Subject and correspondence files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rankin, Robert Louis, 1939-
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content: Robert Rankin papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16.16 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1886, 1956-2007, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2014-16, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in 6 subseries: 4.1 John Koontz, 1981-2006, undated; 4.2 W.L. Ballard, circa 1970-1996, undated; 4.3 Siouan, 1973-2007, undated; 4.4 HNAI (Handbook of North American Indians), 1974-1995, undated; 4.5 General correspondence, 1979-2005, undated; 4.6 Filed alphabetically, 1886, 1956-2004, undated.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The subject and correspondence files series, dated 1886, 1956-2007 and undated, includes files relating to specific topics or people. They often include a mix of correspondence, readings, general notes, and project notes. In addition this series contains slip files, maps, bibliographies, lexicons, ephemera, sound recordings, transcriptions, and computer disks.

A few of the more prolific topics have been pulled out and put into separate subseries for ease of use. The first of these subseries includes files relating to Rankin's correspondence and collaboration with John Koontz from 1981-2006 and undated. John Koontz was a linguist at the University of Colorado who specialized in the Omaha-Ponca language and worked with Rankin on the Comparative Siouan Dictionary in addition to other papers and talks. 

The second subseries consists of materials Rankin received from W.L. Ballard from Georgia State University on the Yuchi language. Materials include 20 sound recordings and associated notes that Ballard made in the 1970s and 1980s in addition to correspondence and data sets.

Materials that pertain to Siouan languages in general form the third subseries, followed by material relating to Rankin's work on the Handbook of North American Indians (HNAI) in the fourth subseries, and general correspondence files in the fifth subseries. The sixth subseries consists of the remainder of the subject and correspondence files listed in alphabetical order.