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History of Anthropology NewsletterVolume 11Issue 2 December 1984 Article 41-1-1984The Arizona State Museum ArchivesElizabeth GibsonThis paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/han/vol11/iss2/4For more information, please contact repository@pobox.upenn.edu.SOURCES FOR THE HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY 1. Museum The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian in Santa Fe has prepared a o£ the Matthews Papers. with accompanying Guide. which is being published and by the University of New Mexico Press in the o£ 1985. Matthews was an army surgeon and self-taught anthropologist in the American West the late 19th century. A±ter studies Dakota Territory and his maJor work was in New Mexico. Long as the first student o£ NavaJo culture, his publications on NavaJO religion and mythology are among the earliest anthropological works to present native religious belie£ and ritual with sympathetic and scholarly thoroughness. When stationed at the Army Medical Museum Washington, D.C., he contributed to the development of anthropometric techniques and analyzed the skeletal collections of the first Hemenway Southwestern Expedition. His papers illuminate the relationships among his contemporaries and friends <such as Bandelier, Bourke, Cushing, Powell, Mooney and Stephen) and contribute to our o£ the intellectual climate which 19th century American anthropology emerged. The Matthews Collection was transferred from the University o£ California at Berkeley to the Wheelwright in 1951. It primarily o£ his ethnographic and notes, notebooks, and correspondence. mater1als were assembled from National Archives, the Southwest Museum, the Bancroft Library, and other sources. including military records and correspondence colleaques and friends. The microfilm proJect was supported by the National Publications and Records Commission. Its consisted o£: Susan McGreevy, ProJect Director: Spencer Halpern, Research and Mary E. Holt. Dr. Halpern authored the 100-page Guide which accompanies the 10-roll The Guide a descriptive o£ the papers and a complete oibliography o£ Matthews• It serves also as a summary o£ the sources o± our knowledge o± Matthews' life and work. The Arizona State Museum Archives Elizabeth The Arizona State Museum was created in 1893 by an act o£ the Housed on the campus o£ the o£ Arizona, it was the anthropology museum the United States to be located in the tnat cont1nuea to be by the peoples The arcnives o£ the Museum were establ1shed 1n and include ±rom research-conducted by the Museum, as well as work proaucea through tne 3 University's Department o£ Anthropoloqy. In addition to materials relating to and the greater Southwest. the a small quantity o£ relating to and the Reflecting all facets of anthropological these materials include o££1c1al business correspondence. minutes o£ meetings, memoranda on policy, and annual reports and financial records o£ the Ar1zona State Museum and related tinits o£ the University of Ar1zona. Manuscr1pt materials 1nclude correspondence, field notes, proposals, drafts of reports ana unpublished reports of the faculty.· staff, students and research associates o£ the Museum and Department o£ Anthropology, as well as other scholars doing research on the Southwest. Archeological materials include work done by Gordon C. Baldw1n, Byron Cummings, Paul Ezell, £mil W. Haury. Alfred E. Johrison, Mary Elizabeth King, Donald J. Lehmer, Edwin B. Sayles, Arnold Withers and Richard B. Woodbury. Information generated by contract archeology conducted in Arizona is also housed in the archives. as well as records resulting from the W.P.A. Statewide Archaeological ProJect and the complete recorda o£ the Gila Pueblo a private foundation that operated between 1928 and 1948. There is also material produced by associated with other institutions, including J.O. Brew o£ the Peabody Museum, Edward B. Danson of the Museum of Northern Arizona,. Malcolm F. Farmer of the San Diego Museum o£ Man, Isabel Kelly, Paul S. Martin o£ the Field Museum o£ Natural History, Earl Morris of the American Museum of.Natural History and James W. Simmons. Ethnographic and linguistic material on native groups o£ the region includes a small quantity o£ field notes by William Y. Adams 9 N. Ross Crumr1ne's 1961 £ield notes on the Mayo. Henry Dobyns' 1948-1950 field notes on Papago dance, the 1967 oral history proJect completed by Robert and Elizabeth Euler on the Thomas Hinton's field notes on the Yavapai and Apach-e (1953> and the (1955>, William R. Holland's work <ca. 1950) on the Tzotil o£ Chiapas, and Muriel T. Painter's field notes on the Yaqui, plus the work o£ Edward N. and Rosamond Spicer, compiled largely during the 1930's, containing extensive notes on the cultures and languages of the Papago, Yaqui, and Indians. There are also transcriptions o£ taped interviews collected in conJunction with the Doris Duke Oral History ProJect, directed by Bernard L. Fontana, as wel·l as material compiled by the B.ureau o£ Ethnic Research. such items as a 1950's Papago census and correspondence with the Bureau o£ Indian Affairs. The Edward P. Dozier collection contains his early observations on the Pueblo the bulk o£ his collection, including his later work, is as yet largely unprocessed. Work completed by people outside the department includes Barbara Aitken's 1910-1913 field notes on Santa Clara Pueblo, copies o£ E.F. Castetter and W.H. Bell's 1938-1939 field notes on Papago botany and agriculture, a collection resulting from 4 Grenville Goodwin's extensive 1930's study on the Western Apache, copies o£ A.L. Kroeber's work on Papago linguist1cs, notes oy Edward Palmer <ca.1e80) on the Pima and California Indians, Sara Jones Tucker's work on the Hualapa1. copies o£ some of Ruth Underhill's work on the Papago, and the John and Lou1sa Wetherill Papers perta1ning to an early trading family in northern Arizona. The Museum'a large photograpnic collection is housed separately. The State Museum archives have been 1ndexed by author and sUbJect: most of the materials herein described may be located using this system. Incoming collections are now being arranged and described in accordance with nationally accepted archival standards. Researchers wishing to use the materials should communicate in advance with the archivist, Jeanne Armstrong, since the archive's hours of access are limited and there may be restrictions on certain collections. III. Manuscripts at the Bibliotheque du Musee de l'Homme Francoise Weil <Conservateur en Che£>, reports that her department has a number o£ manuscripts currently in the process of classification. The largest series <about 8500 letters. dating £rom 1901-1958>, consists o£ the incoming correspondence o£ Paul Rivet, indexed so that researchers may request whether a particular individual is either·author of, or cited in, letters in the series. A second, smaller series, includes letters by Rivet himself <which Weil would like to supplement by xeroxes o£ in the hands o£ other institutions or scholars>. There are also some letters received by Marcel Mauss. A fourth series consists o£ the archives o£ the de l'Homme £or the per1od 1928 to 1950, are in the process o£ reclassification, so as to separate. insofar as practicable, the private correspondence of Rivet and G.H. Riviere £rom official business correspondence o£ the museum. Finally, there are various manuscripts which have no relation to the'history of the museum. IV. Bl umenbach In June o£ 1984, Dr. F.W.P. Dougherty, as part of his ongoing work on the manuscripts o£ J. F. Blumenbach, arranged an exhibition at the Un1vers1tatsbibliothek Gottingen, entitled "Commercium Epistolicum J. F. Blumenbach." Dougherty has also compiled a catalogue o£ the exhib1t, with the subtitle "Aus einem Brie£wechsel des klaasischen Zeitalters der Naturgesch1chte." The catalogue conta1ns the £ull text o£ some eighty letters to and £rom Blumenbach (some o£ them by English correspondents), as well as detailed information on the obJects mentioned in them, and several illustrat1ons. Catalogue copies may be obta1ned £or 24 DM <plus postage> £rom the N1edersach1schen Staats- und Universitatsb1bliothek. Prinzenstr.l, 3400, Gottingen, Federal Republic o£ Germany. 5 

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