concerning expedition to Aguaruna; went to Natural History Museum and gave Pereira letters from Lincoln Constance (Director of UC Berkeley Herbarium) and Oliver Pearson (Director of Museum of Vertebrate Zoology); at 9:46 changes location to Bagua; 13:06 other change with music in background. 2016-06.008.002: singing in Sp. (in Bagua?); at ~2:40 recognition of agreement for research project; Spanish lloranza and other songs sung; at ~7:20 man speaks and sings in Awajún; at 8:10 change, muttering leads to more singing in Spanish]
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV files 10A and 10B
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Research background self-interview, Bagua meeting], 2016-06.008, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2M61H8C.
    • Item identifier: 2016-06.009
    • Date: 30 Oct 1979 to 31 Oct 1979
    • Contributor: Brent Berlin (researcher, donor)
    • Language: Awajún (agr)
    • Place: Caterpiza, Rio Santiago, Condorcanqui, Amazonas, Peru
    • Description: [2016-06.009.001: flute playing, speech in Aguaruna in background, followed by drum; 2016-06.009.002: speaking more prominent, with flute, men and women singing, followed by rattle; 2016-06.009.003: flute and rattle, men and women singing, clapping, followed by apparent stringed instrument around 32:00 and conversation at end]
    • Availability: Online access
    • Catalog history: Formerly WAV files BB-4A, BB-4B, BB-5A
    • Collection: Awajún Sound Recordings
    • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
    • Suggested citation: [Music], 2016-06.009, in "Awajún Sound Recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2GF0RH6.