Chumash materials, William O. Bright Papers

Culture:
Chumash
Language: Barbareño | Ventureño | Ineseño | Purisimeño | Cruzeño | Obispeño | English | Spanish
Date: 1959-1995
Contributor: Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Beeler, Madison Scott, 1910- | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | McLendon, Sally | Johnson, John | Hvolboll, Elizabeth Erro
Subject: Linguistics | Place names | Ethnography
Type: Text | Cartographic
Genre: Newspaper clippings | Magazines | Drafts | Vocabularies | Maps
Extent: 0.25 linear feet
Description: Beginning with fieldwork in around 1959-1960 with Marie de Soto at Santa Barbara, California, Bright continued to collected materials in Chumashan languages and villages throughout his life. A short field notebook can be found in Series 3 Subseries 2, along with a large topical folder on Chumash in Series 4. Correspondence on “Hispanisms” (Spanish borrowings into Native languages, Series 1, and the card file in Series 5) is also of note.
Collection: William O. Bright Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.142