Ditidaht materials, Mary R. Haas Papers
Culture:
Ditidaht includes: Nitinat
Language: Ditidaht | Nuu-chah-nulth | English
Date: ca.1931-1972
Contributor: Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Herzog, George, 1901-1983 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Peter, Chief | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967
Subject: Linguistics | Music
Type: Text | Sound recording
Genre: Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks | Correspondence | Musical scores
Extent: 1.5 linear feet
Description: The most noteworthy aspect of Mary Haas' Ditidaht file, stemming from fieldwork conducted with Morris Swadesh as her first fieldtrip, is a fairly detailed transcription of songs collected. Series 2 contains the transcriptions and Series 10 the cassette copies, while the original tapes are housed at the Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music. There is much overlap with Nuu-chah-nulth, as Haas frequently identified correspondences between them. A sizeable lexical file (Series 9) and correspondence with many, especially Edward Sapir and George Herzog (Series 1) may also be of interest.
Collection: Mary R. Haas Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.94