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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:1821; 1916; 1932
Contributor:Pitkin, Harvey | Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967 | Vallejo, Platón M.G. | Arroyo de la Cuesta, Felipe, -1842
Subject:Religion | Place names | Ethnography | Linguistics | California--History
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Prayers
Extent:15 folders, card slips
Description: The Suisun materials in the Harvey Pitkin papers consist of numerous word lists that Pitkin compiled from various historical and linguistic sources. In Subcollection I, Series I-B, see John Alden Mason's "Suisun vocabulary" from 1916. In Subcollection II, Subseries 4-B, there are copies of vocabularies and versions of the Lord's Prayer in Suisun. In Subcollection II, Subseries 4-C, see "Section 6: Suisun" for Pitkin's typed-up versions of all Suisun vocabularies he compiled. In Subcollection II, Series 6, see 4 sections of card slips derived from Suisun vocabularies.
Collection:Harvey Pitkin Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.78)