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Date:1925
Contributor:Gamio, Manuel, 1883-1960 | Toor, Frances, 1890-1956
Subject:Folklore | Art | Archaeology | Anthropology | Social life and customs | Rites and ceremonies | Education | Mexico--History
Type:Still Image | Text
Extent:1 folder
Description: The Eugenics Record Office Records consist of 330.5 linear feet of materials relating to the ERO, founded in 1910 for the study of human heredity and as a repository for genetic data on human traits. The Eugenics Record Office Papers (1670-1964) contain trait schedules, newspaper clippings, manuscript essays, pedigree charts, article abstracts, reprints, magazine articles, bibliographies, photographs, hair samples, postcard pictures, card files, and some correspondence which document the projects of the Eugenics Record Office during the thirty-four years of its operation. Aztec materials include Folder "A:9772. Mexico" (1925), located in Series I. Trait Files, Box #65, which contains "Mexican Folkways," a booklet of brief essays such as "The Magic of Love Among the Aztecs" and "Coatlicue, An Aztec Goddess." Edited by Frances Toor with short offerings from Mario Gamio and several others. It was intended for the education of North American students of Spanish, and each essay appears in both English and Spanish on the advice of Franz Boas and others.
Collection:Eugenics Record Office Records (Mss.Ms.Coll.77)
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Navajo includes: Diné, Navaho
Date:1966-1977, 1992-1996, 2012-2015
Contributor:Abeyta, Tony | Bsumek, Erika | Chamberlain, Kathleen P. | Fernald, Theodore B. | Field, Margaret | Garrison, Edward Ralph, 1945- | Gill, Samuel Dale | Hahn, Milanne | Hammond, Blodwen | Hill, Jennie-Keith | House, Deborah | Kaufman, Ellen S. | Kibrik, A. A. | Kroskrity, Paul | McDonough, Joyce M. | Perkins, Ellavina | Pollak, Margaret | Roberts, Alexandra | Schepers, E. M. | Shepardson, Mary | Shetter, William Z. | Taptto, Mary Helen | Weisiger, Marsha | Werner, Oswald | Chee, Melvatha
Subject:Arizona--History | Art | Education | Food | Government relations | Health | Linguistics | Material culture | Social life and customs | Utah--History
Type:Still Image | Text | Moving Image
Genre:Correspondence | Dissertations | Essays | Genealogies | Interviews | Maps | Photographs | Reports | Transcriptions | Vocabularies
Extent:2588 pages, 2 photographs, 13 DVDs
Description: The Navajo materials in the Phillips Fund collection consist of numerous items. Materials in this collection are listed alphabetically by last name of author. See materials listed under Bsumek, Chamberlain, Chee, Fernald, Field, Garrison, Gill, Hahn, Hammond, Hill, House, Kaufman, Kibrik, Kroskrity, McDonough, Perkins, Pollak, Roberts, Schepers, Shepardson, Shetter, Taptto, Weisiger, and Werner.
Collection:Phillips Fund for Native American Research Collection (Mss.497.3.Am4)
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Language:English
Date:1861-1916
Contributor:Ayer, Edward Everett, 1841-1927
Subject:Archaeology | Art | Dance | Education | Museums | Travel | Oaxaca (Mexico : State)--History | Arizona--History | New Mexico--History | Ohio--History
Type:Text
Genre:Travel narratives | Essays
Extent:19 items
Description: Narratives of travels and adventures, 1881-1864, 1881-1916, in the Far West, Southwest, Northwest, northern Mexico, as well as Ohio, New York, and Europe, apparently written from memory about 1916. Mentions hostilities of Pawnee and Apache, describing an Indian attack. Visits Pima Indians, Navajo reservation; sees Taos Indian dance. Observes Mitla ruins; visits Sacaton Pima reservation; visits California Indian schools. Describes music for Indians at mission; visits Ohio mounds; comments on Northwest Art; statues of Indian heroes in Northwest. Two letters relate to Ayer and the Field Museum. See especially #1, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 19.
Collection:Reminiscences of the Far West, and other trips (Mss.B.Ay2)