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Culture:
Karuk includes: Karok
Date:ca.1950s-1960s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Gursky, Karl-Heinz | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996
Subject:Linguistics | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Correspondence
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: One of Haas' students, William Bright, completed a grammar of Karuk as his PhD dissertation, and from this are derived a card file (Series 9) consisting of a lexicon, grammatical analyses, comparisons to various languages including proto-languages, and loanwords and placenames, which would later become a significant part of Bright's legacy. Comparisons to other languages of California and elsewhere are also found in correspondence with Karl-Heinz Gursky (Series 1) and other locations in Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
Culture:
Language:Ute-Southern Paiute | English
Date:1953-1967
Contributor:Miller, Ronald Dean | Miller, Peggy Jeanne | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | Hill, Kenneth C. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Naranjo, Dorothy | George, Bertha | Naranjo, Alden
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Place names
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Pamphlets | Vocabularies | Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks | Grammars
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Between 1992 and 1993 especially, William Bright made audio recordings of Ute vocabulary (especially place names) (Series 6), some of which is documented in a field notebook (Series 3 Subseries 1), and contributed orthography recommendations to the Southern Ute tribe (Series 4). Among other correspondence, Bright had a version of J. P. Harrington's Chemehuevi noun list, edited by Kenneth Hill, as part of assorted materials relating to Harrington's fieldwork (Series 1), as well as the pamphlet "The Chemehuevi Indians of Southern California" (Ronald Dean and Peggy Jeanne Miller, 1967, published by the Malki Museum Press).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)