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Language:English
Date:1927, 1951
Contributor:Shane Smith, Elinor | Godfrey, Elizabeth H.
Subject:Folklore | Ethnography | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Oral histories | Stories
Extent:2 volumes
Description: William Bright possessed two books on “Yosemite” (most likely Ahwahnechee) stories and history. These can both be found in Series 2.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1980
Contributor:Hilbert, Vi | Bierwert, Crisca
Subject:Rites and ceremonies | Folklore | Ethnography
Type:Text
Extent:1 volume
Description: William Bright possessed a copy of “Ways of the Lushootseed People”, on ceremonies and traditions of Indigenous Coast Salish people, which can be found in Series 2.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Date:1977; 1996-1999
Contributor:Hill, Jane H. | Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Kennard, Edward A. (Edward Allan), 1907-1989 | Yava, Albert
Subject:Linguistics | Folklore | Language study and teaching
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Vocabularies | Stories
Extent:2 folders
Description: William Bright conversed with Jane H. Hill on Spanish borrowings into Hopi (“Hispanisms”, Series 1 and Series 5), and possessed a copy of the book “Field Mouse Goes to War”, a bilingual Hopi story (Series 2).
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Culture:
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:
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:
Language:Nahuatl (macrolanguage) | Nahuatl, Isthmus-Pajapan | English | Spanish
Date:ca.1940s-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Canger, Una | Karttunen, Frances | Campbell, Lyle | Lockhart, James | Bernardino, de Sahagún, 1499-1590
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Folklore | Language study and teaching | Ethnopoetics | Poetry | Coyote tales | Mexico--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Vocabularies | Grammars | Dictionaries | Poems | Field notes | Stories
Extent:2 linear feet
Description: William Bright's Nahuatl materials are sizeable and cover his entire research life, mostly consisting of his own work from the 1960s and 1990s (Series 4), and many copies of small publications throughout his life (Series 2). Of note in the small publications is almost every issue of “Nahua Newsletter” (Indiana University) between 1986 and 2004, issues 1-18 of “Mexihkatl Itonalama”, and several 1940s-1960s SIL-archived publications. From his own work (Series 4) are interlinear glosses of Nahuatl texts, materials in preparation for taught courses at UCLA, products of brief fieldwork in Ixmiquilpan, Mexico, 1966, working versions of two of his own publications, and further linguistic analysis. He also corresponded with several linguists on Nahuatl varieties (Series 1), including Una Canger, who gave him a copy of the Copenhagen Nahuatl Dictionary Project.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
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Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1954-2003
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Greenfeld, Philip J.
Subject:Language study and teaching | Linguistics | Folklore | Religion | Place names | Arizona--History
Type:Text
Genre:Books | Correspondence | Drafts | Place names
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: William Bright collected books (Series 2) and engaged in correspondence (Series 1) on “Hispanisms” (lexical borrowings from Spanish into Native American languages, collected in Series 5) and Navajo place names.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)
Date:1971, 1990
Contributor:Painter, Muriel Thayer | Evers, Larry | Molina, Felipe S.
Subject:Rites and ceremonies | Music | Ethnography | Folklore | Coyote tales
Type:Text
Genre:Musical scores | Books | Songs
Extent:2 volumes
Description: William Bright possessed two books on the Yaqui Easter ceremonies and Coyote songs, both in Series 2.
Collection:William O. Bright Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.142)