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1Author:  Griffen, William B.Add to Favorites
 Title:  William B. Griffen papers, 1955-1965 ead 
 Date(s):  1955-1965 
 Abstract:  Collection includes handwritten field notebooks and revised notes of observations of the Seri Indians of Mexico. Most of the notebooks focus on family organization and social customs of the Seri. Rites associated with events such as birth, puberty, marriage, and death are recorded throughout the notebooks. Collection also contains fifty four black and white photographs of people and buildings taken in Desemboque, Sonora, Mexico, 1955; correspondence and other materials relating to a paper written by Griffen and Ed Moser entitled "A Spanish Transcription of Terms from a Native Indian language"; and photocopies of two published works: "Notes on Seri Indian Culture Sonora, Mexico," and "Seventeenth Century Seri." 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Seri Indians | Seri Indians -- Genealogy | Seri Indians -- Kinship | Seri Indians -- Pictorial works | Seri Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Seri language | Anthropologists -- Archives 
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2Author:  Smith, William Neil, 1920-Add to Favorites
 Title:  William N. Smith papers, 1829-1975 (bulk 1944-1970) ead 
 Date(s):  1829-1975 
 Abstract:  This collection is divided into seven series: Biographical Information, General Correspondence, Writings and Publisher Correspondence, Field Notebooks and Logs, Research Files, Audio-Visual Media, and Supplemental Material. The collection includes biographical information, correspondence, writings, publications, field notebooks, field research data sheets, subject files, bibliography cards, photographs, negatives, color slides, motion picture film, and sound recordings, chiefly from 1944-1970, of William Neil Smith, relating to his anthropological field work amongst the Seri Indians of Tiburon Island and the northwest coast of Sonora, Mexico. 
 Repository:  University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections 
 Subjects:  Ethnohistory -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Face painting -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Indian baskets -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Puberty rites -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Seri Indians | Seri Indians -- Census | Seri Indians -- Cultural assimilation | Seri Indians -- Genealogy | Seri Indians -- Kinship | Seri Indians -- Music | Seri Indians -- Religion | Seri language | Bow and arrow making -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Firemaking | Indian wood-carving -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Indians of Mexico -- Social life and customs | Seri Indians -- Boats | Seri Indians -- Bone carving | Seri Indians -- Games | Seri Indians -- Pottery | Seri Indians -- Rites and Ceremonies | Yuman Indians 
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