Concerns Sahaptin, especially color terminology and fieldwork by Curtis and Bruce Rigsby.

Concerns the memorial of Kathrine S. French.

Concerns Hymes' Sahaptin texts and lexical slips (see Research Files and Card Files series).

Separated material: Removed from Series III, "Word and Phrase List of Warm Springs Sahaptin" #3: Versions with correspondence from Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, 1976.

Concerns Sahaptin, including materials present in the 'Works by Others & Printed Materials' series, as well as other Pacific Northwest languages (Klamath, Nisga'a) and fieldwork in Australia.

Concerns Sahaptin, including reference to "a rather good machine-to-machine copy of the Yakima material from Alex Saluskin". These may refer to materials by Bruce Rigsby in the "Works by Others & Printed Materials" series, although it is unclear which.

Concerns "the copy of Virginia Beavert's dictionary for Ginnie [Virginia Hymes]", likely the item in Series IV.

Manuscript in the form of a letter to "John" (possibly an incomplete copy, as there is no ending or sign-off) interspersed with many notes. Letter indicates that is for a "502 course", and also talks about Warm Springs fieldwork.

Includes several of the Sahaptin texts present in series III, and possible parts of other publications.

Xerox of publication.

Handwritten notes on the history of Sahaptin fieldwork and basic aspects of grammar, apparently for an introductory talk.

Handwritten early draft and notes toward an unidentified article on Warm Springs Sahaptin past tense. Includes lists of verbs from stories told to Hymes by her consultants (especially Hazel Suppah).

Two versions of manuscript, possibly identical (23 p. each).

Includes an excerpt from Elsie Pistolhead's story, as told to Eugene Hunn, with notes. See also Series IV: "Hunn, Eugene: "Transcription and Translation of Sahaptin Language Tapes: 1976-1978"" for microfilms of texts, and within the Research Files series for Hymes' additional work on these texts.

Correspondence from Tony Woodbury (1 p.) and Hymes' response to manuscript corrections, xeroxed.

Article (9 p.); page describing "Linguistic Features Organizing Narratives", author unknown (1 p.).

Handwritten and typeset.

Multiple versions of text "A story, the first of thre, about T'at'aliya, the Basket Woman", told by Hazel Suppah in 1979.

Typeset versions of one of the texts. See series IV: "Hunn, Eugene: "Transcription and Translation of Sahaptin Language Tapes: 1976-1978".

Additional xeroxes of the microfilmed texts, with Hymes' marginalia and handwritten notes. See series IV: "Hunn, Eugene: "Transcription and Translation of Sahaptin Language Tapes: 1976-1978".

11 p. typed and 30 p. handwritten versions of section of Sahaptin fieldnotes with Hazel Suppah, detailing conversational phrases.

"Told in English by Herb Manuel, Thompson Salish". Analyses by both Virginia and Dell Hymes. Multiple versions, around 4 pages each. Nlaka'pamux.

Multiple versions of Hymes' Sahaptin and English versions of text recorded by Melville Jacobs.

Handwritten version of Edward Sapir's Takelma text, in Takelma and English (5 p. each), with xerox of original publication.

Handwritten pages of a dictionary in progress, in Sahaptin order. References field notebooks, texts and consultants, and the data appear similar or identical to those on the lexical slips (see Series V).

Transcriptions from a tape, handwritten, with consultants "EW" and "BR".

Cover of original binder, referring to acronyms on the corner of pages:V. G.: Copies made from notebooks.SM, AC, ES, LW*: Texts - original transcriptions, corrected transcriptions (with H. S.), copies for typist (numbered sentences)H. S.: 1973, 1975 and texts.*elicitations are in Blue & Green Notebooks - slipped by hand.Section "V.G." (40 p.) contains mostly lexica and grammatical elicitations, as well as a testimonial. Texts (35 p.) are interlinear with Sahaptin and English.

Typeset versions of notes from fieldwork in 1956 with Kathrine and David French at Warm Springs, Oregon. Consultants: Eva Polk, Bertha Stevens, Linton Winishut, Mrs. Cargo, Alice Florendo, and Lucinda Smith. Fieldnotes discuss raising and socializing children at the Warm Springs reservation, and includes some notes on genealogy, although no charts.

Originals.

Cover of original binder: "A.C., S.M., E.S., L.W. All copied by hand onto slips. Not typed". Contains a variety of lexical, sentence and grammatical elicitations, with some emphasis on social customs. Mostly with consultant Hazel Suppah.

Xeroxes. Includes "Story of Chipmunk and T'at'aliya". See "Texts from Warm Springs, Oregon fieldwork", this series.

Xeroxes of pp.29-67, plus originals of pp.41-56.

Application title: "Sahaptin narrative translation and analysis", for work with James Selam and Eugene Hunn on the translation of part of a Coyote cycle. There is also a Phillips Fund Grant (American Philosophical Society) by Eugene Hunn for Hunn, Hymes and Selam, stipulating that the Jacobs fund would cover Hymes' travel.

Typed versions of field notes and texts. There are full contents and a log of the completion of fieldwork processing (e.g. tape correction) at the front. Fieldnotes of 1973-1975 contain especially commands and requests to children, responses, language about household chores, animals, and verbs. Texts are transcribed with Sahaptin and English on facing pages, with some comments by consultant Hazel Suppah, and are titled by Hymes: "How Her Grandmother Dried Fish", "True Story, No Fantasy", "Tanning a hide", "How grandmother got trapped in forest fire", "Trip to Crow celebration", "Story about getting lost with grandmother", and "Wrestling Match Between North Wind and East Wind". Some additional stories are mentioned in the log.

Two copies (37 p. each, in Sahaptin then English) with some minor marginalia.

Typeset version, apparently transcribed from tape, with introduction in English.

Version on alternating pages (14 p.); two other, likely earlier, versions with marginalia

Handwritten on alternating pages.

Working versions (xeroxes with marginalia) and additional notes.

Typeset lexica and sentences from field notebooks of Verbena Greene and Hazel Suppah.

Notebook containing notes on the Melville Jacobs papers, presumably at the University of Washington Libraries.

Phonology and lexica, handwritten.

Xeroxes of Sahaptin fieldnotes from Warm Springs, Oregon, not apparently elsewhere in the collection.

Folder containing handwritten notes (7 p.); manuscript titled "American Indian Anthropologists at the Smithsonian", possibly by JoAllyn Archambault (written "Sue Allyn"; 10 p.); manuscript by Michael Krauss titled "Number and Viability of Native American Languages by State and Province" (2 p.).

Includes rewritings of various texts. Some notes are by Dell Hymes. See elsewhere in this series for more.

Typeset ethnographic notes.

Handwritten.

Copies of manuscripts and handwritten notes (4 p.). Concerns Niimi'ipuutímt.

Questions about imperatives and phonology in Sahaptin. Handwritten.

"Warm Springs Language Dictionary" from Fall 1972 (6 p. with heavy marginalia); "Addition to Wordlist", handwritten lexica from July-August, likely 1974 (ca. 25 p.); small notebook including contact information, personal schedules and notes on Sahaptin (ca. 30 p.); two dried specimens of "Wapan Wapan", a plant used by Hazel Suppah's grandmother medicinally.

These folders contain multiple versions of texts, many from presumed original handwritten fieldnotes (1973) to later typeset revisions in the mid to late 1970s. Texts often mention having been checked against a tape (location of these are unknown). See the collection-level description area for all fieldwork consultants, although the majority of these texts were told by Hazel Suppah or Linton Winishut. These are often referenced elsewhere in the collection by abbreviation (e.g. "Story of the wrestling match" as "WM").

Title approximate.

Hymes' outline, Sahaptin and English versions of Sahaptin text recorded by Melville Jacobs.

Notebook with lexica and sentences, following a structure of semantic domains of Dell Hymes.

"From [Melville] Jacobs. Major data for discovery of pa-{a} alternation in "Verse Analysis" as heuristics." Original by Joe Hunt with Jacobs, likely retyped by Hymes. Concerns Sahaptin.

Project with Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (typist) producing a word list with introduction, arranged by semantic domain. Xerox.

Project with Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (typist) producing a word list with introduction, arranged by semantic domain. Two copies, one with a note to Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, and some marginalia.

Project with Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (typist) producing a word list with introduction, arranged by semantic domain. The bulk of two versions, 70 p. and 86 p.

Separated material: Correspondence separated to Series I. Leeds-Hurwitz, Wendy.

Project with Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (typist) producing a word list with introduction, arranged by semantic domain. Various sections of the list. Includes crossed-out note to Bruce Rigsby.

Project with Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (typist) producing a word list with introduction, arranged by semantic domain.

Project with Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz (typist) producing a word list with introduction, arranged by semantic domain. Lexica on letter pages and lexical slips, sorted by semantic domain.

Sahaptin word list in a handwritten notepad.

See also Series IV.

Typeset manuscript with extensive marginalia by Hymes. Consortium of Johnson O'Malley Committees of Region IV, State of Washington.

Typeset draft.

For Ethnography in Education Research Forum (1983, 1985) and International Oracy Convention (1987).

Vol. 1, No. 2. Xerox.

Xeroxes of manuscripts at the National Anthropological Archives. Contains some marginalia by Hymes. Likely NAA MS 1448.

Xeroxes of manuscripts at the National Anthropological Archives. Lexicon and correspondence.

Sections of volumes 2-4.

Preliminary version of manuscript (51 p.); correspondence (1 p.).

Preliminary version of manuscript (23 p.); correspondence (1 p.); lexical slips by Hymes with animal terms (15 p.).

Xeroxes of typeset wordlists with Hymes' marginalia (mostly referencing Hazel Suppah). Multiple varieties included. Fish, birds, mammals, invertebrates, plants, reptiles and more are included.

Copies from microfilm held at the University of Washington. Part of the Jacobs Research Funds archive. Hunn worked with James Selam (transcriber and consultant) and others in and around the Yakama Reservation, Washington. Contains front cover, "Elsie Pistolhead, Tape 1", "Elsie Pistolhead, Tape 2: Legend 1", and "Elsie Pistolhead, Tape 9".

On Lomatium as food by Sahaptin people.

Xerox of part of the Upper Chinook text, with Virginia Hymes' additional marginalia.

Xerox of list of publications refering to their box locations. Likely a summary of Virginia Hymes' reprints held.

On Sahaptin language.

Guide to orthography plus first page of an unidentified dictionary (English words beginning with 'a').

Part of "A Short Practical Dictionary of the Yakima Sahaptin Language". Several versions with different marginalia.

Umatilla Sahaptin lexicon and verb conjugations.

Section from Rigsby's grammar. Typeset draft. See 1973 correspondence.

Section from Rigsby's grammar. Typeset draft. See 1973 correspondence.

Some interlinear, typeset and handwritten, and some undated. Texts: "Temnanaxt Tuuxanatmiki" (Walla Walla variety, March 1964 with Winnie Burke, 2 p.); "Itamaluuka Achaash Spilyai" (from Melville Jacobs, 2 p.); "Piitl'iyawiya Watl'ikaasyainan Spilyain" (ibid., 2 p.); "Temnanaxt Walter Pond-mi" (Umatilla variety, 3 p.); "Temnanaxt Sam Sturgismi" (Walla Walla variety, 4 p.).

Wordlist in English order in two hands, possibly Virginia Hymes and Bruce Rigsby. Accessioned in a folder titled "Rigsby materials".

Three xeroxes with marginalia by multiple people. Longest is 30 p.

Section from Rigsby's Sahaptin grammar. Typeset draft. See 1973 correspondence.

Handouts for Anthropology 317L course.

Likely Sahaptin.

116 sentences with English translations.

"From notes and materials given by Alex Saluskin in 8/66". 40 kinship terms with different inflections.

1st Pacific Linguistics Conference. With marginalia.

Previous title: "Serial Verbs in Nez Perce"

Grammatical tables and family trees

Xerox with marginalia.

Student paper for Hymes.

Student paper for Hymes, pages reordered and with alternative analysis by Hymes (21 p.); xerox of Aoki's text (4 p.).

Summary of seminar.

Xerox of Sahaptin fieldnotes.

Xerox of manuscript held at the National Anthropological Archives, possibly NAA MS 1448.

Details lessons by Amelia Colwash, Susan Moses and Ellen Squiemphen.

Newspaper clippings relating to Warm Springs Reservation, Oregon, and its residents.

Pages 115-126 of unidentified larger publication.

Organized into semantic domains. Consultants (of French) listed on the front as: Alec Tohet, Blanche Tohet, Lucy Miller, Walter Miller, Kate Kuikeep (sp.), Eva Polk, J. Wahineka, Maude Winishut, Sarah Walsey, Jessie McCorble (sp.), Bob Wallace, A. Florendo, Jesse Heath, and "M. T.". In two hands - likely Kathrine French (lexica dated ca. 1951-1954) and later additions by Virginia Hymes cited as "HS" (Hazel Suppah?), 1977.

Extensive lexicon in Sahaptin order. Includes many example sentences, with reference to Hymes' fieldnotes and collected texts (see especially Series III, and the collection description for names of consultants).

"GR File" may be "grammatical file".

Grammar section includes dialects, code-switching, borrowings, a short English-first lexicon, and various other features.

In Sahaptin order. Author unknown.

Includes education, fellowships, details of birth, teaching experience, research and linguistics fieldwork experience (including description of Sahaptin language fieldwork and language teaching roles), list of publications 1955-1987, list of papers presented 1974-1988, and memberships.

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Index cards and loose pages with contact information of colleagues.

Mostly alphabetical list of addresses and telephone numbers of family members and colleagues.

Hymes family, Dosch family and others.

Files transferred from the Dell H. Hymes Papers during processing of that collection, that are authored by Virginia Hymes or otherwise in folders that indicate they were part of her personal files.

Processing information: Added from Dell H. Hymes Papers, Subcollection 2 (Mss.Ms.Coll.55), during processing of that collection between 2019 and 2022. This second subcollection included materials from the Hymes' home and so therefore includes materials shared between them.

Starts "Proppian analysis of Dream C". Author unidentified.

Reprint from IJAL. Addressed to Hymes' mother.

Analysis of Crow text (as published in "Myths and traditions of the Crow Indians", Robert Lowie, 1918) by an unidentified student of Hymes.

Work toward a review of William Bright's "Coyote Reader"; listings of Coyote texts (maybe related).

Karuk text by Mamie Offield. Text 27 from a publication. Apparently a teaching handout, with English translations and grammatical analysis by Hymes.

At University of Virginia, co-taught with Dell Hymes.

Various papers from the event in a folder marked Virginia Hymes.

Newspaper clipping on Philadelphia English.

Schedule. Also handout by Leanne Hinton, "10 Points for Successful Language Teaching & Learning", which may or may not have been shared at the conference.

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Draft. Note by Hymes that this is to be used in a lecture. Front page marginalia also by Dell Hymes.

Listing of texts in BAE (National Anthropological Archives) manuscript 3534.

In English (maybe Appalachian English). Various transcriptions and analyses by Hymes of texts narrated by Charlotte Rose: "Tremble Dove" and "Mutsmag". One version of Tremble Dove notes: "This transcription is from a recording of a performance of this story before a theater audience at the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania on February 9, 1983".

Texts in English by Joe Heaney, about Ireland. Correspondence concerning their return to Hymes by Bill McCarthy. Hymes' notes.

Author unidentified. Appears to be a conference handout.

Photocopy. Originally prepared by Hymes with Susan Moses, Ellen Squiemphen, Linton Winishut and Amelia Colwash. Describes tapes that accompanied the publication, available at the Warm Sprins Confederated Tribes Education Department, which funded the project.

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"Quiche" (Kʼicheʼ) text, from unidentified source, with analysis of English by Hymes.