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Language:English | Cocopa | Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
Date:circa 1962-1988
Contributor:Crawford, James M. (James Mack), 1925-1989
Subject:Linguistics | Anthropology | Ethnography | Arizona--History | Yuman languages
Type:Text
Genre:Essays | Field notes | Bibliographies | Notes | Drafts | Reviews | Notebooks
Extent:10 folders
Description: Materials relating to James Crawford's research specifically on the Yuman languages as a whole. The materials described here are all of Series III-C and all of Series IV-C. Items in Series III-C. Works by Crawford—Yuman include "Account of Reconnaissance Among Several Languages of the Yuman Family in Arizona" [1962], a typed narrative of a research trip including itinerary, names of people, and many personal and ethnographic observations, but focusing on finding language consultants for Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Maricopa, and Cocopa and mentions Jimmie Yazzi, Willie Walker, Elmer Watahomigie, Lorenzo Sinyella, “Old Man” Sinyella, William Littlejim, Ernest Larson, etc., (and also describes a surprise encounter with Carl Voegelin where Crawford learned that graduate students at Indiana were already working on Havasupai, Yavapai, and Walapai and heard Voegelin expound on the merits of tape recorders in linguistic work); "Bibliography of the Tribes and Languages of the Yuman Family" [n.d.], one page of handwritten notes and a 45-page typed document compiled largely from George Peter Murdock's “Ethnographic Bibliography of North America” (1950); notes, drafts, and page proofs of Crawford's review of Cochimi and Proto-Yuman: Lexical and Syntactic Evidence for a New Language Family in Lower California by Mauricio J. Mixco—Review [1980]; handwritten notes, edited drafts, and page proofs of Crawford's essay "A Comparison of Chimariko and Yuman" [1976]; a typed copy, handwritten notes, and other materials (including homework exercises and a preliminary draft) relating to Crawford's "Proto-Yuman: Reconstructed from Cocopa, Diegueño, Maricopa, and Yavapai" [1964]; and handwritten notes and charts and typed drafts of Crawford's "Some Cognate Sets from Chimariko and Several Yuman Languages" [n.d.]. Items in Series IV-C. Research Notes & Notebooks—Yuman include a folder of miscellaneous, mostly handwritten “Notes” [n.d.]; a folder of “Notes on Possible Informants among Speakers of the Yuman Language” [n.d]., including Crawford's observations and experiences during his research trip looking for consultants for Walapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, Cocopa, and Maricopa (see also the more formal, typed narrative in "Account of Reconnaissance Among Several Languages of the Yuman Family in Arizona" [1962]), and a rough handwritten draft of “The Reconstruction of Proto Yuman from Cocopa, Maricopa, Diegueño and Yavapai”; four pages of copied text on “Phonemes of Four Yuman Languages” [1962], focusing on Havasupai, Yavapai, Maricopa, and Cocopa; and about 30 pages of notes on linguistics and language consultants in “Yuman Reconnaissance—Notebook” [1962]. See also related materials in the Cocopah entry of the Crawford Papers, and Series VII. Photographs.
Collection:James M. Crawford Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.66)
Culture:
Yurok includes: Pueleekla’, Puliklah
Date:1915, 1927, 1935
Contributor:Angulo, Jaime de | Freeland, L. S. (Lucy Shepard), 1890-1972 | Nat, Robert | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics | Kinship
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook (91 pages); ca. 40 pages
Description: The Yurok materials in the ACLS collection consist mainly of two items in the "Yurok" section of the finding aid. One is a single notebook (item A7.2) recorded by Edward Sapir from 1927, which contains vocabularies, paradigms, and texts recorded at the Hupa Reservation. Also in this section, there is an undated short vocabulary (item A7.1) recorded by Freeland and de Angulo from speaker Robert Nat from Lower Klamath River. In the "Algonkian" section are two short items (A.1 and A.2) discussing Wiyot-Yurok classification, and in notebooks (item U.5) in the "Southern Paiute" section is a note on kinship terms.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Date:ca. 1920s
Contributor:Simango, Columbus Kamba | Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Subject:Death--Philosophy | Folklore | Ethnography | Religion | South Africa--History
Type:Text
Genre:Stories | Notebooks | Vocabularies
Extent:ca. 220 pages, 39 notebooks
Description: The Zulu material in the ACLS collection consists of brief references scattered throughout items AfBnd.3 and AfBnd.4, "Ndau lexica and ethnographic slips" and "Texts on Ndau culture" in the "Non-American and non-linguistic material" section of the finding aid. The extent and subjects of the Zulu material have not been fully evaluated, but they are believed to have come from Simango's knowledge, typically with reference to Ndau (Chindau).
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)
Culture:
Zuni includes: A:shiwi
Date:1920
Contributor:Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 | Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990
Subject:Ethnography | Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Shorthand | Vocabularies
Extent:1 notebook; Circa 7,000 slips
Description: The Zuni material in the ACLS collection consists of 2 items found in the "Zuni" section of the finding aid. The first is a field notebook (item Zu.1) recorded by Franz Boas with vocabularies and shorthand ethnographic notes, subsequently transcribed elsewhere. The second item is a lexicon (item Zu.2) of approximately 7000 word slips by Ruth Bunzel arranged alphabetically and also by grammatical categories. This lexicon appears based on field notes not at the APS.
Collection:ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) (Mss.497.3.B63c)