Karok language recordings

Mss.Rec.180

Date: 1989 | Size: 12 tape(s)

Abstract

Elicited Karuk words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karuk social life and customs.

Digital objects note

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Collection Information

Physical description

12 audiocassettes (8 hr., 52 min.) : analog, 1 7/8 ips, stereo.

Provenance

Presented by Monica Macaulay in 1994 (Acc. 1994-131r). This material was recorded with the assistance of a Phillips Fund grant.

Processing information

Collection digitized and cataloged by Brian Carpenter during the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded audio digitization project, 2008-2014.

Related material

Transcripts and notes from the recording session are available in the Phillips Fund Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4).

Indexing Terms


Genre(s)

  • Sound recordings

Subject(s)

  • Karok Indians -- Social life and customs
  • Karok language
  • Karuk people


Detailed Inventory

463185 Audio recordings
  
01-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words
1989-07-12 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:12

Elicited Karok words, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4525

01-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words
1989-07-12 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:13

Elicited Karok words, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4526

02-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words, possessives, verb forms
1989-07-12 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:18

Elicited Karok words and grammar, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4527

02-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words, possessives, verb forms, and kinship terms
1989-07-12 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:14

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4531

03-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words and phrases, with description of preparing acorns
1989-07-12 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:08

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs. Includes lengthy description in Karok and English of preparing and cooking acorns.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Acorns as food; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4529

03-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of terms for seafood, weather, counting, and parts of the body
1989-07-12 1 .mp3 ; 00:23:34

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language; Human body -- Terminology

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4530

04-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of words for plants and animals
1989-07-13 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:03

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language; Plants -- California, Northern

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4528

04-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of words for plants and animals, and miscellaneous adjectives
1989-07-13 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:05

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Plants -- California, Northern; Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4535

05-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words and grammar
1989-07-13 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:05

Elicited Karok words and grammar, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs. Includes some words for plants and animals. Grammar includes "best ___" and "nothing but ____" constructions and superlative adjectives.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4536

05-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous adjective forms
1989-07-13 1 .mp3 ; 00:23:47

Elicited Karok adjectives, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs. Includes superlative adjectives, locatives, adjectival noun suffixes, and "-less" and "without" forms.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4533

06-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words and phrases
1989-07-14 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:06

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4534

06-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of words for animals, plants, and natural phenomena
1989-07-14 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:07

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Plants -- California, Northern; Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4542

07-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of words for animals and plants, and miscellaneous verbs
1989-07-14 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:11

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Plants -- California, Northern; Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4539

07-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of verbs
1989-07-14 1 .mp3 ; 00:20:19

Elicited Karok verbs, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4541

08-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Story of why the eel has no bones, and elicitation of miscellaneous words
1989-07-14 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:15

Story of how eel lost his bones, followed by elicited Karok words, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Eels -- Folklore; Karok Indians -- Folklore

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4538

08-02 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of words for plants, animals, and parts of the body
1989-07-14 1 .mp3 ; 00:24:08

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Human body -- Terminology; Karok language; Plants -- California, Northern

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4543

09-01 Super, Violet. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of verbs
1989-07-14 1 .mp3 ; 00:16:43

Elicited Karok verbs and miscellaneous words, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4540

10-01 Macaulay, Monica Ann. Howerton, Stella. Howerton, Harry.
Elicitation of words for animals and insects
1989-07-17 1 .mp3 ; 00:23:59

Elicited Karok words, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4549

10-02 Macaulay, Monica Ann. Howerton, Stella.
Elicitation of miscellaneous words, "Bigfoot Story," and story of a female doctor
1989-07-17 1 .mp3 ; 00:23:57

Elicited Karok words, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs, plus a story about local Bigfoot sightings and a story about a female Karok doctor who healed an eye ailment.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language; Sasquatch; Karok Indians -- Medicine; Karok Indians -- Folklore

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4548

11-01 Macaulay, Monica Ann. Howerton, Stella.
Discussion of names of local tribes, and elicitation of words for parts of the body and names of plants
1989-07-17 1 .mp3 ; 00:23:59

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Indians of North America -- California; Plants -- California, Northern; Human body -- Terminology; Karok language; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4550

11-02 Howerton, Stella. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of names of plants and trees
1989-07-17 1 .mp3 ; 00:13:13

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok language; Plants -- California, Northern; Karok Indians -- Social life and customs

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4547

12-01 Macaulay, Monica Ann. Howerton, Stella.
Elicitation of names of plants and verbs
1989-07-18 1 .mp3 ; 00:23:58

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Plants -- California, Northern; Karok language

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4546

12-02 Howerton, Stella. Macaulay, Monica Ann.
Elicitation of verbs
1989-07-18 1 .mp3 ; 00:23:57

Elicited Karok words and phrases, with occasional anecdotes and conversation about Karok social life and customs.

Location of originals: This file is a compressed, digitized version of the original. The APS Library maintains the original format (Audiocassette) as well as an uncompressed digitized version of this recording.


Geographic Name(s): California

Subject(s): Karok Indians -- Social life and customs; Karok language

Access digital object:
https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/fedora/repository/audio:4545