archived Osage?

[Rory Larson]

In any case, we should probably make sure this material is copied to some electronic medium more permanent than cassette tapes.  Perhaps the Osage Nation or Carolyn have already done this.  If not, I would think that would be a high priority.  Any sense of what the recordings are like?  Are they mostly Osage, or mostly English-based discussion and elicitation?

Best,
Rory


From: Siouan Linguistics [mailto:SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu] On Behalf Of Mcbride, Justin
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 8:51 AM
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Subject: Re: archived Osage?

David,

If there are transcriptions available, I've never seen them. Still, if memory serves, her dictionary provides evidence of a rather extensive coding system after each example pulled from her data. I believe early drafts of her grammar did, too. While this doesn't necessarily prove that she transcribed the whole of her recordings, it does suggest that she at least worked out a coding scheme for doing so. It's completely possible, then, that there are transcriptions (full or partial) floating around somewhere. I don't know who might have them if they do exist. Hadn't she planned to donate much or all of her materials to the Osage Nation for safe keeping after her death? If so, I don't know if that ever happened, but there are folks here in town I could ask.

All the best,
-Justin

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 8:02 AM, ROOD DAVID S <david.rood at colorado.edu<mailto:david.rood at colorado.edu>> wrote:
Hi, everyone,
        When Carolyn Quintero was working on her Osage grammar and dictionary, she had funding from NSF for which I was the nominal PI.  In part because of that connection, she gave me a set of over 100 cassette tapes of her interviews with speakers and some of their stories, as well as some miscellaneous stuff (like the recording of a radio program).  Does anyone on the list know whether these were ever transcribed and if so, where those transcriptions might be?  It's possible that Carolyn just used her knowledge of the spoken language to pick examples off the tapes, rather than making full written transcriptions.  However, it's going to be hard for anyone else to make use of these tapes if we don't have the transcriptions.
        Thanks for any help you can give us.
        Best,
        David

David S. Rood
Dept. of Linguistics
Univ. of Colorado
295 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0295
USA
rood at colorado.edu<mailto:rood at colorado.edu>

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