MS 4800 James O. Dorsey papers
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Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895
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circa 1870-1956
bulk 1870-1895
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30 Linear feet (70 boxes, 1 oversized box, 20 manuscript envelopes, 4 rolled maps, and 23 map folders)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4800
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National Anthropological Archives
Reverend James Owen Dorsey (1848-1895) was a missionary and Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist who conducted extensive research on Siouan tribes and languages.The papers of James Owen Dorsey comprise mostly ethnographic and linguistic materials on various tribes of the Siouan language family as well as tribes from Siletz Reservation in Oregon. These materials include texts and letters with interlineal translations; grammar notes; dictionaries; drawings; and his manuscripts. In addition, the collection contains Dorsey's correspondence, newspaper clippings, his obituaries, and reprints.
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Hamilton, William, 1811-1891
Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914
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April 12, and October 1, 1877
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8 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3846
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National Anthropological Archives
Discussing place names in Dhegiha and Chiwere.
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Hadley, Lewis F. (Lewis Francis)
Ingonompishi
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1882
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80 Pages
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS918
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National Anthropological Archives
6 pages, "Brief historical notes" on the Kwapa and other Dhegiha. 43 pages. "Quapaw Vocabulary," including grammatical notes. 9 pages. Comparative Kwapa-Ponka vocabulary. 20 pages. "The Mystery of the Ponca Removal."
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Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
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undated
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3 Items (slips )
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4858
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National Anthropological Archives
Truman Michelson's handwritten notes on Kanza (Kansa) verbal paradigms.
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Rankin, Robert Louis, 1939-
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1886, 1914, 1956-2011
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31.77 Linear feet (55 boxes, 1 map folder)
196 Sound recordings
- Collection ID:
- NAA.2014-16
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National Anthropological Archives
The Robert Rankin papers, 1886, 1914, 1956-2011, document his field work, research, and professional activities, primarily in relation to his work studying American Indian languages. Rankin was professor of linguistics at the University of Kansas from 1969 until his retirement in 2005. The collection consists of sound recordings, field notebooks, vocabulary lists and bibliographies, dictionaries, research files, slip files, word lists, correspondence, ephemera, notes, readings and reprints, writings, drafts, and teaching materials. This includes materials from Rankin's work with the last native speakers of the Quapaw and Kaw (Kansa, Kanza) languages and subsequent research, writings, and collaborations with tribes and fellow linguists.
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Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
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1907-1959 (some earlier)
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683 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NAA.1976-95
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National Anthropological Archives
Harrington was a Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist involved in the study of over one hundred American tribes. His speciality was linguistics. Most of the material concerns California, southwestern, northwestern tribes and includes ethnological, archeological, historical notes; writings, correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, biological specimens, and other types of documents. Also of concern are general linguistics, sign language, writing systems, writing machines, and sound recordings machines. There is also some material on New World Spanish, Old World languages. In addition, there are many manuscripts of writings that Harrington sketched, partially completed, or even completed but never published. The latter group includes not only writings about anthropological subjects but also histories, ranging from a biography of Geronimo to material on the history of the typewriter. The collection incorporates material of Richard Lynch Garner, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and others. In his field work, Harrington seems sometimes to have worked within fairly firm formats, this especially being true when he was "rehearing" material, that is in using an informant to verify and correct the work of other researchers. Often, however, the interviews with informants (and this seems to have been the case even with some "rehearings") seem to have been rather free form, for there is a considerable intertwining of subjects. Nevertheless, certain themes frequently appear in his work, including annotated vocabularies concerning flora and fauna and their use, topography, history and biography, kinship, cosmology (including tribal astronomy), religion and philosophy, names and observations concerning neighboring tribes, sex and age division, material culture, legends, and songs. The fullness of such materials seems to have been limited only by the time Harrington had to spend with a goup and the knowledge of his informants.
