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Cupeño includes: Kuupangaxwichem
Date:ca.1959-1975
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Carillo, Fr. J. M. | Nolasquez, Roscinda | Galloway, Anne
Subject:Linguistics | Language study and teaching | California--History | Religion
Type:Text
Genre:Newspaper clippings | Books | Grammars | Vocabularies
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright's small Cupeño collection consists of publications on Cupeño lexica, newspaper clippings collected during the 1960s, a history of a Californian mission (Series 2), and a comparative Takic language lexical slip file (Series 5).
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:
Serrano includes: Taaqtam
Contributor:Hill, Kenneth C. | Johnston, Frank | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics | Place names | California--History | Coyote tales
Type:Text
Genre:Drafts | Books | Vocabularies
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Serrano materials mostly consist of correspondence with Kenneth C. Hill, including a Coyote story, lists and discussions of place names and etymologies, and phonology (Series 1). There is also a book on Serrano history and culture (Series 2) and a lexical slip file comparing many Takic languages (Series 5).
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)
Culture:
Yurok includes: Pueleekla’, Puliklah
Date:ca.1950-1963
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Robins, Robert Henry | Douglas, Frank | Bright, William, 1928-2006
Subject:Linguistics | Music | Folklore | California--History
Type:Text | Sound recording
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks | Drafts | Stories
Extent:0.75 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas conducted fieldwork in the early 1950s on Yurok music and language, tapes of which can be found in Series 10, and a brief field notebook with “Mrs. Roberts” in Series 2. In 1958, with the publication of the article “Algonkian-Ritwan: The End of a Controversy”, Mary Haas used her materials on Yurok, Wiyot and Algonquian languages to make a case for their genetic relationship. The vast majority of the remaining Yurok materials in Mary Haas' collection relate to this, including extensive comparative and standalone lexical card files (Series 9) and some correspondence (Series 1).
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)