Kaw (Kansa, Kanza)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Rankin, Robert Louis, 1939-
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content: Robert Rankin papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.19 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970-2011, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2014-16, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 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.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.