Amy Zaharlick, George L. Trager, and Felicia H. Trager sound recordings and papers on Picuris language
name: label: Creator
content: Trager, Felicia Harben, 1930-
label: Creator
content: Zaharlick, Ann Marie, 1947-
label: Creator
content: Trager, George L.
topic: label: Topic
content: Language and languages -- Documentation
label: Topic
content: Linguistics
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Ann Marie (Amy) Zaharlick in 2012.
The Trager's original sound recordings were given to Zaharlick by George L. Trager in 1974.
creator: label: Creator
content: Trager, Felicia Harben, 1930-
label: Creator
content: Zaharlick, Ann Marie, 1947-
label: Creator
content: Trager, George L.
culture: label: Culture
content: Picuris Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Tiwa Pueblos
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content: Amy Zaharlick, George L. Trager, and Felicia H. Trager sound recordings and papers on Picuris language
abstract: label: Summary
content: This collection consists of Amy Zaharlick's research and sound recordings on Picuris and other Pubeloan languages as well as the field recordings and notes given to Zaharlick by anthropologist and fellow Picuris specialist, George L. Trager.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Amy Zaharlick received her Ph.D. in linguistic anthropology from the American University in 1977. Prior to joining the staff at Ohio State University in XXX, she served as director of the Native American Teacher Education Program and as Associate Director of the Multicultural Education Program at the University of Albuquerque in New Mexico. Zaharlick was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University until her retirement in 2012.

George Leonard Trager was born on March 22, 1906 in Newark, New Jersey.  He earned a bachelor's degree at Rutgers University and did his graduate work in Slavic and Romance Philology at Columbia University.  He received his doctorate in 1932 with the  dissertation The use of the Latin demonstratives (especially ille and ipse) up to 600 A.D., as the source of the Romance article.   Trager's first teaching position was at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado, and it was from here that he begin his fieldwork on Tanoan languages.  In 1936 Trager took a position at Yale, joining such influential linguists and Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf.  From 1956 through 1967 Trager taught at the University of Buffalo (later SUNY-Buffalo).  In the late 1960s he left Buffalo for Southern Methodist University and became more involved in Taonoan lanugauge field research.  Trager married three times.  His second and third wives, Edith Crowell Trager-Johnson and Felicia Harben Trager worked with him in American Indian lingistics and Kiowa-Tanoan Studies.  Trager died in 1992.

Felicia Harben Trager graduated from Wayne State University in 1957 and received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship.  She received her M.A. in 1959 from the Department of Anthroplogy and Lingustics at the University of Buffalo where she did graduate work under George Trager.  She worked in Washington D.C. as a project associate at the Washington Center for Applied Linguistics and taught English as a foreign language.  in 1961 she married George Trager and returned with him to Buffalo where in 1968 she earned a Ph.D. for her dissertation Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico: An Ethnologuistic Salvage Study.  In 1967 she moved with George Trager to Dallas where she was a lecturer at Southerm Methodist University's University College.  She assisted her husband as a researcher and editor for three of his books, and was the co-author with him in several articles on Tanoan languages.  Felicia Trager died in 1972 at the age of 42.

Sources Consulted:
Golla, Victor
  1993  Obituary George L. Trager (1906-1992). Newsletter of the Society for theh Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas 2-3.

Smith, Henry Lee
  1974  Obituary Felicia Harben Trager 1930-1972. American Anthropologist 76(1)78-79.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 130 Sound recordings
label: Extent
content: 4 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1952 - 1990
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2012-14
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Field recordings
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content: Field notes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This collection is arranged in 2 series: (1) Papers (1965-1990); (2) Sound Recordings (1952-1989).
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: This collection arrived at the National Anthropological Archives in one deposit. Original organization of papers and folder titles have been retained.  Sound recordings were organized by language and then original tape number. Processed and encoded by Daisy Njoku and Amelia Raines.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Field recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains sound recordings and notes relating to the Picuris language research of Ann Marie (Amy) Zaharlick and her colleagues George L. and Felicia H. Trager, from 1962-1990.  Most of the papers consist of Zaharlick's notes and transcripts from the Kiowa-Tanoan conferences which she organized and chaired, and handouts relating to Zaharlick's bilingual education consultant work. Small portions of the Tragers' field notes on Taos which were copied by Zaharlick, presumably for her own research, are also included. The bulk of the collection consists of 130 sound recordings of songs and stories in Picuris and other Puebloan languages made between 1963-1989.   There are few earlier recordings which  may be copies of material in Trager's papes at the University of California, Irvine. The titles of the tapes have been transcribed from information on the tape boxes. The content of recordings has not been verified.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Correspondence of George L. Trager can be found in the Esther Schiff Goldfrank papers, John P. Harrington papers, and Anthropological Society of Washington records. NAA Manuscript 4540-a-b contains some of Trager's notes and correspondence. The George L. Trager papers can be found at the University of California Irvine Library, Department of Special Collections (MS-M005).