J. P. Harrington Database Project

Martha J. Macri UC Davis, Victor Golla Humboldt State University, Principal Investigators, Lisa Woodward, Project Coordinator

The goal of the J. P. Harrington Project is to increase access to the linguistic and ethnographic notes on American Indian languages collected by J. P. Harrington during the first half of the twentieth century. The men and women he interviewed were often among the last remaining speakers of their languages. His notes are a treasure of indigenous knowledge that otherwise would have been lost. Well over half of an estimated 500,000 pages are on California Indian languages. It is with these materials that we have begun.

The project is funded by National Science Foundation grant BCS01-11487, the Native American Language Center, and the Office of Research at the University of California, Davis.

Project Newsletters

The project newsletter, Clearly Heard Forever, provides scholars and community members with information on the goals and procedures of the project, a list of recent trainings and presentations, names of languages coded or currently being coded, and lists of materials as they become available.

Sample Products

Ultimately the results of this project will be available in a variety of electronic and print formats, for research, educational, and archival purposes. Below are a few samples of some of the kinds of reports that can be generated from the data.

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Last updated March 21, 2006.