Jaime de Angulo

Jaime de Angulo (1887-1950) was a linguist, ethnomusicologist and writer, born in Paris to Spanish parents, who spent his working life in California. From 1921 he made field trips among Native Californian peoples, starting with the Achumawi (Pit River), documenting their languages and recording their music. He is best known for Indian Tales, first read on KPFA radio in 1949. De Angulo came to the United States in 1905, trained as a doctor at Johns Hopkins and turned to linguistics at Berkeley in the early 1920s, with funding arranged through Franz Boas and support from Alfred Kroeber.