Kaw (Kansa, Kanza)
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Rankin, Robert Louis, 1939-
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- Robert Rankin papers
- Sponsor
- Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Digitization and preparation of sound recordings for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
- Extent
- 4.19 Linear feet
- Date
- circa 1970-2011, undated
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Identifier
- NAA.2014-16, Series 2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Robert Rankin papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Arrangement
- Arranged in 3 subseries: 2.1 Field notebooks, 1974-1976; 2.2 Files, circa 1974-2011, undated; 2.3 Sound recordings, circa 1970-1979, undated.
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- Series 2, dated circa 1970-2011 and undated, documents Rankin's work with the Kaw (Kansa, Kanza) language. Materials include field notebooks, vocabulary slip files and word lists, dictionary drafts, correspondence, ephemera, and 35 sound recordings. Rankin began his work with the Kaw (Kansa, Kanza) language in 1973-1974 working with the few native speakers that remained at the time including Ralph Pepper, Maude Rowe, and Walter Kekahbah. Rowe reciting the Lord's Prayer in Kaw, along with grammar and vocabulary notes from Pepper, Rowe, and Kekahbah are reflected the sound recordings and paper documentation in this series. Materials also include subject files on the tribe and language and material in support of lexicons and dictionaries Rankin helped develop.
- Collection Restrictions
- The Robert Rankin papers are open for research. Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice. Computer disks are currently restricted due to preservation concerns. Access to the Robert Rankin papers requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510308966-1503510308990-7
- Metadata Usage
- CC0