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3 unusual facts about Samuel Barrett


Samuel Barrett

The final major work of his life was to produce a series of films about the peoples of Northern California such as the Pomo, particularly the Kashaya.

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Samuel Alfred Barrett (1879-1965 b. Conway, Arkansas) was an anthropologist and linguist who studied Native American peoples.

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Barrett's system of naming the languages of the Pomoan group included seven names based on geographical terms: Northern Pomo, Northeastern Pomo, Southern Pomo, Eastern Pomo, Central Pomo, Southeastern Pomo, and Southwest Pomo (now more commonly referred to as Kashaya).


Southern Pomo language

A small amount of data was collected by early researchers such as Samuel Barrett; however, extensive work was not carried out until Abraham M. Halpern, in the 1940s, collected a number of Southern Pomo words and texts as part of a larger effort to collect data on all the Pomo languages.


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