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Date:1934-1982
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Thomas, Joe | Thompson, Chief Charlie | Celestine, Eddie | Sylestine, Harry | Battiste, E. S. | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks | Dictionaries
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas worked for a short period to document Alabama with several speakers on in the 1930s. The field notebook is in Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages' and includes comparisons with Koasati and Choctaw. Around 585 lexical items were obtained from this fieldwork, from which lexical slip files (Series 9) are derived. Haas also utilized John R. Swanton's dictionary of Alabama, and Alabama forms part of extensive Muskogean language comparisons, mostly in Series 2. There is also brief correspondence.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Biloxi includes: Tanêks, Tanêksa
Date:1934-1994 (bulk: 1934, 1950s-1960s)
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Jackson, Emma | Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895 | Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:1.0 linear feet
Description: Haas' Biloxi file is mostly derived from John R. Swanton and James Owen Dorsey's published dictionaries, and often appears alongside the other Ohio Valley Siouan/Southeastern Siouan languages Tutelo and Ofo. The most notable original Biloxi material in the collection is an elicitation from Emma Jackson made in the 1930s, with comparisons to the lexica found in Swanton and Dorsey's published dictionaries, found in “Field Notebook: Koasati, Alabama, Biloxi” in Series 2: “Multiple Languages”. Haas also made many comparisons to other neighboring languages in Series 9, under many headings, observed possible Spanish loanwords (Series 2 Subseries "Tunica"), and alluded to Biloxi and neighbors in later correspondence.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Blackfoot includes: Niitsítapi, Blackfeet
Date:1960s-1970s
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Taylor, Allan R. (Allan Ross), 1931- | Frantz, Donald G.
Subject:Linguistics | Games
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Haas' Blackfoot file was produced concurrently with PhD student Allan Taylor's dissertation, a grammar of the language, and Taylor appears to have produced much of it as a result of fieldwork. The file includes reprints with marginalia, phonology, a field notebook containing 15 pages of basic vocabulary and paradigms in Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages', and lexica with Proto-Algonquian comparisons, in Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Catawba includes: Iswa
Date:1930s-1960s (bulk: 1940-1941)
Contributor:Gordon, Sally Brown | Pickens, A. L. (Andrew Lee), 1890-1969 | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | McDavid, Raven Ioor | Chief Blue, 1872-1959
Subject:Linguistics | Ethnography | Genealogy | Material culture
Type:Text
Genre:Field notes | Notebooks | Correspondence | Vocabularies
Extent:1.0 linear feet
Description: Haas' Catawba file was sent to her by Raven I. McDavid from fieldwork in 1940-1941. Haas subsequently made copies and sent the originals to James M. Crawford, in whose collection at the APS they now reside. These are found in Series 2 Subseries ‘Catawba', and are varied and comprehensive in content, along with an animal lexicon and a series of reprints from Andrew Pickens. McDavid also sent two boxes of handwritten Catawba slips, “culled from Speck, from Morris's notes, from mine - and possibly from Gatschet”, some of which were heavily damaged by mold and can be found in Series 9. There is also a glossary and lexicon in correspondence from McDavid, Series 1.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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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)
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Date:1927, undated
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967 | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Ziegler, Martha
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: Haas' Chimariko file is formed of derivations of Edward Sapir's fieldwork in 1927 that primarily recorded Hupa. Sapir's consultant was Martha Ziegler. A short lexicon is in the field notebooks of Series 2 Subseries ‘Yurok', while the majority is lexica, phonetics, morphological and ethnographic notes by Sapir himself in Series 9. Morris Swadesh also reinterpreted Sapir and others' phonetic Chimariko into a phonemic orthography, also in Series 9, and sent some materials to Haas as correspondence in Series 1. Additionally, Chimariko is scattered throughout comparative work.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Date:1937-1981
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Bascom, Charlie | Tubbi, Sarah
Subject:Linguistics | Genealogy
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Correspondence | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: Haas' Choctaw file is mostly the product of fieldwork among the Tunica of Louisiana during the 1930s, where Haas interviewed mother tongue speakers of Choctaw and her Tunica consultant Sesostrie Youchigant, and in Oklahoma during her Creek fieldtrips. Products of these first appear in the field notebooks and genealogy charts of Series 2 Subseries Choctaw and Tunica and are summarized in card files in Series 9. Strikingly, over 40 years elapsed between Haas' first Choctaw field notebook (Series 2) and her second. Choctaw featured heavily in Haas' comparison and reconstruction of Proto-Muskogean, regularly distributed throughout, particularly in Koasati materials. Comparative work also involved significant phonological and morphological analysis.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Date:ca.1935-1960s
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Casagrande, Joseph | Conworp, Eleanor | Whorf, Benjamin Lee, 1897-1941
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.1 linear feet
Description: Haas' materials on Comanche are few but contain original items of particular interest. Series 1 contains a discussion with anthropologist Joseph Casagrande of a register used with and by young children, and correspondence with Benjamin Whorf concerning comparative work of Uto-Aztecan languages. There is a lexicon recorded with consultant Eleanor Conworp in a field notebook of various languages, located in Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages', and a small amount of comparative work in the index cards of Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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Denesuline includes: Dënesųłiné, Chipewyan
Language:Denesuline (ᑌᓀᓱᒼᕄᓀ) | English
Date:ca.1933-1981, bulk 1960s
Contributor:Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996 | Abel, John | Cook, Eung-do
Subject:Linguistics
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence | Vocabularies | Field notes | Notebooks
Extent:0.5 linear feet
Description: Mary Haas documented a small amount of Chipewyan in a field notebook in 1967, found in Series 2 Subseries ‘Multiple Languages'. Besides this, the most significant materials are several comparative and standalone lexical slip files, amounting to considerably over 1000 slips, in Series 9, and correspondence with several authors, particularly Eung-Do Cook, in Series 1.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)
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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)