Cherokee materials, Mary R. Haas Papers
Culture:
Date: 1940s, undated
Contributor: Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Sam, Watt | Raven, Nancy
Subject: Linguistics | Place names | Ethnography
Type: Text
Genre: Correspondence | Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent: 0.25 linear feet
Description: Haas' Cherokee file is centered on her fieldwork in Oklahoma with Watt Sam and Nancy Raven, both Natchez speakers who also spoke Cherokee and Creek. Although Creek was the dominant intermediary language between Natchez and English for both of Haas' Natchez consultants, some Cherokee lexica and verb paradigms were recorded in the Natchez notebooks of Series 2. There is also a small amount of Cherokee material in Victor Riste's notebooks in the same Natchez subseries. Series 9 contains lexica, paradigms, phonotactics, and dialectal variation, likely mostly derived from these sources. Besides these, there are some discussions of Cherokee town names and consultants in Series 1, and a few comparisons to Iroquoian and Muskogean languages.
Collection: Mary R. Haas Papers Mss.Ms.Coll.94