Edward H. Davis papers, 1910-1944.
Collection Number: 9166
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Edward H. Davis papers, 1910-1944.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
9166
Abstract:
Field notebooks, sketchbooks, manuscripts, and correspondence, pertaining primarily
to Indians of California and into Mexico. Includes index. Includes information about
reservations, artifacts, ruins, ceremonies, descriptions of wildlife, landscapes,
languages, and archeological notes. Tribes mentioned include, Pima, Seri, Mayo, Yaqui,
Nayarit (Cora), Yuma, Opata, Modoc, Paiute, Diegueño, Cahuilla, and Soboba Indians.
Creator:
Davis, Edward H., 1862-
Huntington Free Library,
Quanitities:
39 folders.
33 volumes.
2 audiotape reels.
Language:
Collection material in English
Edward Davis was a collector who lived near Mesa Grande outside of San Diego. He collected
ethnographic objects from southern California for George G. Heye's Museum of the American
Indian in New York.
Field notebooks, sketchbooks, manuscripts, and correspondence, pertaining primarily
to Indians of California and into Mexico. Includes index. Includes information about
reservations, artifacts, ruins, ceremonies, descriptions of wildlife, landscapes,
languages, and archeological notes. Tribes mentioned include, Pima, Seri, Mayo, Yaqui,
Nayarit (Cora), Yuma, Opata, Modoc, Paiute, Diegueño, Cahuilla, and Soboba Indians.
Photocopies of all the sketchbooks are included. Also two reels of audio tape regarding
Davis' notebooks.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Edward H. Davis papers, #9166. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Places:
Tiburon Island (Mexico).
Tepic (Mexico).
Sonora (Calif.)
Soboba Indian Reservation (Calif.)
Sinaloa (Mexico : State).
Nogales (Nogales, Mexico).
Mesa Grande Ruins (Mesa, Ariz.)
Kino Bay (Mexico).
Hermosillo (Mexico).
Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula).
Subjects:
Yuma Indians.
Yaqui Indians.
Seri Indians.
Pima Indians.
Paiute Indians.
Opata Indians.
Modoc Indians.
Mayo Indians.
Diegueño Indians.
Cora Indians.
Cahuilla Indians.
Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
Indians of North America -- Languages.
Indians of North America -- History.
Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites.
Indians of North America -- Antiquities.
Indians of North America -- California.
Indians of Mexico.
Indians of North America.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Field Notebooks
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Field Notebook No. 1
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0002
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Box 1 | Volume 1 |
A Desert Tragedy as told by E. A. Holden
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1909 |
Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Easter Sunday - Bucking Judas
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April 10, 1909 |
Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Jeneral Jose Antonio Valenzuela
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1909 |
Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Mine Jumping - Arizona
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February 12, 1910 |
Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Hunting Ollas - Mataguay, and Rincon Indians
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March 10, 1910 |
Box 1 | Volume 1 |
The Desert in Arizona as told by F. F. Bivo
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Box 1 | Volume 1 |
Stories Around the Desert Camp Fire - John McCain
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January 1912 |
Field Notebook No. 2
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0152
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Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Notes and sketches of artifacts dug up by Davis
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Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Language
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Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Trip to Mason - Vallecitos - for mortuary ollas
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March 3, 1918 |
Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Temecula - Pechango and to the house of Lokis Hakiuk and the finding of ceremonial
bundle and its contents
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March 19, 1918 |
Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Trip to Campo Reservation in the pursuit of artifacts
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March 23, 1918 |
Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Story of Gila Monster and how funerary images are made, told by Coleman
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Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Trip to house of Juan Baptiste Lachapo
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March 26, 1918 |
Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Collecting ollas from various sources
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March 27, 1918 |
Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Inventory of Artifacts
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Box 1 | Volume 2 |
Poem by Cunningham
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Field Notebook No. 3
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0206
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Box 1 | Volume 3 |
Death Ceremonies of Indians of So. Cal. - Jose Osuna
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1920 |
Box 1 | Volume 3 |
Ysidro Nejo, San Pascual
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Box 1 | Volume 3 |
Campo - Jim McCarty
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April 7, 1920 |
Field Notebook No. 4
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0298
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Box 1 | Volume 4 |
Trip to Washington, D.C.
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February 1922 |
Box 1 | Volume 4 |
Sonora - Mayo Indians
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1922 |
Box 1 | Volume 4 |
Magdalena -Yaqui Indians
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May 28, 1922 |
Field Notebook No. 5
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0368
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Box 1 | Volume 5 |
Sonora Notes
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1922 |
Field Notebook No. 6
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0483
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Box 1 | Volume 6 |
Trip to Tiburon Island - Seri Indians
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April 25 / May 5, 1922 |
Field Notebook No. 7
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0526
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Box 1 | Volume 7 |
Trip through the Sierra Range, including El Camino Real trail, accompanied by Roberto
Thompson and guides, Juan Gonzalez and Epifanio.
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1923 |
Box 1 | Volume 7 |
Description of flora and fauna
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Box 1 | Volume 7 |
Yaqui Indians. (pg 1 -15)
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1923 |
Box 1 | Volume 7 |
Guaymas and Mazatlan. (pg 15-18)
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Box 1 | Volume 7 |
Sinaloa, Nayarit and Tepic
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Box 1 | Volume 7 |
Huicholi country in the State of Jalisco
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Field Notebook No. 8
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0620
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Box 1 | Volume 8 |
Cora Indians
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1923 |
Box 1 | Volume 8 |
Mesa de Nayarit
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Box 1 | Volume 8 |
Language - Cora/English (pg 174 - 175)
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Field Notebook No. 9
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0686
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Trip to Sonora -Seri, Yaqui, Mayo, and Pima Indians
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March 1924 |
Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Addresses
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Seri words
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Yaqui words
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Accounts payables and receivables, 2/21/24 - 4/17/24
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Inventory of items purchased from the Seri, Yaqui, Pima and Mayo Indians
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Inventory of photographs
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Language, English-Spanish
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Language, Pima
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Box 1 | Volume 9 |
Language, Seri
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Field Notebook No. 10
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0762
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Box 1 | Volume 10 |
Trip from San Diego to Seri and Tiburon Islands accompanied by son Stanley R. Davis
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March 4, 1924 |
Box 1 | Volume 10 |
Yaqui and Mayo Indians.
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Field Notebook No. 11
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0836
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Box 1 | Volume 11 |
Pima -Yaqui Indians
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1924 |
Box 1 | Volume 11 |
Trip through Yaqui and Pima Indian's territory
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April 8, 1924 |
Field Notebook No. 12
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0876
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Box 1 | Volume 12 |
Lower California - La Huerta Rancheria
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January 1926 |
Box 1 | Volume 12 |
San Miguel
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January 17, 1926 |
Field Notebook No. 13
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0903
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Box 1 | Volume 13 |
Sonora and Baja California, 3-4
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1926 |
Box 1 | Volume 13 |
Antonio Lopez - Papago Indian (pg 2-4)
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Box 1 | Volume 13 |
Juati Baptiste -A Mexican boy (pg 4-9)
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Box 1 | Volume 13 |
The Seri Indians (pg 10-13)
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Box 1 | Volume 13 |
Trip to Baja California
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1926 |
Field Notebook No. 14
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0995
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Box 1 | Volume 14 |
California and Sonora
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1926 |
Box 1 | Volume 14 |
Sr. Jose Maria Carrillos, Santa Anita
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1926 |
Box 1 | Volume 14 |
Cabo San Lucas
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1926 |
Box 1 | Volume 14 |
Story of the 7 headed "Serpiente" (pg 68-72)
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1926 |
Field Notebook No. 15
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0002
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Box 1 | Volume 15 |
Indian Words from Jim McCarty, Campo
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February 12, 1926 |
Box 1 | Volume 15 |
Story of Ha Lapooki
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1926 |
Box 1 | Volume 15 |
Jim McCorly of Campo
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1926 |
Field Notebook No. 16
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0061
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Box 1 | Volume 16 |
Sonora
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January 28 / March 5, 1929 |
Box 1 | Volume 16 |
Hermosillo-Johnson Peak
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1929 |
Box 1 | Volume 16 |
Kino Bay
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1929 |
Box 1 | Volume 16 |
Seri Indians
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1929 |
Box 1 | Volume 16 |
Nogales
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January 27, 1929 |
Box 1 | Volume 16 |
Chased by Yaquis
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July 19, 1916 |
Field Notebook No.17
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0130
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Box 1 | Volume 17 |
Klamath Lake, Modoc, Paiute Indians (pg 1-51)
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May 1929 |
Box 1 | Volume 17 |
Honolulu (pg 53-92)
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October 1929 |
Box 1 | Volume 17 |
Frazier Sisters - Palomar Mt. (pg 96-108)
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Field Notebook No. 18
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0194
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Box 1 | Volume 18 |
Hermosillo, Hayward and San Francisco
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April 14-23, 1935 |
Box 1 | Volume 18 |
Making hair rope -Yuma
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June 7-8, 1935 |
Field Notebook No. 19
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0221
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Box 1 | Volume 19 |
Hermosillo
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1934 |
Field Notebook No. 20
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0306
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Box 1 | Volume 20 |
Tiburon Island, Seri Indians
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1935 |
Box 1 | Volume 20 |
Hermosillo, Kino Bay
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1936 |
Field Notebook No. 21
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0362
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Box 1 | Volume 21 |
Hermosillo, Tiburon Island, Seris, Yaquis
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1936 |
Field Notebook No. 22
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0440
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Box 1 | Volume 22 |
Tiburon Island -Seri and Yaqui Indians with Roberto Thompson and William G. Watts
-Sonora, Mexico
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1939 |
Field Notebook No. 23
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0490
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Box 1 | Volume 23 |
Mexico, Pyramids
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1944 |
Field Notebook Unnumbered
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0548
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Box 1 | Volume Koorook |
Koorook Ceremony of the Yuma Indians
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1935-1936 |
Series II. Sketch Books
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Sketchbook No. 1
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0071
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Box 1 | Volume S1 |
2nd collection of Indian Ollas colllected in 1916 and sold to Mr. Heye of N.Y. - sketches
of pipes.
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December 1916-1917 |
Sketchbook No. 2
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0120
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Box 1 | Volume S2 |
Sketches of arrow straighteners, Cahuilla, Malki Torres Indian Reservations. Desert
ollas gathered from Palm Springs, Martinez, Torres, Banning, Soboba, and Cahuilla
Indian Reservations.
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Sketchbook No. 3
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0228
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Box 1 | Volume S3 |
Sketches of landscapes, rattle, skeleton frame used in Karook Ceremony, tubes, axes.
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September 1919 |
Sketchbook No. 4
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0251
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Box 1 | Volume S4 |
Sketches of ollas, flutes, rattle celts, baby cradle. Pima Indians.
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December 1918-1919 |
Sketchbook No. 5
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0368
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Box 1 | Volume S5 |
Sonora Sketches - Tiburon Island, Pueblo Viejo - Opata, Opodepe -Yuqui
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1922 |
Sketchbook No. 6
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 1, Frame 0651
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Box 1 | Volume S6 |
Sketches of landscapes, artifacts and maps of various trails through the Sierra Madre
range. Cora and Huichole Indians in the State of Nayarit, Mexico.
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1923 |
Sketchbook No. 7
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0014
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Box 1 | Volume S7 |
Notes and sketches of landscapes, cave paintings, tubes, arrow points Baja California.
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1926 |
Sketchbook No. 8
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0045
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Box 1 | Volume S8 |
Notes and sketches of landscapes, tubes, rock artifacts - Baja California near Cabo
San Lucas.
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April 1926 |
Sketchbook No. 9
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Scope and Contents
Also available on Reel 2, Frame 0119
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Box 1 | Volume S9 |
Sonora sketches and notes, Yaqui language, Seri ollas, Johnson Mt. landscapes including
cave.
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1929 |
Series III. Additional Material
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Tape Recording 10162 | tr-10162 |
Notes about the notebooks
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7" reel
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Scope and Contents
From label: includes Seris, Tiburon Island, Sonora
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Tape Recording 10163 | tr-10163 |
Notes about the notebooks
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7" reel
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Scope and Contents
From label: Side 1: #8 Cora, #5 Tucson, Opata. Side 2: #5 1922 Tuape, Opata; #7 1923
Huichols, Cora; #13 1926 Seri.
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Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Guide and microfilming instructions
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Library correspondence regarding E. H. Davis and the collection.
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Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Additional guide and biographic information regarding E. H. Davis
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Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Vanished Tribes of Lower California manuscript, copies
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1926 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Envelope from Koorook notebook
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Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Notes on language
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Box 1 | Folder 5 |
The Indians of Southern California Article written by Edward H. Davis, Chief of Powan
Lodge -1927 Mesa Grande, San Diego
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July 1927 |