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- Collection identifier: Whistler
- Relations to this Collection: LA 105 is referenced by this Collection
- Primary contributors: Joe Freeman (consultant); Oscar McDaniel (consultant); Jennie Regalado (consultant); Kenneth W. Whistler (researcher, compiler, donor)
- Additional contributors: Harry Lorenzo (consultant); Sharky Moore (consultant); Mary J. Yee (consultant); Dana Howe (data_inputter); Kim Lawson (data_inputter); Michael Macko (data_inputter); Sally Schultz (data_inputter)
- Languages: Barbareño (boi); Hill Patwin; Nomlaki (nol); Northeastern Pomo (pef); Patwin (pwi); River Patwin; Wintuan; Yokuts (yok)
- Dates: 1970-1980
- Extent: 0.83 linear feet (2 boxes)
- Historical information: Kenneth Whistler received a bachelor's degree from Stanford University (1972) and a doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley (1980). His research focused on the Penutian languages of California, chiefly Patwin.
- Scope and content: The Papers primarily document Whistler's fieldwork on Patwin and Nomlaki. Whistler's Patwin consultants included Harry Lorenzo (Rumsey Hill Patwin, Brooks, California), Oscar McDaniel (Kabalwen Patwin, Stonyford, California) and Jennie Regalado (Colusa River Patwin, Colusa, California). Whistler's Nomlaki consultants included Joe Freeman (Paskenta Hill Nomlaki, Los Molinos, California). In addition to Whistler's field notes, the Papers contain drafts of a paper on Pomo prehistory by Whistler, notes on Yokuts reconstructions, and a preliminary dictionary of Barbareño Chumash.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Joe Freeman, Oscar McDaniel, Jennie Regalado, and Kenneth W. Whistler. Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages, Whistler, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2CV4FPF.
- Collection identifier: Oswalt
- Relations to this Collection: LA 98 is referenced by this Collection
- Finding aid: Oswalt_finding_aid.pdf
- Primary contributors: Elsie Allen (consultant); Elizabeth Dollar (consultant); Edna Guerrero (consultant); Achora Hanyava (consultant); Annie Lake (consultant); Milton "Bun" Lucas (consultant); Oscar McDaniel (consultant); Sharky Moore (consultant); Essie Parrish (consultant); Bernice Scott Torrez (consultant); Clara Williams (consultant); Robert L. Oswalt (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Arthur Anderson (consultant, participant); Lowe Anderson (consultant); Lucy Andrews Macy (consultant); David Antone (consultant); Salome Bartlett Alcantra (consultant); Annie Burke (consultant, participant); Edna Campbell (consultant); Violet Parrish Chapelle (consultant); Charlie Doorman (consultant); Bill Frank (consultant); Olive Fulwider (consultant); Suzie Gomez (consultant); Gladys James Gonzales (consultant); Abraham M. Halpern (consultant, author, researcher, translator); Ralph Holder (consultant); Lula Jackson (consultant); Allen James (consultant); Herman James (consultant); Mary James (consultant); Lula Johnson (consultant); John Kelsey (consultant); Cecilia Logan (consultant); Frank Logan (consultant); Effie Mabel Luff (consultant); Frank Luff (consultant); Kate Marando (consultant); Julia Pinola Marrufo (consultant); George Moore (consultant); Ralph Moore (consultant); Guillermina Nelson-Rodrigues (consultant); Old Toby (consultant); Vana Parrish Lawson (consultant); Sidney Parrish (consultant, participant); F. Scarioni (consultant); Greene Scott (consultant); Kathryn Seller (consultant); Laura Somersal (consultant); Eben Tillotsen (consultant); Vivian Wilder (consultant); Bernard W. Aginsky (author); Dan Alford (author); Ruth Almstedt (author); S.A. Barrett (author, researcher); Eugene Buckley (author, researcher); Michelle Caisse (author); Wallace L. Chafe (author); James Clifford (author); Janice Comstock (author); Philip W. Davis (author); Victoria Dickler Kaplan (author); Cora DuBois (author); Homer Durham (author); Linda J. Farnum (author); Glenn J. Farris (author, translator); George M. Foster (researcher); David Gamon (author); James R. Gibson (author); Jennie Goodrich (author); George Grekoff (researcher); Kira Hall (author); Gretchen S. Hillard (author); Leanne Hinton (author); A. A. Istomin (author); Frances Jack (author); James M. Kari (author, participant); Mary Jean Kennedy (author); P. Kostromitonov (author); Sydney M. Lamb (researcher); Thomas Larsen (author); Charles Li (author); Kent G. Lightfoot (author); John P. Marr (author); Helen McCarthy (author); Sally McLendon (author, researcher); Randall Milliken (author); Marianne Mithun (author); Mauricio J. Mixco (author); Lawrence Morgan (author); Julius Moshinsky (author); Johanna Nichols (author); June Nieze (author); Mary Catherine O'Connor (author); Robert L. Oswalt (author, annotator, donor, participant, photographer, translator); Otis Parrish (author); Viktor Petrov (author); Ross Saunders (author); Jesse O. Sawyer (author); Ann M. Schiff (author); Bernice Scott Torrez (author, participant); Alice Shepherd (author); Shirley Silver (author); Susan Steele (author); Mary Swift (author); Louise Tanous (author); Sandra Thompson (author); Katherine Turner (author); Hans Jørgen Uldall (researcher); Eero Vihman (author); Thomas A. Wake (author); Carolyn F. Wall (author); Nancy Webb (author); Kenneth W. Whistler (author); Skip Willits (author); Biten Yasumoto (author); T. Yokomori (author); Martha Anderson (participant); Ramon Billy Jr. (donor); Peter Kalifornsky (participant); Milton "Bun" Lucas (participant); Tammy Lucas (participant); Nelda Grace Martinez (participant); Oswalt family (donor); Essie Parrish (participant, translator)
- Languages: Aleut (ale); Aztecan; Bribri (bzd); Central Pomo (poo); Chinook Jargon (chn); Chochenyo; Chumashan; Coast Miwok (csi); Cocopa (coc); Dena'ina (tfn); Eastern Pomo (peb); Esselen (esq); Havasupai (yuf); Hualapai (yuf); Huchnom; Karuk (kyh); Kashaya (kju); Kiliwa (klb); Klamath; Kumeyaay (dih); Kwtsaan (yum); Lacandon (lac); Lakota (lkt); Luiseño (lui); Maidu (nmu); Maricopa (mrc); Miwokan; Mojave (mov); Mutsun (css); Nisenan (nsz); Northeastern Pomo (pef); Northern Pomo (pej); Northern Yukian (yuk); Nuxalk (blc); Paipai (ppi); Patwin (pwi); Pomoan; Salinan (sln); Samala (inz); Southeastern Pomo (pom); Southern Pomo (peq); Tajuasohn (tja); Tonkawa (tqw); Wappo (wao); Yana (ynn); Yokuts (yok); Yuki; Yurok (yur)
- Dates: 1956-2005
- Extent: 30.2 linear feet (69 boxes)
- Historical information: Robert Louis Oswalt, Pomoan language scholar, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. 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, Southern Pomo, and Central 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, 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
- Suggested 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, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2C24TDG.
- Collection identifier: LA98
- Relations to this Collection: Oswalt references this Collection
- Primary contributors: Herman James (consultant); Essie Parrish (consultant, researcher); Robert L. Oswalt (researcher)
- Additional contributors: David Antone (consultant); Violet Parrish Chapelle (consultant); Jesse Frank (consultant); Gladys James Gonzales (consultant); William Graves (consultant); Isabelle Johnson (consultant); Ethel Lucas (consultant); Nettie Manuel (consultant); Julia Pinola Marrufo (consultant); Sharky Moore (consultant); Sidney Parrish (consultant); Elizabeth Sheridan (consultant); Johnny Smith (consultant); Louise Smith (consultant)
- Languages: Kashaya (kju); Northeastern Pomo (pef)
- Dates: 1957-1964
- Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; stories; ethnographic data; songs; Additional ethnographic or ethnohistorical texts, conversations, reminiscences, untitled texts. Some in English. Digitization supported by NEH Preservation/Access Grant.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Herman James, Essie Parrish, and Robert L. Oswalt. The Robert Oswalt collection of Pomo sound recordings, LA 98, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/10027.
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- Item identifier: LA98.117
- Date: 24 May 1989
- Contributors: Sharky Moore (consultant); Robert L. Oswalt (researcher)
- Language: Northeastern Pomo (pef)
- Relations to this item: Oswalt.001.047 references this Item
- Availability: Online access
- Collection: The Robert Oswalt collection of Pomo sound recordings
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: [Interview about place names and legends], LA 98.117, in "The Robert Oswalt collection of Pomo sound recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22189.
- Item identifier: LA98.118
- Date: 25 May 1989
- Contributors: Sharky Moore (consultant); Robert L. Oswalt (researcher)
- Language: Northeastern Pomo (pef)
- Relations to this item: Oswalt.001.047 references this Item
- Availability: Online access
- Collection: The Robert Oswalt collection of Pomo sound recordings
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: [Interview about placenames and legends], LA 98.118, in "The Robert Oswalt collection of Pomo sound recordings", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/22190.
- Item identifier: Oswalt.001.045
- Date: 1976 May 12-1989 May 25
- Contributors: Oscar McDaniel (consultant); Sharky Moore (consultant); Robert L. Oswalt (researcher); Oswalt family (donor)
- Language: Northeastern Pomo (pef)
- Description: Vocabulary (places names, personal names) and morphology.
(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 Oswalt.001.045.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Oswalt.001.045.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Oswalt.001.045-image_metadata.txt.) - Availability: Online access
- Extent: 1 folder
- Collection: Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: [Northeastern Pomo field notebook], Oswalt.001.045, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2T72FDX.
- Item identifier: Whistler.005.003
- Date: 17 Sep 1975 to 29 Sep 1975
- Contributors: Oscar McDaniel (consultant); Sharky Moore (consultant); Jennie Regalado (consultant); Kenneth W. Whistler (researcher)
- Languages: Hill Patwin; Northeastern Pomo (pef); River Patwin
- Description: Digital images of field notebook C.
(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 Whistler.005.003.pdf. The original full resolution scans are collected in Whistler.005.003.zip. Metadata pertaining to each scanned image is compiled in the tab-separated text file Whistler.005.003-image_metadata.txt.) - Availability: Online access
- Extent: 102 digital images (TIFF), approximately 5 GB
- Collection: Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: [Patwin Notebook C], Whistler.005.003, in "Kenneth W. Whistler Papers on California Indian Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X21J97PN.
- Item identifier: Oswalt.001.047
- Date: 30 May 1992
- Contributors: Sharky Moore (consultant); Robert L. Oswalt (researcher); Oswalt family (donor)
- Language: Northeastern Pomo (pef)
- Place: Willows, CA
- Description: Typed transcript of (1989) Sharky Moore interview with handwritten notes.
- Relations to this item: LA 98.117 and LA 98.118 are referenced by this Item
- Availability: Online access
- Extent: 1 folder
- Collection: Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: [Sharky Moore interview], Oswalt.001.047, in "Robert Louis Oswalt Papers on Pomoan Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X22B8X35.