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Language:English | Wintu | Klamath-Modoc | Takelma | Patwin | Miwok, Central Sierra
Date:1888-1953
Contributor:Pitkin, Harvey | Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906 | Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Halpern, Abraham M. (Abraham Meyer), 1914-1985 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936 | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Dixon, Carrie | Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907 | Harrington, J. P. (John P.), 1865-1939 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Brown, Cecil H., 1944- | DeLancey, Scott Cameron
Subject:Linguistics | Music | Ethnography | Folklore | Religion | Personal names | California--History
Type:Still Image | Text | Sound recording
Genre:Grammars | Bibliographies | Stories | Notebooks | Field notes | Vocabularies | Index | Sketches | Vocabularies | Notes | Correspondence | Dictionaries | Musical scores | Essays | Vocabularies | Songs
Description: The Wintu materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers are extensive. Subcollection I, Series I, contains notes, notebooks, vocabularies, slip files, texts, manuscripts and phonetic tracings by Jeremiah Curtin in the late 19th century, Roland Dixon, and A.M. Halpern. Series I-B contains Pitkin's grammar slip files and vocabularies collected by Curtin. Series I-C includes Jaime de Angulo's manuscript on the Patwin language, S.A. Barrett's transcriptions and translations of speech and song recordings, Radin's "Grammatical Sketch" and Waterman's notes on Patwin phonetics. Series II-A is rich in materials collected by A.L. Krober. In Subcollection II, Pitkin's field notes are located in Series 2, Subseries 1. Subseries 2 includes Pitkin's extensive notes on his Wintu dictionary, grammar, texts, stories, and music. The manuscript of the dictionary is located in Subseries 3. There is an unpublished 416 page manuscript of stories written in both English and Wintu, songs, and transcriptions in Subseries 4. This section also includes copies of all the extant linguistic material with works by noted linguists such as Curtin, Albert Gatschet, Radin, Halpern, Morris Swadesh, Victor Golla, and J.P. Harrington. Series 6 is comprised of card file slips with comparative analyses by Pitkin of the four languages of the Wintun family.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Wintu includes: Northern Wintun
Date:1821-1953
Contributor:Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 | Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936 | Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942 | Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934 | Bill, Minnie | Shafer, Robert | Whistler, Kenneth W.
Subject:Linguistics | California--History | Folklore
Type:Text
Genre:Notebooks | Vocabularies | Grammars | Bibliographies | Musical scores | Stories | Songs
Description: The Wintun materials in the Harvey Pitkin Papers include a wealth of material collected by Pitkin from other scholars as well as his own linguistic work. The work of Paul Radin, A.L. Kroeber, Jeremiah Curtin, and T.T. Waterman can be found in Subcollection I, Series I and Series II. In Subcollection II, Pitkin's field notes of stories, songs, and myths are typed but were never published. Subseries 4-B and 4-C, "Source Texts," contains creation myths collected by Curtin, works by Kroeber, Albert Gatschet, and J.P. Harrington, Vocabularies collected by Morris Swadish, C. Hart Merriam, Arroyo de la Guesta (1821). Subseries 5 includes Pitkin's work on comparative Wintun Vocabularies and Proto-Wintun as well as Kenneth Whistler's work on Proto-Wintun. Series 6 has a large number of Wintun word slips.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)
Culture:
Date:1904-1945
Contributor:Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Robinson, Roy H. | Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986 | Rolland, Ann | Allen, Ellen | Hornbostel, Erich Moritz von, 1877-1935 | Sexton, Charles Eli
Subject:Anthropology | Ethnography | Linguistics | Art | Material culture | Specimens | Peyote | Music | Dance | Social life and customs | Religion | Politics and government | Jewelry | Haskell Institute | Ethnomusicology
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Notes | Field notes | Reports | Musical scores
Extent:5 folders
Description: Materials relating to Speck's interest in Yuchi language, history, and culture. Includes three letters from Roy H. Robinson to Speck concerning persuading Yuchis to answer questions, Cayuga earrings, a Navajo beaded necklace, Osage buffalo hide shield, etc.; a 13-page report titled "Yuchi Ethnography" on political organization, diseases, mythology, etc., based on a 1904 field trip; a folder on Yuchi and Creek dances with sheet music for songs to accompany dance, choreography, and a few vocabulary items with a folder on Yuchi and Creek songs along with 12 vocabulary slips; and 17 pages of Speck's miscellaneous Yuchi notes and correspondence, including one page concerning Yalewi, a Yuchi Indian; one card concerning peyote among Yuchi; a one-page list of names of informants, 1941; a letter from Erich von Hornbostel to Speck, concerning Yuchi songs; a letter from Ellen Allen, a Yuchi Indian, recalling Speck's visit in 1904 and Boas' visit and effort to do a Yuchi grammar with her; a letter from Carl F. Voegelin concerning Yuchi linguistics; letters from Charles Eli Sexton to the University of Pennsylvania Museum concerning Speck's Yuchi ethnography, a Yuchi informant, and connection of Natchez and Hopewell to Yuchi; and letters from Ann Rolland (Haskell Institute) concerning Yuchi museum specimens and relics of the past.
Collection:Frank G. Speck Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.126)