Bookmark this page or copy and paste URL to Email message L.S.M. Curtin papers, 1930-1953MS 395
Biographical NoteL. S. M. Curtin was an avid naturalist, ethnobotanist, and a published author. Her ethnobotanical research was primarily concerned with the use of herbs and plants being used as diet staples and medicine among southwestern ethnic and indigenous groups. She is the author of four published monographs and various journal articles. Her extensive ethnobotanical fieldwork led to the publication of her two most noted works, Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande (1947) and By Prophet of the Earth (1949), which highlights her fieldwork on the Salt River Indian Reservation and the Pueblo Grande Laboratory. Scope and Content NotePapers, 1930-1953 (bulk 1940-1953), of ethnobotanist, naturalist, and author L.S.M. Curtin. Includes business and personal correspondence, fieldwork, photographs and negatives, maps, printed material, and a manuscript of her published monograph By Prophet of the Earth (1949). The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence pertaining to her professional activities as a published author and her ethnobotanical fieldwork in Arizona, New Mexico, and Michoacan, Mexico. OrganizationThis collection is organized into five series.Series I: Correspondence,
1940-1953
Subseries 1.1 Business, 1940-1953 Subseries 1.2 Personal, 1942-1953 Series II: Fieldwork, ca. 1930s-1940s Series III: Manuscripts, 1949 Series IV: Photographs/Negatives, 1940-1942 Series V: Printed Material, ca.1930s-1940s RestrictionsRestrictionsNone. CopyrightIt 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, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Access TermsPersonal Name(s) Brown, Howell
C.-Correspondence Curtin, L. S. M. (Leonora Scott
Muse) Subject(s) Indians of North America--Ethnobotany Indians of North American--Food Indians of North American--Medicine Pima Indians Tarasco Indians Genre Form(s) Correspondence Ethnographic Photographs Administrative InformationCredit LineL.S.M. Curtin papers (MS 395). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries. Container List
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