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Interviewee:

Burlin, Paul, 1886-1969  Search this

Interviewer:

Seckler, Dorothy Gees, 1910-1994  Search this

Names:

American Artists' Congress  Search this

Downtown Gallery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

National Academy of Design (U.S.) -- Students  Search this

United States. Works Progress Administration  Search this

Whitney Museum of American Art  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Gleizes, Albert, 1881-1953  Search this

Halpert, Edith Gregor, 1900-1970  Search this

Huneker, James, 1857-1921  Search this

Matisse, Henri, 1869-1954  Search this

O'Keeffe, Georgia , 1887-1986  Search this

Extent:

5 Items (Sound recording: 5 sound files (2 hr., 39 min.), digital, wav)

65 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Place:

Europe -- description and travel

Southwestern States -- Description and Travel

Date:

1962

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Paul Burlin, conducted on December 5-6, 1962, by Dorothy Gees Seckler, for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Burlin speaks of his childhood education in England; working for the magazine Delineator; his education at the National Academy of Design; his travels in the American Southwest; his early exhibitions in New York; his first wife's writings on folk music; visiting Europe before the first World War; discovering Cubism and Fauvism; working on the WPA under the Whitney Museum; joining and then leaving the American Artists' Congress in protest; his thoughts on overtly political art; exhibiting at the Downtown Gallery; his image-making process; and his critique of Pop art. Burlin also recalls James Huneker, Franz Boas, Albert Gleizes, Henri Matisse, Edith Halpert, Georgia O'Keeffe, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Paul Burlin (1886-1969) was a painter in New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded on 5 sound tape reels. Reformatted in 2010 as 5 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 39 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.

Topic:

Art, American  Search this

Art -- Political aspects  Search this

Cubism  Search this

Fauvism  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Pop art  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.burlin62

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-burlin62

Interviewee:

Van Veen, Stuyvesant  Search this

Interviewer:

Nathan, Emily  Search this

Names:

Beckmann, Max, 1884-1950  Search this

Benton, Thomas Hart, 1889-1975  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Kroll, Leon, 1884-1974  Search this

Rich, Daniel Catton, 1904-1976  Search this

Walker, Hudson D. (Hudson Dean), 1907-1976  Search this

Extent:

51 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1981 May 5-14

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Stuyvesant Van Veen conducted 1981 May 5-14, by Emily Nathan, for the Archives of American Art.

Van Veen speaks of his family background and parental influence; his early training, and studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; his army service; some of his experiences as a young artist; early exhibits of his work; his mural work; anthropological drawings he did under Franz Boas for Columbia University in the 1930s. He recalls Max Beckmann, Thomas Hart Benton, Leon Kroll, Daniel Catton Rich and Hudson Dean Walker.

Biographical / Historical:

Stuyvesant Van Veen (1910-1988) was a painter from New York, N.Y.

General:

Originally recorded on 3 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 6 digital wav files. Duration is 3 hr., 36 min.

Provenance:

These interviews are part of the Archives' Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.

Topic:

Drawing -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Painters -- New York (State) -- Interviews  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for the digital preservation of this interview was provided by a grant from the Save America's Treasures Program of the National Park Service.

Identifier:

AAA.vanvee81

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-vanvee81

Creator:

La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932  Search this

Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923  Search this

Correspondent:

La Flesche family  Search this

Aldrich, Charles F.  Search this

Alexander, Hartley B.  Search this

Allen, James T.  Search this

Andrews, Gleorge L.  Search this

Armstrong, S.C.  Search this

Ashley, Robert H.  Search this

Atkins, John D.C.  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Bowditch, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1842-1921  Search this

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899  Search this

Brown, George LeRoy  Search this

Burlin, Natalie Curtis, 1875-1921  Search this

Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 1881-1946  Search this

Copley, John T.  Search this

Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927  Search this

Dawes, E.S.  Search this

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957  Search this

Dixon, Roland Burrage, 1875-1934  Search this

Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895  Search this

Dunbar, John Brown, 1841-1914  Search this

Ellinwood, F.F.  Search this

Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925  Search this

Farley, Caryl E.  Search this

Farley, Rosalie La Flesche  Search this

Farwell, Arthur  Search this

Fellowes, R.S.  Search this

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930  Search this

Fillmore, John Comfort, 1843-1898  Search this

Fillmore, L.H.  Search this

Fillmore, Thomas Hill  Search this

Freire-Marreco, Barbara W. (Barbara Whitchurch), 1879-1967  Search this

Gay, E. Jane  Search this

Griffith, Elmer C.  Search this

Guthrie, William Norman  Search this

Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896  Search this

Hall, C.C.  Search this

Hall, Charles Lemon, 1847-1940  Search this

Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919  Search this

Heth, H.  Search this

Hewett, Edgar L. (Edgar Lee), 1865-1946  Search this

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Hough, Walter, 1859-1935  Search this

Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909  Search this

Johnston, Catherine M.  Search this

Kincaid, William  Search this

La Flesche, Joseph  Search this

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928  Search this

MacCurdy, George Grant, 1863-1947  Search this

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908  Search this

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905  Search this

McBeth, Kate C., 1832-1915  Search this

McBeth, Sue L., -1893  Search this

McCown, S.M.  Search this

McGee, W J, 1853-1912  Search this

McGuire, Joseph D. (Joseph Deakins), 1842-1916  Search this

Mead, Frances K.  Search this

Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942  Search this

Merrick, Fannie  Search this

Merrick, Jessie  Search this

Moon, Karl  Search this

Moore, Homer  Search this

Morgan, Caroline S.  Search this

Morgan, John T.  Search this

Murie, James R.  Search this

Myers, John L.  Search this

Nuttal, Maria Magdalena  Search this

Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924  Search this

Petter, W.H.  Search this

Pettigrew, Frederick W., 1850-1901  Search this

Picotte, Susan La Flesche  Search this

Pratt, Richard Henry, 1840-1924  Search this

Price, Hiram  Search this

Proctor, Edna Dean, 1829-1923  Search this

Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915  Search this

Quinn, Daniel  Search this

Robertson, Alice M.  Search this

Rogers, Emily F.  Search this

Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917  Search this

Seymour, Thomas Day  Search this

Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908  Search this

St. Cyr, Julia  Search this

Starr, Frederick  Search this

Stuart, James  Search this

Talbot, Emily  Search this

Teller, W.J.  Search this

Thaw, William  Search this

Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston), 1877-1954  Search this

Wallaschek, Richard  Search this

Westcott, Edith  Search this

Wilkinson, G.W.  Search this

Wilkinson, Hattie M.  Search this

Willoughby, Charles Clark  Search this

Names:

Carr, Lucien, 1829-1915  Search this

Radin, Paul, 1883-1959  Search this

Extent:

19 Linear feet (50 boxes)

Culture:

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Sioux  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Ponca  Search this

Quechua  Search this

Quapaw Indians  Search this

Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)  Search this

Mexicans  Search this

Wichita  Search this

Zapotec  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Apache  Search this

Cherokee  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Indians of North America -- California  Search this

Hitchiti Seminole  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Caddo  Search this

Biloxi Indians  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Osage  Search this

Oto  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Ajachemem (San Juan de Capistrano Luiseño)  Search this

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Alaska

Date:

1873-1939

Summary:

These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.

Scope and Contents:

These papers reflect the professional lives of Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923), an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard University and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Francis La Flesche (1856-1923), an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Due to the close professional and personal relationship of Fletcher and La Flesche, their papers have been arranged jointly. The papers cover the period from 1874 to 1939. Included in the collection is correspondence, personal diaries, lectures, field notes and other ethnographic papers, drafts, musical transcriptions, publications by various authors, maps and photographs.

The papers have been divided into three general categories: the papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, the papers of Francis La Flesche, and the ethnographic research of Fletcher and La Flesche. The first two categories represent personal and professional materials of Fletcher and La Flesche. The third section holds the majority of the ethnographic material in the collection.

Of primary concern are Fletcher and La Flesche's ethnological investigations conducted among the Plains Indians, particularly the Omaha and Osage. Fletcher's Pawnee field research and her allotment work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs among the Omaha, Nez Perce, and Winnebago are represented in the collection. A substantial portion of the ethnographic material reflects Fletcher and La Flesche's studies of Native American music. Much of the correspondence in the papers of Fletcher and La Flesche is rich with information about the situation of Omaha peoples in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Also included in the collection are documents related to Fletcher's work with the Archaeological Institute of America and the School for American Archaeology. Additionally, substantial amounts of Fletcher's early anthropological and historical research are found among her correspondence, lectures, anthropological notes, and early field diaries. La Flesche's literary efforts are also generously represented.

Arrangement:

The collection is divided into the following 3 series: 1) Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers, 1873-1925; 2) Francis La Flesche papers, 1881-1930; 3) Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, 1877-1939.

Series 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers is divided into the following 10 subseries: 1.1) Incoming correspondence, 1874-1923 (bulk 1882-1923); 1.2) Outgoing correspondence, 1873-1921; 1.3) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1925; 1.4) Correspondence between Fletcher and La Flesche, 1895-1922; 1.5) Publications, 1882-1920; 1.6) Organizational records, 1904-1921; 1.7) General anthropological notes, undated; 1.8) Lectures, circa 1878-1910; 1.9) Diaries, 1881-1922; 1.10) Biography and memorabilia, 1878-1925.

Series 2: Francis La Flesche papers is divided into the following 6 subseries: 2.11) General correspondence, 1890-1929; 2.12) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1930; 2.13) Publications, 1900-1927; 2.14) Literary efforts, undated; 2.15) Personal diaries, 1883-1924; 2.16) Biography and memorabilia, 1886-1930.

Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche is divided into the following 12 subseries: 3.17) Alaska, 1886-1887; 3.18) Earth lodges, 1882, 1898-1899; 3.19) Music, 1888-1918; 3.20) Nez Perce, 1889-1909; 3.21) Omaha, 1882-1922; 3.22) Osage, 1896-1939; 3.23) Pawnee, 1897-1910; 3.24) Pipes, undated; 3.25) Sioux, 1877-1896; 3.26) Other tribes, 1882-1922; 3.27) Publications collected, 1884-1905, undated; 3.28) Photographs, undated.

Biographical / Historical:

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (1838-1923) was an ethnologist with the Peabody Museum of Harvard and collaborator with the Bureau of American Ethnology. Francis La Flesche (1856-1923) was an anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Chronology of the Life of Alice Cunningham Fletcher

1838 March 15 -- Born in Havana, Cuba

1873-1876 -- Secretary, American Association for Advancement of Women

1879 -- Informal student of anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1881 -- Field trip to Omaha and Rosebud Agencies

1882 -- Assistant in ethnology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1882 -- Helped secure land in severalty to Omaha Indians

1882-1883 -- Begins collaboration with Francis La Flesche on the Peabody Museum's collection of Omaha and Sioux artifacts

1883-1884 -- Special Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Omaha Agency

1886 -- Bureau of Education investigation of Alaskan native education

1887-1888 -- Special Disbursing Agent, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Winnebago Agency

1889-1892 -- Special Agent for allotment, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Nez Perce Agency

1890-1899 -- President, Women's Anthropological Society of America

1891-1923 -- Mary Copley Thaw Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1892-1893 -- Department of Interior consultant, World's Columbian Exposition

1896 -- Vice-President, Section H, American Association for the Advancement of Science

1897 -- Collaborator, Bureau of American Ethnology

1899-1916 -- Editorial board, American Anthropologist

1900 -- Published Indian Story and Song from North America

1901-1902 -- Advisory committee, Anthropology Department, University of California at Berkeley

1903 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1904 -- Published The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony with James Murie

1904 -- Member, ethnology section, Louisiana Purchase Exposition

1905 -- President, American Folk-lore Society

1908-1913 -- Chair, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1911 -- Honorary Vice-President, Section H, British Association for Advancement of Science

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Francis La Flesche

1913 -- Chair Emeritus, Managing Committee of School of American Archaeology

1915 -- Published Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports

1923 April 6 -- Died in Washington, D.C.

Chronology of the Life of Francis La Flesche

1857 December 25 -- Born on Omaha Reservation near Macy, Nebraska

1879 -- Lecture tour, Ponca chief Standing Bear

1881 -- Interpreter, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

1881-1910 -- Clerk, Bureau of Indian Affairs

1891 -- Informally adopted as Fletcher's son

1892 -- LL.B., National University Law School

1893 -- LL.M., National University Law School

1900 -- Published The Middle Five: Indian Boys at School

1906-1908 -- Marriage to Rosa Bourassa

1910-1929 -- Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology

1911 -- Published The Omaha Tribe with Alice Fletcher

1921 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part One

1922 -- Member, National Academy of Sciences

1922-1923 -- President, Anthropological Society of Washington

1925 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Two

1926 -- Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Nebraska

1928 -- Published The Osage Tribe, Part Three

1932 -- Published Dictionary of the Osage Language

1932 September 5 -- Died in Thurston County, Nebraska

1939 -- Posthumous publication of War Ceremony and Peace Ceremony of the Osage Indians

Related Materials:

Additional material related to the professional work of Fletcher and La Flesche in the National Anthropological Archives may be found among the correspondence of the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) and the records of the Anthropological Society of Washington.

Sound recordings made by Fletcher and La Flesche can be found at the Library of Congress. The National Archives Records Administration hold the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), including those relating to allotments in severalty for the Nez Perce by Alice Fletcher. The Nebraska Historical Society has diaries, letters and clippings regarding the La Flesche family, including correspondence of Francis La Flesche and Fletcher. The Radcliffe College Archives holds a manuscript account of Alice Fletcher's four summers with the Nez Perce (1889-1892). Correspondence between Fletcher and F. W. Putnam is also located at the Peabody Museum Archives of Harvard University.

Separated Materials:

Ethnographic photographs from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in Photo Lot 24.

Glass plate negatives from the collection have been catalogued by tribe in the BAE glass negatives collection (Negative Numbers 4439-4515).

Provenance:

The papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche have been received from an undocumented number of sources. Portions of Fletcher's ethnographic papers were donated to the archives by Mrs. G. David Pearlman in memory of her husband in 1959.

Restrictions:

The Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers are open for research.

Access to the Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Pipes -- American Indian  Search this

Earth houses  Search this

Music -- American Indian  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4558

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MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4558

Correspondent:

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Wallis, Ruth Sawtell, 1895-1978  Search this

Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991  Search this

Lopez, Salvador  Search this

Little, Kenneth  Search this

Wilson, Maggie  Search this

Whitecloud, Thomas St. Germain  Search this

Henry, Jules, 1904-1969  Search this

Hellman, Ellen  Search this

Haugen, Einar  Search this

Gough, Kathleen  Search this

Lewis, Oscar  Search this

Kaberry, Phyllis Mary, 1910-  Search this

Imes, Elmer Samuel, 1883-1941  Search this

Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962  Search this

Steyn, Anna F.  Search this

Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961  Search this

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962  Search this

Solecki, Ralph S.  Search this

Sparta, Francisco  Search this

Rubin, Joan  Search this

Rubin, Vera  Search this

Rodnick, David  Search this

Rogers, Edward S.  Search this

Ritzenthaler, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1911-1980  Search this

Roberts, Robert W.  Search this

Ramo, Arthur  Search this

Richards, Audrey  Search this

Preston, Richard J.  Search this

Verger, Pierre  Search this

Vennum, Thomas  Search this

Topash, Mary  Search this

Topash, Joe  Search this

Teskey, Lynn  Search this

Taylor, Beryl  Search this

Tanner, Helen Hornbeck  Search this

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957  Search this

Quain, Buell H. (Buell Halvor), 1912-1939  Search this

Dunning, William  Search this

Douglas, William A.  Search this

Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991  Search this

Edmondson, Munro S.  Search this

Black, Mary B.  Search this

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948  Search this

Domengeaux, James  Search this

Feldman, Albert G.  Search this

Feder, Norman  Search this

Gacs, Ute  Search this

Franklin, John Hope  Search this

Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997  Search this

Erickson, Vincent O.  Search this

Falk, Minna R.  Search this

Faitlovitch, V.  Search this

Alberto Torres, Heloisa  Search this

Buck, Pearl  Search this

Bruce, Harold E.  Search this

Borri, Rina  Search this

Boggs, Stephen Taylor  Search this

Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997  Search this

Baldus, Herbert  Search this

Barnouw, Victor  Search this

Bateson, Mary Catherine  Search this

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich  Search this

Malherbe, E.G.  Search this

Marks, Eli S.  Search this

Masha, Louise  Search this

Maslow, Will  Search this

Masquat, Joseph M.  Search this

Mayer, Kurt B.  Search this

McWilliams, Carey  Search this

Bunche, Ralph J.  Search this

Carneiro, Edison  Search this

Chilver, E. M.  Search this

Chilver, Richard  Search this

Clifton, James A.  Search this

Colson, Elizabeth F.  Search this

Daveron, Alexander  Search this

Lowenfeld, Margaret, 1890-1973  Search this

Officer, James E.  Search this

Odum, Howard W.  Search this

Park, Alice  Search this

Paredes, Anthony  Search this

Paton, Alan, 1903-1988  Search this

Park, George  Search this

Prado, Idabel do  Search this

Peschel, Keewaydinoquay M.  Search this

Merwe, Hendrik W. van der  Search this

Murphy, Robert Francis  Search this

Messing, Simon D.  Search this

Neumann, Anita  Search this

Nef, Evelyn Stefansson  Search this

Nocktonick, Louise  Search this

Neumann, Walter  Search this

Creator:

Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991  Search this

Names:

Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures  Search this

Committee on Fair Employment Practices  Search this

Fisk University  Search this

Johnson, Charles S.  Search this

Landes, Ruth, 1908-1991  Search this

Park, Robert E.  Search this

Extent:

26.5 Linear feet ((63 document boxes and 1 oversized box))

Culture:

Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)  Search this

African American  Search this

Dakota (Eastern Sioux)  Search this

African  Search this

Acadians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Jews -- American  Search this

Latinos -- California  Search this

Brazilians  Search this

Basques  Search this

American Indians  Search this

Afro-Brazilians  Search this

Africans  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Quebec -- Bilingualism

United Kingdom -- colored immigration

South Africa

Date:

1928-1992

Summary:

Most of Ruth Landes's papers relate directly or indirectly to Landes's American Indian research, her work in Brazil, and her study of bilingualism. There is also a considerable amount of material that relates to her experiences (sometimes fictionalized) at Fisk University. There is only small amount of material related to her other interests. Her collection also has material of and relating to the Brazilian folklorist and journalist Edison Carneiro. There is also noteworthy material concerning Herbert Baldus, Ruth Benedict, Elmer C. Imes, Charles S. Johnson, and Robert E. Park. There is a large amount of printed and processed materials in the collection, mainly in the form of newspaper clippings and a collection of scholarly papers.

Scope and Contents:

This collection is mainly comprised of the professional papers of Ruth Schlossberg Landes. Included are correspondence, journals, published and unpublished manuscripts of writings, research materials including field notes and reading notes, photographs, drawings, scholarly papers and publications by other scholars, and clippings from newspapers and periodicals.

Landes's field research on Candomblé in Brazil is well-represented in this collection, consisting of her field journals, writings, and photographs. Also present are Maggie Wilson's stories that were the basis for Landes's The Ojibwa Woman. Unfortunately, Landes was unable to locate her journals for her early research with the Ojibwa/Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Dakota. There are, however, field photographs of the Ojibwa/Chippewa and Potawatomi in the collection. There is also a great deal of her research on groups, especially minorities, in multilingual states with particular focus on the French of Quebec, Basques of Spain and the United States, Boers and Blacks of South Africa, the several socio-linguistic groups of Switzerland, and Acadians (Cajuns) of Louisiana. In the collection are several drafts of her unpublished manuscript on bilingualism, "Tongues that Defy the State." There is also a small amount of material about Black Jews of New York and considerable material about Landes's experience among African Americans when she taught briefly at Fisk University, including her unpublished manuscript "Now, at Athens," containing fictional and autobiographical accounts of her time at Fisk.

Reflections of other facets of Landes's professional activities are also included. Some materials concern her teaching activities, and there is also documentation of her work with the Fair Employment Practices Commission (a federal government agency during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt) and a similar private organization which immediately succeeded the FEPA; Gunnar Myrdal's research into the plight of African Americans ("The Negro in America"); the Research in Contemporary Cultures project at Columbia University; and the American Jewish Congress.

Among Landes's correspondents are Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ralph Bunche, Herbert Baldus, Edison Carneiro, Sally Chilver, Frances Densmore, Sol Tax, Elmer S. Imes, Charles S. Johnson, Robert E. Park, and Hendrik W. van der Merwe.

Arrangement:

The collection is organized into 6 series: (1) Correspondence, 1931-1991; (2) Research Materials, circa 1930s-1990; (3) Writings, circa 1930s-1990; (4) Teaching Materials, 1935-1975, undated; (5) Biographical and Personal Files, 1928-1988; (6) Graphic Materials, 1933-1978, undated

Biographical Note:

Ruth Schlossberg Landes was born on October 8, 1908 in New York City. Her father was Joseph Schlossberg, an activist in the Yiddish labor socialist community and one of the founders of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. She studied sociology at New York University (B.A. 1928) and social work at the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University (M.S.W. 1929). While in graduate school, Landes studied Black Jews in Harlem for her master's thesis, a topic that developed her interests in anthropology.

After graduating in 1929, she worked as a social worker in Harlem and married Victor Landes, a medical student and son of family friends. Their marriage ended after two years when she enrolled in the doctoral program in anthropology at Columbia against her husband's wishes. She kept his surname due to the stigma of being a divorced woman.

At Columbia, Landes studied under Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict, her main advisor. Under the guidance of Benedict, Landes moved away from further study of African Americans to focus on Native American communities. Upon Benedict's suggestion, Landes studied the social organization of the Ojibwa in Manitou Rapids in Ontario from 1932 to 1936 for her Ph.D. fieldwork. Her dissertation, Ojibwa Sociology, was published in 1937. Landes also contributed "The Ojibwa of Canada" in Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples (1937), a volume edited by Margaret Mead. In 1938, Landes published Ojibwa Women (1938), a book written in collaboration with Maggie Wilson, an Ojibwa interpreter and informant.

In addition to studying the Ojibwa in Ontario, Landes also conducted fieldwork with the Chippewa of Red Lake, Minnesota in 1933, working closely with shaman or midé Will Rogers. Her book, Ojibwa Religion and the Midéwiwin (1968) was based largely on her research with Rogers and Maggie Wilson. In 1935 and 1936, she undertook fieldwork with the Santee Dakota in Minnesota and the Potawatomi in Kansas. Like Ojibwa Religion and the Midéwiwin, her books on the Santee Dakota and Potawatomi were not published until several years later—The Mystic Lake Sioux: Sociology of the Mdewakantonwan Sioux was published in 1968 while The Prairie Potawatomi was published in 1970. In between her field research in the 1930s and the publication of The Prairie Potawatomi, Landes returned to Kansas to study the Potawatomi in the 1950s and 1960s.

Landes's plan to continue her studies with the Potawatomi in 1937 changed when Benedict invited her to join a team of researchers from Columbia University in Brazil. Landes was to conduct research on Afro-Brazilians in Bahia, Brazil, while Walter Lipkind, Buell Quain, and Charles Wagley studied indigenous people in the Amazons. To prepare for her research, Landes was at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1937 and 1938 to consult with Robert Park and Donald Pierson and to use the university's library collections of African and African American materials. During that time, Landes also held a teaching position at Fisk and lived in the non-segregated women's residence on campus. Landes later wrote "Now, at Athens," an unpublished memoir containing fictional and true accounts of her experiences at Fisk.

From 1938 to 1939, Landes conducted fieldwork on the role of Afro-Brazilian women and homosexuals in the Candomblé religion in Bahia, Brazil. Unable to move freely by herself in Brazil as a single woman, Landes was accompanied by Edison Carneiro, a Bahian journalist and folklorist. With Carneiro as her companion, Landes was allowed access to rituals and people that would have been closed off to her otherwise. Due to her association with Carneiro, a member of the Brazilian Communist Party, Landes was suspected of being a communist and was forced to leave Bahia early. Publications from her research in Brazil include "A Cult Matriarchate and Male Homosexuality" (1940) and City of Women (1947). She returned to Brazil in 1966 to study the effects of urban development in Rio de Janeiro. In 1967, a Portuguese translation of City of Women was published, a project that Carneiro had commissioned as the first director of the Ministry of Education and Culture's Special National Agency for the Protection of Folklore.

Landes returned to New York in 1939, working briefly as a researcher for Gunnar Myrdal's study of African Americans. Unable to obtain a permanent position at a university, she worked in several other short term positions throughout most of her career. During World War II, Landes was a research director for the Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs (1941) and consultant for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Fair Employment Practices Committee on African American and Mexican American cases (1941-44). In 1945, Landes directed a program created by Pearl S. Buck and a group of interdenominational clergy to analyze pending New York anti-discrimination legislation. She moved to California the following year to work for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Welfare Council on a study of race and youth gangs. After her contract ended, she moved back to New York and was hired as a contract researcher for the American Jewish Congress (1948-50). She also participated in Columbia University's Research in Contemporary Cultures (1949-51), studying Jewish families. She coauthored with Mark Zborowski, "Hypothesis concerning the Eastern European Jewish Family." From 1951 to 1952, Landes spent a year in London, funded by a Fulbright fellowship to study colored colonial immigrants and race relations in Great Britain.

After her fellowship ended, Landes returned to the United States and held short term appointments at several universities. She taught at the William Alanson White Psychiatric Institution in New York (1953-54), the New School for Social Research in New York (1953-55), University of Kansas (1957, 1964), University of Southern California (1957-62), Columbia University (1963), Los Angeles State College (1963), and Tulane University (1964). At Claremont Graduate School, Landes helped to develop and direct the Claremont Anthropology and Education Program (1959-62).

It was not until 1965 that Landes obtained a permanent faculty position at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario; she was recruited for the position by Richard Slobodin. Due to Ontario's age retirement law, Landes was forced to retire in 1973 at the age of 65. She continued to teach part-time until 1977, when she became professor emerita.

Landes passed away at the age of 82 on February 11, 1991.

Sources Consulted

Cole, Sally. 2003. Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.

Chronology

1908 October 8 -- Born Ruth Schlossberg in New York City

1928 -- B.A. in sociology, New York University

1929 -- M.S.W., New York School of Social Work, Columbia University

1929-1931 -- Social worker in Harlem Married to Victor Landes

1929-1934 -- Studied Black Jews in Harlem

1931 -- Began graduate work in anthropology at Columbia University

1932-1936 -- Studied the Ojibwa in Ontario and Minnesota (in field periodically)

1933-1940 -- Research Fellow, Columbia University

1935 Summer-Fall -- Studied the Santee Sioux (Dakota) in Minnesota

1935-1936 -- Studied the Potawatomi in Kansas

1935 -- Ph.D., Columbia University

1937 -- Instructor, Brooklyn College

1937-1938 -- Instructor, Fisk University

1938-1939 -- Studied Afro-Brazilians and Candomblé in Brazil, especially at Bahia

1939 -- Researcher on Gunnar Myrdal's study, "The Negro in America"

1941 -- Research Director, Office of Inter American Affairs, Washington, D.C.

1941-1945 -- Representative for Negro and Mexican American Affairs, Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC), President Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration

1944 -- Interim Director, Committee Against Racial Discrimination, New York

1946-1947 -- Researcher, study of Mexican American youth, gangs, and families, Los Angeles Metropolitan Council

1948-1951 -- Researcher, American Jewish Congress, New York

1949-1951 -- Research consultant, study on Jewish families in New York for Research in Contemporary Cultures Project, Columbia University

1951-1952 -- Fulbright Scholar, to study colored colonial immigration into Great Britain

1953-1954 -- Lecturer, William Alanson White Psychiatric Institution, New York

1953-1955 -- Lecturer, New School for Social Research, New York

1956-1957 -- Married to Ignacio Lutero Lopez

1957 Summer -- Visiting Professor, University of Kansas

1957-1958 -- Visiting Professor, University of Southern California

1957-1965 -- Consultant, California agencies (Department of Social Work, Bureau of Mental Hygiene, Department of Education, Public Health Department) and San Francisco Police Department

1958-1959 -- Director, Geriatrics Program, Los Angeles City Health Department

1959-1962 -- Visiting Professor and Director of Anthropology and Education Program, Claremont Graduate School

1962 -- Extension Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley

1963 -- Extension Lecturer, Columbia University Extension Lecturer, Los Angeles State College

1963-1965 -- Consultant, International Business Machines (IBM)

1964 January-June -- Visiting Professor, Tulane University

1964 Summer -- Field work with Potawatomi in Kansas Professor, University of Kansas

1965-1975 -- Professor at McMaster University

1966 -- Studied urban development in Rio de Janeiro

1968-1975 -- Studied bilingualism and biculturalism in Spain, Switzerland, South Africa, United States, and Canada (in Spain and the United States concentrated on Basques)

1975 -- Became part-time faculty member at McMaster University

1977 -- Professor Emerita, McMaster University

1978 -- Award of Merit from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay

1991 February 11 -- Died in Hamilton, Ontario

1991 -- Establishment of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund at Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM)

Related Materials:

Correspondence from Ruth Landes can be found in the William Duncan Strong Papers, the Leonard Bloomfield Papers, and MS 7369. The Ruth Bunzel Papers contains a copy of a grant application by Landes.

Provenance:

These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Ruth Landes in 1991.

Restrictions:

The Ruth Landes papers are open for research. The nitrate negatives in this collection have been separated from the collection and stored offsite. Access to nitrate negatives is restricted due to preservation concerns.

Access to the Ruth Landes papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Midéwiwin  Search this

Bilingualism  Search this

Aging  Search this

Candomblé (Religion)  Search this

Citation:

Ruth Landes papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The revision of this finding aid and digitization of portions of the collection were made possible through the financial support of the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund.

Identifier:

NAA.1991-04

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Ruth Landes papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1991-04

Creator:

Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922  Search this

Editor:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Extent:

738 Pages

Culture:

Northwest Coast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

ante 1928

Scope and Contents:

Consisting of "The Coeur d'Alene," "The Okanagon," and "The Flathead Group." Pages 169-179, 196 missing from part I. ELM (10-29-75).

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1717

Local Note:

Formerly under Numbers 1717 and 1718.

typed carbon copy

Citation:

Manuscript 1717, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS1717

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1717

Depicted:

American Association for the Advancement of Science  Search this

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

United States De Soto Expedition Commission  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Bond, Q. M.  Search this

Cammerer, Arno B.  Search this

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this

Davis, E. H. (Edwin Hamilton), 1811-1888  Search this

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957  Search this

Dorsey, James Owen, 1848-1895  Search this

Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982  Search this

Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930  Search this

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Geary, James A.  Search this

Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896  Search this

Hale, Horatio, 1817-1896  Search this

Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961  Search this

Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930  Search this

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010  Search this

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960  Search this

Le Plongeon, Augustus, 1826-1908  Search this

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908  Search this

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905  Search this

McGee, W J, 1853-1912  Search this

Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942  Search this

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Morgan, Lewis Henry, 1818-1881  Search this

Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Rink, Signe  Search this

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Royce, Charles C., 1845-1923  Search this

Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-  Search this

Stevenson, James, 1840-1888  Search this

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this

Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972  Search this

Struever, Stuart  Search this

Swan, James G., 1818-1900  Search this

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918  Search this

Washburn, Wilcomb E.  Search this

Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002  Search this

Photographer:

Bachrach & Brother  Search this

Blackstone Studios  Search this

National Geographic Society (U.S.)  Search this

Bailey, Vernon Orlando  Search this

Dana (of New York)  Search this

Garrett, Gene  Search this

Gilbert, C. W.  Search this

Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

Kemethy, Kets  Search this

Koby, Paul  Search this

McDonough, David  Search this

Parker, Charles  Search this

Phillips, H. C.  Search this

Rice (of Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Shuck, J. A.  Search this

Names:

Geological Survey (U.S.)  Search this

Artist:

Nicholson, Grace, -1948  Search this

Extent:

1 Print (photogravure)

8 Prints (halftone (including one newspaper clipping))

124 Prints (circa, silver gelatin, albumen, and platinum)

50 Copy prints (circa)

3 copper printing plates

1 Color print

1 Print (wood engraving)

3 Copy negatives (glass)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Copy prints

Color prints

Copy negatives

Photographs

Date:

circa 1860s-1970

Scope and Contents note:

This collection is an artificial collection of photographs, copper plates, and a few notes, all of which depict or relate to anthropologists, many of which were associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Included are portraits of Franz Boas, Q. M. Bond, Arno B. Cammerer, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Edwin Hamilton Davis, J. Woodbridge Davis, Frances Densmore, James Owen Dorsey, Philip Drucker, Jesse Walter Fewkes (including photographs of his home by Frances Densmore), Albert Samuel Gatschet, James A. Geary, De Lancey W. Gill, George Brown Goode, Horatio Hale, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, John K. Hillers, William Henry Holmes, William Henry Jackson, Eugene Irving Knez, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Pere Albert Lacomb, Augustus Le Plongeon, James Mooney, Lewis Henry Morgan, Carl Oschsicanes, James Constantine Pilling, John Wesley Powell, Frau Signe Rink, Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., Charles C. Royce, Robert Lloyd Stephenson, James Stevenson, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Julian Haynes Steward, Steward Struever, James Gilchrist Swan, John Reed Swanton, Edwin P. Upham, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and Gordon Randolph Willey. Groups depicted include the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1936; the De Soto Commission; officers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885; a 1920 expedition group to Hawikuk; staff of the Great Lakes Division, United States Geological Survey, in Salt Lake City, 1882; a group at Moundville, Alabama, 1932; the University of Nebraska archeological field party, 1920; the Pecos conference, 1927; John Wesley Powell with Wild Hank, Kentucky Mountain Bill, and Jesus Aloiso; and the United States Geological Survey staff, ca. 1894.

Among photographers represented are Vernon Orlando Bailey, Blackston Studios of New York, Dana of New York, Frances Densmore, Gene Garrett, C. W. Gilbert, De Lancey W. Gill, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson, Kets Kemethy, Paul Koby, David McDonough, H. C. Phillips, Rice of Washington, D. C., and J. A. Shuck of El Reno, Oklahoma.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 33

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Four photographs with negatives by Matilda Coxe Stevenson have been relocated to Photo Lot 23.

This collection includes photographs that have been removed from other collections in the National Anthropological Archives, including MS 4970, MS 4851, MS 4780, MS 4250, MS 4751, MS 4516, MS 4860, MS 4695, MS 4970, and MS 4558.

See others in:

Portraits of anthropologists, 1860s-1960s

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Copy prints of original photographs held by the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, and National Archives cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.33

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-33

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Editor  Search this

Carmichael, Leonard, 1898-1973  Search this

Johnson, F.  Search this

Correspondent:

Adams, William Yewdale  Search this

Alphonse, Rev. E.S.  Search this

Bass, William Marvin, III  Search this

Basso, Keith  Search this

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948  Search this

Biese, L. P.  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Bowers, Alfred W.  Search this

Boyd, Mark F.  Search this

Bunzel, Ruth Leah, 1898-1990  Search this

Caldwell, Warren W.  Search this

Cancillius, D.  Search this

Capron, Louis Bishop, 1891-1971  Search this

Chafe, William  Search this

Coe, Joffre Lanning  Search this

Coe, Michael  Search this

Colton, Harold Sellers, 1881-1970  Search this

Cooper, Paul L. (Paul Lemen), 1909-1961  Search this

Davis, I.  Search this

De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004  Search this

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957  Search this

Devereux, George  Search this

Dorsey, H. W.  Search this

Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982  Search this

Evans, Clifford, Jr  Search this

Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997  Search this

Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005  Search this

Fisher, E. M.  Search this

Flannery, Kent Vaughn  Search this

Flannery, Regina  Search this

Fogelson, Raymond D.  Search this

Follett, W. I.  Search this

Fowke, Gerard, 1855-1933  Search this

Gearing, Frederick O., 1922-  Search this

Gentry H. S.  Search this

Gifford, Edward Winslow  Search this

Goggin, John M.  Search this

Goldfrank, Esther Schiff  Search this

Grange, R. T., Jr  Search this

Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997  Search this

Gulick, John  Search this

Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961  Search this

Hass, Mary  Search this

Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979  Search this

Henry, J.  Search this

Hickerson, Harold  Search this

Hickerson, Joseph Charles, 1935-  Search this

Hilger, Marie Inez, Sister, 1891-1977  Search this

Hoffman, B.  Search this

Holland, C. G.  Search this

Holzinger, C. H.  Search this

Howard, James H., 1925-1982 (James Henri)  Search this

Hoyme, Lucile Eleanor  Search this

Jelks, Edward  Search this

Jones, J. A.  Search this

Keyes, I.  Search this

Kilpatrick, F. and A.  Search this

Kissell, Mary Lois  Search this

Krieger, Herbert W. (Herbert William), 1889-1970  Search this

Kupferer, Harriet J.  Search this

Kurath, G.  Search this

Kutsche, P.  Search this

Ladd, J.  Search this

La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932  Search this

Landy, D.  Search this

Le Claire, P.  Search this

Lewis, M. G.  Search this

Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn  Search this

Malouf, Carling I. (Carling Isaac), 1916-2007  Search this

Mangelsdorf  Search this

Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967  Search this

Mason  Search this

Mattes, Merrill, J.  Search this

Merriam, Alan P. (Alan Parkhurst), 1923-1980  Search this

Metcalf, George, 1900-1975  Search this

Meyer, G.  Search this

Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this

Miller, Carl F.  Search this

Mills, J. E.  Search this

Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948  Search this

Murrill, R.  Search this

Neuman, R.  Search this

Oberg, Kalvero  Search this

O'Bryan, A.  Search this

Olbrechts, Frans M., 1899-1958  Search this

Osborne, Douglas  Search this

Oswalt, W.  Search this

Palmer, M. H.  Search this

Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941  Search this

Petersen, Karen Daniels  Search this

Pierson, D.  Search this

Radin, Paul, 1883-1959  Search this

Rands, R. L.  Search this

Rhodes, Willard, 1901-1992  Search this

Roberts, Helen H. (Helen Heffron), 1888-1985  Search this

Roth, William P.  Search this

Shimkin, Demitri Boris  Search this

Shiner, Joel L.  Search this

Smith, C.  Search this

Smith, Homer Garner  Search this

Solecki, Ralph S.  Search this

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950  Search this

Spencer, Robert  Search this

Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961  Search this

Squier, Robert J.  Search this

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975  Search this

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Tax, Sol, 1907-1995  Search this

Teit, James Alexander, 1864-1922  Search this

Thomas, R. K.  Search this

Tooker, Elizabeth  Search this

Tschopik, Harry S. Jr.  Search this

Tsien Y. Y.  Search this

Van Stone, James W.  Search this

Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988  Search this

Vogt, Evon Zartman  Search this

Wallace, A.  Search this

Wallace, W. J.  Search this

Webb, William S. (William Snyder), 1882-1964  Search this

Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996  Search this

Weiant, C. W. (Clarence Wolsey), 1897-1986  Search this

Weltfish, Gene, 1902-1980  Search this

Wheeler, Richard Page  Search this

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975  Search this

Wilder, C. S.  Search this

Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002  Search this

Wood, Raymond  Search this

Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009  Search this

Ackerknecht, Erwin H.  Search this

Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985  Search this

Boyd W.  Search this

Collier, Donald, 1911-1995  Search this

Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery), 1881-1949  Search this

De Avile, B.  Search this

De Gandia, E.  Search this

Frenguelli, Joaquín, 1883-1958  Search this

Gillin, John, 1907-1973  Search this

Gilmore, R. M.  Search this

Goldman, Irving, 1911-2002  Search this

Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979  Search this

Henckel, C.  Search this

Horton, D.  Search this

Imbelloni, J.  Search this

Kubler, G. A.  Search this

La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996  Search this

Levi-Strauss, C.  Search this

Lipkind, William, 1904-1974  Search this

Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957  Search this

McBryde, F. W.  Search this

McCown, T. D.  Search this

Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967  Search this

Miller, R. R.  Search this

OʹNeale, Lila M.  Search this

Parks, E. T.  Search this

Pourchet, M. J.  Search this

Powers, N.  Search this

Riley, M. W.  Search this

Root, W. C.  Search this

Rouse, Irving, 1913-2006  Search this

Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004  Search this

Sauer, Carl  Search this

Steggerda, Morris, 1900-1950  Search this

Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972  Search this

Stone, D.  Search this

Stout, D. C.  Search this

Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962  Search this

Tax, Sol, 1907-1995  Search this

Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991  Search this

Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991  Search this

Wilson, E. A.  Search this

Science Information Services  Search this

Names:

Hunter College  Search this

Extent:

3 Volumes

4 Boxes

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Volumes

Date:

1927-1967

Scope and Contents:

Also records of galley and page proofs.

Arrangement:

Letters are arranged alphabetically by author, except for a separate file relating to the Handbook of South American Indians (BAE-B 143).

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4846

Topic:

Handbook of Middle American Indians  Search this

Isleta Indians  Search this

Policy  Search this

River Basin Survey Bulletin-Final Costs  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4846, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4846

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4846

Creator:

Edel, May M. (May Mandelbaum), 1909-1964  Search this

Edel, Abraham, 1908-2007  Search this

Names:

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Extent:

4.58 Linear feet (5 boxes)

Culture:

Jews  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Chiga (African people)  Search this

Okanagan  Search this

Kru (African people)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Manuscripts

Lecture notes

Correspondence

Field notes

Place:

Uganda

Brownsville (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1928-1996

bulk 1928-1964

Summary:

May Mandelbaum Edel (1909-1964) taught anthropology at Brooklyn College and the New School for Social Research, and founded the Anthropology Department at Rutgers University in 1960. She conducted fieldwork in Washington; Oregon; Uganda; and Brownsville, New York. The collection consists of field notes, lecture notes, language notes, manuscripts, books, correspondence, teaching materials, conference files, and personal papers. Included are lecture notes taken from courses with Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict, and extensive field notes for her work with the Okanagan Indians in Washington, the Bachiga (Bakiga) in Uganda, and Jewish families in Brownsville, New York.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of May Mandelbaum Edel document her student and professional career as an anthropologist. The collection consists of field notes, lecture notes, language notes, manuscripts, books, correspondence, teaching materials, conference files, and personal papers. Some of Edel's lecture notes reflect courses taken with Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. The language notes include vocabulary lists, and are for Bullom, and possibly Salish and Tillamook. There are also extensive field notes for her work with the Okanagan in Washington, the Chiga in Uganda, and Jewish families in Brownsville, New York. Writings include annotated drafts of manuscripts on the Chiga of Uganda as well as an annotated draft of her book The Story of People. Correspondence includes letters from Franz Boas and Ernest B. Kalibala. Also included is correspondence for Abraham Edel regarding Edel's published works and the donation of her papers.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 7 series:

Series 1: Research, circa 1930s - circa 1960s; Series 2: Writings, 1933-1995; Series 3: Writings By Others circa 1920s-1966; Series 4: Personal Files, circa 1950s-1967; Series 5: Student Files, 1928-1935; Series 6: Correspondence, 1932-1996, undated; Series 7: Professional Files, 1929-1963;

Biographical/Historical note:

May Mandelbaum Edel was born on December 1, 1909 in New York. As a student at Barnard College, she took graduate anthropology classes at Columbia University under Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict. She continued her graduate studies at Columbia University and was awarded her Ph.D. in 1940. Her first fieldwork experience was with the Okanagan in 1930, and in the following year she conducted linguistic research among the Tillamook. As a fellow of the National Research Council, she traveled to Western Uganda in 1932 and stayed in the village of Bufuka (with the Bachiga people) where she did ethnographic work. In 1934 she married philosopher Abraham Edel, whom she would later collaborate with on the book Anthropology and Ethics. She taught anthropology at Brooklyn College and at the New School for Social Research, and in 1960, founded the Anthropology Department at Rutgers University. May Mandelbaum Edel passed away on May 23, 1964 at the age of 54.

Chronology

1909 -- Born on December 1 in New York

1929 -- B.A. from Barnard College

1930 -- Field research in Washington among the Okanagan

1931 -- Field research in Oregon among the Tillamook

1932 -- Field research among the Chiga in Uganda

1934 -- Married Abraham Edel

1940 -- Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University

1947 -- Field research among Jewish families in Brownsville, New York

1956 -- Professor, New School for Social Research

1960 -- Founded the Anthropology Department at Rutgers University

1964 -- Died of illness on May 23

Related Materials:

The Bullom and Kru materials complement three tape recordings, apparently of these same individuals, and said to have been "collected by Franz Boas," that are deposited in the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University.

Provenance:

These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by May Mandelbaum Edel's daughter, Deborah Edel, in 2005.

Restrictions:

The May Mandelbaum Edel papers are open for research.

Rights:

Contact the naa@si.edu for terms of use.

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Northern Bullom language  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Lecture notes

Correspondence

Field notes

Citation:

May Mandelbaum Edel papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

Funding for the processing of this collection was provided by the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund.

Identifier:

NAA.2005-27

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-2005-27

Correspondent:

Eggan, Fred, 1906-1991  Search this

Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870  Search this

Fischell, A.  Search this

French, Kathrine S. (Kathrine Story), 1922-2006  Search this

Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard), 1905-  Search this

Driver, Harold E. (Harold Edson), 1907-1992  Search this

Dwight, Theodore F.  Search this

Goodenough, Ward Hunt  Search this

Gould, Charles N.  Search this

Beals, Ralph L. (Ralph Leon), 1901-1985  Search this

Fried, Morton H. (Morton Herbert), 1923-1986  Search this

Friedl, Ernestine, 1920-2015  Search this

Garfield, Viola Edmundson, 1899-1983  Search this

Goldfrank, Esther Schiff  Search this

Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George), 1821-1888  Search this

Turner, William W. (William Wadden), 1810-1859  Search this

Swadesh, Morris, 1909-1967  Search this

Woodbury, Natalie Ferris Sampson  Search this

Nelson, William Nelson  Search this

Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964  Search this

Ray, Verne F. (Verne Frederick), 1905-2003  Search this

Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941  Search this

Steward, Julian Haynes, 1902-1972  Search this

Rouse, Irving, 1913-2006  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Rhodes, Willard, 1901-1992  Search this

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960  Search this

Smith, Marian W. (Marian Wesley), 1907-1961  Search this

Service, Elman R. (Elman Rogers), 1915-1996  Search this

Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993  Search this

James, Alice G.  Search this

Keur, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Louise), 1904-1989  Search this

Lesser, Alexander, 1902-1982  Search this

Macgowan, D. I.  Search this

McClellan, Catharine  Search this

Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985  Search this

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948  Search this

Buckley, S. B.  Search this

Bunnell, F. H.  Search this

Codere, Helen F., 1917-2009  Search this

Collier, Donald, 1911-1995  Search this

Dole, Gertrude Evelyn, 1915-2001  Search this

Gulick, William H.  Search this

Creator:

American Ethnological Society  Search this

Anthropologist:

Thompson, Laura, 1905-2000  Search this

Names:

Indian Personality, Education and Administration Research Project  Search this

Institute of Human Values  Search this

United States. Office of Indian Affairs  Search this

Extent:

7 Linear feet (14 boxes)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Fiji

Iceland

Guam

Germany

Date:

1834-1964

Summary:

The records of the American Ethnological Society (AES) document its activities from its founding in 1842 through the mid-1960s. The American Ethnological Society is the oldest anthropological association in America. It has been interested in publishing and promoting study of different cultures in the Americas from its founding in 1842 to the present. Materials include correspondence, reports, and financial records relating to the administrative functions of the organization.

Scope and Contents:

The records of the American Ethnological Society (AES) document its activities from its founding in 1842 through the mid-1960s.

The early years of the AES (1840s to 1880) are documented through correspondence, newspaper clippings, and proceedings. The bulk of the collection relates to the administrative functions of the AES from its reorganization in 1906 through 1965 including changes to the constitution and the elections of officers. The offices of Secretary-Treasurer and Editor are well documented through correspondence and reports. There is also a significant amount of correspondence to and from members, financial records, and information on the AES‟ interactions with other organizations such as the American Anthropological Association and the New York Academy of Sciences.

Arrangement note:

The material is arranged in the following series: (1) Early records, 1834-1886; (2) AES Meetings, 1910-1964; (3) Reports of the officers, 1925-1964; (4) Election records: Officer lists, constitutions, and amendments, 1917-1959; (5) Office correspondence, 1924-1956; (6) Membership records, 1862-1960; (6) Publication records, 1934-1962; (7) Financial records, 1902-1962; (8) Miscellany, 1860-1957.

History of the American Ethnological Society:

The American Ethnological Society is the oldest anthropological association in America. It has been interested in publishing and promoting study of different cultures in the Americas from its founding in 1842 to the present.

The American Ethnological Society was founded in 1842 by Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson and founder of New York University. Early members were doctors, lawyers, businessmen and included Henry Schoolcraft, William Prescott and Theodore Dwight. Meetings were usually held at the home of the President and accounts of missionaries and explorers, who were "corresponding" members, were read. Local papers frequently covered these meetings. The Society published three periodicals in its early years including Transactions which first appeared in 1845. Interest in the Society declined after the Civil War. In 1906 a group of professional anthropologists led by Franz Boas joined the Society and reorganized it, adding the Office of Editor. Since then, the Society has been very active and has had a strong publications program, beginning with a linguistic series begun by Franz Boas. The Society holds annual meetings, usually in the spring at which prominent anthropologists present their findings. In addition to Franz Boas, the Society has included among its members such famous anthropologists as Ruth Benedict, E. Adamson Hoebel, Margaret Mead and Ward Goodenough.

Provenance:

The treasurer's records dating from 1916 to 1924 were transferred to the archives by the American Museum of Natural History. All other records came to the archives from the American Ethnological Society.

Restrictions:

This collection is stored off-site. Advance notice must be given to view the collection.

The American Ethnological Society records are open for research.

Access to the American Ethnological Society records requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Professional associations  Search this

Anthropology  Search this

Citation:

American Ethnological Society records, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.2007-11

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American Ethnological Society records

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-2007-11

Creator:

McClellan, Catharine  Search this

Guédon, Marie Françoise  Search this

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Emmons, George Thornton  Search this

De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004  Search this

Correspondent:

Stearns, Mary Lee  Search this

Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004  Search this

Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997  Search this

Baird, Melissa  Search this

Balzer, Marjorie  Search this

Bersch, Gretchen  Search this

Birket-Smith, Kaj  Search this

Black, Lydia  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Chowning, Ann  Search this

Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002  Search this

Codere, Helen F., 1917-2009  Search this

Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987  Search this

Colton, Harold Sellers, 1881-1970  Search this

Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016  Search this

Corbett, John M.  Search this

Darnell, Regna  Search this

Dauenhauer, Nora  Search this

Dauenhauer, Richard  Search this

Davenport, William  Search this

Dockstader, Frederick J.  Search this

Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982  Search this

Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903-1991  Search this

Duff, Wilson, 1925-  Search this

Fair, Susan  Search this

Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-  Search this

Foster, George McClelland, 1913-  Search this

Garfield, Viola Edmundson, 1899-1983  Search this

Giddings, James Louis  Search this

Gjessing, Gutorm, 1906  Search this

Grinev, Andrei V.  Search this

Hanable, William S.  Search this

Hara, Hiroko, 1934-  Search this

Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992  Search this

Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979  Search this

Helm, June, 1924-  Search this

Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963  Search this

Holtved, Erik  Search this

Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969  Search this

Kahn, Mimi  Search this

Kan, Sergei  Search this

Krauss, Michael E., 1934-  Search this

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960  Search this

Larsen, Helge, 1905-1984  Search this

Leer, Jeff  Search this

Lindgren, E. J. (Ethel John), 1904-1988  Search this

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002  Search this

Low, Jean  Search this

Mathiassen, Therkel, 1892-1967  Search this

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978  Search this

Olson, Wallace  Search this

Rainey, Froelich G. (Froelich Gladstone), 1907-1992  Search this

Riddell, Francis A. (Francis Allen), 1921-2002  Search this

Ritchie, William A. (William Augustus), 1903-1995  Search this

Schneider, William  Search this

Schumacher, Paul J. F.  Search this

Shinkwin, Anne D.  Search this

Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961  Search this

Spiro, Melford E., 1920-2014  Search this

Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984  Search this

VanStone, James W.  Search this

Weiner, Annette B., 1933-  Search this

Weitzner, Bella, 1891?-1988  Search this

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975  Search this

Woodbury, Natalie Ferris Sampson  Search this

Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009  Search this

Workman, Karen Wood  Search this

Workman, William B.  Search this

Names:

American Anthropological Association  Search this

Bryn Mawr College  Search this

Photographer:

Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940  Search this

Extent:

2 Map drawers

38 Linear feet (71 document boxes, 1 half document box, 2 manuscript folders, 4 card file boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize box)

Culture:

Yakutat Tlingit  Search this

Tutchone  Search this

Tsimshian  Search this

Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this

Tlingit  Search this

Tanana  Search this

Kawchodinne (Hare)  Search this

Ahtna (Ahtena)  Search this

Athapascan Indians  Search this

Northern Athapaskan  Search this

Chugach  Search this

Kalaallit (Greenland Eskimo)  Search this

Indians of North America -- California  Search this

Eyak  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Degexit'an (Ingalik)  Search this

Arctic peoples  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Map drawers

Manuscripts

Maps

Field notes

Correspondence

Photographs

Sound recordings

Place:

Alaska -- Archaeology

Aishihik (Yukon)

Angoon (Alaska)

Alaska -- Ethnology

Chistochina (Alaska)

Greenland

Copper River (Alaska)

Klukshu (Yukon)

Hoonah (Alaska)

Kodiak Island (Alaska)

Klukwan (Alaska)

Saint Lawrence River Valley

New Brunswick -- Archaeology

Yukon Island (Alaska)

Date:

1890-2004

bulk 1923-2004

Summary:

These papers reflect the professional and personal life of Frederica de Laguna. The collection contains correspondence, field notes, writings, newspaper clippings, writings by others, subject files, sound recordings, photographs, and maps. A significant portion of the collection consists of de Laguna's correspondence with family, friends, colleagues, and students, as well as her informants from the field. Her correspondence covers a wide range of subjects such as family, health, preparations for field work, her publications and projects, the Northwest Coast, her opinions on the state of anthropology, and politics. The field notes in the collection mainly represent de Laguna and her assistants' work in the Northern Tlingit region of Alaska from 1949 to 1954. In addition, the collection contains materials related to her work in the St. Lawrence River Valley in Ontario in 1947 and Catherine McClellan's field journal for her research in Aishihik, Yukon Territory in 1968. Most of the audio reels in the collection are field recordings made by de Laguna, McClellan, and Marie-Françoise Guédon of vocabulary and songs and speeches at potlatches and other ceremonies from 1952 to 1969. Tlingit and several Athabaskan languages including Atna, Tutochone, Upper Tanana, and Tanacross are represented in the recordings. Also in the collection are copies of John R. Swanton's Tlingit recordings and Hiroko Hara Sue's recordings among the Hare Indians. Additional materials related to de Laguna's research on the Northwest Coast include her notes on clans and tribes in Series VI: Subject Files and her notes on Tlingit vocabulary and Yakutat names specimens in Series X: Card Files. Drafts and notes for Voyage to Greenland, Travels Among the Dena, and The Tlingit Indians can be found in the collection as well as her drawings for her dissertation and materials related to her work for the Handbook of North American Indians and other publications. There is little material related to Under Mount Saint Elias except for correspondence, photocopies and negatives of plates, and grant applications for the monograph. Of special interest among de Laguna's writings is a photocopy of her historical fiction novel, The Thousand March. Other materials of special interest are copies of her talks, including her AAA presidential address, and the dissertation of Regna Darnell, a former student of de Laguna's. In addition, materials on the history of anthropology are in the collection, most of which can found with her teaching materials. Although the bulk of the collection documents de Laguna's professional years, the collection also contains newspaper articles and letters regarding her exceptional performance as a student at Bryn Mawr College and her undergraduate and graduate report cards. Only a few photographs of de Laguna can be found in the collection along with photographs of her 1929 and 1979 trips to Greenland.

Scope and Contents:

These papers reflect the professional and personal life of Frederica de Laguna. The collection contains correspondence, field notes, writings, newspaper clippings, writings by others, subject files, sound recordings, photographs, and maps.

A significant portion of the collection consists of de Laguna's correspondence with family, friends, colleagues, and students, as well as her informants from the field. Her correspondence covers a wide range of subjects such as family, health, preparations for field work, her publications and projects, the Northwest Coast, her opinions on the state of anthropology, and politics. Among her notable correspondents are Kaj Birket-Smith, J. Desmond Clark, Henry Collins, George Foster, Viola Garfield, Marie-Françoise Guédon, Diamond Jenness, Michael Krauss, Therkel Mathiassen, Catharine McClellan, and Wallace Olson. She also corresponded with several eminent anthropologists including Franz Boas, William Fitzhugh, J. Louis Giddings, Emil Haury, June Helm, Melville Herskovitz, Alfred Kroeber, Helge Larsen, Alan Lomax, Margaret Mead, Froelich Rainey, Leslie Spier, Ruth Underhill, James VanStone, Annette Weiner, and Leslie White.

The field notes in the collection mainly represent de Laguna and her assistants' work in the Northern Tlingit region of Alaska from 1949 to 1954. In addition, the collection contains materials related to her work in the St. Lawrence River Valley in Ontario in 1947 and Catharine McClellan's field journal for her research in Aishihik, Yukon Territory in 1968. Most of the audio reels in the collection are field recordings made by de Laguna, McClellan, and Marie-Françoise Guédon of vocabulary and songs and speeches at potlatches and other ceremonies from 1952 to 1969. Tlingit and several Athapaskan languages including Atna, Tutochone, Upper Tanana, and Tanacross are represented in the recordings. Also in the collection are copies of John R. Swanton's Tlingit recordings and Hiroko Hara's recordings among the Hare Indians. Additional materials related to de Laguna's research on the Northwest Coast include her notes on clans and tribes in Series VI: Subject Files and her notes on Tlingit vocabulary and Yakutat names specimens in Series 10: Card Files.

Drafts and notes for Voyage to Greenland, Travels Among the Dena, and The Tlingit Indians can be found in the collection as well as her drawings for her dissertation and materials related to her work for the Handbook of North American Indians and other publications. There is little material related to Under Mount Saint Elias except for correspondence, photocopies and negatives of plates, and grant applications for the monograph. Of special interest among de Laguna's writings is a photocopy of her historical fiction novel, The Thousand March.

Other materials of special interest are copies of her talks, including her AAA presidential address, and the dissertation of Regna Darnell, a former student of de Laguna's. In addition, materials on the history of anthropology are in the collection, most of which can found with her teaching materials. The collection also contains copies of photographs from the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. Although the bulk of the collection documents de Laguna's professional years, the collection also contains newspaper articles and letters regarding her exceptional performance as a student at Bryn Mawr College and her undergraduate and graduate report cards. Only a few photographs of de Laguna can be found in the collection along with photographs of her 1929 and 1979 trips to Greenland.

Arrangement note:

Arranged in 12 series: (1) Correspondence, 1923-2004; (2) Field Research, 1947-1968; (3) Writings, 1926-2001; (4) Teaching, 1922-1988; (5) Professional Activities, 1939-2001; (6) Subject Files, 1890-2002; (7) Writings by Others, 1962-2000; (8) Personal, 1923-2000; (9) Photographs, 1929-1986; (10) Card Files; (11) Maps, 1928-1973; (12) Sound Recordings, 1904-1973

Biographical / Historical:

Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna was a pioneering archaeologist and ethnographer of northwestern North America. Known as Freddy by her friends, she was one of the last students of Franz Boas. She served as first vice-president of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) from 1949 to 1950 and as president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) from 1966-1967. She also founded the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College where she taught from 1938 to 1972. In 1975, she and Margaret Mead, a former classmate, were the first women to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Born on October 3, 1906 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, de Laguna was the daughter of Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, both philosophy professors at Bryn Mawr College. Often sick as a child, de Laguna was home-schooled by her parents until she was 9. She excelled as a student at Bryn Mawr College, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in politics and economics in 1927. She was awarded the college's prestigious European fellowship, which upon the suggestion of her parents, she deferred for a year to study anthropology at Columbia University under Boas. Her parents had recently attended a lecture given by Boas and felt that anthropology would unite her interests in the social sciences and her love for the outdoors.

After a year studying at Columbia with Boas, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Benedict, de Laguna was still uncertain whether anthropology was the field for her. Nevertheless, she followed Boas's advice to spend her year abroad studying the connection between Eskimo and Paleolithic art, which would later became the topic of her dissertation. In the summer of 1928, she gained fieldwork experience under George Grant MacCurdy visiting prehistoric sites in England, France, and Spain. In Paris, she attended lectures on prehistoric art by Abbe Breuil and received guidance from Paul Rivet and Marcelin Boule. Engaged to an Englishman she had met at Columbia University, de Laguna decided to also enroll at the London School of Economics in case she needed to earn her degree there. She took a seminar with Bronislaw Malinowski, an experience she found unpleasant and disappointing.

It was de Laguna's visit to the National Museum in Copenhagen to examine the archaeological collections from Central Eskimo that became the turning point in her life. During her visit, she met Therkel Mathiassen who invited her to be his assistant on what would be the first scientific archaeological excavation in Greenland. She sailed off with him in June 1929, intending to return early in August. Instead, she decided to stay until October to finish the excavation with Mathiassen, now convinced that her future lay in anthropology. When she returned from Greenland she broke off her engagement with her fiancé, deciding that she would not able to both fully pursue a career in anthropology and be the sort of wife she felt he deserved. Her experiences in Greenland became the subject of her 1977 memoir, Voyage to Greenland: A Personal Initiation into Anthropology.

The following year, Kaj Birket-Smith, whom de Laguna had also met in Copenhagen, agreed to let her accompany him as his research assistant on his summer expedition to Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet. When Birket-Smith fell ill and was unable to go, de Laguna was determined to continue on with the trip. She convinced the University of Pennsylvania Museum to fund her trip to Alaska to survey potential excavation sites and took as her assistant her 20 year old brother, Wallace, who became a geologist. A close family, de Laguna's brother and mother would later accompany her on other research trips.

In 1931, the University of Pennsylvania Museum hired de Laguna to catalogue Eskimo collections. They again financed her work in Cook Inlet that year as well as the following year. In 1933, she earned her PhD from Columbia and led an archaeological and ethnological expedition of the Prince William Sound with Birket-Smith. They coauthored "The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta, Alaska," published in 1938. In 1935, de Laguna led an archaeological and geological reconnaissance of middle and lower Yukon Valley, traveling down the Tanana River. Several decades later, the 1935 trip contributed to two of her books: Travels Among the Dena, published in 1994, and Tales From the Dena, published in 1997.

In 1935 and 1936, de Laguna worked briefly as an Associate Soil Conservationist, surveying economic and social conditions on the Pima Indian Reservation in Arizona. She later returned to Arizona during the summers to conduct research and in 1941, led a summer archaeological field school under the sponsorship of Bryn Mawr College and the Museum of Northern Arizona.

By this time, de Laguna had already published several academic articles and was also the author of three fiction books. Published in 1930, The Thousand March: Adventures of an American Boy with the Garibaldi was her historical fiction book for juveniles. She also wrote two detective novels: The Arrow Points to Murder (1937) and Fog on the Mountain (1938). The Arrow Points to Murder is set in a museum based on her experiences at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the American Museum of National History. Fog on the Mountain is set in Cook Inlet and draws upon de Laguna's experiences in Alaska. Both detective novels helped to finance her research.

De Laguna began her long career at Bryn Mawr College in 1938 when she was hired as a lecturer in the sociology department to teach the first ever anthropology course at the college. By 1950, she was chairman of the joint department of Sociology and Anthropology, and in 1967, the chairman of the newly independent Anthropology Department. She was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1947-1949; 1972-1976) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1959-1960; 1972-1973.)

During World War II, de Laguna took a leave of absence from Bryn Mawr College to serve in the naval reserve from 1942 to 1945. As a member of WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), she taught naval history and codes and ciphers to women midshipmen at Smith College. She took great pride in her naval service and in her later years joined the local chapter of WAVES National, an organization for former and current members of WAVES.

In 1950, de Laguna returned to Alaska to work in the Northern Tlingit region. Her ethnological and archaeological study of the Tlingit Indians brought her back several more times throughout the 1950s and led to the publication of Under Mount Saint Elias in 1972. Her comprehensive three-volume monograph is still considered the authoritative work on the Yakutat Tlingit. In 1954, de Laguna turned her focus to the Atna Indians of Copper River, returning to the area in 1958, 1960, and 1968.

De Laguna retired from Bryn Mawr College in 1972 under the college's mandatory retirement policy. Although she suffered from many ailments in her later years including macular degeneration, she remained professionally active. Five decades after her first visit to Greenland, de Laguna returned to Upernavik in 1979 to conduct ethnographic investigations. In 1985, she finished editing George Thornton Emmons' unpublished manuscript The Tlingit Indians. A project she had begun in 1955, the book was finally published in 1991. In 1986, she served as a volunteer consultant archaeologist and ethnologist for the U. S. Forest Service in Alaska. In 1994, she took part in "More than Words . . ." Laura Bliss Spann's documentary on the last Eyak speaker, Maggie Smith Jones. By 2001, de Laguna was legally blind. Nevertheless, she continued working on several projects and established the Frederica de Laguna Northern Books Press to reprint out-of-print literature and publish new scholarly works on Arctic cultures.

Over her lifetime, de Laguna received several honors including her election into the National Academy Sciences in 1976, the Distinguished Service Award from AAA in 1986, and the Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. De Laguna's work, however, was respected by not only her colleagues but also by the people she studied. In 1996, the people of Yakutat honored de Laguna with a potlatch. Her return to Yakutat was filmed by Laura Bliss Spann in her documentary Reunion at Mt St. Elias: The Return of Frederica de Laguna to Yakutat.

At the age of 98, Frederica de Laguna passed away on October 6, 2004.

Sources Consulted

Darnell, Regna. "Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004)." American Anthropologist 107.3 (2005): 554-556.

de Laguna, Frederica. Voyage to Greenland: A Personal Initiation into Anthropology. New York: W.W. Norton Co, 1977.

McClellan, Catharine. "Frederica de Laguna and the Pleasures of Anthropology." American Ethnologist 16.4 (1989): 766-785.

Olson, Wallace M. "Obituary: Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004)." Arctic 58.1 (2005): 89-90.

Related Materials:

Although this collection contains a great deal of correspondence associated with her service as president of AAA, most of her presidential records can be found in American Anthropological Association Records 1917-1972. Also at the National Anthropological Archives are her transcripts of songs sung by Yakutat Tlingit recorded in 1952 and 1954 located in MS 7056 and her notes and drawings of Dorset culture materials in the National Museum of Canada located in MS 7265. The Human Studies Film Archive has a video oral history of de Laguna conducted by Norman Markel (SC-89.10.4).

Related collections can also be found in other repositories. The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania holds materials related to work that de Laguna carried out for the museum from the 1930s to the 1960s. Materials relating to her fieldwork in Angoon and Yakutat can be found in the Rasmuson Library of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in the papers of Francis A. Riddell, a field assistant to de Laguna in the early 1950s. Original photographs taken in the field in Alaska were deposited in the Alaska State Library, Juneau. Both the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress and the American Philosophical Library have copies of her field recordings and notes. The American Museum of Natural History has materials related to her work editing George T. Emmons' manuscript. De Laguna's papers can also be found at the Bryn Mawr College Archives.

Provenance:

These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Frederica de Laguna.

Restrictions:

Some of the original field notes are restricted due to Frederica de Laguna's request to protect the privacy of those accused of witchcraft. The originals are restricted until 2030. Photocopies may be made with the names of the accused redacted.

Rights:

Contact repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Anthropology -- History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Maps

Field notes

Correspondence

Photographs

Sound recordings

Citation:

Frederica de Laguna Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.1998-89

See more items in:

Frederica de Laguna Papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1998-89

Interviewee:

Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996  Search this

Interviewer:

Banks, Larry D.  Search this

Givens, Douglas R.  Search this

Names:

River Basin Surveys  Search this

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Bushnell, David I., Jr. (David Ives), 1875-1941  Search this

Evans, Clifford, 1920-1981  Search this

Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Lehmer, Donald Jayne, 1918-1975  Search this

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975  Search this

Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962  Search this

Wedel, Mildred Mott  Search this

Extent:

2 Sound cassettes (analog)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1996 June 17

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Waldo R. Wedel conducted by Larry D. Banks and Douglas Givens on June 17, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado. The interview was conducted at Wedel's nursing home, a couple of months before he died.This interview is part of a series of oral histories of archaeologists recorded by Givens. Topics include Wedel's youth, career, fieldwork, colleagues, the Smithsonian Institution, and the River Basin Surveys.

Biographical / Historical:

Waldo R. Wedel was an archaeologist, best known for his contributions to Plains archaeology. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution from 1936 to 1977. He began his career at the Smithsonian as an assistant curator under Neil M. Judd in the Division of Archeology in the United States National Museum. He later became curator of archeology in 1950, and in 1962, he became head curator of the Department of Anthropology. In 1964-1965, he was acting head of the newly organized Smithsonian Office of Anthropology. Wedel also established and directed the Missouri Basin Project (1946-50) of the Bureau of American Ethnology's River Basin Surveys.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2011-29

General:

Date on box insert incorrectly listed as July 18, 1996.

Other Archival Materials:

See also Waldo R. Wedel and Mildred Mott Wedel Papers

Provenance:

Received from Dennis Stanford.

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Manuscript 2011-29, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.MS2011-29

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2011-29

Names:

Albatross Expedition  Search this

United States Fish Commission  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Niblack, Albert P. (Albert Parker), 1859-1929  Search this

Photographer:

Hitchcock, Romyn, 1851-1923  Search this

Mills, N. B.  Search this

Stieffel, H.  Search this

Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944  Search this

Extent:

275 Items (circa 275 engravings and drawings for engravings)

200 Copy prints (circa)

1 Print (silver gelatin)

1 Copy negative

380 Cyanotypes (circa)

Culture:

Arctic peoples -- depicted  Search this

Eskimos -- depicted  Search this

Polynesian  Search this

Ainu -- depicted  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America -- depicted  Search this

Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl)  Search this

Indians of North America -- depicted  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy prints

Prints

Copy negatives

Cyanotypes

Photographs

Place:

Montana

Peru

Puerto Rico

Galapagos Islands

Bonin Islands

Philippines

Aleutian Islands (Alaska)

Alaska

Mexico

Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)

Fort Keogh (Mont.)

Date:

circa 1885-1900

Scope and Contents note:

The majority of the collection documents Northwest Coast scenery, people, and settlements; these include photographs made by Franz Boas during US Fish Commission expeditions on the USS Albatross, as well as engravings made for publications on Northwest Coast Natives by Franz Boas and Albert Parker Niblack. Another large portion of the collection consists of reference prints relating to Native Americans, Ainu people and Japan, Polynesia, the Philippines, Bonin Islands, and Peru. Many of these were copied from the central negative file of the National Museum of Natural History as well as other museums. There are also photographs, many by C. H. Townsend, made during the Fish Commission expeditions to Puerto Rico on the USS Fish Hawk and some taken by N. B. Mills during an expedition that traveled on the USS Albatross to Baja California and the Galapagos Islands.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 82, NAA Photo Lot 83

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The National Anthropological Archives also holds Niblack's notes concerning Northwest Coast Indians, circa 1885-1889 (MS 4513), additional photographs by Romyn Hitchcock of Ainu (Photo Lot 77-38), additional C. H. Townsend photographs (in Photo Lot 24), original Matilda Coxe Stevenson photographs (Photo Lot 23), and original negatives made by Niblack (in BAE historical negatives).

The United States Fish Commission Records are held by the Archives Center, National Museum of American History.

The American Philosophical Society holds the Franz Boas papers.

Albert Parker Niblack's papers are held by J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, and William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lots 82 and 83, Collection of photographs relating to the Northwest Coast and American Indians, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.82

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-82

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

McGee, W J, 1853-1912  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894  Search this

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908  Search this

Gibbs, George, 1815-1873  Search this

Pilling, James Constantine, 1846-1895  Search this

Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this

Names:

Pickering, John, 1777-1846  Search this

Porter, I.  Search this

Extent:

1 Portfolio

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Portfolios

Date:

Ca. 1877; and 1903-1911

Scope and Contents:

Folder 1: Powell to Whitney, July 17, 1877 (Copy) Whiteney to Powell, July 25, 1877 (Draft) Powell to Whitney, July 31, 1877 (Draft) List of vowel and consonant symbols, with definitions, from Whitney (so identified in George Gibb's hand--MCB); undated copy of draft of Whitneyʹs manuscript which is also in the Yale manuscripts. It was subsequently published, slightly revised and attributed to Whitney as "On the alphabet," page 306 of Powellʹs Introduction . . ., 1877. 11 pages.

Folder 2: Photographic copies of all Powell-Whitney correspondence in Yale University Library, secured by W. C. Sturtevant after visit of November 4, 1960 (Stirling Memorial Library, Yale University, Historical Manuscripts Collections, W. D. Whitney (1827-1894) collection): Powell to Whitney, July 17, 1877, 15 pages. Enclosure in above : untitled manuscript by W. D. W., describing alphabet for Indian languages. 22 pages. Powell to Whitney, July 31, 1877, 6 pages letter and 6 pages tables of symbols. Powell to Whitney, August 27, 1877, 2 pages (transmitting 2 copies of printed alphabet, not present).

Folder 3: 3 drafts of Powellʹs alphabet with introduction, undated. "Suggestions from I. (?) Porter", May 12, (no year) re Whitneyʹs orthographic proposals. 2 pages. O. T. Masonʹs note on Powellʹs and Whitneyʹs orthography, 2 pages. 2 unsigned copies of letter to William Dwight Whitney, May 7th, 1877, labelled "O. T. Mason," on US Geographic & Geologic Survey Rocky Mountains letterhead paper--written in phonetic orthography, one (marked "q") in Whitneyʹs orthography, and the other (marked "r" in Masonʹs modification, 2 pages each.

Folder 4: Several sheets on orthography, unsigned, undated, marked "Gibbs," "Pilling," "Gatschet," etc. and apparently received from them. The manuscript copy in Gibbsʹ hand marked "Pickeringʹs alphabet" is summarized from pages 35-36 of "An essay on a uniform orthography for the Indian languages of North America," by John Pickering, Cambridge, University Press, 1820 (reprint from Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences volume 4, art.22)(BAE Library PM 211.P5). The Dakota alphabet in Gibb's hand is a copy from Riggs, Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, 4, 1852.

Folder 5: Printed materials: Clipping, definition of symbols "from the manual or circular sent out by Gibbs, George . . . . 1863" two copies printed sheet "The Origin of our alphabet," copyright 1877 by J. Enthoffer Newspaper clipping re Melville Bellʹs "Universal Alphabet," March 17, 1876.

Folder 6: McGee to Boas, May 27, 1903 (Copy); Boas to McGee, May 28, 1903; McGee to Boas, June 16, 1903; J. P. Harrington to F. W. Hodge, January 11, 1910; J. P. Harrington to F. W. Hodge, January 16, 1910 (two letters, this date); Hodge to Harrington, January 20, 1910; Harrington to Hodge, September 30, 1911; Hewitt to Hodge, October 16, 1911 re Harringtonʹs proposals; Hodge to Harrington, October 18, 1911.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 3898

Topic:

Alphabet -- phonetic  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 3898, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS3898

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3898

Creator:

Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913  Search this

Blair, E. Helen  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899  Search this

Addressee:

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Collection Collector:

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975  Search this

Culture:

Wendat (Huron)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Wyandot  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

October 1897

Scope and Contents:

Regarding the meaning of a passage in the Jesuit Relations about a Huron myth.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4372(18)

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 4372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

MS 4372 Miscellaneous material relating to the history of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the history of anthropology, and anthropological controversies

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms4372-ref26

Creator:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Extent:

6 Pages

Culture:

Wasco  Search this

Clackamas  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

In handwriting of Franz Boas.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 3952

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Chinook  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 3952, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS3952

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3952

Collector:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Informant:

Cultee, Charles  Search this

Names:

Ne kciamtcact Cathlamet  Search this

Extent:

159 Pages

Culture:

Clatsop  Search this

Cathlamet  Search this

Chehalis  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Chinook  Search this

Klallam (Clallam)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

1890

Scope and Contents:

Cathlamet- 38 pages: 1. 11 pages, untitled (Woman named Ak asque nasquena) 2. Ne kciamtcact, pages 12-16. 3.The robin and the salmon berry, pages 17-21. 4. Tia pequoacqoac.-Kataloma- pages 22-29. 5. Mink, pages 30-38. Chehalis- 14 pages. Chinook- 50 pages-5 stories. Clatsop- 3 pages. Untitled. (Coyote and Snake fish for salmon.) Salishan- 54 pages.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1313

Other Title:

Coyote and Snake fish for salmon

Woman named Ak asqe nasqena

Ne kciamtcact

The robin and the salmon berry

Tia peqoacqoac -Kataloma-

Mink

Topic:

Folklore -- Cathlamet  Search this

Folklore -- Chehalis  Search this

Folklore -- Chinook  Search this

Folklore -- Clatsop  Search this

Folklore -- Salish  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Clallam (Klallam)  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 1313, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS1313

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1313

Creator:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Extent:

9 Pages

Culture:

Pentlatch  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Northwest Coast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

undated

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 740

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 740, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS740

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms740

Creator:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Extent:

24 Pages

Culture:

Nisga'a (Niska)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Drawings

Date:

undated

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2135

Topic:

Tsimshian  Search this

Nishga  Search this

Nishga  Search this

Genre/Form:

Drawings

Citation:

Manuscript 2135, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2135

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2135

Collector:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Extent:

14 Pages

Culture:

Nuxalk (Bellacoola)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

1886 January

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 739

Local Note:

See Boas to Powell, August 23, 1886. ? Sprache der Bella-Coola -Indianer, Verh. der Berl. Gesselschaft Sur Anthro. Eth and Urgesch, 18:202-06 ?

General:

Previously titled "Bellacoola Vocabulary"

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Bella Coola (Nuxalk)  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 739, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS739

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms739

Creator:

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Extent:

1 Envelope

Culture:

Northwest Coast  Search this

Snanaimuq  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Envelopes

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Texts: "The Mink and the Ghost," 1 p. and "The Man and the Whale," 3 pp., both with interlinear translations.

Boas classified Snanaimuq as a Coast Salish dialect and found a very slight difference between Snanaimuq and the Nanaimo, Kwantlen, and Tait dialects reported by Roehrig (BAE MS No. 3072, parts 2 and 3). Cf. Boas' Classification of Salishan MSS Vocabularies in BAE Archives and List of Main Dialects of the Salishan stock, MS No. 652.

Introductory note on p. 1 of MS No. 738 as follows: "The Snanaimuq proper inhabit the valley of the Nanimo River and the adjacent islands. They are claled the by Cal'oltg [Comox], Nanai'muq. The dialect of the Snanaimuq isi almost identical with that of the Cowitchin, and, in the following vocabulary, a number of Cowitchin words have been inserted in parentheses. The dialect of the Snanaimuq and Cowitchin is spoken from Nonoos Bay to the west side of Sanitch Inlet; on the adjacent islands and in the Delta of Fraser River as far as Yale and Spuzzum. Among published vocabularies those of the Snanaimuq and Cowitchen (in Tolmie's and Dawson's vocabularies) and of the Teit (by Gibbs) belong to this dialect."

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 738, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS738

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms738