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The American Section was established at the beginning of the Museum, with the original title being
the "Museum of American Archaeology." Preliminary steps were taken in 1886 with the appointment
of Daniel Garrison Brinton as Professor of American Linguistics and Archaeology within the Religious
Studies Department of the University. In 1888 Brinton organized the University Archaeological
Association, a group of scholars and laymen interested in archaeology and ethnology. Brinton
materials available include correspondence in the early Director's files, offprints of his pioneering
articles in American Indian linguistics, and filed in the curatorial section, a portion of his "Walum
Olum", a purportedly Native American epic he edited, with annotations in an unknown hand. Before
his death in 1899, he saw the Museum firmly established in American archaeology and anthropology.
A large file of letters concerning a memoir on Brinton being prepared by Stewart Culin can be fond at
the Brooklyn Museum. Brinton also willed his library of 20,000 rare volumes, including 16th century
dictionaries, to the new Museum to form the core of the present Anthropology Library.

The Museum was officially established in November 1889, with Charles C. Abbott appointed its first
curator, several small collections being brought together in College Hall. Abbott, after earning a
medical degree, had served as a field archaeologist for Frederic Ward Putnam of the Peabody Museum
and then had earned his own national reputation for publishing claims that crude stone tools found on
and nearby his Trenton farm were of the same great antiquity as those claimed for early man in
Europe. On his appointment Abbott turned over the burden of proof to Ernest Volk, who supplied the
Museum with collections over the next 22 years. The Abbott papers consist entirely of incoming
correspondence, which he soon began to number in red pencil chronologically, plus several reports to
the Archaeological Association (the 1890 one lists not only American but also many sources of early
collections represented). These reports contain the only description of excavations by Abbott, his son
Richard, and fellow amateur archaeologist Henry C. Mercer during Abbott's brief tenure (1889-1893).
A listing of Delaware Valley sites, undated and possibly by Abbott, and one of American Indian
artifacts received during the 1890's are also filed with Abbott's curatorial papers. During his tenure a
variety of small local excavations were undertaken in the eastern United States. Francis C. Macauley,
a member of the Association donated his large collection of eastern American archaeology. The
American Section curatorial files also contain an 1890 catalog of the Warren Moorehead collection
which was apparently not acquired by the Museum.

After a major effort failed to obtain Franz Boas as Curator, in late 1893, Abbott was replaced by his
friend Mercer, who agreed to serve without salary. Mercer, who later was to establish a nationally
known tile works and pioneered the study of American folk culture, spent most of his brief tenure in
the field conducting numerous small-scale excavations on Museum grants in attempts to establish great
human antiquity, whether in Yucatan or Tennessee. For this reason his records are treated under
Expeditions, and his papers are listed in the North America and Central America finding aids.
Essential background on Mercer can be found in Masons 1956 biographical article in the Pennsylvania
Archaeologist, while the bulk of his papers are held by the Bucks County Historical Society. During
this time Stewart Culin, who had been named the Museum's Director in 1892 to represent it at the
Madrid exposition, acquired important American collections no only from expeditions to Key Marco
in Florida and Pachacamac in Peru but also Guatemala, Venezuela, and Ecuadorian objects from the
Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893; the very large and valuable Hazzard/Hearst collection of Utah
and Colorado prehistoric perishable antiquities (put together by the Wetherill brothers, discoverers of
Mesa Verde, and others and divided with the Hearst Museum at Berkeley); the pan-American Lamborn
collection; an early treasure of ceremonial objects excavated in the Chira Valley, Peru, by S. M. Scott;
and a remarkable variety of ethnological and archaeological objects collected in North America by
Major Horatio Rust, whose 1895 catalog survives.

Stewart Culin, who replaced Mercer in 1899, had been a founding member and secretary of the
Archaeological Association and was a good friend of Daniel Brinton's. He already managed the
growing Asian and general ethnology collections and had been titled "Director" since 1892. The
Board of Managers retained control of budget and policy and abolished Culin's title in 1899. Culin left
in 1903. Nevertheless in less than five years he managed to greatly expand the American collections,
most notably by the proceeds from his own expeditions sponsored by John Wanamaker throughout the
western reservations in 1900 and 1901 and a short buying trip to Zuni in early 1902. In addition to
direct purchases he made acquisitions from major dealers such as C. F. Newcombe in the Northwest
and Thomas Keam in Arizona, represented in correspondence and packing lists. The actual object
slips are filed with field record files, while Culin's account of the 1900 trip can be found in the 1901
Bulletin of the Free Museum of Science and Art and a bound 1901 account is available with
photographs at the Brooklyn Museum. Other important collections added were that of Thomas
Donaldson, painter George Catlin's executor and a key official in the 1890 Indian section of the
Eleventh U.S. Census, including a number of Catlin pieces; the Dickeson collection, a bequest of an
early amateur archaeologist in the Natchez, Mississippi area; western Mexican archaeology and
ethnology from explorer Carl Lumholtz; and the large Poinsett-Keating Mexican archaeological
collection originally donated about 1830 to the American Philosophical Society by the first U.S.
Ambassador to Mexico and an associate. Items of special interest include the original proof sheets and
photographs used in the 1890 Census acquired from Donaldson's son; 1840's plans of sites in the lower
Mississippi region in the Dickeson papers; and a handful of letters by famous artist Thomas Eakins,
who painted Frank Hamilton Cushing in the outfit of a Zuni chief for the Museum (painting now at the
Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, outfit at the Brooklyn Museum), Mrs. William Frishmuth, donator of a
worldwide collection of musical instruments to the Museum (painting now in the Philadelphia
Museum of Art); and a lost portrait of Stewart Culin. The Culin curatorial files contain miscellaneous
routine correspondence, including a file on casts made from the Peabody, Smithsonian and Cologne
Museums and a set of vouchers for 1901-1902 donations to the American Prehistoric Fund. A large
ledger recording exchanges begun by Mercer but continued by Culin is in the Exchanges and Loans
series (a few leaves in Culin's hand are in a Mercer folder), and Culin's 1900 and 1901 reports are filed
with the rest of those from the American Section, in addition to one box of papers in the Director's
files. Culin' major interest was in games worldwide, in which he worked with Frank Hamilton
Cushing, and he published the definitive work on Native American games in 1907; a large collection
of these are both here and at Brooklyn.

With Culin's departure, the size of the collections demanded a swift replacement. The choice would
almost certainly have fallen on William Farabee, a Harvard student of Sara Yorke Stevenson's old
friend Dr. Putnam, but Farabee declined in favor of a Harvard instructorship. Eventually the decision
was made to temporarily combine the American and General Ethnology Sections under William
Furness (see East Asia finding aid) as curator, while George B. Gordon, another Putnam student who
had worked for the Peabody on Honduran excavations, was hired as Assistant Curator. Furness
resigned in November 1904, with Gordon then appointed Curator of the Section of American
Archaeology and in 1905 Curator of General Ethnology. He held these responsibilities even after his
1910 appointment as the Museum's first true Director, until 1913. Documents on his curatorship are
mostly in the Director's files and letterbooks (the latter not beginning until February 1905) and in the
American Section reports, which are very detailed for 1903-1910 and less so for 1910-1913 (latter in
Director's reports). Actual curatorial files include a detailed catalog and correspondence on a large and
valuable North American ethnological collection offered by the Fred Harvey Company to the Museum
but not purchased; a 1904 evaluation by Gordon of the collections of the New York Academy of
Sciences; and a set of memos on objects acquired during the curatorship. Information on the 1905 and
1907 collection trips taken by Gordon to Alaska has been filed with field records. It should also be
mentioned that systematic anthropological instruction in the University began at Gordon's instigation
by 1906, with the establishment of Harrison Fellowships to bring in Assistant Curators able to finish
graduate degrees and serve as instructors after 1907.

By early 1907 Gordon had met George G. Heye, wealthy New York financier and Indian collector. It
appears that very soon after arrangements were made, culminating in Heye's support, for the
acquisition of the Plimpton basket collection in return for duplicates collected on the Alaska trip (April
5). A major exchange of specimens was arranged in earl 1908. A regular system of Gordon
communicating information on collections available to Heye soon developed. By September 1908
Heye had agreed with Gordon to place his already enormous collections in the Museum, had accepted
board membership, a vice-presidency, and chairmanship of the American Committee, and agreed to
pay the salary of his assistant George Pepper to serve as assistant curator in the Section. These terms
were ratified by the Board October 20. Pepper started work in January 1909, and served as acting
curator in Gordon's absence February to early May as the Heye Collection was gradually unpacked. J.
Alden Mason joined the Section as photographer and assistant at this time and with Edward Sapir, a
Harrison Fellow, undertook an archaeological and ethnological reconnaissance to the Ute reservations
in Utah in the summer (see North America finding aid). Meanwhile Pepper moved the large Talbot
Hyde loan collection of Southwest Archaeology here from the American Museum of Natural History.
William Orchard, who had been at the Museum of Natural History, was the second assistant taken on
at Heye's expense in November 1909 in charge of mending, conservation and preparation of models
for display (replacing Mason who was pursuing his doctoral studies).

The Heye Collection officially opened February 12, 1910, soon after Gordon became Director. Frank
Speck was sent at Heye's expense to collect among the Penobscot in the spring, and Mark R.
Harrington was furnished Museum authorization while collecting for Heye among the Shawnee,
Kiowa, Miami, Iowa, Sac and Fox, and Delaware in Oklahoma in the summer (see Expeditions). At
the start of 1911 Pepper's title was changed to acting curator and his salary made nominal for one year
as he was now spending most of his time with Heye in New York, and Harrington was hired as
assistant curator, with collection expenses still Heye's. He and Speck continued a wide variety of trips
for Heye, as did Wilson Wallis and Orchard, and Gerda Sebbelov for the Museum with the Osage.

William Farabee returned to contact with the Museum when offered the leadership of the Amazon
Expedition in 1912, which he initially refused but eventually accepted in 1913, along with the
curatorship. By the time he returned from his work in South America in 1916, major changes had
occurred in the Section. George Heye withdrew his collections starting in May 1916 to form the
nucleus of his own Museum of the American Indian in New York. Orchard had resigned in May 1915
and Harrington in January 1916, both of them continuing to work for Heye; Pepper's association had
ended in January 1912. Bruce Merwin was hired as an assistant in July 1915 but spent 1917-1918 in
military service before resigning. Pepper, Orchard and Harrington materials consist of correspondence
in the Director's files plus a valuable 1912-1914 Harrington letterbook comprised mostly of Indian
informants’ and dealers’ letters to him during his period of research in Oklahoma (he and Merwin
published Journal articles, and Harrington also a monograph in Anthropological Publications). A
1911-1914 American Committee letterbook is also of great interest. Orchard's fieldwork of this period
was later used to write the standard references on Native American beadwork and quillwork. Records
of the Heye years include extensive Heye-Gordon correspondence, numerous photographs of
specimens, several field reports by Speck, Wallis, etc. (Expeditions), and many lists of shipments
coming in 1908-1916 and of complex exchanges with the Museum during these years and in 1917-
1919. Heye later co-sponsored Gregory Mason's work for the museum in Colombia in the 1920's, and
Theodoor deBooy left his employ for a Venezuelan Museum expedition.

Farabee served as Acting Director in 1917 in addition to the curatorship, although he was absent on
military and diplomatic service 1918-1920. He made another major South American trip for the
Museum in 1922-1923 to Peru and Chile. However severe illness effectively ended his job
performance after his return, and his duties were undertaken by H. U. Hall in 1924-1925 until
Farabee's death from anemia. The Archives contains relatively little documentation from Farabee:
correspondence in the Director's files (1911-1925), extensive photographs both from the expeditions
and before his curatorship, and three folders of curatorial correspondence divided geographically. He
also published The Central Arawaks and The Central Caribs through the Museum on his expeditions
and a variety of Journal articles. It appears however that besides the expeditions most major
acquisitions were actually arranged by Gordon, who during 1903-1927 made the American Section
holdings the largest in the Museum. Important examples include North American basket collections
from H. K. Deisher, Mrs. Richard Waln Meirs, W. K. Jewett, Plimpton, Mrs. Edward Bok, and Grace
Nicholson; Plains collections from Mrs. Archibald Barklie (Armstrong), J. H. McLaughlin, M. A.
Thomson, J. L. Brennan, and P. H. Ray; Guatemalan expeditions by Robert Burkitt and Alaskan by
Louis Shotridge and Van Valin (S. E. Alaska); Eskimo objects from Captain George Comer, Captain
Bernard, and Henry Bryant; Mesoamerican pottery from the Stearns and von der Leith; Valley of
Mexico pottery excavated by Franz Boas; a prehistoric Pueblo basket of very rare type and antiquity
from Zeller; and Northwest Coast objects from George Emmons. Gordon also sold the Museum a set
of choice objects from his own collection in 1915.

Louis Shotridge was a Tlingit Indian met by Gordon in Southeast Alaska in 1905, who came to the
Museum in 1912 to aid in work on the Heye Collection and who started in 1915 regular shipments of
extremely valuable Tlingit ceremonial objects to the Museum (see North America/Alaska finding aid).
He was appointed an assistant curator in 1922 and one folder of shipments and memos from his tenure
is in the curatorial files. A Sac and Fox Indian, Don Whistler, filled in as assistant 1925-1926.

John Alden Mason was then hired from the Field Museum of Natural History, and his tenure (1926-
1955) is well-documented, including a large professional correspondence with geographical
subdivisions, offerings of collections (also geographically organized), in-house memos, a set of
notebooks (1922-1952), lecture notes and bibliographies, and a long-term file on his lifelong interest in
American rock art. Mason made 22 expeditions of varying scope during his active curatorship and his
scholarly and field activities completely encompassed the Americas. Materials on his pre-1926
activities include the 1909 expedition for the Museum, 1913 Great Slave notes later published by Yale,
1914 Puerto Rican work foe Columbia, Tepecano linguistics in west Mexico, and Santa Marta
excavations for the Field Museum in Colombia. The bulk of Mason's correspondence and his
linguistic fieldnotes were transferred to the American Philosophical Society on his death, and his
library was sold to Southern Illinois University during his lifetime. He remained active as Emeritus
Curator up to his death in 1967.

In addition to Shotridge, who spent about all of his 1922-1932 tenure in the field, Mason was assisted
by Harriet Wardle, who had been curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences' Clarence Moore
Collection (Southeast archaeology) and who came to the Museum after Moore, amid great controversy,
transferred his objects to the Heye Foundation in 1929. Her curatorial records consist of a large
alphabetical file of correspondence (she retired in 1948 but was active long after), while extensive
research on Peruvian textiles can be found under "South America" and other work under the Key
Marco Expedition and Stephens Collection.

Collections added during the Mason years include the remarkable gold objects from Cocle, Panama;
from the Piedras Negras expeditions; Shotridge's Northwest Coast collections; the vast Academy of
Natural Sciences collections including the pre-1879 Haldeman and the large Gottschall Collections,
originally loaned but then acquired in exchange; Frank Speck collections from eastern Canada; the
large and meticulously documented Osborne (Guatemalan textiles) and Stephens (North American
ethnographic) collections; various Colombian and Panamanian gold collection and Mayer Brazilian,
Broad Costa Rican, and Monday Mexican archaeological collections; jade Northwest Coast objects
from Emmons.

Important research associates working with Mason include (for the most part files with "Expeditions"):
Edgar Howard (1929-1943) (see Early Man files), a specialist in early man in the Americas; Mary
Butler Lewis (1932-1970) (one folder of correspondence); and Frederica DeLaguna (see Alaska). John
Corning worked as an assistant (1941-1943) in the Section on Cocle and his own Georgia expedition.
J. Louis Giddings, an Arctic archaeologist, began as a research associate (1950-1951) and then was
assistant curator (1951-1956) with correspondence in the Director's files. A major source for these
years is the set of monthly American Section reports (1941-1948) written by Mason with appendices
usually by Howard, Wardle, and Satterthwaite.

Linton Satterthwaite began association with the Museum as Mason's assistant on the Piedras Negras
expedition in 1930 and became assistant curator in 1933, eventually becoming associate curator in
1948 and Mason's successor in 1955. In addition to a large alphabetical correspondence including
such other prominent scholars as Sylvanus Morley, Herbert Spinden and J. Eric Thompson, "special",
"routine", and "home" correspondence, a large series of notebooks documents Satterthwaite's long-
term interest in Maya and other Mesoamerican calendrics and writing systems. Other files include
lecture and class notes, bibliographies, curatorial business, exhibit designs, etc. Satterthwaite's
archaeological work at Caracol and Benque Viejo in Belize and Piedras Negras and Tikal in
Guatemala is described in the finding aid "Central America".

The next curatorial files of significance are those for Alfred Kidder II; although he did not hold a
curatorship until 1867-1972. In his position as associate director after 1950 he had considerable
involvement in American work due to his active interest in South American Archaeology. For this
reason several folders of correspondence have been placed in the curatorial section. Kidder files are
also in the Director’s files or in his estate. Also in this era are the papers of Frances Eyman (Witthoft),
who began as an assistant in the Section in 1948, followed by an assistant curatorship and the first
Keeper of American collections from 1964 to her death in 1969. Her files consist of alphabetical
correspondence, exhibit labels, and research notes showing her active interest in increasing
documentation and understanding of the North American objects in the Museum. These are the most
recent files with significant holdings in the American Curatorial series, as the relevant papers of
William Coe (Assistant Curator 1959-1964, Associate Curator 1964-1969, Curator of Middle
American Archaeology 1969-1972, and Curator of the American Section 1972-1987); Robert Sharer
(Assistant Curator 1972-1974, Associate Curator 1974-1984, Curator 1985-present); Ruben Reina
(Assistant Curator 1959-1962, Associate Curator 1962-1967, Curator of the Latin American Ethnology
1967-1991); Anthony Wallace (Assistant and Curator of North American Ethnology 1961-1988); and
John Witthoft (Research Associate 1966-1970, Associate Curator of North American Ethnology 1970-
1981, Consulting Curator 1982-1986) remain in the offices of the individuals. All have joint
appointments in the Anthropology Department. Also further Eyman files as well as those of later
Keepers Albina de Meio (1969-1974), Claudia Medoff (1974-1982) and Pamela Hearne (1982-date)
are retained in the office of the American Section. No record except for an Expedition article and a
resume in the Director's files appear to exist for Thomas Greaves, Assistant Curator of South American
Ethnology, 1969-1973. Records for John Cotter (Associate Curator of American Historical
Archaeology, 1972-1973) have been placed with the Historical Archaeology Section. Since 1982
Professors Reina, Wallace, and Witthoft have been titled "consulting" curators and Frederica
DeLaguna has been Honorary Curator of North American Ethnology.

American Section files were unarranged when transferred to the Archives. Curatorial files have been
subdivided into "curatorial" proper as a sub-series (arranged, in general, "chronologically" by holders
of assistant curatorships); an "exchanges, loans, deaccessions and thefts" sub-series grouping
documents on the movements of American objects (to be used in connection with the records of the
Registrar's Office, established in 1929); an "inventories" sub-series containing various topical and
other lists of objects in the American collections; a "collectors and collections" sub-series arranged
alphabetically (includes Heye and a separate alphabetical list for Alaska) by the name of the donor or
seller or title of collection; and a "general administration" sub-series encompassing index cards, exhibit
labels, various American Section reports starting with Mercer, documents on American topics with no
discernible connection, miscellaneous financial transactions, etc. Research files by curators Eyman
and Wardle have been placed in Eyman and South America respectively, while correspondence with
non-Museum scholars using the collection for which there is no original note material (Helen
Palmatary on Brazilian archaeology, Ernestine Singer on netting, and Marius Barbeau on slate carving)
have been included in "general administration".
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Series Description

Container Series

1 C. C. Abbott Papers, 1889-1893. 0.5 feet.

General correspondence of first curator, beginning with Museum founding and
solicitation of collections; handwritten notes on Pennsylvania and New Jersey sites,
possibly by Abbott; and a list of archaeological specimens originating north of Mexico
housed in the Museum at this time. Correspondence deals mainly with local Delaware
Valley archaeology. Arranged by subject chronologically.

2-8 Staff Papers, 1898-1963. 2.0 feet.

Miscellaneous records of the following people, arranged in general chronological order:
Stewart Culin, 1892-1903
W. H. Furness, 1903-1904
G. B. Gordon, 1903-1910
Louis Shotridge, 1905-1937
William C. Farabee, 1913-1925
Mary Butler (Lewis), 1930-1969
Edgar Howard/ Early Man, 1930-1950
A. V. Kidder, II, 1955-1970

9-11 General Administration, 1858-1967. 1.5 feet.

Highly diverse series. Section reports by curators; proposals for research in the
American Section, 1939; 1858 manuscript on Huron wampum; anonymous typology on
ground axes; references to pottery in the National Museum of Canada; Section
financial records, 1933-1935; an incomplete address by William Fenton to the
Philadelphia Anthropological Society, 1948; manuscripts, notes, and correspondence by
outside scholars Mary MacAlister, Marius Barbeau, E. L. Keithahn, James Mooney,
Helen Palmatary, and Ina van Stan. North American exhibits design and leather tanning
by John Witthoft included. Section memos, 1958 Peruvian mummy x-ray,
correspondence on Lucy Wilson's non-Museum excavation in New Mexico (1915-
1917), Section films, slides, and the program "How It Happened". Correspondence on
artist Mary Louise Baker's work on Maya pottery; undated exhibit index cards, notes,
labels. Also included are a variety of Section listings of objects for exhibitions,
inventories, etc. Arranged by subject chronologically.

12-14 J. Alden Mason, 1922-1967. 1.5 feet.

General curatorial correspondence and notes, subdivided by North, Middle, and South
American content, 1926-1955; in-house curatorial correspondence from the same
period; a 1937 report on Colombian archaeology by Janet Dickey; professional
correspondence with Anna Shepard, A. Hyatt Verrill, Robert Zingg, and others; various
short notes on American archaeology and publications; drafts of published articles,
lecture notes, bibliography of publications. Material on collections offered the Section
during Mason's tenure subdivided geographically in like fashion to the correspondence.
Research notes, photographs, and correspondence on American rock art. A set of
notebooks includes notes on Mason's 1915 work in Puerto Rico, expense accounts for
Field Museum excavation at Santa Marta, Colombia (1922) and diary for same (1923);
 notes on European museums visited (1924)-all work performed for other institutions.
Other notebooks consist of Santa Marta material outside the Field Museum (1933) and
notes on a South American trip (1952). Single folder of professional correspondence by
Mary Butler (Lewis) on the death of Mason and disposition of professional estate
(1967-1968). Arranged topically.

15-16 H. Newell Wardle, 1930-1964. 1.0 feet.

North, Middle and South American general correspondence of assistant curator and
research associate. Texts and correspondence on radio broadcasts given on American
Indians; general curatorial notes; and correspondence and photographs relating to
Waldegg's Colombian collection (1942-1947). Wardle's professional research on
textiles is primarily found with the South American collection (.6 feet), George Heye
collection, Charles Stephens collection, and Alaskan collections.

17-19 A. Frances Eyman, 1951-1969. 1.5 feet.

Arranged as chronological correspondence files and "special" alphabetical files by
correspondent on general business while assistant curator and Keeper of American
Collections. Also Eyman notes on North American arrows (including poisons), lacrosse
sticks, Hopi Salako ceremony (1957), Indian clothing (in connection with Frederic
Douglas), Rio Grande textiles, and exhibits, including photographs and drafts of
Expedition articles. M. D. Dilks thesis on conceptual design of North American
exhibit and photographs for Frank Speck's "Masking in the Eastern Woodlands".
Arranged topically. Other Eyman files are in the American Section offices.

20-39 Collectors and Collections, 1889-1984. 10.0 feet.

Alphabetically arranged series of documentation on collections of artifacts from the
Americas. Special sections within the series related to collections from the Academy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP), the Hazzard/ Hearst (Wetherill) Collection,
the George Heye Collection, the Charles Stephens Collections including color
illustrated object cards by the collector, and the Arctic and Northwest Coast
collections.

40-41 Deaccessions and Loans. 1.0 feet.

Various records pertaining to collections or objects sold, stolen, exchanged or loaned
from the Section. Included are exchanges with various museums, particularly the
Denver Art Museum (1956-1958); the sale of the Catlin and Julian Scott paintings
among others (1971).
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Repository Group: Administrative Records

Record Group: American Section, Curatorial
Series: C. C. Abbott Papers, 1889-1893
Staff Name/Date: G. Grentzenberg, 1987

Container Folder Number and Title

Number

1 1. General correspondence, 1889-1890.

2. General correspondence, 1891.
3. General correspondence, 1892-1893, 1894.
4. Section Reports, 1890-1893
*5. Notes on archaeological sites of Pennsylvania and New Jersey [by Abbott, Laubach(s),
and Hawkes]
6. List of archaeological specimens north of Mexico acquired during Abbott's tenure
7. Correspondence re: Lucy Aiello biography of Abbott, 1966-1967
8. Cross-references to files relating to Abbott's papers
9. Fowke correspondence & ms re: Flint Ridge, Ohio, c.1890-1891

* see also: M-53-E2, M-53-F6

Expedition Records, North America — United States — Mercer Papers
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Repository Group: Administrative Records

Record Group: American Section, Curatorial
Series: Staff Papers, 1892-1970
Staff Name/Date: G. Grentzenberg, 1987

Container Folder Number and Title

Number

2 1. Mercer, Henry C. — Section Reports, 1894, 1895, 1898

2. Moore, Clarence B. — Boyle letter re: Ontario archaeology, 1895
3. Moore, Clarence B. — Fassett (Mrs. L. H.) letter re: Pennsylvania site, 1906
4. Culin, Stewart — general correspondence
5. Culin, Stewart — correspondence re: casts of various objects
6. Culin, Stewart — Section Reports, 1900, 1901
7. Furness, William .H. III — general correspondence
8. Gordon, George B. — notes on objects received
9. Gordon, George B. — report on New York Academy of Sciences conference, 1903
10. Gordon, George B. — Section reports, Oct., 1903-Jan., 1910
11. Shotridge, Louis — general notes and lists
see also: Expedition Records, North America—Arctic— Shotridge, Boxes 1 & 2
12. Farabee, William C. — North American curatorial correspondence and notes
13. Farabee, William C. — Mesoamerican curatorial correspondence and notes
14. Farabee, William C. — South American curatorial correspondence and notes
15. Farabee, William C. — British Guiana, Exhibition, text, 1924
16. Farabee, William C. — notes on ethnology and migration in the Old World
16.5 Farabee, William C. — notes re: 17th century Huron wampum belts
17. Butler (Lewis), Mary — North American curatorial correspondence, 1938-1963

3 1. Howard, Edgar B. — Correspondence, 1930-1936

see also: Expedition Records— North America— United States
2. Howard, Edgar B. — Early Man Project, financial records,1931-1936
3. Howard, Edgar B. — Early Man Project, proposal, 1932
4. Howard, Edgar B. — Early Man Project, 1941
5. Howard, Edgar B. — Early Man Project, 1942-1944
6. Howard, Edgar B. — Early Man Project, 1948
7. Howard, Edgar B. — Early Man Project, 1949, 1950

4 a. Baker, M. Louise — [notes and illustrations for double axe article, Museum Journal
VII:1, 1916 by George B. Gordon] —
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Repository Group: Administrative Records

Record Group: American Section, Curatorial
Series: General Administration
Staff Name/Date: G. Grentzenberg, 1987

Container Folder Number and Title

Number

9 1. Proposals for research by members of the American Section, 1939

2. Section memos and financial records, 1929, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1952
3. Baker, Mary Louise— Maya Pottery correspondence, 1927-1950
4. Baker, Mary Louise— notes, drawings, and drawing lists,1930-
5. Bruckner, Geraldine— correspondence re Mrs. Webster-Plass Peruvian burial cloth,
1955
6. Curtis, Edward S.— list of extra portfolio plates for The North American Indian
8. Palmatary, Helen— correspondence re Amazon pottery studies, 1934-1944
9. Van Stan, Ina— correspondence re study of Peruvian textiles, 1946-1961
10. Witthoft, John— correspondence, notes, studies
11. Moorehead, Warren— collection catalogue, 1890
12. Museum grooved axe typology prepared for W. K. Moorehead, 1934

10 1a. Labels for Maya Exhibit (n.d., 1930’s?)

1b. Labels, notes, and artifact lists for North American Exhibition Hall, n.d.
2. Plans and drawings for North American Exhibition Hall, n.d.
3. North America exhibit labels and collection distribution maps, n.d.
4. Originals for Woodland labels
5. Labels for Delaware Indian Archaeology (Pennsylvania Week 1950-1951)
6. Labels for exhibit on Museum excavation of rock shelters D-1 and D-2 near Broomall,
PA; n.d.]
7. Exhibit labels for "Caddo Indians of Oklahoma" and other groups, n.d.
8. Exhibit labels for "North American Indian Art", 1959
9. Drawings of artifacts in gold cases and Central American cases, n.d.
10. Exhibit maps, Central and South America
11. Children's quiz cards for American galleries
12. Peruvian Hall – Exhibit Case Layout, n.d.
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11 1. Case list, Eastern United States Archaeological Collections

2. Lantern slide list, 1911
3. Bucks County artifacts in Smithsonian, Mason list
4. "Valuation of Ethnological Collection made by G. B. Gordon", 1915
5. Southwest sherds listing, H. N. Wardle, ca. 1937
6. Wardle list of loaned arrowheads, ANSP, original list
7. Items from other institutions stored in University Museum during W.W.II
8. Listing of contents of Southwest Alaska trays, Eskimo storage room, various drafts
9. Inventory of unknown Eskimo collection
10. Eskimo Exhibition lists, 1931
11. List of Painted buffalo robes in the Museum, Mason
12. List of Pueblo vessels, 1938
13. Inventory of Alaska baskets
14. Northwest Coast masks in University Museum
15. Peabody Museum Collections relevant to University Museum
16. List of Section records placed in vault, 1942; valuation , 1969
17. South American gold case lists
18. Peruvian Collections evaluation, Mason, 1944
19. Birdstones in University Museum, 1953
20. Inventories, forms & how to use, Eyman (outdated)
21. Section storage list worksheets, 1960-1962
22. Eyman list of archival materials
23. Exhibition lists
24. Selective inventory of Uhle Bolivian collections
25. Inventory notes on Uhle Tacna and Para collections
26. List of Peruvian metalwork in Museum, including specimens reproduced by cast
27. Farabee Collections, Museum storage lists: Nazca (Rowe, 1956) and Ica II (Biddle,
1966) pottery, later annotations by F. Eyman
27a. South American Archaeology Hall – Storage Room 2 (n.d., post-1954)
28. List of Peruvian objects not located
29. Microfilming of Section accession ledgers, 1967 Eyman material
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12 1. North American curatorial correspondence and notes, 1926-1955

2. Middle American curatorial correspondence and notes, 1926-1955
3. South American curatorial correspondence and notes, 1926-1955
4. Section Reports, 1931, 1941-1943
5. Section Reports, 1944-1948
6. Correspondence with Anna O. Shephard re Museum objects used in her plumbate
report, 1942-1943
7. A. E. Anderson correspondence and report on two Huastecan vessels from Texas, 1934
[see M-65]
8. In-house curatorial correspondence, 1926-1929
9. In-house curatorial correspondence during Mason's Central America trip, 1930
10. In-house curatorial correspondence, 1934-1939
11. In-house curatorial correspondence during Mason's Guatemala trip, 1938
12. In-house curatorial correspondence, 1940-1951

13 1. North America, Collections offered

2. Middle America, Collections offered
3. South America, Collections offered
4. Proposed publications by the American Section, 1928
6. Correspondence, drafts, and lists for educational slide lectures on Americas, 1930-1931
7. "Value of some of my Indian material," Catalogue of Section purchases, 1933-1934
8. List of Pueblo Bonito (Chaco Canyon, New Mexico) duplicate sherd lots available from
the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1943
9. Professional correspondence
10. Notes on Washington County excavation by George S. Fisher of Finleyville,
Pennsylvania, 1937
11. Janet W. Dickey report on excavations at Tunja and Puerto Serviés, Colombia, 1937
12. Correspondence on shell heap, Hog Island, Damariscotta, Maine, 1955
13. Correspondence with Robert Zingg re: Mayan lectures and Mexican codices, 1953
14. Research on Henry C. Mercer for article (Pennsylvania Archaeologist, 1956)
15. Correspondence re: Petroglyphs, 1933-1957
16. Petroglyphs, photographs and drawings
17. Notes on Walam Olum
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14 1. Petroglyphs, mss and notes

2. Mason's class notes and bibliographies as a student, 1913-?
3. Notes on American artifacts in European museums, 1924
4. Diary of European trip, 1924
5. Lectures and academic record, 1925-1964
6. Proposal for founding Institute of Latin-American Culture Researches, n.d.
7. Proposal for archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in northern Mexico, 1947
8. American Section Records put in Vault, January 1942
8b. Notes on Shotridge and Shotridge collection
9. Maya Pottery, 1950
10. Drafts of published articles
11. Bibliography of Mason's writings
12. Printed materials sent to Mason after his death in 1967
13. Mary Butler's file on Mason, his papers and his library, 1968
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Staff Name/Date: G. Grentzenberg, 1987

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Number

15 1. Oversize general anthropological bibliography

2. General curatorial notes
3. North American curatorial correspondence and notes, A-L
4. North American curatorial correspondence and notes, M-Z
5. Correspondence about C. B. Moore's reports, 1949-1954
6. Middle American curatorial correspondence and notes
7. South American curatorial correspondence and notes

16 1. Professional correspondence, A-K

2. Professional correspondence, L-Z
3. Radio broadcast texts and correspondence: Pueblo, Inca, Lenape, Hiawatha
4. Notes on Southwestern pueblos
5. Correspondence and notes re: Janus-faced Iroquois pipes, 1940's
6. Photos of textiles with Wardle notes on reverse
7. Wardle notes on Uhle textiles from Peru
8. Wardle notes and drawings about textiles
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Number

17 1. Correspondence, 1951-1956
2. Correspondence, 1957-1958
3. Correspondence, 1959-1961
4. Correspondence, 1962-1964
5. Correspondence, 1965-1967, 1969
6. Special correspondence: A [Ackerman, Aldridge, Anderson]
7. Special correspondence: American Museum of Natural History (Weitzner and Bird)
8. Special correspondence: B
9. Special correspondence: Barbeau, Marius re: Haida argillite carvings
10. Special correspondence: Becher, Hans re: South American girdles
11. Special correspondence: C-D

18 1. Special correspondence: Dockstader, Frederick, 1953-1957

2. Special correspondence: Dockstader, Frederick, 1958-1965
3. Special correspondence: Douglas, Frederick (Eric) (Denver Art Museum)
4. Special correspondence: E-F (E.S.A.F. & Fenton)
5. Special correspondence: Feder, Norman (Denver Art Museum)
6. Special correspondence: Fenco Cabinets
7. Special correspondence: G-H
8. Special correspondence: K-R
9. Special correspondence: S
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19 1. Special correspondence: Schuster, Carl

2. Special correspondence: T-W
3. Special correspondence: Witthoft, John
4. Research— notes on North American materials
5. Research— correspondence on arrows, 1963-1964
6. Research— notes and [photographs] of arrows, [c. 1963-1964]
7. Research— arrows to be catalogued
8. Research— notes and sources on arrow poisons
9. Research— John Witthoft ms., "The Poisoned Arrow: A Frontier Folktale"
10. Research— notes for Expedition lacrosse article
11. Research— photographs and additional notes used during preparation of Expedition
lacrosse article
12. Research— draft of "Lacrosse and the Cayuga Thunder Rite" (Expedition 6:4, 1964)
13. Research— M. D. Dilks ms. on The North American Indian Exhibit, revised and
annotated by Eyman
14. Research— notes on Hopi Salako ceremony, Shangopavi, AZ, 1957
15. Research— notes on Indian clothing from work with Eric Douglas
16. Research— notes and proposal for the study of Rio Grande and other textiles
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20-A 1. Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (ANSP)— List, miscellaneous

2. ANSP— Mason information re: S. S. Haldeman
3. ANSP— Object cards, with ANSP numbers and collectors (Greenland, Siam, other?)
4. ANSP— Miscellaneous catalogue numbers
5. ANSP— Lists and original loan receipts
6. ANSP— 1870's catalogue, Misc. Section storage info.
7. ANSP— Gottschall Collection, Eyman correspondence
8. ANSP— Gottschall Catalogue, "Typical Collection No. 1” (copy)
9. ANSP— Gottschall Catalogue, "Typical Collection No. 2” (copy)
10. ANSP— Gottschall Catalogue, "Typical Collection No. 3” (copy)
11. ANSP— Gottschall, Original Catalogues

20-B 1-6. [ANSP— Unprocessed material] (MA1988-81)

21 1. Collectors and donors, A-B

2. Allice, T. H.— Northwest Coast collection purchase, 1908-1916
3. Apache, Antonio 1907-1909
4. Apache baskets— shelf and sale lists, n.d.
5. Berthoud, E. L.— Colorado stone tools, 1890
6. Boas, Franz— [Valley of Mexico] pottery catalogue, ca. 1913
7. Brennan, Mrs. J. L.— Pine Ridge collections (Plains), 1907-1908
8. Broad, Jennie— Costa Rica collections, 1938-1948
9. Brock, J. W.— Dat-So-La-Lee baskets, ca. 1914
10. Brown, Anna van der Veer— Pueblo Pottery, 1913
11. Bye, Arthur Edwin— Mexican figurine collection, 1934 (33-28- )
12. Charlie Black Wolf— beaded moccasins
13. Collectors and donors, C
14. Collins, Thomas J.— Middle and South American collections
15. Cope, Edward D.— skull collection
16. Corson, E. F.— 1910-1911
17. Cushing, Frank Hamilton, and Mrs. F. H. Cushing— objects
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22 1. [Collectors and donors, D]

2. DeGuerrero, E. A. P., Nicaragua Collection, 1890-1900
3. Deisher, H. K.— correspondence re baskets, 1905-1918
4. Deisher, H. K.— price list and catalogue of baskets
5. Deisher, H. K.— collection lists
6. Deisher, H. K.— [original object description, ?catalog]
7. Dickeson, M. W.— collection (NA 14230-14849), [correspondence, notes and article
draft (bio)], 1899-1900
8. Dickeson-Egan— (Mississippi) Panorama, correspondence and photographs, 1946-
1953
9. [Dickeson, M. W.— Mississippi mound drawings and plans (may include some C. S.
Rafinesque drawings)]
10. [Dickeson, M. W.— Artifact and skeletal drawings (including Peruvian and Bolivian
artifacts)]
11. [Dickeson, M.W.— Catalogue (photocopy, 1 of 2)]
12. [Dickeson, M.W.— Catalogue (photocopy, 2 of 2)]
13. [Dickeson, M.W.— Catalogue transcriptions]

23 1. Donaldson, Thomas C.— correspondence, catalogue of collection, and object tags

2. Drexel, Lucy W.— Quirigua casts, 1893-1900
3. Collectors and Collections, E
4. Ecuadorian Gold Hoard, La Tolita Island, Esmeralda Province (Pablo Isaias Sanchez,
Amsinck & Co.)
5. Emmons, G. T.— correspondence re: collections and Tahltan Indians publication, 1906-
1912
6. Emmons, G. T.— correspondence re: collections, 1915-1938
7. Emmons, G. T.— correspondence and notes re: jade collections, 1940-1943
8. Collectors and collections, F-G
8.5 Furness, Horace Howard, shell amulet, 1890 – F. H. Cushing letter
9. Gordon, G. B.— collection invoices, payments, and correspondence with dealers, 1905-
1914
10. Gordon, G. B.— collection lists, 1908, 1915, 1920, 1921, 1926, 1927
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24 1. Gratacos— Panama Gold, Mason correspondence regarding, 1940

2. Gratacos— Panama Gold, Mason correspondence regarding, 1941-1947
3. Collectors and collections, H
Hapgood, Charles see: Julsrud, W.
4. Harper, Thomas— [stone implements exchange with Culin, 1899-1902]
5. Harvey, Fred— Indian Collections, correspondence,1904-1907 (not obtained)
6. Harvey, Fred— Indian Collections, annotated catalogs (not obtained)
7. Henao, Jose T.— [Chibcha gold acquisition, 1920]
8. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— correspondence
9. Hazzard catalogue, 1892— McLoyd–Graham Collection
10. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— packing list [see note first page]

25 1. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Columbian Exposition inventory, 1893 [list by Hector

Alliot?]
2. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Cushing notes with cover letter, 1895
3. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Howard index ? (Satterthwaite note, 1956)
4. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— list of objects given to Berkeley, 1901
5. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— notes on object provenience, ca. 1890
6. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Southwest mummies and associated pieces
7. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— misc. tags and notes
8. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— C. Barre's reproduction of Wetherill catalog
9. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— C. Barre list-objects without original numbers
10. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— C. Barre's write-up on McLoyd-Graham Collection
11. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Dr. Robert Harris correspondence on corn, 1896
12. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— C. Osborne correspondence regarding processing, 1964
13. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— resin analysis of S.E. Utah objects, 1941
14. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Sharrock's index of data

26 1. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Sharrock's "The Hazzard Collection" from Archives for

American Archaeology
2. Hazzard/Hearst Collection— Sharrock correspondence
3. Hazzard/Hearst Collection
4. Heye Collection— Kiowa & Caddo object cards
5. Heye Collection— W. C. Orchard Expedition— N. Plains, 1911
6. Heye Collection— M. R. Harrington re: loan of Heye objects, 1912
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26 7. Heye Collection— McIlhenny Eskimo objects exchanged, 1913

(cont.) 8. Heye Collection— lists of North American specimens exchanged
9. Heye Collection— loans to University Museum-North American collections, pre-1914
10. Heye Collection— exchange of North American objects from Heye to University
Museum (two lists)
11. Heye Collection— misc. Heye papers
12. Heye Collection— numbered object list
13. Heye Collection— Montagnais Collection from Heye papers (Speck ?)
14. Heye Collection— 1909 acquisitions
15. Heye Collection— acquisitions checked in May 1910
16. Heye Collection— object lists checked in Nov.1910
17. Heye Collection— Andrus and wampum collections, 1911
18. Heye Collection— items checked in 1911, recorded Feb.1912
19. Heye Collection— object lists, June 1912
20. Heye Collection— Heye lists of Wallis Micmac Collection, 1912
21. Heye Collection— Northwest Coast pipe list, 1912
22. Heye Collection— specimens sent to Prof. Saville,1912
23. Heye Collection— list of objects at Academy of Music, 1912

27 1. Heye Collection— removals by Pepper and Harrington, 1912-1914

2. Heye Collection— list of loans to schools, 1913
3. Heye Collection— object list, June 1913
4. Heye Collection— objects checked Feb.1914
5. Heye Collection— objects checked Mar.1914
6. Heye Collection— objects checked May 1914
7. Heye Collection— Harrington (treaty belt)
8. Heye Collection— Plains
9. Heye Collection— E. Singer notes on nets, bags and hammocks
10. Heye Correspondence, 1907-1910
11. Heye Correspondence, 1910-1911
12. Heye Correspondence, 1912-1913
13. Heye Correspondence, 1914-1915
14. Heye Correspondence, 1915-1922
15. Heye Correspondence, 1925-1940
16. Heye— purchase of robe from, by Gordon
17. Heye, George G., Collection— exchange, 1909
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28 1. Indian Exhibits Company, 1907

2. Isaacs, J. L. purchases, 1917
3. Jewett Collection, 1918
4. Johnson, Frank M., Collection— Punta Rassa Florida
Johnson, Fredrick see: Speck, Frank— lists of collections
5. Johnson, H. L.— Midwest collection, 1892
6. Jones, Francis D.— notes re: Chitimacha Indian basket, 1904
7. Jones, Dr. Joseph
Julsrud, W. see: Box 28B
8. Kalebdjian, Aztec "Paris" collection, 1920
9. Kalebdjian, list of Colombian gold collection
10. Keam, Thomas V.— Hopi and Navajo games, 1899-1900
11. Kelley, Matthew— Iowa medical weasel, Jan. 1930
12. Kercher, Mrs. D. E— plants used by Colorado Indians, 1894
13. Kesler, C. W.— North Carolina collection, 1893
14. Kilburn, Mrs. Sarah— Peruvian cup, 1943
15. Kircheirer— Northwest Coast collection via Benham Ind. Trading Co., 1905
16. Ladd, Mrs. Westray, Collection— general North American
17. Ladd, Mrs. Westray— Navajo blanket, 1936
18. Lamborn, Robert— Pan-American collection
19. Lamborn Collection— Register
Landsberg, Frederick see: Wanamaker Expedition
20. Lathbury, Col. Benjamin B., Collection, 1922
21. Laubach, Chas.— notes and maps, Pennsylvania
22. Lavayen— Jivaro Indian heads, 1904
23. Leidy, Joseph— Cape Henlopen material
24. Lemal, D. J.— Mexican bronzes, 1930
25. Lenders, E. W.— exchange/purchase, 1912
26. Lex, Francis P.— Sioux collection, 1916
27. Lines, Jorge— correspondence re: Costa Rican Pottery, 1934
28. Lippincott Collections— West Virginia, 1937 & 1951
28. Ludwig, Walter K.— North Carolina collection
30. Lumholtz, Carl— correspondence re: Mexican collection, with American Museum of
Natural History
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28B 1. Julsrud, W. Collection— Di Peso, Charles, 1955-56

2. Julsrud, W. Collection— Hapgood, Charles, 1955-56
3. Julsrud, W. Collection— Russell, William, 1953-54
4. Julsrud, W. Collection— Young, Arthur, 1955
5. Julsrud, W. Collection— Exhibit Labels
6. Julsrud, W. Collection— Hapgood Reports, 1-10
7. Julsrud, W. Collection— Hapgood Reports, 1-10, Revised
8. Julsrud, W. Collection— Data Supplied by Hapgood
9. Julsrud, W. Collection— Notes and Data
10. Julsrud, W. Collection— Photos (From Mr. Young)
11. Julsrud, W. Collection— Publications
12. Julsrud, W. Collection— Comics, by Animal Type
13. Julsrud, W. Collection— Comics, Miscellaneous

29 1. Macauley, Capt. C. N. B.— correspondence re: Southwest collection, 1890-1895

2. Macauley, Mary Yorke, Collection, 1902
3. Maratta, H. G.— Arizona sandstone charms, 1902
4. Marshall, John— Omaha bow and arrow, 1920
5. Martin, George C.— Texas Coastal Collection, 1930
6. Martin, T. P.— Southwest/Taos game (?)
7. Marye, William, Collection, 1943
8. Mayer, John, Collection— Santarem, Tapajos pottery
9. McCall— Puno Peruvian silver, 1826
10. McIlhenny, James (through Selina)— baskets, 1920
11. McIlhenny, Sara Avery— Chitimacha baskets, correspondence, 1905
12. McCune, John B.— Illinois Collection, 1882
13. McLaughlin, J. H.— buffalo robes, 1911 [South Dakota dealer]
14. McNeely, R. K.— Utah Cliff-Dweller artifacts, 1895
15. Mecker, Louis— Sioux hoop, exchange with Lenders,1901-1902, with notes
16. Meirs, Mrs. Richard Waln— Washo baskets
17. Meirs— data on basket-maker Dat-so-la-lee and acquisition, 1938
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30 1. Merritt, J. S. F., Collection

2. Metcalfe— Northwest Coast (Tlingit) mountain sheep horn spoon, donation, 1965
3. Miller, Sarah Wistar, Collection, 1899
4. Mitchell, S. D.— Wisconsin copper, 1889-1890, with Abbott-Putnam correspondence
5. Monday, H. A., Collection— Mexico
6. Monski, John— Vera Cruz figurines, 1938
7. Mooney, James— notes on Southwestern sherds, pre-1903
8. Moore, Charles C., Collection— Wyoming Shoshone, 1918
9. Moore, Clarence B., Collection— correspondence
10. Moore, Clarence B., Collection—re: sale to Heye Foundation, 1929
11. Moorehead, W. K.— Johnson Expedition, 1920
12. Moreland— sherd collection, 1968
13. Morris, John— Haida copper, 1894
14. Murray, Ernest— Crow collection, 1926

31 1. Newcombe, C. F.— Chilcotin baskets, G. B. Gordon correspondence, 1907-1909,

acquired 1915
Newcombe, C. F. see also: Wanamaker Expedition— collections from C. F.
Newcombe, 1900
2. Newell, William B., Collection, 1942
3. Nicholson, Grace, Indian Collection— correspondence with Gordon
4. Niederlein, Gustave— Honduran items correspondence, 1898
5. Nisbet, Verner— Catawba pipes, 1901
6. Nuila, H. M.— Honduran alabaster vase, 1915
6b. Numismatic and Antiquarian Society, Philadelphia, 1894, 1955
7. Oldach, Mrs. Carl A.— Mexican collection correspondence
8. Osborne, L. de J., Collection— Guatemala correspondence, 1933-1945
9. Osborne, L. de J., Collection of textiles, 1933
10. Osborne, L. de J.— Archaeological Collection
11. Osterheld, Hattie— Chiriqui pottery, 1913
12. Outhette Venezuelan Collection, 1926
13. Overton, Clough, Southwest Collection— correspondence re sale of, 1902
14. Parsons, Ella, Collection
15. Patton, John W., Collection— correspondence re:
16. Paxson, Henry D.— stone implements
16b. Peale, Franklin— Stone Implements
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31 17. Pearce, J. E., Collection— Texas, 1930

(cont.) 18. Pearsall, Mrs. M. C.— Northwest Coast specimens, 1905
19. Peirce, John— totem poles, 1930
20. Pepper, William— North Dakota Sioux, 1891-1895
21. Perez, Albert— Costa Rica gold, 1919
22. [Peruvian material— notes by Tello, Uhle and Lehman, n.d.]
23. Petrie, Elizabeth Lauder— Aztec obsidian, 1897
24. Petroff Collection— Northwest Coast, 1884, 1894
25. Philadelphia Art Galleries— purchases by J. A. Mason, 1927
26. Plimpton Basket Collection— Newell-Gordon correspondence, 1906-1918
27. Porter, Major F. Johnstone— "Inca" gold vessels, 1925
28. Post, Fred— Shoshone (Washakie) pipe and pouch, Culin correspondence, 1898
29. Potts, Mrs. Francis— Chilkat blanket, c. 1922
30. Price Basket Collection, 1947
31. Pusey, Mrs. A. Edith— Winnebago club, 1962
32. Putnam, F. W.— Columbian pottery presented by Peabody Museum, 1894
33. Quelch, J. J. — British Guiana Collection
34. Quinton, Amelia S.— Indian baskets

32 1. Correspondence re: Rafinesque "Walum Olum" (Vogelin, Lilly, Mason)

2 Ray, P. H.— catalogue, 1907
3. Ray, P. H., Collection— correspondence, 1907-1908
4. Reagan, William— Pennsylvania Indian objects, 1950
5. Reath, B. B.— Polk County hematite paint stone, 1897
6. Rhoads, Samuel— beaver teeth, 1900
7. Rhodes, E. M. & Co.— correspondence re: Northwest Coast objects, 1905-1907
8. Rindge, Fred Hamilton, Collection, 1929
9. Roberts, Miss Francis A.— Patagonian Tehuelches rhea robe, 1931
10. Robinson, Mrs. M. D.— Tahoe basket, 1948
11. Roddy, T. R.— correspondence, 1904-1907
12. Rogers, Fred— Hupa Indian costume
13. Rosenbach, A. S. W, Collection— Jivaro heads, 1930
14. Rust Collection
15. Saportas, Mrs. G. A.— Navajo blanket, 1940
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32 16. Scott Collection— Peru, 1894
see also: Expedition Records— South America— H. N. Wardle, Box 18, Fol. 1
(cont.) 17. Sheeler, Charles— Aztec head
18. Schoen— feather cape
19. Shumway, Helen and A. A., Collection, 191620.
20. Sloan, C. G. & Co.— Gordon purchases from, 1916
21. Smaltz Mesoamerican Collection, 1958
22. Smith, Harlan I., Collection, 1891
23. Smith, Horace J., collection, 1897
24. Speck, F. G.— lists of collections
25. Speck, F. G.— Penobscot Collection
26. Spiegelberg, Willi— Apache shields and clubs, 1917
27. Stardley, J. E.— Gordon correspondence, 1906
28. Starr, George, Collection, 1903-1906 (and Henry Voth)
29. Starr, Laura— Gift, Gulf of California image, n.d.
30. Stearns Collection— Chiriqui, Panama, 1918

33 1. Steiner, Roland— Georgia Indians, 1900-1902

Stephens, Charles, Collection see boxes 34, 35, 36, 37
2. Stevenson, Sara Yorke— "Sitting Bull" Collection
3. Sutton, W. S. (dealer)— Eskimo & Northwest Coast, 1914-1915
4. Swayne, G. H., 1893 (through C. C. Abbott)
5. Tabasco celts
6. Thompson, A. H., Southwest Collection, 1901
7. Thompson, Mrs. Mary Abbott— Plains Collection, 1916
8. Tumen, Mrs. Henry— carvings
9. Vaillant, George— Peruvian Collection, informal Bruckner list of
10. Valentine, L. G.— Honduras Collection, 1914
11. Venezuelan Government Gift, 1893-1894
12. Volke, Ernest— correspondence concerning
13. Von der Lieth, T. R.— Chiriqui pottery, 1916-1918
14. Velasco— Nicaraguan jade, 1898
15. Verrill, A. Hyatt— Central and South American Collections, 1926-1929
Voy, C. D. Collection see: Administrative Records— Oceanian Section
16. Wah-ta-Waso robe— Gordon purchase, 1911
17. Wainwright, Mrs. T. F. D.— Plains shirt, 1962
18. Walde-Waldegg, Herman Von, 1936-1947
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Record Group: American Section, Curatorial
Series: Collectors and Collections
Staff Name/Date: G. Grentzenberg, 1987

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33 19. Wanamaker, John— Gordon store purchases, 1906
(cont.) 20. Wanamaker Expedition— Frederick Landsberg, Northwest collecting for Culin, 1900
21. Wanamaker Expedition— corresp. re: Hupa, Goddard & Dorsey-Culin, 1900-1901
22. Wanamaker Expedition— C. F. Newcombe correspondence, 1900-1901

34 1. Stephens Collection— 1891 Blackfoot notebook with Eyman reproduction

2. Stephens Collection— early catalogue
3. Stephens Collection— correspondence and artifact lists, 1893-1897
4. Stephens Collection— Eyman notes on Blackfoot material
5. Stephens Collection— Eyman essay draft
5a. Stephens Collection— H. N. Wardle— Misc. processing notes, 1930
6. Stephens Collection— Eyman photographs of objects
7. Stephens Collection— Eyman correspondence re: beaver bowl
8. Stephens Collection— Seminole items correspondence
9. Stephens Collection— Lewis, George F.— Tempe pottery sold to Stephens, 1920

35 1a. Misc. notebooks

1. Stephens— non-collection material
2. Stephens— non-collection material
3. Stephens— correspondence, 1876-1931
4. Stephens— loan period correspondence, 1931-1945
5. Stephens Collection— correspondence regarding, 1945
6. Stephens Collection— price sheets, misc.
7. Stephens Collection— clippings file #1
8. Stephens Collection— clippings file #2
9. Stephens Collection— Wardle-Mason catalogue, ca.1945

36 1. Stephens Collection— misc. Blackfoot material, 1890's

2. Stephens Collection— object data ?, #1
3. Stephens Collection— object data ?, #2
4. Stephens Collection— object data ?. #3
5. Stephens Collection— object data ?, #4
6. Stephens Collection— misc., ca. 1890 (includes Pine Ridge Wounded Knee letter)
7. Stephens Collection— drawings & photographs with information

37 Stephens Collection— Illustrated Object Cards

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38 1. Wanamaker Expedition— general correspondence, 1900

2. Wanamaker Expedition— G. Dorsey Klamuth collection, 1900 ?
3. Wanamaker Expedition— N. Joseph correspondence, 1900
4. Wanamaker Expedition— Makah objects correspondence, C. Williams-Culin, 1900-
1901
5. Wanamaker Expedition— Culin general correspondence, packing lists, 1901
6. Wanamaker Expedition— T. Keam correspondence, 1901
7. Wanamaker Expedition— Canadian Iroquois purchases, 1901
8. Wanamaker Expedition— Babbitt Brothers, Southwest suppliers, 1901
9. Wanamaker Expedition— E. W. Volz, Southwest supplier, 1901 [Scores Collection]
10. Wanamaker Expedition— Wetzler Brothers, Southwest suppliers, 1901
see also: Expedition Records— North America— United States— Culin-Wanamaker
11. War Eagle (Chief)— drum, Wolf Clan Oklahoma, 1930
12. Watmough, Miss Marjorie— Indian costume, 1912
13. Watts, William, Collection
14. Weaver, P. Lyle, Collection, 1912
15. Weight, A. B.— Sioux Collection, 1894
16. Weiss and Schmidt— Rio Negro Collection, 1906
17. Wetherill— Navajo objects, correspondence, 1904
18. Wheeler, Mrs. Walter S.— Eskimo carving
19. White, Edward, Collection, 1913
20. Whitman, E. S.— Lacandon bark shirt, Mexico, 1958
21. Wicker Collection— Costa Rica, 1918
21a. Wilkins, Paul R. & Samuel H., 1942, 1951
22. Wilkinson, J. L.— South American silver, 1911
23. Willard, Mrs. De Forest— Navajo blankets, 1934
24. Willard, F. P., Collection, 1923
25. Wilson, J. Lapsley— Gift, 1924
26. Wise, John— textile and lienzo, 1941, 1944
27. Wood, Edward— Birchbark Collection
28. Wood, H. C.— Penobscot ? Birchbark Canoe, 1898
29. Wood, Mrs Randolph— Totem Pole, 1896
30. Woolworth, Mrs. E. G.— Blankets, 1924
31. Worth, John G.— Blanket Collection, 1917-1926
32. Worth, John G., Collection
33. Wright, Harry B.— Bequest
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38 34. Wright, Harry B.— Pan-American Collection

(cont.) 35. Wyman, Walter, Collection (dealer)
36. Zeller— "Cliff-Dweller" Basket correspondence, 1905-1907 and commentary, 1920-
1921
37. Zingg, Robert M.— Notes on Huichol Indians, Pt. I (UM Acc. #38-23- )
38. Zingg, Robert M.— Notes on Huichol Indians, Pt. II (UM Acc. #38-23- )
39. Zingg, Robert M.— Notes on Huichol Indians, Pt. III (UM Acc. #38-23- )
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Series: Collectors and Collections— Arctic and Northwest Coast
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39 1. McIlhenny, Edward Avery— correspondence re: expedition and collection, 1897-1899

2. McIlhenny, Edward Avery— catalog of specimens
3. Bernard, Capt. Joseph, Collection— correspondence, 1914-1919
4. Bernardi, Susie R., Collection, 1905-1907
5. Bryant, Henry G.— Eskimo Collection, 1907
6. Cadwalader, Charles— Greenland Eskimo Collection
7. Comer, George— Eskimo Collection, ca. 1900
8. Larsen, Helge— Gift, Danish National Museum, Pt. Spencer, Alaska correspondence
9. Lipton— Gift, Eskimo shoes, 1964
10. Daland, Dr. Judson, Collection, 1926
11. Dimoski, Lee, Collection, 1918
12. Erickson— figure and harpoon, 1971
13. Yukon Island— moose bones, correspondence regarding, 1957
14. De Laguna Collections— Osgood-Crownover correspondence, 1971
15. Madara, Guy, Collection, 1917
16. Prince William Sound— Oetteking-Mason correspondence regarding, 1943-1966
17. Receipt— Eskimo ? pottery purchase, 1905
18. Eskimo boat— Scull-Gordon letter
19. Stevenson-Balch correspondence, ca. 1905
20. Van Valin Collection— Birnik bones, Eyman - J. Ford correspondence, 1957
21. Van Valin— Point Barrow Collection still property of Mrs. Ethyl B. Van Valin,
correspondence, 1961-1962
22. Balch, Dr. Edward, Collection— ?, Vincent/Peary Expedition
23. Wiestling, G. L., Collection, 1905
24. Wilcox, Ida C.— Northwest Coast Collection
25. Willcox, James— Eskimo Collection, 1927
26. Eskimo
27. Eskimo barrel contents information
28. Eskimo object drawing, walrus tusk with caribou hunt engraving
29. Copper River Collection packing list, ca. 1905 [may not be U. M. collection]0
30. Painting of northern Athabascan camp— Witthoft/ Eyman-Rainey letter
31. Eskimo masks
32. Okvik Eskimo— archaeology exhibit case, June 1953
33. Eskimo objects
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Series: Deaccessions and Loans
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40 1. Peru & Chiriqui objects loan— Culin-H. G. Clay agreement, 1892

2. Mercer-Culin exchange catalogue, 1894-1900
3. Culin-Giglioli exchanges, 1894-1902
4. Berlin collection, 1897-1904
5. Wanamaker Expedition Pomo objects— exchange with Field Columbian Museum
6. Wanamaker Expedition— exchange with Field Columbian Museum, 1901
7. Field Columbian Museum— fossils, sale and exchange of, 1899-1901, 1902
8. Commercial Museum exchanges, correspondence, 1901
9. Exchange— F. Starr spearthrowers for Cushing reproductions, 1901
10. Pachacamac specimens to Chicago Field Museum, list, 1901, 1905
11. Partial Biddle Collection return, 1902
12. E. W. Lenders Exchange, 1908
13. E. W. Lenders Exchange, 1912
14. E. W. Lenders Exchange, 1917
15. Kiowa material to J. Mooney, 1917
16. Marajo pottery - Santa Marta material exchange with Chicago Field Museum,
information, 1926, 1931
17. Loan of Southwestern pottery to Laboratory for Anthropology, Univ. of New Mexico,
1932
18. Pennsylvania State Museum deaccessions, 1932
19. List of objects for distribution to members
20. Mason alpha. correspondence re: exchanges and loans, 1934-1952
21. Wardle list of objects placed in Education Department, 1939
22. Wardle loan list, 1941
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41 1. Southwest pottery loan to Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, 1941

2. Downtown Gallery loan, 1942
3. T. Hamilton correspondence with Mason, 1944
4. Information on Mexican gold objects stolen, 1949
5. Miscellaneous curatorial
6. Exchange of Museum slides for Haitian objects— Kurt A. Fischer
7. Exchange— Iroquois masks for New York pottery,
8. American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) photographic loan, 1953-1954
9. List (incomplete) of Catlin specimens on loan, New Jersey State Museum, 1956
10. Eyman papers re: Denver Art Museum exchange, 1954
10a. Loan to Koninklijk Instituut voor den Tropen, Amsterdam, 1956
11. Denver Art Exchange— Eyman-Conn correspondence, 1956-1957
12. Denver Art Exchange— Eyman-Conn correspondence, 1957-1959
13. Denver Art Exchange— Eyman-Conn-Stroller correspondence, 1958
14. Denver Art Exchange— Eyman papers
15. Denver Art Exchange— Eyman-Hasserick/ Feder correspondence
16. Pennsylvania State Museum Exchange— Eyman, 1958
16a. Memo on Loans, 1959
17. Valley Forge Historical Society Exchange— Eyman, unidentified
18. Hazzard/Hearst Glen Canyon Loan to Salt Lake Art Center, 1963-1964
19. Loan to Lowie Museum, Berkeley— Eyman, 1964-1966
20. Keokuk Catlin Loan to Denver Art Museum, 1966
21. Eyman— "old correspondence" re: collections
22. Sale of Catlin and King Paintings, 1971
23. Piedras Negras Exchange, 1938-1956
24. Indian Paintings, sale of, 1971
25. Catlin Restoration— Siegl & Ewers