Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Accession #1976-95
- Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
- Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984
- Names
- Drake, Francis, 1540?-1596
- Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903-1991
- Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
- Morton, C. V. (Conrad Vernon), 1905-1972
- Uldall, Hans Jørgen, 1907-1957
- Voegelin, C. F. (Charles Frederick), 1906-1986
- Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), b. 1885
- Collection Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Place
- California -- Discovery and exploration
- Topic
- Language and languages -- Documentation
- Linguistics
- Ethnology
- Grammar, Comparative and general
- Names, Geographical
- Names, Ethnological
- Indians of North America -- California
- Wiyot language
- Yurok language
- Mattole language
- Nisenan language
- Miwok languages
- Karok language
- Shasta language
- Konomihu language
- Chimariko language
- Hupa language
- Achomawi language
- Atsugewi language
- Wintu language
- Yana language
- Ohlone language
- Esselen language
- Salinan language
- Yokuts language
- Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox
- Karuk
- Achumawi
- Creator
- Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
- Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
- Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984
- Culture
- Wiyot
- Yurok
- Mattole
- Nisenan Indians
- Mewuk (Miwok)
- Pomo
- Karuk (Karok)
- Chimariko
- Shasta
- Wailaki
- Achomawi (Pit River)
- Atsugewi (Hat Creek)
- Wintu
- Yana
- Ohlone (Costano)
- Esselen Indians
- Salinan Indians
- Yokuts
- Maidu
- See more items in
- John Peabody Harrington papers
- John Peabody Harrington papers / Series 8: Notes and Writings on Special Linguistic Studies
- Extent
- 5 Boxes
- Date
- circa 1907-circa 1957
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.1976-95, Subseries 8.2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Vocabulary
- Field notes
- Manuscripts
- Collection Citation
- John Peabody Harrington papers, 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.
- Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Existence and Location of Copies
- Microfilm and digital surrogates of microfilm are available. See Volume 8, reels 1-2. Reel 1 contains additional material from another subseries. Only original documents created by Harrington, his collaborators and field assistants, or notes given to him were microfilmed. Only sample pages of Kroeber's files, however, have been filmed to show Harrington's format; the original field notes are located at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Genre/Form
- Vocabulary
- Field notes
- Manuscripts
- Scope and Contents
- This subseries of the Notes and writings on special linguistic studies series contains material that supplement Harrington's Northern and Central California field notes. There are materials on Wiyot/Yurok/Mattole; Nisenan/Northern Sierra Miwok; Southern Pomo/Central Sierra Miwok; Plains Miwok; Karok/Shasta/Konomihu; Chimariko/Hupa; Wailaki; Achomawi/Atsugewi/Wintu/Yana; Yana/Achomawi/Wintu/Chimariko; Costanoan; Esselen; Salinan; and Yokuts. The files include notes Harrington collected from the field, covering linguistic, botanical, biographical, geographical, and ethnographic topics; notes from rehearings; notes and drafts from his papers; notes on his travels and activities; and notes from secondary sources, including field notes from Alfred Kroeber and other colleagues and notes on Sir Francis Drake's travels in California. Some of his botanical notes include scientific identifications and comments by botanist C. V. Morton of the National Herbarium. The Karok section contains labels for Karok baskets housed in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Anthropology. There are also some general and miscellaneous materials, notes relating to collections of artifacts, notes relating to mission records, notes from conversations, notes from secondary sources, and notes and writings collected from others. Miscellaneous material includes lists of possible informants for a number of California languages, bibliographic references, notes on boats, a list of captions for Harrington's paper "Chainfern and Maidenhair, Adornment Materials of Northwestern California Basketry," a tracing of a map labeled "Plano de la Mision San Jose, 1824," additional references to that mission, and a text. The papers contain references to the Hupa, Maidu, and Yurok tribes. Notes on artifacts pertain to collections held by others, including the George Heye collection of artifacts for the Modoc, Klamath, Pomo, Tolowa, Hupa, and Yurok tribes. Notes from conversations includes interviews with Cora DuBois, C. Hart Merriam, Carl F. Voegelin, and T.T. Waterman. Notes from his meeting with Dr. J.W. Hudson are the most extensive. The last file in the subseries consists of notes from a meeting with Ruth Underhill on January 10, 1941, and a notebook which Harrington evidently obtained from her at that time. The notebook contains class notes from a course on Maidu which Underhill had taken at Columbia University in 1932 with Hans Jorgen Uldall. Included are information on phonetics and grammar and a number of texts.
- Restrictions
- No restrictions on access.
- Record ID
- ebl-1626971434170-1626971435068-3
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