Consists of the professional papers of archaeologist James
C. Gifford dating from the 1920s to the early 2000s. The bulk of the collection is
composed of records for the journal Ceramica de Cultura Maya
et al. This publication was a key platform for collating scholarship on
Mayan ceramics. Also included in the papers are items such as Gifford's journal of
his 1952 trip to Tarahumara settlements in Mexico, extensive ceramic typology
research files, publication materials for his study of the Barton Ramie site in
Belize, the records of a joint project with Watson Smith on Awatovi corrugated
ceramics, and extensive correspondence files from scholars around the world involved
in pottery research. These papers document the conceptual development of the
type:variety-mode approach to the study of prehistoric ceramics.
Collection Number:
MS 22
Language:
Materials are in English and Spanish.
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
James Collier Gifford (1927-1973) was an anthropologist with a particular interest in
the archaeology of the American Southwest and ancient Mesoamerica. He was born in
New York City and attended private boarding high schools; the Thatcher School in
Ojai, California and the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs. After receiving
a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona in 1951, he married fellow
anthropology student Carol A. Gifford (b. 1930) who became his editor and closest
colleague in Southwest and Mayan studies. He received his master’s degree in 1957
from the University of Arizona, with a thesis on “Archaeological explorations in
caves of the Point of Pines region.” After military service he continued his studies
at Harvard, receiving a doctorate in 1963 with a dissertation on the ceramics of
ancient Belize titled “A conceptual approach to the analysis of prehistoric
pottery.”
Gifford became a Research Archaeologist at the Peabody Museum, Cambridge,
Massachusetts (1959-1964) and then a faculty member at Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1964-1973). He was one of the primary authors of the
type:variety-mode concept for analyzing pottery. This descriptive-chronological
approach became increasingly important to the study of ceramics after it was
developed in the pages of the journal Ceramica de Cultura Maya
et al. Gifford, his wife Carol, and Temple University artist and
Anthropology Laboratory Administrator Muriel Kirkpatrick jointly edited, wrote,
illustrated, produced, and disseminated this scholarly journal from 1961 to 1996.
Issues after 1973 and the last two issues (a subject index to the journal and a
compilation of Maya ceramic nomenclature) were produced after Gifford’s death by
Carol A. Gifford and Muriel Kirkpatrick.
Gifford was a prolific author and meticulous editor. At the time of his death at age
45 he was working on a study of ceramics from the Barton Ramie site in Belize (then
British Honduras) that had been excavated by Harvard archaeologist Gordon R. Willey
in the mid-1950s. Carol A. Gifford and Muriel Kirkpatrick completed the publication
of his manuscript Prehistoric Pottery Analysis and the
Ceramics of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley (1976). They also
collaborated with Watson Smith to publish Gray Corrugated
Pottery from Awatovi and Other Jeddito Sites in Northeastern Arizona
(1978), a project Smith and Gifford had worked on since the 1950s.
In 1957 Joe Ben Wheat summarized the importance of Gifford’s ceramic analysis
technique and its evolution from the work of early theorists such as Harold Colton,
known as the father of ceramic typology. “During the years just before, and those
following World War II the numbers of named pottery types in the Southwest have
increased at such a rate that it is now virtually impossible for an archaeologist to
know more than a small percentage of them….At the present time, one such device for
ordering data exists in the type, series, and ware designations of Colton and [James
C. Gifford].”
Scope and Content Note
Gifford’s papers consist primarily of correspondence, research notes, manuscripts,
production materials, photographs, clippings, and other materials related to his
research on Mayan and Southwestern ceramics. Of special interest is the evidence of
his broad network of communication with ceramic scholars around the world formed as
a result of his ceramic typology writings and the publication of Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al. The bulk of Gifford’s
papers span the years 1952-1973. In addition, there are materials related to Carol
A. Gifford’s completion of her husband’s unfinished major publications, concluding
with the last issues of Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
in the late 1990s. There is little documentation related to his family, childhood,
or private life.
No special donor or institutional restrictions are in place.
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
Copyright to James C. Giffords writings, photographs, and publications is held by the
Arizona Board of Regents and is administered by the Arizona State Museum.
For permission to reproduce the drawings, paintings, and sketches of Muriel
Kirkpatrick please consult the ASM staff.
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.
Much of the original production material and correspondence prepared for Giffords
publications remains at Temple University in Philadelphia. This includes Ceramica de Cultura Maya, issues 4-18, the two folios of
Maya Pottery, and Prehistoric
Pottery Analysis and the Ceramics of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley.
The materials are housed in the Special Collections Research Center of Paley Library
as part of the Anthropology Laboratory records. They consist of 7 letter-sized boxes
and 2 larger archive boxes holding chart files of art work, and a number of other
pieces of art work including the 12 large panels of illustrations for Folio 1 and
Folio 2.
Photographs, negatives, and Kodachrome slides of the River of Deception: an account
of the Barranca de Cobre Expedition of 1952 are part of the ASM Photographic
Collections. In addition, an audio recording of Carol A. Gifford reading her
husbands essay on the Tarahumara expedition is available on a DVD listening copy.
For further information, contact the ASM Curator of Photographic Collections.
James C. Gifford Papers (MS 22). Arizona State Museum Library and Archives.
Provenance
These materials were received as gifts from Carol A. Gifford starting in 1986. The
Barranca del Cobre materials were received in 1997. Between 2012 and 2016 the Museum
received the Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al. files from
Carol Gifford Jelinek and Muriel Kirkpatrick. These materials are associated with
the following ASM accession numbers: ACC#2000-321; ACC#1997-193; ACC#1996-264;
ACC#1989-52.
Processing Note
Processed by Amy Rule in 2016. Revised by Molly Stothert-Maurer in 2024.
In February and March of 1952 Gifford, along with William Matthews of Falls
Church, Virginia, John Wlordorski of Pittsburgh, and friends Dick and
Isabelle Griffith of Ft. Collins, Colorado, attempted the first river trip
through the spectacular Barranca del Cobre (Copper Canyon) known as the
"Grand Canyon of Mexico" in southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico. The trip by
Gifford, then a graduate anthropology student at the University of Arizona,
included an opportunity to observe Tarahumara culture. Documents related to
the trip include correspondence, newspaper clippings, maps, and research
publications. Of special note are the trip journal, photographs, and
manuscripts for Gifford's essay "River of Deception" published in 1958. 1 ms. box;
Box 1.
box
folder
1
1
Journal, composition book, 10 x 7 ¾ inches, containing diary
entries in pencil February 3-19, 1952. Cover: "Jim Gifford, Barranca de
[sic] Cobre Expedition." Enclosures: business card and handwritten
notes. (65 pp.)
1
2
Maps: copy of National Geographic Society map of northern Mexico
and southern United States marked with line indicating Gifford's route;
USGS folding aeronautical chart of "Sonora River" (1950); USGS folding
aeronautical chart of Douglas (1949)
1
3
Typescript, "Expedition to the Barranca del Cobre Chihuahua,
Mexico. February 1, 1952." (2 pp.)
1
4
Handwritten, untitled, draft manuscript about Tarahumara baskets
and dogs, (1955)
1
5
Rejection letter from Argosy magazine, 8 April 1953, and
typescript of Gifford's manuscript "River of Deception: an account of
the Matthews' Barranca de [sic] Cobre expedition," (14 pp.)
1
6
Correspondence, 1952-1957. Includes one letter from Gifford and
other letters related to the proposed publication of his
manuscript.
1
7
Newspaper clippings about Gifford's trip as well as earlier and
later expeditions to the area by the Pemex Travel Club of Mexico, the
Los Angeles County Museum, and a group of university engineering
students (1950-1952). [reading copies]
1
8
Newspaper clippings [fragile originals; see above
description]
1
9
Miscellaneous research notes and publications.
1
10
Rough draft and published copy of Arizona
Quarterly 14(1) Spring 1958 containing Gifford's essay
"Southwestern chronicle: river of deception."
1
11
Photographs (16) by Gifford: black and white snapshots of the
canyon, rubber raft, Tarahumara Indians, baskets and textiles.
Photographs (3) by Martin Litton, Los Angeles Times, during his 1952
expedition showing Tarahumara Indians with violins.
1
12
Natural History magazines: November 1948, December 1950, and
January 1951 with articles by George McClellan Bradt and Robert Thomas
Moore about the Tarahumara Indians and the Barranca del
Cobre.
1
13
Original ASM finding aid for the Barranca del Cobre papers
(AP-2012-734)
While he was a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Arizona,
Gifford studied ceramics from the Western Mound of Awatovi with Watson Smith
and Robert F. Burgh. He also began collaborating with Joe Ben Wheat and
William W. Wasley on issues in ceramic analysis. Gifford completed his
masters thesis Archaeological Explorations in Caves of the Point of Pines
Region, Arizona (1957) at the University of Arizona and then his Ph.D.
dissertation A Conceptual Approach to the Analysis of Prehistoric Potte1y
(1963) at Harvard. After passing these milestones, he resumed work on the
gray corrugated pottery from Awatovi while working at the Peabody Museum. He
continued working on it after he took a position at Temple University in
1964. Gifford's manuscript on the Awatovi pottery study was unfinished at
the time of his death in 1973. It was completed by Watson Smith and Carol A.
Gifford and released as volume 69 in the Papers of the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University (1978).3 ms. boxes; Boxes 2-4.
box
folder
2
1
"Gray corrugated pottery from Awatovi and other Jeddito Sites in
Northeastern Arizona," by James C. Gifford and Watson Smith. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and
Ethnology, Harvard University, volume 69 (1978).
2
2
Green 3-ring notebook: Gifford's notes on corrugated pottery,
"probably related to his research on the ceramics from Awatovi."
Original binder was discarded. (Gift of Carol A. Gifford,
1997).
2
3-7
Blue 3-ring notebook: Gifford's notes on corrugated pottery made
during research/writing of his master's thesis. Arranged in five
individually tabbed sections. Original binder was discarded. (Gift of
Carol A. Gifford, 1997).
2
8
"Prospectus for a Ph.D. Disse1iation at the Department of
Anthropology, Harvard University. Emendation, April 10,
1961."
2
9
"Conjectures regarding ceramic influences at Awatovi during
Ceramic Period One," by Gifford. July 20, 1957.
2
10
References.
2
11
"Awatovi corrugated study," notes, charts, and rough
drafts.
2
12
"Corrugated study, final typescript- carbon."
2
13
"The Book, read by Watson. To final edit," notes, drafts,
chaiis.
2
14
"Rim and vessel profiles (copies)" including photographs,
negatives, drawings.
2
15
"Ready for final typing," notes and annotated
manuscript.
box
folder
3
1
"Corrugated study," typed and handwritten drafts.
3
2
Correspondence from Joe Ben Wheat, Robe1i Burgh, William W.
Wasley, Watson Smith, and Gifford concerning their Awatovi studies,
1957-1963.
box
folder
4
Corrugated pottery research files containing photographs,
negatives, manuscripts, notes, charts, and miscellaneous
data.
This distinct group of materials was selected, assembled, and organized by
Gifford specifically to document the most imp01iant resources he used in
developing the type:variety-mode analytical method. Contained herein are
correspondence, notebook compilations, notes, preliminary manuscripts of
papers read at meetings and of papers submitted for publication, and
published aiiicles and books by Gifford and other archaeologists. Of
particular importance, embedded in the correspondence are explanations of
some of the theoretical underpinnings of the analytical system that may not
elsewhere appear in print. Selected books and journal aiiicles have been 7
added to the general library collection of the Arizona State Museum. These
items contain a special bookplate identifying them as part of the Ceramic
Typology Archive. They are identified in the inventory in folder 1 and can
also be located through the online catalog. 8 ms.
boxes; Boxes 5-12.
box
folder
5
1
Donor's original inventory and description of the James C.
Gifford Ceramic Typology Archive.
5
2-3
Ceramic sequence at Uaxactun,
Guatemala by Robert E. Smith, 2 volumes (1955). Contains
Gifford's handwritten typological classifications of the vessels in the
illustrations. His annotations constitute the initial application of
type:variety-mode an
5
4
Correspondence: Adams, Richard E.W.
5
5
Correspondence: Andrews, E. Wyllys.
5
6
Correspondence: Bullard, William
5
7
Correspondence: Campa Soler, Raul
5
8
Correspondence: Coe, William R., 1960-1965
5
9
Correspondence: Culbert, T. Patrick
5
10
Correspondence: Ekholm, Susanna
5
11
Correspondence: Hammond, Norman
5
12
Maya Ceramic Conference, Washington, D. C., 1985, papers
presented
5
13
Maya Ceramic Conference, Washington, D. C., 1985,
miscellaneous.
5
14
Correspondence: Rands, Robert
box
folder
6
1
Correspondence: Smith, Robert E.
6
2
Correspondence: Willey, Gordon R.
6
3
Notebook# 1: Letters, notes, and texts to and from Gifford from
colleagues working on ceramic typology, 1958-1961. Includes Erik K.
Reed, J. 0. Brew, T. Patrick Culbe1i, James A. Ford, George E. Fay,
Duane Metzger, and Robert E. Smith.
6
4
Notebook# 1: Letters and texts by Robert L. Rands and Irving
Rouse.
6
5
Notebook# 1: Letters and texts by Keith A. Dixon and Bruce W.
Warren.
6
6
Notebook# 1: Letters and texts by Michael D. Coe, James Deetz,
Donald Lathrop, George Cowgill, W. J. Mayer-Oakes, and James H.
Gunnerson.
6
7
Notebook #2: Published and unpublished sources used by Gifford
for his work on the type:variety-mode concept, undated items and from
the 1920s to 1960s: Miscellaneous publications, 1936-1956.
6
8
Notebook #2: "Pottery-making in the Southwest," E.W. Gifford,
undated (24 pages).
6
9
Notebook #2: "Determination of clay and pottery pigment types,"
JCG [?], undated, 7 pages.
Notebook #2: Miscellaneous publications, most unattributed and
undated.
box
folder
7
1
Notebook #3, part 1: Manuscripts by Robert L. Rands, E. Wyllys
Andrews, William R. Bullard, and William T. Sanders.
7
2
Notebook #3, part 2: "Certain aspects of the late
classic-to-postclassic periods in the Belize Valley," by Gordon R.
Willey, 1970.
7
3
Notebook #3, part 2: "The collapse of Maya civilization:
background paper for a conference," R. E.W. Adams, 1970.
7
4
Notebook #3, part 2: "Hypotheses of the collapse: Major themes,"
Jeremy A. Sabloff, 1970.
7
5
Notebook #3, part 2: "Test expectations of Maya collapse
theories," T. Patrick Culbert, 1970.
7
6
Notebook #3, part 2: "The Maya downfall at Tikal, Guatemala," T.
Patrick Culbert, n.d.
7
7
Notebook #3, part 2: "Specialization in Classic Maya society," T.
Patrick Culbe1i, 1968.
7
8
"Maya collapse: transformation and termination in the ceramic
sequence at Altar de Sacrificios," Richard E. W. Adams,
1970.
7
9
Notebook #3, part 2: "Continuity and disruption during terminal
late classic times at Seibal: ceramic and other evidence," Jeremy A.
Sabloff, 1970.
box
folder
8
1
Notebook #4: "The first four years in the development of the
type:variety concept in New World ceramic analysis, 1957-1961"
(preliminary papers) by James C. Gifford, Philip Phillips, Robert E.
Smith, William W. Wasley, Joe Ben Wheat, Gordon R. Willey.
8
2
Notebook #4: "The taxonomic concept of the ceramic 'variety' and
the ceramic 'group' with respect to prehistoric southwestern pottery
types," James C. Gifford (1957) 8 pp. and illus.
8
3
Notebook #4: "Ceramic variety, type cluster, and ceramic system
in southwestern pottery analysis," by Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley
(1957/58) 36 pp.
8
4
Notebook #4: "Barton Ramie pottery analysis, methodological
notes," by Willey Gifford (1958), 8 pp.
8
5
Notebook #4: "Revisions in ceramic taxonomy of the Maya territory
in four parts," by Smith, Willey, and Gifford (n.d.) 25 pp.
8
6
Notebook #4: "Check list of prehistoric Maya pottery types and
varieties," by Smith and Gifford (1959), 20 pp. + 7 pp.
8
7
Notebook #4: "Part II of: Revisions in ceramic taxonomy of the
Maya territory: a check list of prehistoric Maya pottery types and
varieties," by Smith and Gifford (revised preliminary draft, 1959), pp.
1-80
8
8
Notebook #4: "Part II of: Revisions in ceramic taxonomy of the
Maya territory: a check list of prehistoric Maya pottery types and
varieties," by Smith and Gifford (revised preliminary draft, 1959), pp.
81-156
8
9
Notebook #4: "Supplementary statement to a check list of
prehistoric Maya pottery types and varieties," by Gifford (1962) 4
pp.
8
10
Notebook #4: Miscellaneous, 3 pp.
8
11
"The Taxonomic Concept of the Ceramic 'Variety' and the Ceramic
'Group' with Respect to Prehistoric Southwestern Pottery Types," a
preliminary proposal and correspondence by Joe Ben Wheat, James C.
Gifford, and William W. Wasley (March - July 1957).
8
12
"Type Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in Southwestern
Pottery Analysis," by Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley (November
1957).
8
13
"Ceramic Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in
Southwestern Pottery Analysis," by Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley (December
1957).
8
14
"Ceramic Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in
Southwestern Pottery Analysis," by Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley (February
1958).
8
15
"Ceramic Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in
Southwestern Pottery Analysis," early draft.
8
16
Ceramic variety manuscript by Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley: rough
notes.
box
folder
Ceramic variety manuscript by Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley:
illustrations.
box
folder
8
17
Ceramic System in Southwestern Pottery Analysis," by Wheat,
Gifford, and Wasley.
8
18
"Type Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in Southwestern
Pottery Analysis," by Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley. "Pecos draft." With
notes from the conference held in Globe, Arizona, August 26-28,
1957.
Notebook #5: "A research proposal submitted to the National
Science Foundation, Conference on the Prehistoric ceramics of the Maya
lowlands," by T. Patrick Culbert and Raymond H. Thompson, July 15,
1965.
10
3-4
Notebook #6: University of Michigan Ceramic Series, "Prehistoric
pottery of the Eastern United States," James B. Griffin, Museum of
Anthropology, University of Michigan, [1950?] (2 folders)
box
folder
11
1-2
Notebook #7: Typological trends in the Little Colorado Red Ware
ceramic tradition. Illustrations, photographs, and texts by Gifford for
class assignment given by Clara Lee Tanner, University of Arizona,
Anthropology Department, ca. 1949-1952. (2 folders)
11
3
"The type-variety concept as a basis for the analysis of Maya
pottery," by Robert E. Smith, Gordon R. Willey, and James C. Gifford,
February 16, 1959, revised July 20, 1959.
11
4
"A conceptual approach to ceramic analysis," by James C. Gifford,
1962 (127 pp.). Preliminary statements by Gifford with his annotations;
un-edited by Carol A. Gifford.
11
5
"A review of the taxonomic nomenclature essential to ceramic
analysis in archaeology," by Philip Phillips and James C. Gifford, 1959.
Preliminary draft. "The type-variety concept: addenda," 1961. Includes
letters from Raymond H. Thompson rejecting the pap
11
6
"A review of the taxonomic nomenclature essential to ceramic
analysis in archaeology," by Philip Phillips and James C. Gifford,
November 1959. "Laboratory copy." Annotated by Gifford.
11
7
"Temple 34 (structure 5D-34) preliminary assessment of associated
pottery lots," by Mary B. Ricketson and James C. Gifford, March 1,
1960.
11
8
"Preclassic ceramic evidence from Chalchuapa, El Salvador and
possiblerelationships with the Maya lowlands," by Robert J. Sharer and
James C. Gifford, paper read at meeting of American Anthropological
Association, December 1967.
11
9
"The earliest and other intrusive population elements at Barton
Ramie may have come from Central America," by James C. Gifford, 1968.
Paper read at American Anthropological Association meeting, November
1968.
11
10
"Preclassic ceramics from Chalchuapa, El Salvador and their
relationships with the Maya lowlands," by Robert J. Sharer and James C.
Gifford, October 1970.
11
11
Correspondence and miscellaneous papers from and about Robert J.
Sharer, 1970- 1972.
box
folder
12
Index cards (one cubic foot): "Place and geographic names in the
archaeological nomenclature of the Maya territory and neighboring
regions: an alphabetical compilation of phase and ceramic nomenclature
tentatively under consideration or in use in the Maya
Number 1-9: changes in the journal's title are indicated.
box
folder
13
1
Ceramica de Cultura Maya: an informal
media for the exchange of Mesoamerican ceramic information.
Volume 1, number 1. Cambridge, Mass., June 1961. (25 pages).
Also includes correspondence and graphics
13
2
Ceramica de Cultura Maya: an informal
medium for the exchange of Mesoamerican ceramic information.
Volume 1, numbers 2-3, February 1963. (63
pages)
13
3
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
: an informal medium for the exchange of information
concerning prehistoric and ethnographic Middle American ceramic
nomenclature. Number 4, October 1967, Department of Anthropology,
Temple University, Philadelphia,
13
4
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 5, December 1968. (67 pages)
13
5
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 6, April 1970. (83 pages)
13
6
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 6. Negative of cover artwork.
13
7
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 6. Artwork by Muriel Kirkpatrick for inside back
cover
13
8
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 6. Cover artwork by Kirkpatrick
13
9
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 7, October 1971. (40 pages). Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al. Number 7 supplement,
[n.d.]. (74 pages)
13
10
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.:
an informal medium for the exchange of information
concerning prehistoric and ethnographic Middle American culture.
Number 8, November 1972. (64 pages)
13
11
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 9, December 1976. (134 pages). Letters, manuscripts,
camera-ready art, nomenclature, and miscellaneous papers related to
Number 9
box
folder
14
Number 10-15: changes in the journal's title are
indicated
14
1
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 10, December 1979. (102 pages)
14
2
Letters, manuscripts, charts, camera-ready art, corrections,
captions, and miscellaneous papers related to issue Number
10.
14
3
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 11, December 1979. (120 pages)
14
4
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 12, July 1982. (82 pages)
14
5
Letters, manuscripts, corrections, and miscellaneous papers
related to Number 12.
14
6
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.:
an informal publication for the exchange of information
concerning prehistoric and ethnographic Middle American culture.
Number 13, December 1984. (110 pages)
14
7
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 14, September 1986. (87 pages)
14
8
Ceramica de Cultura Maya eta!. Number
15, December 1988. (130 pages)
box
folder
15
Number 15-16
15
1
Letters, manuscripts, corrections, illustrations, maps,
tables, and miscellaneous papers related to Number 15.
15
2
Letters, manuscripts, corrections, illustrations, maps,
tables, and miscellaneous papers related to Number 15.
15
3
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Number 16, October 1992. (101 pages)
15
4
Letters and manuscripts by James Brady, author of an article
in Number 16.
15
5
Brady original art, Number 16
15
6
Brady original figures, Number 16
15
7
Brady first revisions, Number 16
15
8
Brady recent additions, Number 16
15
9
Brady figures working folder, Number 16
15
10
Number 16 corrected manuscripts, various authors
15
11
Number 16 manuscripts and corrections
15
12
Number 16 additional manuscripts and corrections
box
folder
16
Number 16-18
16
1
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et
al. Number 16. Letters, manuscripts, and
corrections
16
2
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Number 17, August 1996. (55 pages)
16
3
Camera-ready pages for issue Number 17
16
4
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Number 17, extra pages
16
5
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Number 18, August 1996. (203 pages)
16
6
Camera-ready pages for issue Number 18, notes
16
7
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Number 18, extra pages
box
folder
17
Indexes and miscellaneous notes
17
1
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Miscellaneous notes for Number 17 and 18
17
2
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Indexes with corrections
17
3
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Indexes with corrections
17
4
Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
. Compact disks with .docs and .pdf files
17
5
Ceramica de Cultura Maya special publication "A pot for all
reasons: ceramic ecology revisited," 1988. "Papers dedicated to
Frederick R. Matson, 1986." (261 pages)
Consists ofletters from and to authors along with manuscript drafts,
corrections, editor's responses, and miscellaneous notes regarding
sources, illustrations, nomenclature, and typology, 1970s to 1990s. To
assist with access and research, these materials have been shifted from
the donor's original order and put in more nearly alphabetical
arrangement. Quantity: 4 small manuscript boxes; boxes 21-24.
box
folder
21
1
Donor's original inventory.
21
2
Archaeological project, Santa Barbara, Honduras
21
3
Becan sequence
21
4
El Cajon, Honduras
21
5
Ceramic conferences
21
6
Ceramic type-classes
21
7
Chiapas/Warren nomenclature
21
8
Colha nomenclature
21
9
Institute of Maya Studies Newsletter, 1988-1991
21
10
Katunob
21
11
Tzutuculi sequence
21
12
Adams, Richard E. W.
21
13
Andrews, E. Wyllys, 1988
21
14
Archaeological Society of Panama
21
15
Arnauld, Charlotte, 1986-1988
21
16
Ball, Joe, 1980-1981
21
17
Beaudry, Marilyn P., 1979-1980
21
18
Bey, George, letters, mss, figures, 1989-1992
21
19
Boxt, Matthew A., 1993
21
20
Bryant, Doug, Maya pottery manufacture
21
21
Case, Robert P.
21
22
Chase, A. and D., citations and sources
21
23
Chase, A. and D., typology, 1984
21
24
Coe, Michael, 1962
21
25
Craven, Roy C., University of Florida
21
26
Culbert, T. Patrick
21
27
Demarest, Arthur
box
folder
22
1
Einhaus, Catherine S., 1983
22
2
Ford, Anabel, 1985
22
3
Ford, Anabel, 1992
22
4
Forsyth, Don
22
5
Fry, Robert
22
6
Graham, Liz -San Ignacio paper
22
7
Henderson, John, 1986-1987
22
8
Heyman, Arthur M.
22
9
Holley, George, typology Piedras Negras 1986
22
10
Hoopes, John W., Cuenca de Arenal
22
11
Ichon, Alain
22
12
Iglesias Ponce de Leon, Josefa
22
13
Joyce, Rosemary A., 1986-1987
22
14
Kosakowsky, Laura, 1982-1985
22
15
Kosakowsky, Cuello nomenclature
22
16
Lange, Frederick W., Costa Rica, 1984
box
folder
23
1
Laporte, Juan Pedro, 1988-1992
23
2
Lapo1ie, "Unidades" corrections
23
3
Laporte, "Unidades" responses
23
4
Laporte, "Unidades" figures
23
5
Laporte, "Unidades" tables
23
6
Laporte, "Nuevos" original text and figures
23
7
Laporte, "Nuevos" corrections
23
8
Laporte, "Nuevos" responses
23
9
Laporte, "Nuevos" figures
23
10
Lopez Varela, Sandra L.
23
11
McDonald, Andrew
23
12
Pring, Duncan, letters and N01ihern Belize
sequence
23
13
Rands, Robert
23
14
Rice, Prudence, letters 1976-1977
box
folder
24
1
Rice, Prudence, letters 1978-1984
24
2
Rice, Prudence, letters 1985
24
3
Rice, Prudence, "Problems with the Protoclassic,"
1983
Originally stored in two file cabinet drawers, organized alphabetically,
these files consist primarily of orders for subscriptions and individual
issues of Ceramica de Cultura Maya et al.
Other items include invoices, check stubs, and letters from individuals,
book stores, book dealers, museums, etc., from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Some general correspondence is interfiled concerning the publication of
Ceramica. These files were organized according to the needs and uses of
the creators and are not always in strict alphabetical order. Note that
additional correspondence with Ceramica authors is most often found in
Subseries 3: "Site and Typology Correspondence."
box
folder
26
Correspondence between Carol A. Gifford and Muriel
Kirkpatrick, 1975 to 1995. Note that the groups of original letters
and groups of copies do not completely replicate each
other.
26
1
Muriel Kirkpatrick curriculum vitae and other
information
26
2
Letters, 1976 [originals]
26
3
Letters, 1977-1978 [originals]
26
4
Letters, 1980-1981 [originals]
26
5
Letters, 1982-1986 [originals]
26
6
Letters, 1993-1995
26
7
Letters, miscellaneous artwork, and slides
26
8
Undated letters and letters, 1975-1976
26
9
Letters, 1977-1978 [copies]
26
10
Letters, 1979-1982 [copies]
26
11
Letters, 1983-1985 [copies]
26
12
Letters, 1986-1992 [copies]
box
folder
27
Ceramica correspondence
27
1A
Donor's original inventory
27
1
Academic Book Center, Portland, OR, 1991-1995
27
2
Benson, Liz, 1970
27
3
Brody, Jill, 1986
27
4
Duclot, Carole
27
5
Lanning, Edward, 1971
27
6
Marcynzyn, Domm, 1971-1975
27
7
Gifford, Carol, 1962-1963
27
8
Adams, Richard E.W., 1972-1983
27
9
American Book Store, Mexico City, 1976
27
10
American Museum of Natural History library,
1962-1979
27
11
American Philosophical Society, 1972
27
12
Amerind Foundation, 1968-1996
27
13
Anderson, Texas, 1978
27
14
Andrews, E. Wyllys, 1967-1985
27
15
Arizona State Museum, 1968-1969
27
16
Arizona State University, 1970-1985
27
17
Museum of Northern Arizona, 1970-1972
27
18
Ashmore, Wendy, 1975-1992
27
19
Asahiya Shoten, Ltd., Osaka, Japan, 1984-1986
27
20
AVCO Savings, 1972
27
21
Bachand, Bruce, 2003-2009
27
22
Baker and Taylor Company, 1974-1979
27
23
Ball, Joseph, 1975-1990
27
24
Ballena Press, Socorro, NM, 1978
27
25
Bannister, Bryant, 1967-1972
27
26
Bayewitz, Blanche, 1997
27
27
Bebrich, Carl A., 1975
27
28
Beaudry, Marilyn, 1979-1997
27
29
Bell, Audrey, n.d.
27
30
Benavides, A., 1986
27
31
Biese, Leo P., 1974-1991
27
32
Bernal, Ignacio, 1970
27
33
Bird, Junius and Margaret, 1968
27
34
Bishop, Ronald L., 1972
27
35
Blackwell North America, Inc., 1982-1993
27
36
Blom, Gertrude Duby, 1973-1987
27
37
Boggs, Stanley H., 1970
27
38
The Book Center, 1989
27
39
The Book Exchange, n.d.
27
40
Book House, Jonesville, MI, 1982-1987
27
41
Bove, Fred, 1989
27
42
Boston University, 1990-1992
27
43
R.R. Bowker Company, 1983
27
44
Boxt, Matthew A., 1989-1996
27
45
Bradley, Richard, 1982
27
46
Brady, James, 1987-2007
box
folder
28
1
Brigham Young University library, 1972-1980
28
2
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, NJ, 1972
28
3
Brown, Kenneth, 1976-1986
28
4
Brooklyn Museum, 1971-1988
28
5
Bryan, Alan R., 1969-1996
28
6
Bryant, Douglas D., 1981-1984
28
7
Buhler, Richard, S. J., 1976-1977
28
8
Bullard, William R. and Mary R, 1972-1977
28
9
Butler, Mary, 1968
28
10
Callender, Don, n.d.
28
11
California State University, Fullerton, 1979-1991
28
12
California State University, Sacramento, 1981
28
13
Calvin, Inga, 1992
28
14
Carlson, John B., 1976-1982
28
15
Carruthers, Clive, 1993
28
16
Cecil, Leslie, 1997
28
17
Centro de Estudios Maya, 1993
28
18
Charlton, Thomas H., 1976-1992
28
19
Chase, Arlen F., 1973-1978
28
20
Cheetham, David, 1997-2000
28
21
Cheek, Charles D., 1989
28
22
CIRMA Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamerica,
1986-1996
The site of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley of British Honduras was
excavated by Dr. Gordon R. Willey of the Peabody Museum and associates in
the mid-1950s. Excavated materials, as permitted, were shipped back to the
Peabody Museum. The extensive sequential ceramic collections provided an
opportunity for Gifford to study them using the then developing
type:variety-mode methods of ceramic analysis that he and Robert E. Smith
had recently applied to the Uaxactun pottery. This research was resumed
after Gifford transferred the collections to the Anthropology Laboratory at
Temple University in Philadelphia. Gifford's death in January 1973
interrupted his work, but Carol A. Gifford and Muriel Kirkpatrick organized
the publication of illustrated folios printed by Meriden Gravure Company
under the title Ancient Maya Pottery: Two folios of
Maya potte1y fi·om the site of Barton Ramie in British Honduras
(Belize) (1973-1975). This two-volume set includes a preface by
Gordon R. Willey, a ceramic sequence chart, inked outline dimension drawings
by Gifford and twelve color plates from watercolors by Kirkpatrick. The
ceramics from Barton Ramie were later returned to the Peabody Museum. As
illustrated in the folios they were keyed to Peabody Museum catalogue
numbers, each preceded by the designation 56.30.20. To complete Gifford's
Belize work, Prehistoric Pottery Analysis and the
Ceramics of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley, compiled by Carol
A. Gifford and illustrated by Muriel Kirkpatrick and Michael Nicolazzo, was
published by the Peabody Museum in 1976 as Memoir 18. Quantity: 2 small
manuscript boxes; boxes 34-35.
box
folder
34
1
Miscellaneous papers including copyright registration, statement
of project, and reviews of the publication.
34
2
Letters related to fund-raising, 1964-1965. Correspondents
include T. Patrick Culbert, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the American
Philosophical Society.
34
3
Letters related to fund-raising, 1966-1968. Correspondents
include the American Philosophical Society and the Wenner-Gren
Foundation.
34
4
Letters related to fund-raising and publication of the folios,
1970-1973. Correspondents include the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Gordon R.
Willey, and the Meriden Gravure Company.
34
5
Letters related to the publication of the folios, 197 4.
Correspondents include the American Philosophical Society, Meriden
Gravure Company, Duncan Pring, and Charles DiPeso.
34
6
Letters related to the publication of the folios, 1975.
Correspondents include the Meriden Gravure Company, Duncan Pring, Joseph
Ball, and the Peabody Museum.
34
7
Return of the Barton Ramie collection to the Peabody Museum,
letters, inventories, and loan forms, 1987-1988.
34
8
Rough drafts, working notes, and captions for the folio
illustrations.
34
9
Illustrations: a variety of photographs, negatives, drawings,
copies, and one original watercolor.
34
10
Blue binder (1 of 4). "Containing production notations concerning
illustrative material for Prehistoric Pottery Analysis and the Ceramics
of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley." The original 3-ring binder has
been discarded and the contents placed in four
34
11
Blue binder (2 of 4)
34
12
Blue binder (3 of 4)
34
13
Blue binder (4 of 4)
box
folder
35
1
Copy of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, catalogue cards
for the boxes of ceramic type sherds used for the type descriptions in
Prehistoric Pottery Analysis and the Ceramics
of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley (1976). NOTE: these
cards are
35
2
Copy of the Temple University catalogue cards for the boxes of
ceramic type sherds used in Prehistoric Pottery
Analysis and the Ceramics of Barton Ramie in the Belize Valley
(1976).
35
3
Copy of the Temple University catalogue cards,
continued
35
4
Copy of the Temple University catalogue cards,
continued
35
5
Ancient Maya Pottery: two folios of Maya
pottery from the site of Barton Ramie in British Honduras
(Belize), 1973 and 1975
Miscellaneous papers including writings by James C. Gifford, photographic research, biographical materials, bibliography, and posthumous files created by Carol A. Gifford.
box
folder
35
6
"A guide to the description of pottery types in the Southwest,"
1952
35
7
Review of "Powell of the Colorado, by William Culp Darrah,"
1952
35
7A
"A guide to the description of pottery types in the Southwest,"
1953-1956, and "Conjectures Regarding Ceramic Influences at Awatovi
During Ceramic Period One"
35
8
Ceramic classifications as indicators of cultural phenomena,
1958
35
9
"The type-variety concept as a basis for the analysis of Maya
pottery," 1959
35
10
"Ceramic classifications as indicators of cultural phenomena,"
1959
35
11
"Type-variety method of ceramic classification as an indicator of
cultural phenomena," 1959
35
12
"A check list of prehistoric Maya pottery types and varieties,"
1959
35
13
Miscellaneous
box
folder
36
Writings by Gifford, continued
36
1
"A review of the taxonomic nomenclature essential to ceramic
analysis in archaeology," 1959
36
2
"Ceramic types and varieties in Maya pottery," American Antiquity
articles, 1959, including Barton Ramie pottery analysis methodological
notes
36
3
"Ceramic classifications as indicators of cultural phenomena,"
American Antiquity articles,
1960
36
4
"Pottery of the Holmul I Style from Barton Ramie, British
Honduras," 1961
36
5
"A review of the taxonomic nomenclature essential to ceramic
analysis in archaeology," 1961
36
6
"A conceptual approach to the analysis of prehistoric pottery,"
with corrections by Watson Smith, pages 1-81, 1962
36
7
"A conceptual approach to the analysis of prehistoric pottery,"
pages 82-184, 1962
36
8
"Place and geographic names in the archaeological nomenclature of
the Maya territory and neighboring regions," 1963
36
9
"Preclassic ceramics from Chalchuapa, El Salvador, and their
relationships with the Maya lowlands," 1969
36
10
"The prehistory of Sapiens: touchstone to his future," in Human
Futuristics edited by Magorah Maruyama and James A. Dator. Honolulu:
Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii,
1971.
36
11
"Ideas concerning Maya concepts of the future," in Cultural
Futurology: pre conference volume, American Anthropological Association
Experimental Symposium. University of Minnesota, 1971.
36
12
"Recent thought concerning the interpretation of Maya
prehistory," University of Cambridge, 1972. Including partial trip
diary, memorabilia, correspondence, and rough draft of paper presented
at conference.
36
13
"The ancient Maya in the light of their ethnographic present,"
ICAES, Chicago, September 1973.
36
14
Correspondence and texts related to Gifford's thesis at
University of Arizona, 1953-1957.
36
15
El Trapiche Collection Notes (El Salvador), by James C. Gifford,
1967. Includes handwritten notes describing El Trapiche ceramics
excavated by Robert Sharer and typed essay "Preliminary Conclusions: El
Trapiche Ceramic Conference, March 23-28, 1967."
box
folder
37
Miscellaneous
37
1
Miscellaneous posthumous materials including obituaries and
publications on Mayan ceramics that appeared after Gifford's
death.
37
2
Notebook (3-ring binder) with cover label: "Photographs
concerning Indians and prehistoric dwellings in the American Southwest
with particular emphasis upon the Hopi of Arizona (taken about or before
1897-1898)."Consists of 46 pages of paper onto which b/
37
3
Portrait of James C. Gifford in Copan, ca. 1966. Color
enlargement of photograph probably taken by Carol A.
Gifford.
37
4
Bibliography of James C. Gifford's writings. [including February
2017 revision]
37
5
Materials added to the Gifford Papers after the finding aid was
completed.
box
folder
38
Fishkill, New York: salvage report
38
1
The archaeological salvage and survey of a portion of the
Revolutionary War supply depot at Fishkill, New York, by James C.
Gifford and Daniel G. Crozier (1973).
38
2
"The Fishkill supply depot: historical background, interpretive
proposal," by Stefan Bielinski, Horace Willcox (1970).
38
3
Gifford notes, both handwritten and typed
38
4
Gifford, Crozier and Kerrigan, 1971 and "Archaeological Salvage
Operations In a Portion of the upper Barracks Area of The Fishkill
Supply Depot, Part I", 1971
