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Hupa includes: Natinixwe, Na:tinixwe, Natinook-wa, Na:tini-xwe, Hoopa
Date:undated, 2001-2004
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Blevins, Juliette
Subject:Linguistics | California--History | Folklore | Ethnography | Music
Type:Text | Cartographic
Genre:Correspondence | Books | Maps | Stories
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: In addition to copies of several small publications on Hupa history, stories and songs (Series 2), Bright possessed a sketch map of Shastan languages distributed throughout California (Series 5), and corresponded with several researchers, most significantly Juliette Blevins, in which there is a lexicon of plants and animals (Series 1).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Karuk includes: Karok
Date:1949-2006
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Super, Violet | Ferrara, Jim | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | Kennedy, Mary Jean, 1918-1999 | Lang, Julian | Pepper, Chester | Reuben, Nettie | Beck, Lottie | Gehr, Susan | Starritt, Julia | Supahan, Sarah | Supahan, Terry | Tripp, Emilio | Jacups-Johnny, Jeanerette | Supahan, Nisha | Shaw, Lyn | Super, Emmett | Snapp, Elizabeth | Maddux, Phoebe | Howerton, Stella | Eaglewing, Chief
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | Coyote tales | Ethnography | Folklore | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | California--History | Language study and teaching
Type:Text | Sound recording | Cartographic
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Stories | Maps
Extent:4 linear feet
Description: From the age of 21 throughout his life, William Bright worked with Karuk speakers to document and revitalize their language, resulting in becoming the first white honorary member of the Karuk tribe. The most prominent materials at the American Philosophical Society as a result are wide-ranging audio recordings, from the 1950s until the 2000s (Series 6), especially with Violet Super. With Susan Gehr, he produced a Karuk language dictionary, correspondence with whom (Series 1) contains draft texts. With the Karuk he contributed considerably to the literature on Coyote in particular, original transcriptions of which are in notebooks in Series 3 Subseries 1, and further developments in Series 2. He also collected many small publications about Karuk, in the same series. Additionally of interest in Series 1 is correspondence about the suspected arson of a'tim'îin, the Karuk sacred site near Somes Bar, CA. Karuk materials can be found in every series.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1950s-1990s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sedat, Guillermo | Yool G., Juan
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Guatemala--History
Type:Text | Cartographic
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Maya file consists mostly of copies of others' publications, in particular texts produced by the SIL and other publishers in Guatemala (Series 2). He also performed ethnopoetics analysis on Mayan texts in preparation for a taught course in 1985, and drew a map of the languages of Central America.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Date:1950, undated
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Sambo, Sargent | Wicks, Clara | Wicks, Fred | Murree, Frank | Bateman, Haynes | Brown, Fanny
Subject:Linguistics | Coyote tales | Folklore | California--History
Type:Text | Cartographic | Sound recording
Genre:Drafts | Vocabularies | Stories | Maps
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: William Bright made several audio recordings with Sargent Sambo in 1950 of Coyote tales, and a vocabulary, which can be found in Series 6. Among his other works, he was concerned with Shasta orthography, and developed a proposal for a new version, and derived lexica from others' published sources and archival notes (Series 4).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)