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- Collection identifier: Sawyer
- Primary contributors: Laura Somersal (consultant); Jesse O. Sawyer (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Elsie Allen (consultant); Arthur Anderson (consultant); Leland Fullwider Jr. (consultant); Minnie Fulwider (consultant); William Graves (consultant); Jack Wobo (consultant); Henry Ke'a'a'la Azbill (author); Lawrence E. Dawson (author); Carl Schaefer Dentzel (author); Richard Dillon (author); William Elmendorf (author, researcher, editor); Sydney M. Lamb (author); Charles Li (author); Don Meadows (author); Francis A. Riddell (author); Jesse O. Sawyer (author, participant); Donald I. Segerstrom (author); Alice Shepherd (researcher, donor); Roy Siniard (researcher); Dorothea J. Theodoratus (author); Sandra Thompson (author); Ardis M. Walker (author); William J. Wallace (author); Norman L. Wilson (author); Harry R. Goff (editor); Michael Harrison (editor); Shirley Silver (editor); Laura Somersal (depicted, participant); Jack Werner Stauffacher (editor); Bob Western (photographer)
- Languages: Bodega Miwok; Central Pomo (poo); Chukchi (ckt); Coast Miwok (csi); Eastern Pomo (peb); Hill Patwin; Hupa; Karuk (kyh); Klamath-Modoc (kla); Konkow (mjd); Kumeyaay (dih); Lake Miwok (lmw); Luiseño (lui); Maidu (nmu); Miwokan; Nahuatl; Nisenan (nsz); Nomlaki (nol); Northeastern Pomo (pef); Northern Yukian (yuk); Ohlone; Patwin (pwi); Pomoan; Southern Pomo (peq); Southern Sierra Miwok (skd); Tohono O'odham; Tubatulabal (tub); Wailaki; Wappo (wao); Western Numic; Wintu (wnw); Wintuan; Yuki; Yurok (yur)
- Dates: late 1950s - 1986
- Extent: 17.79 linear feet (36 boxes)
- Historical information: Jesse O. Sawyer (1918-1986) received his Ph.D. in English and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1955. From 1957-1962 he was the director of the English Program for Foreign Students in the Department of Speech at UC Berkeley, then a Senior Lecturer in linguistics from 1962 until his death in 1986. From 1961 onwards he was also the Director of UC Berkeley's Language Lab, now the Berkeley Language Center. Over the course of his career he worked on a variety of topics related to the indigenous languages of California, especially the documentation of Wappo in close cooperation with speaker Laura Fish Somersal.
- Scope and content: The Papers document Sawyer's nearly three decades of research on indigenous languages of California, especially members of the Yukian family. The collection includes Wappo field notes collected from the late 1950s to the 1980s and derived materials such as vocabulary files and descriptive and comparative articles. His principal Wappo consultant was Laura Fish Somersal, with additional data provided by Jack Wobo. Sawyer's Yuki consultants were Minnie Fulwider, Arthur Anderson, and Leland Fulwider. The collection also includes Sawyer's notes and linguistic data from other languages of California taken from various published and unpublished sources.
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: Laura Somersal and Jesse O. Sawyer. Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages, Sawyer, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2PC309Q.
- Associated materials: Audio recordings associated with the Papers are in the Berkeley Language Center, Berkeley, California (LA 56, LA 88, LA 90, LA 102).
- Collection identifier: PHM29
- Primary contributors: Frank Quinn (researcher); Grover Sanderson (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Leland Fullwider Jr. (consultant); William Graves (consultant); Stephen Knight (consultant)
- Language: Pomoan
- Dates: 1955-1957
- Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: linguistic data; songs/chants
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Suggested citation: Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson. The Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson collection of Pomo sound recordings, PHM 29, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11029.
- Collection identifier: PHM13
- Primary contributor: Frank Quinn (researcher)
- Additional contributors: Harvey Beartrap (consultant); Ewing Davis (consultant); Leland Fullwider Jr. (consultant); William Graves (consultant); Stephen Knight (consultant); Sam Lopez (consultant); Ernest Marshall (consultant); Glenn Moore Sr. (consultant); Dorothy Moore (consultant); Harvey Pesho (consultant); Sam Smoker (consultant)
- Languages: Central Pomo (poo); Cheyenne (chy); Hupa; Mescalero (apm); Nomlaki (nol); Pomoan; Tolowa (tol); Yurok (yur)
- Dates: 1955-1957
- Scope and content: Linguistic field recordings: stories; linguistic data; songs/chants
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Suggested citation: Frank Quinn. The Frank Quinn collection of California Indian sound recordings, PHM 13, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11013.
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- Item identifier: 24-119
- Date: [unspecified]
- Contributors: Leland Fullwider Jr. (consultant); Frank Quinn (researcher)
- Languages: Nomlaki (nol); Pomoan
- Description: All proceeding tracks are performed in Nomlaki unless indicated otherwise. All tracks were distributed on California Indian Music Project, Northwest region, tape 13, side B.
Tracks:
(1) 'Wintun song'
(2) 'Deer Dance Song': from the Nomlaki.
(3) 'Deer Dance Song': of the Wintun from Stony Ford.
(4) 'Deer Dance Song': of the Pomo from Laytonville area. Performed in Pomoan.
(5) 'Grass Game Song'
(6) 'Grass Game Song': from the Sacramento Valley area.
(7) 'Grass Game Song'
(8) 'Unidentified song': Probably a Grass Game song.
(9) 'Love Song': The song is preceded by rather lengthy account of how it was conceived. - Availability: Online access to Item number 24-119 by request.
- Collection: The Frank Quinn collection of California Indian sound recordings
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Suggested citation: Various Nomlaki and Pomoan songs, 24-119, in "The Frank Quinn collection of California Indian sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/33876.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request):
24-119.wav (831619512 bytes)- Item identifier: 24-130
- Date: Mar 1955 to May 1957
- Contributors: Leland Fullwider Jr. (consultant); William Graves (consultant); Stephen Knight (consultant); Frank Quinn (researcher); Grover Sanderson (researcher)
- Language: Pomoan
- Description: Performers for 24-130 are William Graves, Stephen Knight, and Leland Fullwider, but the museum catalog does not identify which performers appear in each item. Distributed on California Indian Music Project, North-central region, tape 9, side A.
Tracks:
(1) 'Pomo sound recording'
(2) 'Dance Song': A "lively-up song" (Hutil gane).
(3) 'Dance Song'
(4) 'Love Song and explanation': Knight discusses the words (wa-iy wa-iy) that express despair in this song and others. See 24-121 for another rendition of the same song.
(5) 'Whiskey Dance or Crazy Dance Song': See 24-121 for another rendition of this song. There is a break in the recording between tracks 5 and 6, the announcer stating that the following songs were recorded by Grover Sanderson in May 1957.
(6) 'Grass Game Song (hani ani nowe)'
(7) 'Love Song and story of its conception'
(8) 'Love Song': Same as previous (24-130, track 7), but incomplete. - Availability: Online access to Item number 24-130 by request.
- Collection: The Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson collection of Pomo sound recordings
- Repository: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
- Suggested citation: Various Pomoan sound recordings and songs, 24-130, in "The Frank Quinn and Grover Sanderson collection of Pomo sound recordings", Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/33883.
Digital assets in this Item (available by request):
24-130.wav (829440656 bytes)- Item identifier: Sawyer.037
- Date: 1972 to 1976
- Contributors: Leland Fullwider Jr. (consultant); Jesse O. Sawyer (researcher)
- Languages: Northern Yukian (yuk); Wappo (wao)
- Description: Handout with title "Yukian Sounds" dated 12/72. Typed summary of points of comparison between Yuki and Wappo with title "The relationships between Wappo and Yuki". Handwritten notes with Yuki vocabulary.
- Availability: Materials for Item number Sawyer.037 are not digitized. Please email us at scoil-ling@berkeley.edu to schedule a visit, or to see if we can digitize them for you.
- Extent: 1 folder, 5 pp.
- Collection: Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages
- Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
- Suggested citation: [Notes on Yukian languages], Sawyer.037, in "Jesse O. Sawyer Papers on Yukian Languages", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/1589.