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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)
Culture:
Karuk includes: Karok
Date:ca.1950s-1960s
Contributor:Bright, William, 1928-2006 | Gursky, Karl-Heinz | Haas, Mary R. (Mary Rosamond), 1910-1996
Subject:Linguistics | Place names
Type:Text
Genre:Vocabularies | Grammars | Correspondence
Extent:0.25 linear feet
Description: One of Haas' students, William Bright, completed a grammar of Karuk as his PhD dissertation, and from this are derived a card file (Series 9) consisting of a lexicon, grammatical analyses, comparisons to various languages including proto-languages, and loanwords and placenames, which would later become a significant part of Bright's legacy. Comparisons to other languages of California and elsewhere are also found in correspondence with Karl-Heinz Gursky (Series 1) and other locations in Series 9.
Collection:Mary R. Haas Papers (Mss.Ms.Coll.94)