Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Field notes
Vocabulary
Dictionaries
Narratives
Manuscripts
Place:
California -- Languages
California -- History
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Ventura County (Calif.)
San Nicolas Island (Calif.)
Date:
1912-1961
Scope and Contents:
This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Chumash. His voluminous records on the group--totaling several hundred thousand pages--contain data on each of the six distinct dialect groups which constitute Chumash.
Material on the Obispeno, classified as Northern Chumash, consists primarily of vocabulary and contains a mixture of linguistic, ethnographic, and personal data. These elicitations from the last known native speaker, Rosario Cooper, represent the fullest and phonetically most reliable attestation of the language.
The Purisimeno notes consist mainly of words and "corrected vocabularies." Unlike the materials for the other Central Chumash dialects--Ineseno, Barbareno, and Ventureno--these records contain little grammatical information. Occasional Purisimeno forms are to be found in the Obispeno notes. In addition, much of the Purisimeno data is intermixed with that for Ineseno, as Harrington's informants were generally speakers of both.
Records relating to Ineseno are extensive and varied. They include raw field notes, texts, semantic and grammatical slipfiles, and a dictionary. The bulk of the data are from Maria Solares.
The Barbareno dialect of Central Chumash provided a constant source of interest for Harrington. He became fluent enough that he omitted glosses and translations from his later notes and was able to exchange letters with native speakers. During the course of his fieldwork, he had the unique opportunity to work with three generations of women in one family: Luisa Ignacio (around 1914); her daughter, Lucrecia Garcia (1926-1928); and her granddaughter, Mary Yee (from the 1920s to the early 1960s). Harrington also worked with Juan de Jesus Justo, a speaker of a different subdialect. While the notes Harrington recorded on Barbareno are among his most extensive, they are not as clearly organized as those for other groups. Thousands of pages of linguistic notes are totally without organization. Harrington rarely obtained paradigms. Instead, he obtained information by rechecking other sources, such as his own Ineseno dictionary, or by eliciting sentences in a random fashion. While textual material is plentiful, complete interlinear and free translations are often lacking.
Harrington's ethnographic notes on the Ventureno are among the most complete for any California Indian tribe he studied. Detailed accounts of Chumash life were obtained from the elderly Fernando Librado. Their interviews touched upon religion, perceptions of astronomy, such technologies as boat building and basket making, social structure, medical practices, and natural resources. A number of subdialects are represented in the Ventureno notes. Harrington recorded the "commonized" Ventura Mission dialect (samala) from Librado, Simplicio Pico, and Cecilio Tumamait. Interior Chumash (Cayetano and Castequeno) was obtained from Jose Juan Olivas. Other dialects mentioned include Mugu, Malibu, Ojai, and Matilija. There are also notes on the lone woman of San Nicolas Island.
In comparison with the records for the other Chumash dialects, documentation for Island Chumash (Ysleno) is extremely limited. Scattered throughout the material are references to the two dialects of Santa Cruz (Cruzeno), swaxil and kaxas. The speech of Santa Rosa and San Miguel is also mentioned.
The subseries also contains drafts of different lengths and in various stages of completion. Two documents pertain to Barbareno linguistics while the remaining papers reflect Harrington's cultural study of the Chumash.
Biographical / Historical:
John P. Harrington studied the Chumash Indians of southern California more thoroughly than any other group, both linguistically and culturally. He first expressed interest in the Chumash culture as early as 1902 during summer school studies with A. L. Kroeber and P. E. Goddard. His linguistic study of the Chumash family began during his association with the School of American Archaeology and the Panama-California Exposition and continued periodically up until his death in 1961.
Local Numbers:
Accession #1976-95
Local Note:
This subseries was broken up into six catalog records to facilitate viewing of digital surrogates. See the other catalog records for John Peabody Harrington papers: Chumash to view surrogates for the rest of Harrington's Chumash files.
Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Field notes
Vocabulary
Dictionaries
Narratives
Manuscripts
Place:
California -- Languages
California -- History
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Ventura County (Calif.)
San Nicolas Island (Calif.)
Date:
1912-1961
Scope and Contents:
This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Chumash. His voluminous records on the group--totaling several hundred thousand pages--contain data on each of the six distinct dialect groups which constitute Chumash.
Material on the Obispeno, classified as Northern Chumash, consists primarily of vocabulary and contains a mixture of linguistic, ethnographic, and personal data. These elicitations from the last known native speaker, Rosario Cooper, represent the fullest and phonetically most reliable attestation of the language.
The Purisimeno notes consist mainly of words and "corrected vocabularies." Unlike the materials for the other Central Chumash dialects--Ineseno, Barbareno, and Ventureno--these records contain little grammatical information. Occasional Purisimeno forms are to be found in the Obispeno notes. In addition, much of the Purisimeno data is intermixed with that for Ineseno, as Harrington's informants were generally speakers of both.
Records relating to Ineseno are extensive and varied. They include raw field notes, texts, semantic and grammatical slipfiles, and a dictionary. The bulk of the data are from Maria Solares.
The Barbareno dialect of Central Chumash provided a constant source of interest for Harrington. He became fluent enough that he omitted glosses and translations from his later notes and was able to exchange letters with native speakers. During the course of his fieldwork, he had the unique opportunity to work with three generations of women in one family: Luisa Ignacio (around 1914); her daughter, Lucrecia Garcia (1926-1928); and her granddaughter, Mary Yee (from the 1920s to the early 1960s). Harrington also worked with Juan de Jesus Justo, a speaker of a different subdialect. While the notes Harrington recorded on Barbareno are among his most extensive, they are not as clearly organized as those for other groups. Thousands of pages of linguistic notes are totally without organization. Harrington rarely obtained paradigms. Instead, he obtained information by rechecking other sources, such as his own Ineseno dictionary, or by eliciting sentences in a random fashion. While textual material is plentiful, complete interlinear and free translations are often lacking.
Harrington's ethnographic notes on the Ventureno are among the most complete for any California Indian tribe he studied. Detailed accounts of Chumash life were obtained from the elderly Fernando Librado. Their interviews touched upon religion, perceptions of astronomy, such technologies as boat building and basket making, social structure, medical practices, and natural resources. A number of subdialects are represented in the Ventureno notes. Harrington recorded the "commonized" Ventura Mission dialect (samala) from Librado, Simplicio Pico, and Cecilio Tumamait. Interior Chumash (Cayetano and Castequeno) was obtained from Jose Juan Olivas. Other dialects mentioned include Mugu, Malibu, Ojai, and Matilija. There are also notes on the lone woman of San Nicolas Island.
In comparison with the records for the other Chumash dialects, documentation for Island Chumash (Ysleno) is extremely limited. Scattered throughout the material are references to the two dialects of Santa Cruz (Cruzeno), swaxil and kaxas. The speech of Santa Rosa and San Miguel is also mentioned.
The subseries also contains drafts of different lengths and in various stages of completion. Two documents pertain to Barbareno linguistics while the remaining papers reflect Harrington's cultural study of the Chumash.
Biographical / Historical:
John P. Harrington studied the Chumash Indians of southern California more thoroughly than any other group, both linguistically and culturally. He first expressed interest in the Chumash culture as early as 1902 during summer school studies with A. L. Kroeber and P. E. Goddard. His linguistic study of the Chumash family began during his association with the School of American Archaeology and the Panama-California Exposition and continued periodically up until his death in 1961.
Local Numbers:
Accession #1976-95
Local Note:
This subseries was broken up into seven catalog records to facilitate viewing of digital surrogates. See the other catalog records for John Peabody Harrington papers: Chumash to view surrogates for the rest of Harrington's Costanoan files.
Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Field notes
Vocabulary
Dictionaries
Narratives
Manuscripts
Place:
California -- Languages
California -- History
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Ventura County (Calif.)
San Nicolas Island (Calif.)
Date:
1912-1961
Scope and Contents:
This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Chumash. His voluminous records on the group--totaling several hundred thousand pages--contain data on each of the six distinct dialect groups which constitute Chumash.
Material on the Obispeno, classified as Northern Chumash, consists primarily of vocabulary and contains a mixture of linguistic, ethnographic, and personal data. These elicitations from the last known native speaker, Rosario Cooper, represent the fullest and phonetically most reliable attestation of the language.
The Purisimeno notes consist mainly of words and "corrected vocabularies." Unlike the materials for the other Central Chumash dialects--Ineseno, Barbareno, and Ventureno--these records contain little grammatical information. Occasional Purisimeno forms are to be found in the Obispeno notes. In addition, much of the Purisimeno data is intermixed with that for Ineseno, as Harrington's informants were generally speakers of both.
Records relating to Ineseno are extensive and varied. They include raw field notes, texts, semantic and grammatical slipfiles, and a dictionary. The bulk of the data are from Maria Solares.
The Barbareno dialect of Central Chumash provided a constant source of interest for Harrington. He became fluent enough that he omitted glosses and translations from his later notes and was able to exchange letters with native speakers. During the course of his fieldwork, he had the unique opportunity to work with three generations of women in one family: Luisa Ignacio (around 1914); her daughter, Lucrecia Garcia (1926-1928); and her granddaughter, Mary Yee (from the 1920s to the early 1960s). Harrington also worked with Juan de Jesus Justo, a speaker of a different subdialect. While the notes Harrington recorded on Barbareno are among his most extensive, they are not as clearly organized as those for other groups. Thousands of pages of linguistic notes are totally without organization. Harrington rarely obtained paradigms. Instead, he obtained information by rechecking other sources, such as his own Ineseno dictionary, or by eliciting sentences in a random fashion. While textual material is plentiful, complete interlinear and free translations are often lacking.
Harrington's ethnographic notes on the Ventureno are among the most complete for any California Indian tribe he studied. Detailed accounts of Chumash life were obtained from the elderly Fernando Librado. Their interviews touched upon religion, perceptions of astronomy, such technologies as boat building and basket making, social structure, medical practices, and natural resources. A number of subdialects are represented in the Ventureno notes. Harrington recorded the "commonized" Ventura Mission dialect (samala) from Librado, Simplicio Pico, and Cecilio Tumamait. Interior Chumash (Cayetano and Castequeno) was obtained from Jose Juan Olivas. Other dialects mentioned include Mugu, Malibu, Ojai, and Matilija. There are also notes on the lone woman of San Nicolas Island.
In comparison with the records for the other Chumash dialects, documentation for Island Chumash (Ysleno) is extremely limited. Scattered throughout the material are references to the two dialects of Santa Cruz (Cruzeno), swaxil and kaxas. The speech of Santa Rosa and San Miguel is also mentioned.
The subseries also contains drafts of different lengths and in various stages of completion. Two documents pertain to Barbareno linguistics while the remaining papers reflect Harrington's cultural study of the Chumash.
Biographical / Historical:
John P. Harrington studied the Chumash Indians of southern California more thoroughly than any other group, both linguistically and culturally. He first expressed interest in the Chumash culture as early as 1902 during summer school studies with A. L. Kroeber and P. E. Goddard. His linguistic study of the Chumash family began during his association with the School of American Archaeology and the Panama-California Exposition and continued periodically up until his death in 1961.
Local Numbers:
Accession #1976-95
Local Note:
This subseries was broken up into six catalog records to facilitate viewing of digital surrogates. See the other catalog records for John Peabody Harrington papers: Chumash to view surrogates for the rest of Harrington's Costanoan files.
Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Field notes
Vocabulary
Dictionaries
Narratives
Manuscripts
Place:
California -- Languages
California -- History
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Ventura County (Calif.)
San Nicolas Island (Calif.)
Date:
1912-1961
Scope and Contents:
This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Chumash. His voluminous records on the group--totaling several hundred thousand pages--contain data on each of the six distinct dialect groups which constitute Chumash.
Material on the Obispeno, classified as Northern Chumash, consists primarily of vocabulary and contains a mixture of linguistic, ethnographic, and personal data. These elicitations from the last known native speaker, Rosario Cooper, represent the fullest and phonetically most reliable attestation of the language.
The Purisimeno notes consist mainly of words and "corrected vocabularies." Unlike the materials for the other Central Chumash dialects--Ineseno, Barbareno, and Ventureno--these records contain little grammatical information. Occasional Purisimeno forms are to be found in the Obispeno notes. In addition, much of the Purisimeno data is intermixed with that for Ineseno, as Harrington's informants were generally speakers of both.
Records relating to Ineseno are extensive and varied. They include raw field notes, texts, semantic and grammatical slipfiles, and a dictionary. The bulk of the data are from Maria Solares.
The Barbareno dialect of Central Chumash provided a constant source of interest for Harrington. He became fluent enough that he omitted glosses and translations from his later notes and was able to exchange letters with native speakers. During the course of his fieldwork, he had the unique opportunity to work with three generations of women in one family: Luisa Ignacio (around 1914); her daughter, Lucrecia Garcia (1926-1928); and her granddaughter, Mary Yee (from the 1920s to the early 1960s). Harrington also worked with Juan de Jesus Justo, a speaker of a different subdialect. While the notes Harrington recorded on Barbareno are among his most extensive, they are not as clearly organized as those for other groups. Thousands of pages of linguistic notes are totally without organization. Harrington rarely obtained paradigms. Instead, he obtained information by rechecking other sources, such as his own Ineseno dictionary, or by eliciting sentences in a random fashion. While textual material is plentiful, complete interlinear and free translations are often lacking.
Harrington's ethnographic notes on the Ventureno are among the most complete for any California Indian tribe he studied. Detailed accounts of Chumash life were obtained from the elderly Fernando Librado. Their interviews touched upon religion, perceptions of astronomy, such technologies as boat building and basket making, social structure, medical practices, and natural resources. A number of subdialects are represented in the Ventureno notes. Harrington recorded the "commonized" Ventura Mission dialect (samala) from Librado, Simplicio Pico, and Cecilio Tumamait. Interior Chumash (Cayetano and Castequeno) was obtained from Jose Juan Olivas. Other dialects mentioned include Mugu, Malibu, Ojai, and Matilija. There are also notes on the lone woman of San Nicolas Island.
In comparison with the records for the other Chumash dialects, documentation for Island Chumash (Ysleno) is extremely limited. Scattered throughout the material are references to the two dialects of Santa Cruz (Cruzeno), swaxil and kaxas. The speech of Santa Rosa and San Miguel is also mentioned.
The subseries also contains drafts of different lengths and in various stages of completion. Two documents pertain to Barbareno linguistics while the remaining papers reflect Harrington's cultural study of the Chumash.
Biographical / Historical:
John P. Harrington studied the Chumash Indians of southern California more thoroughly than any other group, both linguistically and culturally. He first expressed interest in the Chumash culture as early as 1902 during summer school studies with A. L. Kroeber and P. E. Goddard. His linguistic study of the Chumash family began during his association with the School of American Archaeology and the Panama-California Exposition and continued periodically up until his death in 1961.
Local Numbers:
Accession #1976-95
Local Note:
This subseries was broken up into six catalog records to facilitate viewing of digital surrogates. See the other catalog records for John Peabody Harrington papers: Chumash to view surrogates for the rest of Harrington's Costanoan files.
Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Field notes
Vocabulary
Dictionaries
Narratives
Manuscripts
Place:
California -- Languages
California -- History
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Ventura County (Calif.)
San Nicolas Island (Calif.)
Date:
1912-1961
Scope and Contents:
This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Chumash. His voluminous records on the group--totaling several hundred thousand pages--contain data on each of the six distinct dialect groups which constitute Chumash.
Material on the Obispeno, classified as Northern Chumash, consists primarily of vocabulary and contains a mixture of linguistic, ethnographic, and personal data. These elicitations from the last known native speaker, Rosario Cooper, represent the fullest and phonetically most reliable attestation of the language.
The Purisimeno notes consist mainly of words and "corrected vocabularies." Unlike the materials for the other Central Chumash dialects--Ineseno, Barbareno, and Ventureno--these records contain little grammatical information. Occasional Purisimeno forms are to be found in the Obispeno notes. In addition, much of the Purisimeno data is intermixed with that for Ineseno, as Harrington's informants were generally speakers of both.
Records relating to Ineseno are extensive and varied. They include raw field notes, texts, semantic and grammatical slipfiles, and a dictionary. The bulk of the data are from Maria Solares.
The Barbareno dialect of Central Chumash provided a constant source of interest for Harrington. He became fluent enough that he omitted glosses and translations from his later notes and was able to exchange letters with native speakers. During the course of his fieldwork, he had the unique opportunity to work with three generations of women in one family: Luisa Ignacio (around 1914); her daughter, Lucrecia Garcia (1926-1928); and her granddaughter, Mary Yee (from the 1920s to the early 1960s). Harrington also worked with Juan de Jesus Justo, a speaker of a different subdialect. While the notes Harrington recorded on Barbareno are among his most extensive, they are not as clearly organized as those for other groups. Thousands of pages of linguistic notes are totally without organization. Harrington rarely obtained paradigms. Instead, he obtained information by rechecking other sources, such as his own Ineseno dictionary, or by eliciting sentences in a random fashion. While textual material is plentiful, complete interlinear and free translations are often lacking.
Harrington's ethnographic notes on the Ventureno are among the most complete for any California Indian tribe he studied. Detailed accounts of Chumash life were obtained from the elderly Fernando Librado. Their interviews touched upon religion, perceptions of astronomy, such technologies as boat building and basket making, social structure, medical practices, and natural resources. A number of subdialects are represented in the Ventureno notes. Harrington recorded the "commonized" Ventura Mission dialect (samala) from Librado, Simplicio Pico, and Cecilio Tumamait. Interior Chumash (Cayetano and Castequeno) was obtained from Jose Juan Olivas. Other dialects mentioned include Mugu, Malibu, Ojai, and Matilija. There are also notes on the lone woman of San Nicolas Island.
In comparison with the records for the other Chumash dialects, documentation for Island Chumash (Ysleno) is extremely limited. Scattered throughout the material are references to the two dialects of Santa Cruz (Cruzeno), swaxil and kaxas. The speech of Santa Rosa and San Miguel is also mentioned.
The subseries also contains drafts of different lengths and in various stages of completion. Two documents pertain to Barbareno linguistics while the remaining papers reflect Harrington's cultural study of the Chumash.
Biographical / Historical:
John P. Harrington studied the Chumash Indians of southern California more thoroughly than any other group, both linguistically and culturally. He first expressed interest in the Chumash culture as early as 1902 during summer school studies with A. L. Kroeber and P. E. Goddard. His linguistic study of the Chumash family began during his association with the School of American Archaeology and the Panama-California Exposition and continued periodically up until his death in 1961.
Local Numbers:
Accession #1976-95
Local Note:
This subseries was broken up into six catalog records to facilitate viewing of digital surrogates. See the other catalog records for John Peabody Harrington papers: Chumash to view surrogates for the rest of Harrington's Costanoan files.
Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Field notes
Vocabulary
Dictionaries
Narratives
Manuscripts
Place:
California -- Languages
California -- History
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Ventura County (Calif.)
San Nicolas Island (Calif.)
Date:
1912-1961
Scope and Contents:
This subseries of the Southern California/Basin series contains John P. Harrington's research on Chumash. His voluminous records on the group--totaling several hundred thousand pages--contain data on each of the six distinct dialect groups which constitute Chumash.
Material on the Obispeno, classified as Northern Chumash, consists primarily of vocabulary and contains a mixture of linguistic, ethnographic, and personal data. These elicitations from the last known native speaker, Rosario Cooper, represent the fullest and phonetically most reliable attestation of the language.
The Purisimeno notes consist mainly of words and "corrected vocabularies." Unlike the materials for the other Central Chumash dialects--Ineseno, Barbareno, and Ventureno--these records contain little grammatical information. Occasional Purisimeno forms are to be found in the Obispeno notes. In addition, much of the Purisimeno data is intermixed with that for Ineseno, as Harrington's informants were generally speakers of both.
Records relating to Ineseno are extensive and varied. They include raw field notes, texts, semantic and grammatical slipfiles, and a dictionary. The bulk of the data are from Maria Solares.
The Barbareno dialect of Central Chumash provided a constant source of interest for Harrington. He became fluent enough that he omitted glosses and translations from his later notes and was able to exchange letters with native speakers. During the course of his fieldwork, he had the unique opportunity to work with three generations of women in one family: Luisa Ignacio (around 1914); her daughter, Lucrecia Garcia (1926-1928); and her granddaughter, Mary Yee (from the 1920s to the early 1960s). Harrington also worked with Juan de Jesus Justo, a speaker of a different subdialect. While the notes Harrington recorded on Barbareno are among his most extensive, they are not as clearly organized as those for other groups. Thousands of pages of linguistic notes are totally without organization. Harrington rarely obtained paradigms. Instead, he obtained information by rechecking other sources, such as his own Ineseno dictionary, or by eliciting sentences in a random fashion. While textual material is plentiful, complete interlinear and free translations are often lacking.
Harrington's ethnographic notes on the Ventureno are among the most complete for any California Indian tribe he studied. Detailed accounts of Chumash life were obtained from the elderly Fernando Librado. Their interviews touched upon religion, perceptions of astronomy, such technologies as boat building and basket making, social structure, medical practices, and natural resources. A number of subdialects are represented in the Ventureno notes. Harrington recorded the "commonized" Ventura Mission dialect (samala) from Librado, Simplicio Pico, and Cecilio Tumamait. Interior Chumash (Cayetano and Castequeno) was obtained from Jose Juan Olivas. Other dialects mentioned include Mugu, Malibu, Ojai, and Matilija. There are also notes on the lone woman of San Nicolas Island.
In comparison with the records for the other Chumash dialects, documentation for Island Chumash (Ysleno) is extremely limited. Scattered throughout the material are references to the two dialects of Santa Cruz (Cruzeno), swaxil and kaxas. The speech of Santa Rosa and San Miguel is also mentioned.
The subseries also contains drafts of different lengths and in various stages of completion. Two documents pertain to Barbareno linguistics while the remaining papers reflect Harrington's cultural study of the Chumash.
Biographical / Historical:
John P. Harrington studied the Chumash Indians of southern California more thoroughly than any other group, both linguistically and culturally. He first expressed interest in the Chumash culture as early as 1902 during summer school studies with A. L. Kroeber and P. E. Goddard. His linguistic study of the Chumash family began during his association with the School of American Archaeology and the Panama-California Exposition and continued periodically up until his death in 1961.
Local Numbers:
Accession #1976-95
Local Note:
This subseries was broken up into six catalog records to facilitate viewing of digital surrogates. See the other catalog records for John Peabody Harrington papers: Chumash to view surrogates for the rest of Harrington's Costanoan files.
Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.
Puhua in Zhün ha County, Haidong Prefecture, Qinghai Province
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Extent:
1.6 Terabytes (297 photographs and 1024 videos)
Type:
Archival materials
Terabytes
Date:
2016 May 3-June 3
Scope and Contents:
Videos and photographs in this series were shot by Puhua in Zhün ha County (also known as Xunhua Salar Autonomous County), Haidong Prefecture, Qinhai Province. Materials include documentation of nomadic life, horses, horse trading, and associated material culture, herding (sheep and yaks) and associated material culture, the physical and social structure of yak hair tents, courtship, gender roles, weaving, foodways, hunting, community history, community life, community conflict, wedding costumes and adornment, nomadic wedding practices, leatherworking, mattress making, traditional tools, child rearing, childhood, dirty jokes, riddles, traditional games, jewelry, folksongs, hair braiding, basket making, house construction, and household objects.
Collection Restrictions:
This collection is born digital; access for research and educational purposes is available by request . Contact the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at (202) 633-7322 or rinzlerarchives@si.edu for additional information.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information. Restrictions may apply concerning the use, duplication, or publication of items in these collections. Consult the archivists for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Tenba and his wife Yangkos talking about social structure in their community
Collection Creator:
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Extent:
11 Video recordings (born digital)
Container:
Folder TNP_2016_08-18_LHA_0053-0063
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Video recordings
Date:
2016 August 18
Scope and Contents:
Particularly Tshoba.
Filmed by Lhamo Drolma, Tsehua, and Puhua in Gartse, Tongren County, Huangnan Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
Collection Restrictions:
This collection is born digital; access for research and educational purposes is available by request . Contact the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at (202) 633-7322 or rinzlerarchives@si.edu for additional information.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Tibetan Nomad Material Culture Documentation Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Hassan Jeru-Ahmed provides an overview of the political and social structures of the community and the United States. Jeru-Ahmed talks about black political activities, including fighting for full citizenship and voting rights in Washington, D.C. and the United States. He also talks about organizing the Blackman's Development Center and Blackman's Volunteer Army of Liberation; starting a drug program; and opening a sickle cell anemia center. He stresses the importance of organizing by black people of all ages. Zora Martin-Felton introduces Hassan Jeru-Ahmed.
Lecture. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Dated 19720229.
General:
Title transcribed from physical asset.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
