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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten notes on Arawak and Makusi myths cite Walter E. Roth, An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-lore of the Guiana Indians (Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, vol. 30), pp. 145, 146. Arawak keywords include: Maipures; Tamanacs; [Alexander] von Humboldt; flood; one man, one woman; fruit. Makusi…
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten notes on Arawak and Makusi myths cite Walter E. Roth, An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-lore of the Guiana Indians (Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, vol. 30), pp. 145, 146. Arawak keywords include: Maipures; Tamanacs; [Alexander] von Humboldt; flood; one man, one woman; fruit. Makusi keywords include: flood; one man; stones. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1925
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Macushi, Arawak
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Clayton Rand to Muriel Wright, Gulfport, Miss., 29 November 1938, with Enclosure: Draft Manuscript of Tams Bixby
written by Clayton Rand, 1891-, in Muriel Wright Collection, of Oklahoma Historical Society. Research Center (1983.018, Box 23D, FF05) (Oklahoma City, OK) (29 November 1938) , 32 page(s)
Muriel H. Wright worked as a historian and freelance writer. Her commitment to the Wright family’s Choctaw lineage sustained her commitment to the history of Indian people and to Indian affairs in Oklahoma, while her work as a historian and her involvement in Indian affairs invigorated her family ties. Her…
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written by Clayton Rand, 1891-, in Muriel Wright Collection, of Oklahoma Historical Society. Research Center (1983.018, Box 23D, FF05) (Oklahoma City, OK) (29 November 1938) , 32 page(s)
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Muriel H. Wright worked as a historian and freelance writer. Her commitment to the Wright family’s Choctaw lineage sustained her commitment to the history of Indian people and to Indian affairs in Oklahoma, while her work as a historian and her involvement in Indian affairs invigorated her family ties. Her collection at the Oklahoma Historical Society includes draft copies of articles, book chapters, and book proposals. She promoted Indian…
Muriel H. Wright worked as a historian and freelance writer. Her commitment to the Wright family’s Choctaw lineage sustained her commitment to the history of Indian people and to Indian affairs in Oklahoma, while her work as a historian and her involvement in Indian affairs invigorated her family ties. Her collection at the Oklahoma Historical Society includes draft copies of articles, book chapters, and book proposals. She promoted Indian history, especially the Five Civilized Tribes, and she participated in Indian affairs, especially those of the Choctaw Nation. Topics also include education, Oklahoma, cultural affairs, family, politics, and biography, among others. This document contains a cover letter and a handwritten draft of an article on Tams Bixby. It includes information from the _Muskegee Democrat_. It addresses the issues of statehood; U.S. federal politics; Indian politics; employment; Bixby's relationship with the Five Civilized Tribes; Bixby's resignation; the Dawes Commission; Bixby's legacy and biography.
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Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
Date Written / Recorded
29 November 1938, 1938
Field of Study
Women and Social Movements
Content Type
Letter
Author / Creator
Clayton Rand, 1891-
Person Discussed
Tams Bixby, 1855-1922
Topic / Theme
Dawes Act Divides Indian Tribal Land into Individual Allotments, February 8, 1887, Political and Human Rights, Social and Cultural Rights, American Indians
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Clever Hans stories
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1922) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten citation note written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Clever Hans stories.' Notes include the following keywords: Zuni, lung pouch, stomach, upset, Hopi. Notes ends with the phrase, 'Hunter who is bewitched by the sorceress.' Clever Hans title may refer to the German horse, Clever Hans, 'an Orlov…
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1922) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten citation note written on an unlined white paper titled, 'Clever Hans stories.' Notes include the following keywords: Zuni, lung pouch, stomach, upset, Hopi. Notes ends with the phrase, 'Hunter who is bewitched by the sorceress.' Clever Hans title may refer to the German horse, Clever Hans, 'an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have been able to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.'
Date Written / Recorded
1922
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Hopi, Zuni
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Cliff Dweller
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
Typewritten notes on a lined note card titled "Cliff Dweller," with handwritten annotations in title as "Lag. [Laguna] 'Cliff Dweller' Boas." In this story, a girl goes to get water and is carried away by Cliff Dweller to his home on the cliff. He orders her to grind all the corn in one room, and tells her that…
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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Typewritten notes on a lined note card titled "Cliff Dweller," with handwritten annotations in title as "Lag. [Laguna] 'Cliff Dweller' Boas." In this story, a girl goes to get water and is carried away by Cliff Dweller to his home on the cliff. He orders her to grind all the corn in one room, and tells her that if it is not ground when he returns, he will kill her. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1935
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Western Keres
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Cliff Ogre
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten citations:
Zuni - Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' pp. 76, 425: Mentions not twins; qv. offsping eat; become Owl and Falcon; drought; twins with help of Spider Woman; offspring become Rock, Owl, and Falcon.
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 122.
Jicarilla - Charles Peabody, …Open Access
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten citations:
Handwritten citations:Zuni - Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' pp. 76, 425: Mentions not twins; qv. offsping eat; become Owl and Falcon; drought; twins with help of Spider Woman; offspring become Rock, Owl, and Falcon.
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 122.
Jicarilla - Charles Peabody, 'A Reconnaissance Trip in Western Texas' in 'American Anthropologist,' Vol. 11, p. 203.Arapaho - George A. Dorsey and Alfred L…
Zuni - Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' pp. 76, 425: Mentions not twins; qv. offsping eat; become Owl and Falcon; drought; twins with help of Spider Woman; offspring become Rock, Owl, and Falcon.
Washington Matthews, 'Navaho Legends,' p. 122.
Jicarilla - Charles Peabody, 'A Reconnaissance Trip in Western Texas' in 'American Anthropologist,' Vol. 11, p. 203.Arapaho - George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber, 'Traditions of the Arapaho' in 'Field Columbian Museum Anthropological Series,' Vol. 5, p. 302.
Curtin, p. 133 [unclear citation].
Chinook - Franz Boas, 'Chinook Texts' in 'Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' No. 20, p. 21.
Shoshone - Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, pp. 260, 262.
Micmac - Rand, p. 90 [incomplete citation].
Kutenai - compare Franz Boas, 'Kutenai Tales' in 'Bulletin of the Bureau of American Ethnology,' No. 59, p. 279: The ruse by which a man kills one who...becomes a cannibal.
Hopi - J. Walter Fewkes, 'The Destruction of the Tusayan Monsters' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 8, p. 136: A guardian of Sun's house is Twins.
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Date Written / Recorded
1925
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Person Discussed
Jesse Walter Fewkes, 1850-1930, Robert H. Lowie, 1883-1957, Alfred L. Kroeber, 1876-1960, George A. Dorsey, 1868-1931, Washington Matthews, 1843-1905, Frank Cushing, 1857-1900, Franz Boas, 1858-1942, Charles Peabody, fl. 1909
Topic / Theme
Hopi, Kutenai, Micmac, Northern Shoshone, Chinook, Arapaho, Jicarilla, Navajo, Zuni
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Clipping of Black and White Photograph: "Mysterious 30-ton Basalt Head Unearthed by a Geographic-sponsored Expedition"
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 88], Folder 15. Photographs and clippings of illustrations of Native American [see also folder 123.17]) (1930); photographed by Richard H. Stewart, fl. 1938 (1930) , 1 page(s)
Date Unknown. Article clipping of a photograph and caption of a 30-ton Basalt head sculpture which was unearthed during an expedition sponsored by National Geographic-Smithsonian Institution.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 88], Folder 15. Photographs and clippings of illustrations of Native American [see also folder 123.17]) (1930); photographed by Richard H. Stewart, fl. 1938 (1930) , 1 page(s)
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Date Unknown. Article clipping of a photograph and caption of a 30-ton Basalt head sculpture which was unearthed during an expedition sponsored by National Geographic-Smithsonian Institution.
Date Written / Recorded
1930
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Photograph
Author / Creator
Richard H. Stewart, fl. 1938
Topic / Theme
Sculpture
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Clipping of Black and White Photograph: "The Basket Maker"
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 88], Folder 15. Photographs and clippings of illustrations of Native American [see also folder 123.17]) (1937) , 1 page(s)
Date: Unknown. Article clipping with a black and white photo of a Maori woman weaving a basket.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 88], Folder 15. Photographs and clippings of illustrations of Native American [see also folder 123.17]) (1937) , 1 page(s)
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Date: Unknown. Article clipping with a black and white photo of a Maori woman weaving a basket.
Date Written / Recorded
1937
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Photograph
Topic / Theme
Basket making, Maori
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Closing Tree
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten notes on a lined note card titled "Closing Tree," with references to the Ute, Kaibab and Shivwits [Southern Paiute]. Also noted: "Stuck in tree by penis, etc." Stories given involve Wolf, Fox, and Coyote, and incidents of adultery, with the perpetrator becoming caught in a tree. Undated.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten notes on a lined note card titled "Closing Tree," with references to the Ute, Kaibab and Shivwits [Southern Paiute]. Also noted: "Stuck in tree by penis, etc." Stories given involve Wolf, Fox, and Coyote, and incidents of adultery, with the perpetrator becoming caught in a tree. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1935
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Southern Paiute, Ute
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Clothing - Theft
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten note reads 'Trick to rob of clothing - Exchange, appeal to vanity.' Cites Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' p. 347: underground man (here Tarantula). Also mentions Hopi. Undated.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 96]: Serrano Field Trip Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten note reads 'Trick to rob of clothing - Exchange, appeal to vanity.' Cites Frank Cushing, 'Zuni Folk Tales,' p. 347: underground man (here Tarantula). Also mentions Hopi. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1925
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Hopi, Zuni
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Clumsy Hunter
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten notes on unlined note card titled "Clumsy hunter conquered by superior power." Reference to Ute "Council of Animals." Includes citations. Undated.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten notes on unlined note card titled "Clumsy hunter conquered by superior power." Reference to Ute "Council of Animals." Includes citations. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1935
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Hunting, Ute
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