April 2, 2019
Zach O'Hagan writes with the following news from the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages:
- Wesley dos Santos archived audio recordings of 16 stories in Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau and Karipuna (Tupí-Guaraní; Brazil), based on fieldwork in 2017 and 2018. Three stories come with additional video recordings, like this one, "The Alligator Who Wanted to Eat a Monkey."
- In collaboration with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), we digitized a circa 1946 home film belonging to Mary R. Haas, founding member of our department and first director of the Survey. The film was recorded at 1435 Arch St., Berkeley, and in downtown, and includes Prof. Haas's husband Heng Subhanka. There's footage of tea, laundry-hanging, and flower-watering in the back yard, a meal in the dining room, dish-washing in the kitchen, a warm hearth, shots of downtown Berkeley at night, and an adorable cat!
- Amalia Skilton's dissertation defense from March 22 is available to be listened to, with accompanying slides, video clip, and still image. We hope to record and make accessible more defenses in the future!
- William Sturtevant's (BA 1949, Berkeley) 1951 recordings of Creek-Seminole (Muskogean; Oklahoma, Florida) have been made unrestricted.
- Scans of several documents have been made public recently, many about Yuki (Yuki-Wappo; California): Notes on Yuki Grammar (Silver, 1967); Notes on Yuki Vocabulary and Grammar (Sawyer, 1967); Phonological Distinctions in Yuki (Sawyer, n/d); Spanish loanwords in Yuki (Sawyer, n/d); The Ghost Dance among the Yuki (Sawyer, c1975); Is Yuki a Tone Language? (Oswalt, 1978); Notes on the Yukian Pronominal System (anonymous); Nez Perce wordlist (Aoki, 1960-1961); and Chinook Jargon class handouts (Kaufman, 1966).