| | 2 | Author: | Griffen, William
B. | Requires cookie* | | | 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 | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 5 | Author: | Smith, William Neil, 1920- | Requires cookie* | | | 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 | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 6 | Author: | Whiting, Alfred F. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Alfred Whiting collection, ead | | | | Date(s): | unknown | | | | Abstract: | Botanist, Anthropologist, and Ethnobotanist, Alfred
Whiting's career took to institutions across the United States (Museum of Northern
Arizona, Michigan Ethnobotanical Laboratory, University of Oregon, Dartmouth College
Museum). This collection consists of his research materials, particularly as they
relate to his research at the Museum of Northern Arizona. | | | | Repository: | Museum of Northern Arizona | | | | Subjects: | All-Indian Pow-Wow (Flagstaff,
Ariz.) | Animals | Catclaw acacia | Desert plants | Desert plants --
Arizona | Ethnobiology | Ethnobiology --
Arizona | Ethnobotany | Ethnology | Ethnozoology | Folklore | Havasupai Indians | Havasupai Indians --
Religion | Havasupai Indians -- Social life
and customs | Havasupai baskets | Havasupai
language | Havasupai
mythology | Hopi Indians | Hopi Indians --
Agriculture | Hopi Indians --
Ethnobotany | Hopi Indians --
Folklore | Hopi Indians --
Jewelry | Hopi Indians --
Music | Hopi Indians --
Religion | Hopi Indians -- Rites and
ceremonies | Hopi art | Hopi language | Hopi mythology | Hopi textile
fabrics | Hualapai language | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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