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Culture:
Comanche includes: Nʉmʉnʉʉ
Language:English
Date:July 20, 1846
Contributor:Haldeman, Samuel Stehman, 1812-1880
Subject:Botany | Linguistics | Orthography and spelling
Type:Text
Genre:Correspondence
Extent:2 pages
Description: Letter to John L. Le Conte. Author has been to Washington studying Comanche and southwest Indian phonology, now has collected thirteen specimens of Indian languages, and made a talking machine that produces sounds. Also references Leidy and botany.
Collection:John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers (Mss.B.L493)
Culture:
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)