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Title: Reminiscences about Sapir and others [2 of 3]
Identifier(s): audio:16031; APSdigrec_6140; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: Part 2 of 3. Li's discussion in this program includes his experiences of doing fieldwork on the Mattole language in Northern California in the late 1920s, discrimination against Chinese in that region at that time, working with Sapir on the Hupa reservation, methods for transcribing texts, and recording with wax cylinders.
Source: Fanggui Li Collection, 1928-1982. (Mss.Ms.Coll.119); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.119-ead.xml
Subject: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 ; Mattole language; Race discrimination--California; Linguistics--Fieldwork
Date: 1982-11-22

Title: Mattole: Comparisons and Lexicon
Identifier(s): text:171344
Description: English alphabetization, full range. Comparisons are made to many neighboring languages, identified by single-letter acronyms. These appear to be Hupa, Karuk, Lassik, Nongatl, and Wailaki. There is a card of Smith River Tolowa playing card terms and a lexicon of "Bear River", considered by Haas as distinct from Mattole.
Subject: Mattole language; Tolowa language; Karok language; Wailaki language; Hupa language; Nongatl language; Lassik language
Date: Undated

Title: Pacific Coast Athabaskan Protoconsonants Exercise
Identifier(s): text:171496
Description: Instructions for a class paper to identify the protoconsonant for cognate sets in Pacific Coast Athabaskan languages. Languages compared are, by Haas' description: Hupa, Mattole, Wailaki, Kato/Cahto, "Euchre Creek" [Tututni],Coquille, Tolowa, Chasta Costa, (Upper) Umpqua and Galice. There are 6 pages of cognate sets, annotated with Haas' answers.
Subject: Hupa language; Mattole language; Wailaki language; Kato language; Coquille language; Tolowa language; Chastacosta language; Upper Umpqua language; Galice language
Date: Undated