Collection consists of word lists, field notes, watercolors, manuscripts, and other documentation related to the Western Apache culture collected by Grenville Goodwin between 1929 and 1939.
Identification:
MS 17
Language:
Material in English
Repository:
Arizona State Museum
PO Box 210026
Tucson, AZ 85721-0026
Phone: 520-621-2970
URL: www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/archives/index.shtml
Biographical Note
Grenville Goodwin (1907-1940) was a self-taught ethnographer who worked among the Western Apaches in the 1930s, assembling what is still the single largest body of documentation anywhere on pre- and early-reservation history, life-ways, and material culture of that group.
Goodwin was born in 1907 in South Hampton, Long Island. He originally came to Arizona to attend the Mesa Verde Ranch School, taking courses in field archaeology with Byron Cummings who encouraged Goodwin’s growing interest in making a study of the Western Apache. In 1927, Goodwin went to live with an Anglo family in Geronimo near the San Carlos Reservation. He began learning the Apache language and compiling a dictionary at this time. Though he spent only 22 months in intensive fieldwork, Goodwin stayed in contact with the Apaches from 1929 to 1939. In 1939, Goodwin went to the University of Chicago to take courses in ethnology. Dr. Fay-Cooper Cole, head of the Anthropology Department, told Goodwin that the University of Chicago Press intended to publish his manuscript on the Social Organization of the Western Apache. In spring 1940, Goodwin died of inoperable brain cancer. He was 33 years old. His book was published in May 1941 after being readied for publication by his wife, Janice, and his colleagues Fay-Cooper Cole, Fred Eggan, Harry Hoijer, and Edward Spicer. It was republished by the University of Arizona Press in 1969.
The Goodwin family donated the bulk of this collection to the Arizona State Museum in 1968 together with artifacts and photographs. Keith Basso acted as liaison for the Museum in this transaction. Basso later published Western Apache raiding and warfare from the notes of Grenville Goodwin in 1971. In 1989, Basso donated photocopies to the Arizona State Museum of additional material on several subjects including Goodwin’s research on Apache religion. The religion materials are subject to special restrictions on access and use.
Scope and Content
This collection is organized into eight series.
Series 1: Original Goodwin Manuscripts, Word Lists, Phonology, Conjugations
Series 2: Original Goodwin Manuscripts, Notebook Series D, Place Names
Series 3: Original Goodwin Manuscripts, Notebook Series A, Interviews
Series 4: Original Goodwin Illustrations
Series 5: Apache Notebooks, Compilations
Series 6: Miscellaneous
Series 7: Restricted Materials Closed to Research
Series 8: Ancillary Research Materials
Collection consists of word lists, field notes, watercolor drawings, manuscripts, and other documentation related to the Western Apache culture. The handwritten field journals include over 2,000 pages of information on the Apache including informant-supplied cultural information on linguistic data, place names, warfare, botany, and biographies. The collection also includes over 200 sheets of watercolors and sketches, along with several dozen black-and-white photographs produced by Goodwin. The photographs, watercolors, and sketches focus on Western Apache material culture, architecture, geographic locations, and people.
After the Goodwin materials were acquired, ancillary research materials were added to broaden the research potential of this collection. These include typed transcripts and copies of documents at other repositories. Of special interest is a copy of Goodwin’s “Apache Ethnobotany Manuscript” with additional materials by Alfred E. Whiting from the originals on file at the Museum of Northern Arizona.
Access to Folders 83 through 95 and some pages in Folder 96 are restricted by the Arizona State Museum
Archives. Contact the ASM Archivist with any questions.
Conditions Governing Use
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) if the materials are not already in the public domain. 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.
Correspondence between Grenville Goodwin and Morris Opler is in Collection Number 14-25-3238, Morris Opler Papers, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY.
"Harry Hoijer's Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache texts" are available online at etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache.
The Harry Hoijer Collection, Mss. 497.3.H68, at the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, contains related materials.
Sound recordings at the Arizona State Museum include tapes on Silas John Edwards and the Apache by Keith Basso and William B. Kessel. Some of these tapes may be restricted.
All of Goodwin’s photographs and negatives have been transferred to the ASM Photographic Collections.
Controlled Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Goodwin, Grenville, 1907-1940
Whiting, Alfred F.
Corporate Name(s)
Jicarilla Apache Tribe
San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation, Arizona
Grenville Goodwin Papers, 1929-1939 (MS17) Arizona State Museum Library and Archives, University of Arizona.
Acquisition Information
Negatives made by Grenville Goodwin in the 1930s (AP 1968-2004).
Grenville Goodwin Papers donated by Mrs. Janice Goodwin (AP 1968-2021).
Photographs made by Grenville Goodwin in the 1930s (AP 1968-2023).
Typed transcriptions of Goodwin notes used by Keith Basso for his book Western Apache raiding and warfare / from the notes of Grenville Goodwin, University of Arizona Press, 1971.
Copies of ancillary research materials in the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Laboratory of Anthropology were donated by a variety of sources including ethnobotanist Seth Pilsk and archivist Willow Roberts Powers. (AT-94-128; AP-94-135; ASM ACC 95-100)
Other associated accession numbers: Goodwin's papers on religion, LA #89-8; ACC #89-28.
Processing Information
Jeanne Armstrong, Alan Ferg, and Amy Rule processed this collection and contributed to writing the finding aid.
Handwritten notebooks containing Goodwin’s notes on interviews, index, and guide to his marginalia,
codes, and annotations.
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Interviews
With Sherman Curley, Pinal; Harvey Nash-kin, Eastern Coyotero; John Rope, Western Coyotero. Notebook Series A, Vol. 1, March 1932.
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Interviews
With Sherman Curley, Pinal; Dude Longstreet, Eastern Coyotero; Harvey Nash-kin, Eastern Coyotero; Anna Price, Eastern Coyotero; John Rope, Western Coyotero; Barney Tisle, Eastern Coyotero; Palmer Valor, Western Coyotero. Notebook Series A, Vol. 2, March 1932
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Interviews
With John Andrew, San Carlos; Bunnie, Pinal; Sherman Curley, Pinal;
Jenny Gozol, Pinal; Walter Hooke, Arivaipa; Joshn, Pinal; George Kidde; Dude Longstreet, Eastern Coyotero;
Gila Moses; Harvey Nash-kin, Eastern Coyotero; Albert Nolan; James Nolan, Pinal; Charlie Norman;
Anna Price, Eastern Coyotero; John Robinson; John Sippi, Pinal; John Sneezy, Arivaipa;
Nancy Wright, Eastern Coyotero. Notebook Series A, Vol. 3, June 1932.
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Interviews
With Custin Bread; Neil Buck, Western Coyotero; Henry Burdette; Samuel George, Eastern Coyotero;
Joe Hoffman; Walter Hooke, Arivaipa; Henry Irving; Labn James; Willy Lupe, Canyon Creek; Gila Moses;
Charley Nokey; Charlie Norman; Nosey, Pinal; Peaches, Cibicu; Anna Price, Eastern Coyotero;
Charlie Sego, Western Coyotero; John Sneezy, Ariviapa; John Taylor, Cibicu;
Nancy Wright, Eastern Coyotero. Notebook Series A, Vol. 4, October 1932.
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John Rope on Warfare, Weapons, War, 1-6-35 to 27-4-35
Handwritten notes in pencil by Goodwin with annotation on top sheet and typed in Chicago. Manuscripts (111pages)
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Biographies.
Handwritten in pen by Goodwin and typescripts with annotations by Goodwin cut and pasted
together. Includes John Andrew; Bunnie; Sherman Curley, Ariviapa; Jenny Gozel; Joseph Hoffman;
Walter Hooke, Arivaipa; Hos-tihn na-pa-ha; Laban James; M-ba-chu-ka; Gila Moses; James Nolan;
Anna Price, Eastern Coyotero; John Rope; John Sippi; Palmer Valor; Nancy Wright. (182 pages)
Original Pen and Ink and Watercolor Sketches by Goodwin
Subjects include night ball game; wickiups and camps; mescal knives; carrying pack; pipes;
pitched water bottle designs; body painting designs; carrying basket designs. Some are dated.
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Oversize - Original Watercolor Sketches by Goodwin
Consists of pencil, ink, and watercolor sketches of the material culture of the
Apaches with notes indicating the location where Goodwin examined the original objects,
for example in the Field Museum and the Arizona State Museum. Sketches are on 5 x 8 inch
three-hole punched notebook paper.
Notes on the Navajo Tribe, 45 pages
Notes on the Kiowa, Apache, Lipan Apache, Mescalero Apache, and Jicarilla Apache (Eastern Apache), 42 pages
Notes on the Mimbreño, Gileño, Chiricahua, Pinaleño, Coyotero, Tonto, and Arivaipa Apaches (Western Apache), 103 pages
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Oversize - Photographic Copies
Photographic copies (b/w) mounted on linen, bound into album showing Goodwin's watercolors arranged four sheets to each 13 x 18 inch page.
These documents are copies of typed subject compilations made from
Goodwin's miniscule and difficult to decipher handwriting in his notebooks.
Many excerpts are dated and annotated with the initials or names of the original information
source so they can be referenced back to the complete interviews in Notebook Series A.
Words in the Apache language are underlined in these typescripts.
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Early Dress, Body Painting, Pottery, and Baskets
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Early Dress, Body Painting, Pottery, and Baskets
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Weapons, Raids, and Warfare
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Weapons, Raids, and Warfare
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Weapons, Raids, and Warfare
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Weapons, Raids, and Warfare
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Hunting and Food Gathering
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Hunting and Food Gathering
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Hunting and Food Gathering
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Games, Dancing, and Singing
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Games, Dancing, and Singing
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Agriculture, Cattle, and Domestic Animals
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Agriculture, Cattle, and Domestic Animals
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Agriculture, Cattle, and Domestic Animals
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Dwellings, Artifacts, Fire and Tobacco
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Dwellings, Artifacts, Fire and Tobacco
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Concepts of Life and Bodily Functions
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Concepts of Life and Bodily Functions
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Concepts of Life and Bodily Functions
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Goodwin's Outline or Classification of Cultural Categories
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Stages of Life
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Reminiscences
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Stories
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Medicine
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Measurement and Seasons
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Tribal Organization and Chieftanship
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Trade and Contact with Other People
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Name Giving
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Prehistoric Ruins and Petroglyphs
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Missions, Churches, Schools
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Miscellaneous Notes, Unclassified Data
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The Life Story of Mrs. Andrew Stanley, April 23, 1939
Goodwin's Personal Catalogue of the Articles Collected from the Western Apache in Arizona
Copy of original notebook in Goodwin's handwriting and related letters and lists.
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Grenville Goodwin: Report on the San Carlos Indian Apachesca. 1937.
Report submitted to the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, File No. 8962, 1943, San Carlos, 042. Includes copies of letters from H. Scudder Mekeel, Laboratory of Anthropology, and Goodwin. (143 pages)
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Biographical Notes on Goodwin Written by Janice Massy, 1987
Copies of correspondence between Goodwin and Apache friends, 1933-1937.
List of Western Apache informants. Press release, chronology, and other materials related to
publication of Neil Goodwin's book The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey
(2000)
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Goodwin and Sayles' Archaeological Survey from Montezuma's Well to Payson
Additional notes on Chiricahua traits by Morris E. Opler.
Copies of Goodwin’s typed manuscript about a small band of Apache Indians located in the area between the states of Chiricahua and Sonora, Mexico. Includes copies of a 1934 letter from Morris Opler to Goodwin, a 1937 letter from Norwegian ethnologist Helge Ingstad to Goodwin and his reply, as well as Goodwin’s sketches, newspaper clippings and maps.
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Religion Papers: Notes on Various Topics: Clothing, Ornaments,
Hair, Divining Power, Learning Power, Deer Power Dream, Hawk Power and Curing Ceremonies,
Lightning Power and Curing
Copies of pages 1-59.
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Religion Papers: Concepts of Earth, Nature, and Universe
Copies of pages 60-210.
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Religion Papers: Various Sicknesses and Cures; Learning Curing Power
Copies of pages 214-284.
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Religion Papers: Gaan Masks
Copies of pages 285-307.
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Religion Papers: Gaan Masks
Copies of pages 308-397.
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Religion Papers: Various Topics: Songs, Prayers, Cardinal Points,
Caps, Causes of Various Sicknesses, Silas John, Love Power, Pollen-Giving Dance 1932,
Cosmology, Concepts of Life
Jules Henry Manuscript on Silas John Edwards and His Religion
Pages 1-134 of typed notes (copies).
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Jules Henry Manuscript on Silas John Edwards and His Religion
Pages 135-258 of typed notes (copies) and 14 pages of handwritten notes by Keith H. Basso (originals).
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Apache Ethnobotany Manuscript
Consists of Goodwin's notes with additional materials by Alfred E. Whiting, pages 1-100. (
From originals on file at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff.)
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Apache Ethnobotany Manuscript
Consists of Goodwin's notes with additional materials by Alfred E. Whiting, pages 101-215.
(From originals on file at the Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff.)
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Selected Items from Grenville Goodwin's Unpublished Notes
Pages 1-206. Not to be used without permission.
(From copy on file at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.)
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Selected Items from Grenville Goodwin's Unpublished Notes
Pages 207-412. Not to be used without permission.
(From copy on file at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.)
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Selected Items from Grenville Goodwin's Unpublished Notes
Pages 413-618. Not to be used without permission.
(From copy on file at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.)
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Selected Items from Grenville Goodwin's Unpublished Notes
Pages 619-824. Not to be used without permission.
(From copy on file at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.)
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Selected Items from Grenville Goodwin's Unpublished Notes
Pages 825-1030. Not to be used without permission. (From copy on file at the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.)