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Overview of the Collection | |
Creator: | De Harport, David |
Title: | David L. DeHarport collection, |
Inclusive Dates: | 1938-1967 |
Quantity: | 176.75 cm textual material, 4 maps, 1550 photographic images (41 transparencies, 1509 prints, 1509 negatives) |
Identification: | MS-246 |
Language: | Material in English and Navajo |
Repository: |
Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 N. Fort Valley Rd. Flagstaff, AZ 86001 928-774-5211 ext. 256 or 269 library@mna.mus.az.us |
David Lee DeHarport (8 August 1921- 15 June 2001) was born in Denver, Colorado. He received his BA in Anthropology from the University of Denver in 1943, and his MA in 1945. He began his doctoral research at Harvard University a couple of years later and earned his PhD in 1960. DeHarport first began researching the Southwestern Native American cultures as a student of the University of Denver, spending a couple of summers in New Mexico. And while at Harvard, DeHarport was sponsored by the Peabody Museum to work in Canyon de Chelly, on the Navajo Reservation, during the summers of 1948-1951 and 1957-1959. This research was the basis for his dissertation, "An Archeological Survey of Canyon de Chelly.”
DeHarport’s archeological interest was complemented by his proclivity for photography. He not only surveyed archeological sites but also photographically documented them.
Between his initial archeological survey of Canyon de Chelly and the completion of his dissertation, DeHarport worked for the Harvard Russian Research Center (1952). Later, in 1953, he photographically surveyed the low-relief sculpture at Chichen Itza, in the Yucatan, Mexico with the Carnegie Institution. And in 1955, he went on a Unesco mission to photograph hundreds of frescoes adorning the Ajanta Caves, a Buddhist site in central India.
After completing his PhD at Harvard in 1960, DeHarport was offered a position with the Navajo Claims Commission, based in Winslow, Arizona. During the summer he acted as an assistant archeologist to Clyde Kluckhohn, and in the fall he served as an expert witness in the Healing v. Jones case, which set aside the Hopi Reservation as exclusively Hopi land, with contested areas to be shared with the Navajos as a "joint-use area."
DeHarport continued working as archeologist and Navajo Land Claims representative after Healing v. Jones he began working as a researcher on Docket 229, which addressed various areas that the Navajo believed ancestrally belonged to them. Docket 229 consisted of Docket 196: Hopi overlap, Dockets 227/266: Acoma-Laguna overlap, Dockets 91: Havasupai overlap and Dockets 30/48/22-D/22-J: miscellaneous Apache overlap.
In 1962, DeHarport was appointed a research associate at the Museum of Northern Arizona and was given permission by Director Danson to work in Canyon de Chelly again. His work was initially to further document archeological sites and make sherd collections but culminated into a report on illegal excavation that was presented to tribal lawyers. His report was later discredited by other archeologists.
After his work as Navajo Land Claims representative, DeHarport’s interest was drawn back to his native Colorado. In the 1980s, DeHarport began documenting the fragile prairies of Colorado’s eastern plains. This area had often, until then, been eclipsed by the more popular Rocky Mountains and DeHarport was one of few people who recorded in photographs the landscape and people’s interaction with it. He devoted the rest of his life to this artistic study.
DeHarport passed away in Colorado in 2001 and was survived by his wife, Charlotte, who donated his photographic collections to various institutions.
This collection is separated into 3 series. The first encompasses DeHarport’s legal work on Docket 229, which includes defense and plaintiff’s exhibits and statements, reports, notes, maps, hearing transcripts, and archeological surveys. The second series consists of DeHarport’s various reports on archeological sites around the United States and India, records included are his doctoral dissertation, his report on illegal excavations, field notes, photographic images, reports for the BIA and from his trips to California and India. The third series is comprised of the “Proposed Findings of Fact” for Littell v. Udall case.
Unpublished and published manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
The Colorado Historical Society and the Knight Library at the University of Oregon have David L. DeHarport photograph collections. The Peabody Museum at Harvard University has records related to DeHarport’s doctoral research, as well as his original photograph index.
David L. DeHarport collection, MS-246 [Box Number]. Museum of Northern Arizona. Flagstaff, Arizona.
The collection was donated in parts between 1963 and 1968 by DeHarport (Accession #MS-41, MS-246, MS-247). Accession #MS-41 arrived in 1964 and is a permanent loan from DeHarport.
Processed in October of 2010.
The MNA library has published copies of the “Proposed Findings of Fact in Behalf of the Navajo Tribe of Indians” (see 340 u58p), as well as another copy of the “Plaintiff Exhibits, 2-499.”
Series 1: Navajo Land Claim 1938-1965 97 cm textual material, 9 notebooks, 4 maps | |||||||||||
This series contains records from the Navajo land claim cases, including Docket 229, which encompasses the overall Navajo land claim as well as Docket 196: Hopi overlap, Dockets 227/266: Acoma-Laguna overlap, Dockets 91: Havasupai overlap and Dockets 30/48/22-D/22-J: Miscellaneous Apache overlap. Records included are defense and plaintiff’s exhibits and statements, reports, notes, maps, hearing transcripts, and archeological surveys. | |||||||||||
Series 1: Navajo Land Claim
Subseries 1.1: Overall Navajo Land Claim Research Materials
Subseries 1.2: Apache Overlap
Subseries 1.3: Havasupai Overlap
Subseries 1.5: Acoma/Laguna Overlap
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Subseries 1.1: Overall Navajo Land Claim Research Materials 1942-1964 74.75 textual material, 9 notebooks, 4 maps | |||||||||||
This subseries contains records from Docket 229, which encompasses the overall Navajo land claim. Included are plaintiff’s exhibits, plaintiff’s statements, maps, reports, clippings, and notes related to the overall Navajo land claim area, with the exception of specific information relating to the Hopi, Apache, Havasupai, and Acoma/Laguna overlap areas, which are addressed in their own respective subseries. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: List/Index, undated | |||||||||
1 | 2 | [Docket 229] Index of Navajo Plaintiff's Exhibits, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | [Docket 229] Preliminary Summaries of Navajo Boundaries, 1952-1958 | |||||||||
1 | 4 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Navajo Northern Boundary Notes, circa 1958 | |||||||||
1 | 5 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Navajo Western Boundary Notes, 1958 | |||||||||
1 | 6 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Navajo Eastern Boundary Notes, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 7 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Navajo Southern Boundary, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 8 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Navajo Southeastern Boundary Notes, 1958 | |||||||||
1 | 9 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Bear Spring/Zuni Area, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Cañon de Chelly, Chuska, Ft. Defiance, Pueblo Colorado, etc., circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Cañoncito Navajos, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 12 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Mesa de la Vaca - Calabasa, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 13 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Mount Taylor - Cebolleta, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 14 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Hopi Area, Moqui, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
1 | 15 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Puerco of the West, Non-Reservation Navajos, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Agriculture, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 2 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Hogans Burned, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 3 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Peace and Provocation, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 4 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Population, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 5 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Slavery, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 6 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Supporting Archeological Data, 1960 | |||||||||
2 | 7 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Translations From Spanish Documents, 1961 | |||||||||
2 | 8 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Treaties and Agreements, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 9 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Gold Hunting, General Sherman, Surveys, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 10 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Clyde Kluckhohn Testimony, Notes, 1960-1961 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
MF 1 | 9 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Navajo Reservation Maps, undated | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
2 | 11 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibit: Index to Data on Map (898BB), circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 12 | [Docket 229] Index of Place Names, Map Coordinates, 1960 | |||||||||
2 | 13 | "Report on Maps Concerning the Navajo Tribe of Indians in the Cartographic Records Branch, National Archives", circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
2 | 14 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits, 26-626 [4 folders], undated | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
3 | 4 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Exhibits: Narrative Statements [2 of 2], 1960-1961 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
4 | 2 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Statements: Eastern and Western Sectors, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
4 | 3 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Statements: Northern Sector, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
4 | 4 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Statements: Southern Sector, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
4 | 5 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Statements: Jemez, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
4 | 6 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff's Statements: Notes, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
4 | 7 | [Docket 229] Rebuttal Notes, 1957-1961 | |||||||||
4 | 8-9 | [Docket 229] Notes on the Defense [2 folders], 1960-1961 | |||||||||
4 | 10 | [Docket 229] Digest: Defense Exhibits G185-G235, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
4 | 11 | [Docket 229] Digest: Defense Exhibits R1-R178, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
5 | 1 | [Docket 229] Documents, vol IV, undated | |||||||||
5 | 2 | Southwest Native American Legal/Cultural Notebooks, 1963-1965 | |||||||||
5 | 3 | Bibliographic Note Cards, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
5 | 4-5 | Notes From Published Sources [4 folders], circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 3 | Canyon de Chelly Field Notes [by DeHarport & Earl Morris], 1957-1959 | |||||||||
6 | 4 | "An Archeological Survey of Canyon de Chelly, Northeastern Arizona": Excerpt, 1959-1960 | |||||||||
6 | 5 | Navajo Claims Archeology Notebook, 1960-1961 | |||||||||
6 | 6 | Navajo Sacred Places: Maps, Correspondence, Reports, 1951-1959 | |||||||||
6 | 7 | Prehistoric Pueblo: Traditions of Contact With Navajo, Language Statistics, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
6 | 8 | Utes: Notes, Brochure, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 1 | Piute: Notes, Correspondence, Census, Map, 1958-1961 | |||||||||
7 | 2 | Yavapai: Notes, Map, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
7 | 3 | Contemporary Newspaper Accounts: Clippings, Notes, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
7 | 4 | National Park Service: Booklets, Clipping, Form, 1942-1962 | |||||||||
7 | 5 | BIA Reports: Archeological Field Research Regarding Navajo Claim With Calculations, 1961 | |||||||||
7 | 6 | BIA Reports: Shelters, Pottery, Blessingway, 1960 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
6 | 9 | Navajo History to 1846, American Period, 1960 | |||||||||
6 | 10 | "Preliminary Report on Library Research Connection With the Navajo Claims Case", circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 7 | Correspondence Regarding Disposition of the "Proposed Findings of Fact in Behalf of the Navajo Tribe of Indians…", 1967 | |||||||||
Subseries 1.2: Apache Overlap 1951-1963 5 textual material | |||||||||||
This subseries relates to Dockets 30/48/22-D/22-J, the Apache overlap areas that the Navajo were trying to prove ancestrally belonged to them. Included are notes, statements, and exhibits regarding the Chiracauhua, Warm Springs, Jicarilla, Western, and San Carlos Apaches. There is also a photocopy of Grenville Goodwin's Apache Manuscript. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 7 | Docket 22: Apache Statement Notes, Exhibits, 1951-1957 | |||||||||
7 | 8 | Docket 22A: Jicarilla, Western, San Carlos Apache, [etc.] Notes, 1959 | |||||||||
7 | 9 | Docket 48: Chiracauhua and Warm Springs Apache Notes, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
7 | 10 | "[Grenville] Goodwin's Apache Manuscript", 1961 | |||||||||
Subseries 1.3: Havasupai Overlap circa 1958-1963 1 textual material | |||||||||||
This subseries relates to Docket 91, the Havasupai overlap areas that the Navajo were trying to prove ancestrally belonged to them. Included is the Havasupai hearing transcript, and notes. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
7 | 11 | Docket 91: Havasupai Hearing Transcript, Notes, circa 1958-1960 | |||||||||
Subseries 1.4: Hopi Overlap 1938-1963 12.25 textual material | |||||||||||
This subseries relates to Docket 196, the Hopi overlap areas that the Navajo were trying to prove ancestrally belonged to them. Included are notes on Hopi ethnography, historic homeland, Navajo-Hopi contact, history of the Navajo-Hopi land dispute, Harold S. Colton’s Hopi notes [copies], defense exhibits, transcripts, maps, publications, and an archeological survey relating to the overlap area. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
8 | 1 | Docket 196: Hopi Bibliography, Publications, Notes, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
8 | 2 | Docket 196: Hopi Ethnography, Publications, Notes, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
8 | 3 | Docket 196: Hopi Notes, Maps, 1961 | |||||||||
8 | 4-5 | Docket 196: Hopi Defense Exhibits, Notes [2 folders], circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
8 | 6 | Docket 196: Harold S. Colton Hopi Notes, 1938-1953 | |||||||||
8 | 7 | History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: Bibliographic Notes, Timeline, 1962 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 1 | History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: Hopi Notes, Transcript, 1960 | |||||||||
9 | 2 | [Docket 229] Plaintiff Exhibits: History of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: Navajo Country, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
9 | 3 | Navajo-Hopi Contact: Notes, 1936, circa 1958-1963 | |||||||||
9 | 4 | "Report of the Archeological Survey of the Navajo-Hopi Contact Area": Manuscript by Richard F. Van Valkenburgh & J. Lee Correll, 1959 | |||||||||
Subseries 1.5: Acoma/Laguna Overlap 1953-1959 4 textual material | |||||||||||
This subseries relates to Dockets 227/266, the Acoma/Laguna overlap areas that the Navajo were trying to prove ancestrally belonged to them. Included are notes on the Acoma/Laguna-Navajo land disputes, and the Acoma and Laguna hearing transcripts. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 5 | Docket 227, 266: Acoma/Laguna - Navajo Land Disputes, 1957 | |||||||||
9 | 6 | Docket 227/266: Acoma and Laguna Hearing Transcripts, Notes, Documentation, 1953-1959 |
Series 2: Archeological Research 1949-1964 79.5 cm textual, 1550 photographic images (41 transparencies, 1509 prints, 1509 negatives) | |||||||||||
This series contains records from DeHarport’s archeological research prior to and after his work with the Navajo Claims. The first subseries encompasses the research he did on Canyon de Chelly as a PhD candidate and later as a research associate for the Museum of Northern Arizona and the Navajo Tribe. The second subseries contains DeHarport’s research reports on various other archeological sites and Native Americans. | |||||||||||
Series 2: Archeological Research
Subseries 2.1: Canyon de Chelly Research
Subseries 2.1: Other Research Reports
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Subseries 2.1: Canyon de Chelly Research 1949-1963 77.25 cm textual, 1550 photographic images (41 transparencies, 1509 prints, 1509 negatives) | |||||||||||
This subseries contains records from DeHarport’s research on Canyon de Chelly. Included are his doctoral dissertation, his report on illegal excavations, field notes, and photographic images. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 6-8 | An Archeological Survey of Canyon de Chelly, Northeastern Arizona; a Puebloan Community Through Time [10 folders], 1959 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
12 | 4 | Notes on Illegal Excavation in Canyon de Chelly, 1962-1963 | |||||||||
12 | 5 | "A Report on Illegal Excavations in Canyon de Chelly National Monument and Adjacent Portions of the Chinle Valley, Arizona", circa 1963 | |||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
13 | 1 | Reports on Canyon de Muerto, 1963 | |||||||||
13 | 2-3 | Canyon de Chelly Field Notes [photocopies] [2 folders], 1957-1959 | |||||||||
13 | 4 | Canyon de Chelly: Preliminary Reports for Field Seasons 1948-1949, 1957-1959, 1949-1959 | |||||||||
13 | 5 | Transparencies: Canyon de Chelly, Rodeo, Sand & Driftwood, 1957 | |||||||||
13 | 6-7 | Canyon de Chelly Photograph Inventory [2 folders], 1949-1951 | |||||||||
Box | |||||||||||
PN 101, PN 103, PN 105, PN 107, PN 109 - PN 113, Box 14 [negatives] | Canyon de Chelly Photographic Images (Prints and Negatives), 1949-1951 | ||||||||||
Subseries 2.2: Other Research Reports 1950-1964 2.25 cm textual | |||||||||||
This subseries contains DeHarport’s research reports on various other archeological sites and Native Americans. Included are reports for the BIA and from his trips to California and India. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
10 | 1 | "Notes on the Yokuts", 1950 | |||||||||
10 | 2 | "Notes on the Yurok", 1950 | |||||||||
10 | 3 | UNESCO Ajanta Caves Mission: Notes, Correspondence, Report, 1955 | |||||||||
10 | 4 | Resume and Qualifications, 1960 | |||||||||
10 | 5 | "Tourism to Zuni: Highway 53 Association BIA Project", 1964 |
Series 3: Littell v. Udall 1967 .25 cm textual material | |||||||||||
This series is comprised of the “Proposed Findings of Fact” for Littell v. Udall case. | |||||||||||
Box | Folder | ||||||||||
9 | 8 | "Little v. Udall: Opinion, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Permanent Injunction", 1965 |