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Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation Papers, 1928-1950

MS 15


Collection Summary

Creator: Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation
Collection Name:Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1928-1950
Physical Description:15 linear feet (41 boxes)
Abstract:Collection contains archaeological survey records and site photographs, field notes, analysis and reports, photographs of sherd boards, correspondence, and business records documenting the activities of the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation located in Globe, Arizona. The bulk of the archaeological site records are from the Hohokam site at Snaketown, Arizona, 1934 to 1935.
Collection Number:MS 15
Language: Materials are in English
Repository: Arizona State Museum
University of Arizona
Arizona State Museum Library and Archives
PO Box 210026
Tucson, AZ 85721-0026
Phone: 520-621-4695
Email: larc@email.arizona.edu
URL: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/

Biographical Note

In 1928, Mr. Harold Gladwin and Mrs. Winifred Jones MacCurdy (later married to Gladwin), two wealthy individuals interested in archaeology, bought land near Globe, Arizona, from Helen and Charles M. Healy who owned an insurance business in Globe. The prehistoric Gila Pueblo ruin was located on their acreage. On this site, Gladwin established the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation, one of the earliest institutions doing archaeological surveying and research in the Southwest. This private foundation employed professional archaeologists whose research was published in the Foundation's scholarly journal, The Medallion Papers. Their work was instrumental in defining the Hohokam, Mogollon, San Simon and Cochise cultures and in describing early pottery types including Hohokam red-on-buff, Salado polychrome, Casas Grandes and others. From 1928 to 1950, the Foundation sponsored the exploration of over 8000 sites throughout the Southwest United States as well as several other states and Northern Mexico. Thirty ruins were fully studied including Snaketown, Harris Ruin, and Tusayan Ruin in the Grand Canyon National Park.

Harold Gladwin began excavating the Gila Pueblo ruin in Globe in 1928 and then constructed a new facility for his foundation using some of the old walls. This organization was responsible for the excavation of Snaketown and many other sites. Harold and Winifred Gladwin and A.V. Kidder were the trustees of Gila Pueblo. Harold Gladwin was the Director of Gila Pueblo and Emil Haury was the Assistant Director. They traveled through the Southwest to determine the boundaries of Hohokam culture. Snaketown, located southwest of Chandler, Arizona, was at that time a Pima settlement of about fifty persons. This site was selected for excavation because it lay in the center of the Hohokam culture area and had not been spoiled by vandals. Work was begun on September, 27, 1934 under the direction of Emil W. Haury. The Chief Assistant was E.B. Sayles. Other excavators were Erik Reed and Irwin and Julian Hayden. Dorothea Kelly worked on textile analysis.

In 1950, during the tenure of Emil W. Haury as the head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, the Gila Pueblo Foundation was dissolved and its collections, comprised of over 50,000 artifacts, were donated to the University of Arizona. In addition, the museum building and laboratories at Globe, the display cases, furniture, library, and all equipment and records were gifted by Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Gladwin to the University of Arizona to be cared for by the Arizona State Museum. Collections actually arrived in Tucson in 1951. Later, the Gila Pueblo buildings were acquired by the National Park Service and became the Southwest Archaeological Center from 1950 to 1971. They are now occupied by the Gila Community College (formally the Globe Campus/Eastern Arizona College).


Scope and Content Note

The records of the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation cover many aspects of its activities from 1928 until 1951 when almost the entire holdings of the Foundation were donated to ASM. The collection consists of 13 boxes of site survey records (detail sheets), 8 boxes of photographs of sites, 3 boxes of field notes, 4 boxes of Snaketown records, 1 box of the collections catalog, 5 boxes of sherd board photographs, 3 boxes of analysis and reports, 3 boxes of correspondence, and 2 boxes of business records. Particular strengths of the collection are the extensive Snaketown files, the unique sherd board type specimens, and documentation of the financial and real estate activities of the Foundation. Missing from the collection are early records of the formation of the collections, personnel files, records of exchanges with other collectors and museums, and research and writing files belonging to Gladwin. Dr. Emil Haury, ASM director at the time of the donation, wrote that “only a fraction of documentary material was included" in the collections transferred to ASM.


Arrangement

This collection is organized in nine series:
Series 1 Gila Pueblo site survey records (detail sheets)
Series 2 Photographs of sites
Series 3 Field data
Series 4 Snaketown records
Series 5 Collections catalog and typed artifact catalog
Series 6 Sherd photographs
Series 7 Analysis and reports
Series 8 Correspondence
Series 9 Business records, permits, and contracts

Restrictions

Restrictions

Access to specific information about the nature and location of archaeological resources may be restricted pursuant to the United States Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (ARPA) and Arizona Revised Statutes, Title 39-125. ARPA includes a specific exemption from the the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requirements for information about the nature and location of archaeological resources (16 U.S. Code 470hh: Confidentiality of information concerning the nature and location of archaeological resources).

Copyright

The Arizona State Museum may not own copyright to all parts of this collection. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, Arizona State Museum, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.


Related Material

The ASMLA Control file contains correspondence and acquisition records, records of research use, early inventories, and information compiled by ASM staff. Some of this added information concerns the initials on detail sheets, blank detail sheets, and information on sites in Mexico.

Typed artifact catalog cards (possibly produced by the Museum) contain information on which artifacts were sent to other institutions and which were destroyed. These cards are part of the ASM Collections Division files.

Information about the later Snaketown project (1964 to 1965) directed by Emil Haury is in ASMLA Record Group 5, Subgroup 3.

For George Woodbury skeletal analysis see A-folder 0005.

Archaeological artifacts material collected by Gila Pueblo is in the ASM Collections Division along with the associated GP artifact catalog cards. Other objects such as office furniture, typewriters, laboratory equipment, and darkroom equipment from the Gila Pueblo building were moved to Tucson but may not have been retained.

Photographic documentation of Gila Pueblo and its projects and collections is part of the ASM Photography Collection. This includes photographs, negatives, lantern slides, and a Balopticon projector.

Hodges site material, which was assembled by Isabel T. Kelly from 1937 to 1939 under the auspices of Mr. and Mrs. Wetmore Hodges and Gila Pueblo, is in MS 31 Hodges Site records.

Other related collections are McEuen Cave (ASM ACC 35) and James Simmons papers in numerous A-folder collections.

Some Gila Pueblo field data is in the E.B. Sayles Collection, MS 1.

Some Gila Pueblo skeletal analysis is in the George Woodbury Papers, A-0005.

The original I.F. Flora maps are in the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona. Photocopies of these maps are in the oversize flat file drawer for MS 15.

Paintings done by Ted Amsden between c. 1929-1936 commissioned by the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation to illustrate its publication series The Medallion Papers are stored in the ASM Collections Division. Scans of these 18 paintings are available through the Arizona Memory Project at http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/

Books originally in the offices and laboratories of the Gila Pueblo and in the home of Harold Gladwin were donated to the University of Arizona. They cover a broad range of subjects including archaeology, Egyptology, Middle East sites, and excavations almost anywhere in the late nineteenth century up to the1950s. The books became part of the Main Library, Special Collections, and the ASM Library. Only a partial inventory of these publications exists. Some of the volumes have the distinctive Gila Pueblo bookplate to prove ownership, and others do not.

The field notes for the Harris/Mimbres site were done by Emil Haury and his students, Laboratory of Anthropology scholarship holders.

Separated Materials

All original archives documents part of the MS 15 Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation Records, 1928-1950, Series 4: Snaketown, 1934-1935, were transferred to the Huhugam Heritage Center, Gila River Indian Community as part of a transfer of archaeological repository collections. August 17, 2017. ASM Archives retains photocopies.


Access Terms

Personal Name(s)
Brew, J. O. (John Otis), 1906-
Gladwin, Harold S. (Harold Sterling), 1883-1983
Gladwin, Winifred, 1889-
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-
Hayden, Julian D., 1911-
Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963
Nusbaum, Deric
Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)
Reed, Erik Kellerman, 1914-
Sayles, E.B. (Edwin Booth), 1892-1977
Smiley, Terah L. (Terah Leroy), 1914-

Corporate Name(s)
Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation (Globe, AZ)
University of Arizona. Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research

Subject(s)
Archaeological surveying -- Southwest, New
Archaeology -- Southwest, New
Awatovi (AZ) -- Antiquities
Awatovi Expedition (1935-1939)
Dendrochronology -- Southwest, New
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Awatovi
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arizona -- Snaketown
Hohokam culture
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
Jeddito Valley (AZ) -- Antiquities
Medallion papers
Pueblo Indians -- Antiquities
Snaketown (AZ) -- Antiquities
Southwest, New -- Antiquities


Administrative Information

Custodial History

These records were acquired in 1951 as a gift of the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation. (Accession number: AP-None19501216)

All original archives documents part of the MS 15 Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation Records, 1928-1950, Series 4: Snaketown, 1934-1935, were transferred to the Huhugam Heritage Center, Gila River Indian Community as part of a transfer of archaeological repository collections. August 17, 2017. ASM Archives retains photocopies.

Credit Line

Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation Papers (MS 15). Arizona State Museum Library and Archives.


Bibliography

The complete full text version of The Medallion Papers is available through the Arizona Memory Project at http://azmemory.azlibrary.gov/cdm/

1928 Gladwin, Winifred. Use of potsherds in an archaeological survey of the Southwest.

1928 Gladwin, Harold S. Excavations at Casa Grande, Arizona.

1928 Gladwin, Harold S. A method for designation of ruins in the Southwest. Medallion paper number 1.

1940 Gladwin, Harold S. Methods and instruments for use in measuring tree-rings.

1945 Gladwin, Harold S. Chaco branch excavations at White Mound and in the Red Mesa Valley.

1957 Gladwin, Harold W. History of the ancient Southwest.

1965 Excavations at Snaketown by Harold S. Gladwin, Emil W. Haury, and E. B. Sayles, reprint of original 1937-48 edition.

1988 Haury, Emil W. “Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation: A history and some personal notes.” The Kiva 54(1):1-77.


Container List

Series 1: Gila Pueblo Survey Records
Notes on Gila Pueblo Site Surveys
Dewey Peterson was Haury's cowboy guide on the Sierra Ancha survey. He was also hired by Gladwin to survey in Cherry Creek country, between Cherry Creek and Canyon Creek.
Avery Amsden operated a hotel in Farmington. His two sons, Monroe and Ted, did survey work. Ted was also an artist and did illustrations on Southwest pottery types for the Medallion Papers. Monroe surveyed in Sonora, Mexico. A third son, Charlie, wrote Medallion Paper number 23, An Analysis of Hohokam Pottery Design. Charlie later worked for the Southwest Museum and was vice-president of the Society for American Archaeology.
These files contain official Gila Pueblo site survey forms (also known as detail sheets) written by a large number of staff and associates identified by their initials. Individuals include Harold S. Gladwin (HSG), Winifred MacCurdy (WM), Edith Sangster (ES), Emil W. Haury (EWH), and Russell Hastings (RH), Dewey Peterson (Haury's cowboy guide on the Sierra Ancha survey), Avery, Monroe, and Ted Amsden, and many others.
The typed and handwritten forms are filed alphabetically by the GP quad map name regardless of what state they are in. Researchers should also remember that some GP quads/maps are split by various political boundaries, as for example San Simon:9 is partly in Arizona and partly in New Mexico. Also included are notes, letters, lists, maps and sketches. Each data sheet indicates whether or not photographs were taken. The photographs are filed separately in Series 2.
(Note: This series is still being processed.)
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11 Abajo:5:1 - Abilene:3:13
12 Abilene:4:1 -AZ B:2:26
13 AZ C:1:1 - AZ C:2:12
14 AZ C:4:1 - AZ C:16:11
15 AZ D:1:1 - AZ D:9:26
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21 AZ D:10:1 - AZ J:16:4
22 AZ K:3:1 - Austin:4:1
23 Baird:1:1 - Cerro Alto:3:2
24 Chaco:2:1 -Chaco:4:120
25 Chaco:4:121- Chaco:4:400
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31 Chaco:4:401- Chihuahua A:6:5
32 Chihuahua A:9:1-Chihuahua D:16:5
33 Chihuahua E:3:1- Chihuahua N:10:1
34 Chihuahua O:1:1- Chino:15:1
35 Chiricahua:1:1-Colorado A:15:27
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41 Colorado A:15:28- Colorado A:15:120
42 Colorado A:15:121-Colorado A:16:110
43 Colorado A:16:111- Colorado A:16:210
44 Colorado A:16:211- Colorado B:16:8
45 Colorado B:16:9 -Dryden Crossing:4
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51 Durango B:1:1- Echo Cliffs:13:60
52 Echo Cliffs:13:61- Florence:8:1
53 Florence:8:= Ft. Defiance:12:83
54 Ft. Defiance:13:1- Gila Butte:9:3
55 Globe:1:1-Henry Mts.:14:10
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61 Holbrook:1:1-Holbrook:10:16
62 Holbrook:10:17 -Holbrook:13:13
63 Holbrook:13:14 to Jerome:9:1
64 Junction:1:1-Kansas E:14:1
65 La Plata:5:1- Marfa:2:12
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71 Maricopa:2:1- Marsh Pass:6:7
72 Marsh Pass:6:8- Mesa:8:1
73 Mesa Verde:41-61-Mesa Verde:123
74 Mesa Verde:124- Minneapolis:1
75 Nebraska E:6:1-Nebraska W:4:17
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81 Nebraska W:4:18- New Mexico G:1:7
82 New Mexico G:1:8 -New Mexico P:2:2
83 New Mexico P:2:3- New Mexico R:11:10
84 New Mexico R:12:1- Oklahoma U:4:3
85 Patagonia:1:1-Pioche:7:1
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91 Port San Luis:1-Reserve:2:16
92 Reserve:3:1-Reserve:5:10
93 Reserve:5:11- Rock Springs:4:4
94 Roosevelt:2:1-Roosevelt:9:12
95 Roosevelt:9:13- Sacaton:9:17
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101 Salina:1- San Francisco Mtn.:10:15
102 San Francisco Mtn.:11:1- Santa Ynez:13:2
103 Santiago Peak:1- Sonora D:1:2
104 Sonora D:1:3- Sonora G:8:2
105 Sonora G:8:3- St. Johns:16:21
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111 St. Johns:16:22-Terlingua:4:1
112 Texas A:7:1- Texas CC:9:2
113 Texas CCC:9:2-Texas L:10:6
114 Texas LL:1:1-Texas O:4:2
115 Texas O:4:2- Texas T:1:3
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121 Texas U:3:1- Texas V:14:1
122 Texas V:14:2-Texas ZZ:15:2
123 Tucson:1:1-Tusayan:16:6
124 Van Horn:3:1 Verde:5:34
125 Verde:5:35-Verde:16:2
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131 Waco:4:1- Wingate:6:16
132 Wingate:6:17-Wingate:9:17
133 Wingate:9:18- Wingate:12:27
134 Wingate:13:1- Zapata:8:5
135 Detail sheets, filing problems.
136 1952 map of GP surveys, key to quads.
Series 2: Photographs of sites
Consists of small black and white photographs mounted on heavy notebook paper. Occasionally the photographs have information about the weather, the camera's aperture setting and exposure time in addition to a hand-written caption such as "“the crest of the ruin looking north-east. A few have hand-written field notes tucked underneath the print.
Like the detail sheets, the photographs are arranged alphabetically by the quad map names regardless of what state they are in.
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141 Abajo:8:1 -AZ B:2:26
142 AZ C:1:2 - AZ C:2:12
143 AZ C:4:2 - AZ C:16:5
144 AZ D:1:2 - AZ H:3:1
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151 AZ I:2:5 - AZ I:16:2
152 AZ J:3:1 - AZ J:16:3
153 AZ K:7:1 - Canyon de Chelly:7:10
154 Canyon de Chelly:15:0 - Chaco:14:11
155 Chihuahua A:1:1 - Chino:15:1
156 Chiricahua 2:1 - Diamond Creek:14:2
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161 Echo Cliffs 6:1 - Echo Cliffs 13:36
162 Echo Cliffs 13:37 - Echo Cliffs 15:1
163 Florence 1:1 - Fort McDowell 9:1
164 Gila Butte 3:1:9 - Globe 6:16
165 Henry Mts:14:4 - Holbrook 7:4
166 Holbrook 10:3 - Holbrook:13:23
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171 Holbrook 14:1 - Jerome 9:1
172 Kaibab 2:2 - Kanab:1:2
173 Lamy 1:1 - Marsh Pass:4:1
174 Marsh Pass 5:3 - Mesa Verde 35
175 Mesa Verde 36 - New Mexico F:11:4
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181 New Mexico G:1:1 - New Mexico O:10:3
182 New Mexico P:6:5 - Patagonia 8:2
183 Pearce 5:2 - Reserve 4:18
184 Reserve 5:0 - Roosevelt 9:8
185 Roosevelt 9:9 - San Francisco Mts. 1:16
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191 San Francisco Mts. 1:17 - San Francisco Mts. 7:7
192 San Francisco Mts. 7:8 - San Simon 8:7
193 Santa Clara 2:1 - Sonora D:7:1
194 Sonora D:8:6 - St. Thomas 7:1
195 Tucson 1:1 - Tusayan 16:6
196 Verde 1:1-11 - Verde 5:24
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201 Verde 6:0 - Verde 14:11
202 Verde 14:15 - Wingate 5:27
203 Wingate 6:2 - Wingate 8:8
204 Wingate 8:9 - Wingate 9:35
205 Wingate 11:1 - Wingate 12:7
206 Wingate 12:8 - Winkelman:9:3
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211 Mexico Chi A:16:3 - Chi E:14:1
212 Chi E:14:5 - Zapata:8:3
213 Photographs of historic and prehistoric pueblos: Acoma, Chamita, Cochiti, Isleta, Jemez, La Bajada, Laguna, Nambe, Pajarito, Pecos, Rito de los Frijoles, San Cristobal, San Domingo, San Felipe, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, and Zuni.
214 "Chumash notes from the ethnology of the Salinan Indians by J. Alden Mason," 3 pages typewritten text, plus 8 pages of photographs of pottery and projectile points, 1912.
Series 3: Field Data, 1915-1955Scope and content note
Consists of a wide variety of types of original field documentation for archaeological sites studied by the Gila Pueblo Foundation. Of note are early manuscripts by Helen Healy, original owner of the Globe property, notes and letters by Harold S. Gladwin, notes and reports by Emil Haury, Deric O'Bryan, James Simmons, Ben W. Wetherill and others. Also included are maps, photographs, sketches, and various lists prepared in the field by GP staff.
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221 Healy papers - Helen E. Rickley Healy diary, 1903-1930. 50-page original and copy.
222 “Things Helen Rickley Healy dug out of the ancient ruin on their ranch called Healy Terrace, Globe, Arizona, copied from one of her old diarys [sic],"1915-1928. 44 pages. Miscellaneous notes, 1952.
223 Globe:6:1
Scope and content note
Excavation note cards for rooms 1-28 at Globe:6:1 (1928-29).
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224 Mogollon:1:15
Detail sheet, handwritten field notes, grave cards, sketches, specimen lists and catalog of bones for Mogollon:1:15 (Mogollon Village), 169 pages, 1931-1933.
“A report on excavations at Mogollon:1:15, a pit house village in New Mexico," by Emil W. Haury, 1933. Typed report with black and white photographs.
Chart showing sherd analysis of Mogollon:1:15 by Haury.
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225 Canyon Creek Ruin C:2:8. [Formerly collection A-0028]
“Notes on rooms excavated by Solon T. Kimball, June 28 to July 20, 1932." Canyon Creek Ruin C:2:8. Field journal, 70 pages.
Grave cards, 80 pages.
Field notes, table of wood samples, weaving diagrams, sketches of pictographs, and two black and white photographs by Emil Haury, et al.
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226 Canyon Creek Ruin C:2:8 [Photocopy of originals in Folder 5]
227 "Reconnaissance survey of Southern Hidalgo County, New Mexico," by E.B. Sayles (1933), 10 pages including black and white photographs and 24 detail sheets.
228 "Report on archaeological survey at El Morro National Monument from Jan. 15 to Feb. 15, 1934, by Theodore Amsden." 3 pages.
"Final Report of Archaeological survey at El Morro National Monument from Feb. 15 to April 1, 1934, by Theodore Amsden." 3 pages.
Chart of pottery types
Field notes: Wingate:15:13
Field notes: Wingate:16:5
Field notes: New Mexico:3:21
Survey summary sheets: Wingate:10:1
Survey summary sheets: Wingate:15:1-32
Survey summary sheets: Wingate:16:1-9
Survey summary sheets: New Mexico:3:1-28
This folder also contains explanatory notes and historical background by Alan Ferg, 2012.
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231 Field data, continuedNew Mexico Q:1:14 (1934) (Harris Site)
Scope and note content
Log and excavation notes; excavation contract; backfilling contract; grave record
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232 New Mexico Q:1:14 (1934) (continued)
Scope and content note
Field catalog
Field notes - houses 8, 16, 24, 28 (Gordon C. Baldwin, pp. 137-149)
Field notes - houses 2, 19 (Francis M. Cresson, pp. 152-169)
Field notes - houses 6, 10 (Gordon F. Ekholm, pp. 172-188)
Field notes - houses 5, 17, 21 (Ralph T. Esterquest, pp. 191-209)
Field notes - houses 4, 1, 20, 25, 32 (Hans E. Fischel, pp. 212-225)
Field notes - houses 7, 13, 15, 22, 23, 30, 31 (Norman E. Gabel, pp. 233-253)
Field notes of Erik Reed
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233 New Mexico Q:1:14 (1934) [continued]
Scope and content note
House Plans
Pottery chart from Harris Site, Mimbres Q:1:14, is stored in oversized map file cabinet
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234 White Mound (Ft. Defiance:12:60) and Coolidge Village (Wingate:11:49) field notes, 1936, 1937.
Scope and content note
Includes Haury's notes, pottery analysis sheets, site report, catalogue, burial data, house data, and diagrams of structures.
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235 Jewett Gap (F:14:1-3), 1947-48, and Mesa Verde, 1948.
Scope and content note
Includes two notebooks by Deric O'Bryan, Notebook number 1, burial record, and notebook number 2, excavation notes, burial record.
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236 Jewett Gap, Apache Creek (1947-55)
Scope and content note
Notes on Eloise Barter's use of Jewett Gap material
Harold S. Gladwin's notes on Deric O'Bryan's reports
St. John's polychrome pottery, photographs and data
Tularosa project - report
Apache National Forest - report
Jewett Gap site, Apache Creek - report
Letter to Gladwin from Robert Burgh
Letter to Burgh from Gladwin
Field data, maps, etc., Jewett Gap
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237 Laboratory notes pottery from Gallo Pueblo (New Mexico F:14:1), 1948.
Scope and content note
Explanation of lab notes
Provenance of sherd samples
Tally sheet of sherd types
Pottery analysis sheet - whole vessels
Pottery analysis sheet - sherds
Map of Apache National Forest
Diagram and provenance
Jewett Gap - pottery count
I.F. Flora maps of Colo. 9 are stored in Oversize Box 41
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241 Field data, continuedMaps from Gallo Pueblo
242 Miscellaneous short site reports, letter and report from Russell Hastings, letters to and from Harold S. Gladwin, 1934.
Report by O. C. Havens on Casa Grande, Wingate Sites, and others, n.d..
"A report on excavations at the Rye Creek Ruin," by Emil W. Haury, 1930, with black and white photographs.
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243-4 Field data, continued"Wetherill papers, surveys in area between Tucson and Globe, 1931," field notes and survey sheets for Nash Creek [Ariz C:8:2-5], Turkey Creek [Ariz C:8 and Ariz D:5], Indian Creek [Ariz C:8:6], Black River [Ariz C:8:14 and C:8:16], Big Prairie [Ariz D:9:7-9, D:9:1-2, Ariz C:8, D:9, D:10], and Chino Springs [Ariz D:5:3, Ariz D:5, D:6, D:8, D:10]. [Note: This material was formerly collection A.-0101.] A collection of field surveys around the Point of Pines Area.
245-6 "Site reports, Black Mountains, Bradshaw Mountains, Roosevelt, San Francisco Mountains, Arizona. By J. W. Simmons and Ben W. Wetherill, 1929-1931." A collection of field surveys around the Black Mountains, Ariz J:4:1-4, J:8:3-4; Bradshaw Mountains:1:5-9; Roosevelt:6:3, Roosevelt:9:6; San Francisco Mountains:7:1-2; San Francisco Mountains:14:1-2, 5; and the San Francisco Mountains:16:15, 17. [Note: This material was formerly collection A-0024.]
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Flat file drawer Oversize maps from a variety of sites and quads. Includes oversize pottery chart from Harris Site.
Series 4 Snaketown, 1934 -1935
Scope and Content
Consists of field notes and ledgers, correspondence, reports, detailed house plans, and other documentation for the Snaketown 1934 to 1935 project. These materials were originally organized before the ASM Archives existed. They were filed in separate file drawers and not kept together as a unit. This inventory results from reunifying dispersed materials.
There are differences between the handwritten and typed versions of the field notes. (The originals are in Series 5, box 28, folder 8.) Most of the artifacts recovered in the second season are listed in the field catalog. Additional artifacts are recorded in the original collection catalog in Series 5. Missing Gila Pueblo numbers refer to non-Snaketown sites. See Gila Pueblo cards in Collections Department for catalog cards. House plans are in Box 26, but data is not complete for every house or block.
All original archives documents part of the MS 15 Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation Records, 1928-1950, Series 4: Snaketown, 1934-1935, were transferred to the Huhugam Heritage Center, Gila River Indian Community as part of a transfer of archaeological repository collections. August 17, 2017. ASM Archives retains photocopies.
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251 Permit-related correspondence between Harold Gladwin and the U. S. Department of the Interior, 1933-1935.
252-5 J.C. Fisher Motz, surveyor- "Survey notes of plain table work at Snaketown, Gila River Indian Reservation, Ariz.:" Undated notebooks numbered 1, 2, unnumbered, and 4. (Hohokam canal notes)
256-9 Irwin Hayden, field book number 1 (October - November 1934), field book number two (November 1934 - January 1935); field book number three (January - February 1935); field book number six (February - March 1935).
2510 Julian Hayden field book (December 1934 - March 1935).
2511 Emil W. Haury field book (October 1934 - April 1935)
2512-13 E. Sayles field book number one and two (1934 - 1935).
2514 "Snaketown" by E. B. Sayles containing notes on artifacts and houses.
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261-6 Erik K. Reed, field book one (October - November 1934), field book two (November - December 1934), field book two [sic] (December 1934 - February 1935), field book three (December 1934 - March 1935), field book four (February - March 1935).
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277 Snaketown houses - legend and explanations, miscellaneous maps and notes, mostly unexcavated (some maps are in oversize box).
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268 Block 3C houses
269 3D pit group
2610 4H house group
2611 6E house group
2612 House 6F7
2613 6G house group
2614 House 6G1
2615 House 6G8
2616 6-7H house group
2617 House 6I1
2618 House 7D1
2619 7F house group
2620 House 7I2
2621 House 7J3
2622 8F house group
2623 House 8F4
2624 Block 8I houses
2625 House 8I1-3
2626 9E house group
2627 House 9F8
2628 House 9G6
2629 House 9H5
2630 House 10F9
2631 House 10G5-6
2632 Field catalog - House 6G8 (copy)
2633 "Snaketown field catalog 1934-35." Original ledger book, for first season, 77 pages.
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271 "Snaketown, 1934-35." Copy of field catalog ledger for second season, and copy of typed version of ledger.
272 Field catalog for second season, 11/5/35 to 12/3/35. Original and photocopy plus miscellaneous notes on scraps of paper and envelopes.
273 "Snaketown, 1935. Second Season." Field notes on second season and map by F. Motz and J. Hayden.
274 Ethnobotanical report and letter to E.B. Sayles from Volney Jones, University of Michigan, December 1936.
275 Photographs and schematic of cotton textile.
276 "Archaeo-conchological report, Snaketown ruin of Hohokam culture (Gila River) Arizona" by Henry J. Foekelman, 1936. [Note: The accuracy of the data in this report is questionable since it is based more on knowledge of East Coast shells than local shells.]
277 Ceramic analysis of mounds 29 and 40 and stratigraphic tests.
278 Notes, sketches, and analysis on artifacts (pottery, mirrors, palettes, beads, etc.)
279 Notes on houses
2710 Description of block system and block maps used at Snaketown (photocopies)
2711 Surface analysis of untested blocks (original and copy)
2712 Artifact analysis sheets (original and copy)
2713 Grave records (originals)
2714 Record of photographic exposures
2715 Notes on pottery found by feature and trench
2716 Miscellaneous notes
2717-18 Soil analysis: Excavator's original index
2719 "Book G, by E. K. Reed," index and phase distributions
2720 Houses by Erik Reed
2721 Houses by Erik Reed
2722 Feature summary and plan maps by grid blocks
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281 Gila Butte 1:2 cremation summary
282 Finalized feature summary by grid block
283 Pottery analysis
284 Vessel restorations
285 Sherd counts
Series 5: Collections Catalog
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286 H.H. Scorse pottery collection catalog of materials acquired by Gila Pueblo. Typed list of items #1001-3602
287 Gila Pueblo artifact catalog. Handwritten list of items #13041-51012
288 Gila Pueblo artifact catalog. Snaketown, 1934-1935, handwritten and typed lists
289 Gila Pueblo artifact catalog. Mesa Verde #51137-51407. Includes excerpts from letters by Harold Gladwin and Deric O'Bryan explaining history of the catalog.
2810 Gila Pueblo artifact catalog. Typed list by number 1-9991
2811 Gila Pueblo artifact catalog. Typed list by number 9992-36765
2812 Gila Pueblo artifact catalog. Typed list by number 36766-51012
Series 6: Sherd Photos
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291 Abajo 8:1 - AZ C:1:14
292 AZ C:1:15 - AZ C:4:8
293 AZ C:4:10 - AZ C:5:20
294 AZ C:10:1 - AZ D:1:36
295 AZ D:1:37 - AZ 1:7:5
296 AZ 1:8:1 - AZ 1:16:4
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301 AZ J:3:13 - AZ L:2:4
302 AZ 1:2:5 - Chaco 2:11
303 Chaco 3:1 - Chihuahua E:9:1
304 Chiracahua 2:1 - Deming 6:3
305 Desert Well 8:2 - Echo Cliffs 13:70
306 Florence 4:4 - Gila Butte 5:41
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311 Globe 1:1 - Holbrook 6:5
312 Holbrook 6:6 - Holbrook 12:13
313 Holbrook 12:14 - Holbrook 16:16
314 Jerome 6:6 - Marsh Pass 2:38
315 Marsh Pass 2:39 - Mesa Verde 2:3
316 Mesa Verde 24 - Mesa Verde 103
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321 Mogollon 1:2 - Pioche 7:1
322 Ray 3:1 - Reserve 4:7
323 Reserve 4:8 - Reserve 8:8
324 Roosevelt 5:2 - Sacaton 4:5
325 Sacaton 9:4 - San Francisco Mts. 3:2
326 San Francisco Mts. 3:3 - Silver City 5:2
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331 Sonora C:2:1 - Sonora H:2:2
332 Sonora H:5:1 - Tusayan 2:7
333 Tusayan 2:9 - Verde 4:17
334 Verde 5:39 - Verde 15:31
335 Wingate 1:16 - Wingate 8:7
336 Wingate 8:10 - Winkelman 7:1
Series 7: Analysis and reports, various topics and authors, 1935-1949
Consists of a variety of types of documentation related to skeletal material, wood collecting, tree-ring analysis, rock collecting, mineral analysis, pottery, notes for various Medallion Papers, and other Harold S. Gladwin papers.
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341 Key to skeletal material, various authors, 1936-1948. “Report on findings of a pathological nature concerning a few bones and many skulls," by Clyde Roeder, 1940
342 Wood Collecting Correspondence, May 1935 to June 1940: Consists of letters from Emil Haury, J. O. Brew, Harold Gladwin, Jesse Nusbaum, Deric Nusbaum (O'Bryan), E. J. Sayles, and others regarding samples, terminology, tree-ring charts, wood samples, applications for wood collecting permits, and other topics related to dendrochronology in Arizona, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico. [Detailed inventory of the correspondence is available in Folder 2.]
343 Wood Collecting Correspondence, July 1940 to December 1941: Consists of letters from Deric Nusbaum, Harold Gladwin, and others regarding dendrochronology. [Detailed inventory of the correspondence is available in Folder 3.]
344 Wood Collecting Correspondence, 1947 to 1948: Consists of letters from Terah Smiley, Deric O'Bryan, and others regarding dendrochronology. [Detailed inventory of the correspondence is available in Folder 4.]
345 Wood Collecting Data, 1936 to 1946: Consists of lists of sites, procedures, equipment, and specimens from Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon, Bonito Cliff, the Mogollon Rim, and Aztec Ruin. [Detailed inventory of the contents is available in Folder 5.]
346 Rock collecting and analysis, various documents and mineral analysis sheets for pottery, various sites, pp. 68-220. [Detailed inventory of the contents is available in Folder 6.]
347 Rock collecting and analysis, mineral analysis sheets for pottery, various sites (cont'd.), pp. 221-430.
348 Rock collecting and analysis, x-rays of pottery, technical discussions, mineral analysis forms (microscopic). [Detailed inventory is available in Folder 8.]
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351 Correspondence and reports regarding rainfall, refraction studies, and pottery by various authors including Nora Gladwin, 1935-1937. [Detailed inventory is available in Folder 1.]
352 Correspondence and reports regarding analysis and equipment by various authors including Dorothy Wyckoff, George Brainerd, Donald Horton, and others, 1935-1938. [Detailed inventory is available in Folder 2.]
353 Medallion Papers: notes, correspondence, rough drafts, appendices, 1947-1949. [Detailed inventory is available in Folder 3.]
354 Typescript and illustrations for Medallion Paper No. 32, "Tree-ring Analysis: Problems of Dating I, the Medicine Valley Sites" by Harold S. Gladwin, 1944.
355 Typescript and notes for “The Tusayan Ruin" and “The Salado Branch [of the Lower Colorado Branch]" by Harold Gladwin, n.d.
356 Gladwin papers and writings, miscellaneous, including “Modern pueblo pottery making" (including photographs of Nampeyo), X-traits bibliography, “Archaeological reconstruction of culture sequence," Gladwin's critique of archaeological reconstruction, “The serene willingness to weigh evidence," and a discussion of psychic unity and other topics.
357 Gladwin papers including correspondence and drafts of “Archeological [sic] survey of Central New York" by Stanley Gifford, 1937, with associated topographic maps.
358 Gladwin papers including photograph of Gladwin classification system, correspondence, summary of conference on nomenclature and classification held in April 1931, and a copy of “The Gladwin Classification" by E. B. Sayles, n.d.
359 E. B. Sayles 1934 survey of Texas, "Texas Fauna/Flora" with notes, correspondence, and bone identifications by Glover M. Allen, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, 1936.
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35A1 Gila Pueblo: Composite sherd analyses, volume 1 and 2. Typed analyses of the spring of 1936, Verde Phase, formerly known as Cave Creek Phase.
35A2 Gila Pueblo: Detail sheets/survey sheets, volume 1 to volume 26. Typed inventory and three copies.
Series 8: Correspondence
Consists of letters to and from Harold Gladwin and other staff of the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation, 1925 to 1955. Note that additional correspondence is filed in other series in this collection.
These folders are arranged alphabetically by name and occasionally by subject matter. The letters are arranged chronologically within the folders.
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361 Alves, Eileen, including photographs of Mimbres stone pillars
362 Amsden, Monroe, A.M., Ted, and Charles
363 Cammerer, Arno, International Historical Monuments Commission
364 Campbell, Mrs. William[Elizabeth W. Croger Campbell]
365 Casa Grande[Frank and Edna Pinkley]
366 Clarke, Louis C.G.
367 Conferences
368 Cummings, Byron
369 Fulton, William Shirley
3610 Gila Cliff Dwellings
3611 Grand Canyon and Wayside Museum
3612 Gregory, Leslie E.
3613 Guthe, Carl E., National Research Council
3614 Hall, Ansel F.
3615 Haury, Emil, 1929 to 1935
3616 Haury, Emil W., 1935 to 1955
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371 Hodges Site (Isabel Kelly) receipts, accounts, pay roll, and letters)
372 Holden, W.C. [Curry]
373 Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Pageantry Association
374 Kidder, A.V.
375 McEuen Cave
376 McKern, W.C.[editor, American Antiquity]
377 McLeod, Bill M.[regarding copper bells]
378 Mason, J. Alden
379 Mesa Verde, including 1947 and 1948 reports byDeric O'Bryan
3710 Noguera, Eduardo
3711 Nusbaum, Jesse L.
3712 Red Mesa Camp
3713 Renaud, E.B.
3714 Ritchie, William A.
3715 Roberts, Frank H. H., Jr..
3716 Rogers, David Banks[Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History]
3717 Rogers, Malcolm J.[San Diego Museum]
3718 Sayles, E.B. [Ted], 1931 to 1932
3719 Sayles, E.B., 1933 to 1934
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381 Sayles, E.B., 1935-37
382 Sayles, E.B., 1938
383 Sayles, E.B., 1939
384 Sayles, E.B., 1940[ includes photographs]
385 Sayles, E.B., 1941
386 Sayles, E.B., 1942-47
387 Smith, Victor J.
388 Steward, Julian
389 Tonto National Monument [Frank Pinkley]
3810 Tozzer, Alfred M.
3811 Visitor sign-in sheet, 1947 to1950
3812 Weaving
3813 Wedel, Waldo R.
3814 Woodbury, George
3815 Woodward, Arthur [Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art]
3816 Miscellaneous correspondence
Series 2: Business records
Consists of legal documents, correspondence, by-laws, and other official papers related to the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation, 1926 to 1948.
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391 Henry H. Scorse Collection, acquisition of pottery, 1926-1928.
392 Permits and contracts from various agencies granting permission to collect pottery fragments at ruins, make archaeological explorations, and to explore and remove antiquities at various sites in the Southwest, 1926 to 1936.
393 Correspondence relating to the permits and contracts to make archaeological explorations in the Southwest, 1935 to 1948.
394 Gila Pueblo legal documents and correspondence regarding tax indenture and bill of sale, incorporation, and custodial account, 1930 to 1939.
395 Correspondence regarding tax status of Gila Pueblo, 1934 to 1938.
396 Articles of Incorporation, drafts and correspondence, 1935 to 1946.
397 Custodian account, stock sales, correspondence, 1935 to 1936.
398 Custodian account, stock sales, correspondence, 1936 to 1939.
399 Gila Pueblo legal documents including deed, bill of sale and assignment, amendments to trust indenture, incorporation, and by-laws of the Foundation, 1930 to 193.
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401 Correspondence and legal documents relating to real estate, land exchanges, mortgages, loans, land boundaries, homestead deeds, and easements, 1933 to 1940.
402 Correspondence, tax receipts, and invoices relating to legal and financial services for Gila Pueblo, 1930 to 1936.
403 Board of Trustees correspondence and other records, 1950 to 1951.
404 Gila Pueblo transfer (gift) to the Arizona State Museum: invoices, work orders, receipts, 1951.
405 Gila Pueblo transfer to the Arizona State Museum: correspondence, publicity, space study for accommodation of Gila Pueblo collections, 1951.
406 Gila Pueblo transfer to the Arizona State Museum: appropriation and expenditure ledgers, departmental requisitions, correspondence, and other business records, 1951.