National Anthropological Archives
Raoul Weston La Barre papers
La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996
NAA.1976-057
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7 Linear feet
1934-1970
Raoul Weston La Barre was an anthropologist and ethnologist who is best known for his work with ethnobotany, his work on Native American religion, and for applying psychiatric and psychoanalytic theories to ethnography. This collection primarily contains materials relating to his 1935-1936 field work in Oklahoma and 1937-1938 field work in Bolivia, but also contains materials relating to his interest in the use of peyote and other hallucinogenic drugs which dates through the 1960s.
Collection is primarily in English. Some materials are in other languages.
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects part of the work and study of Raoul Weston La Barre, anthropologist and ethnologist. Included are field notes, research noteslips, correspondence, bound and unbound manuscripts, a scrapbook, materials on ethnobotany, photographs, special subject files, and miscellany consisting of publications, processed material and clippings.
The collection is divided into three broad subject areas. The Kiowa Studies and Peyote Studies relate to La Barre's field trips to Oklahoma in 1935 and 1936 and his study of peyotism and the ethnography of the Kiowa Indians. Considerable material relates to the Native American Church. The field notes are the result of interviews with informants among the Kiowas and have never been published. There is also some material on Kiowa linguistics. Related photographs (in Boxes 12 and 13) include portraits of Indians, many of whom were active in the Native American Church and peyotism.
Other Peyote Studies materials represent La Barre's interest in peyote and drug use during the 1960s. Much of this material relates to the Kiowa-Peyote Materials but with less emphasis on the Kiowa and more emphasis on hallucinogenic drugs. Some attention is paid to legal aspects of religious use of peyote.
The Aymara Studies relate to La Barre's field trip to Bolivia, 1937-1938. Most of the material pertains to the culture of the Aymara, with some lesser emphasis on the Uru and the Chipaya. Aymara linguistics, folklore and ethnobotany are included. Related photographs (in Box 14) cover a cross section of the cultures with an emphasis on the festivals and dancing of the Aymara.
The correspondence throughout the entire collection deals mainly with the editing and publication of La Barre's various manuscripts. Very little correspondence is of a professional nature. Among correspondents whose letters are included are Richard E. Schultes, Donald Collier, John Collier, Leslie Spier, William Bascom, Heinrich Kluver, Julian H. Steward, Morris Opler, Elsie Clues Parsons, Alfred Wilson, Alfred Metraux, Sol Tax, and G. P. Murdock.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in 5 series: (1) Kiowa Studies, 1935; (2) Peyote Studies, 1937-1970; (3) Aymara Studies, 1937-1959; (4) Photographs, 1934-1938; (5) La Barre Term Papers, 1934-1935
Biographical Note
Raoul Weston La Barre was born on December 13, 1911, in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1933 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1937. He is best known for his work with ethnobotany, his work on Native American religion, and for applying psychiatric and psychoanalytic theories to ethnography.
He conducted field work among the Kiowas in Oklahoma under the auspices of the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology in 1935. In 1936, he conducted field research among Plains Indians in Oklahoma with R. E. Schultes for the Yale Institute of Human Relations. This work primarily concerned the Native American Church and the use of peyote and formed the basis for his 1937 dissertation thesis, "The Peyote Cult," as well as his 1938 book of the same name. His interest in the use of peyote and other hallucinogenic drugs continued throughout his career. He earned a Sterling Fellowship at Yale in 1937, which allowed him to conduct field work among the Aymaras and Urus in Bolivia from 1937 to 1938.
La Barre went to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, on a postdoctoral fellowship from the Social Science Research Council in 1938. While there, he was trained in psychoanalysis and conducted research. When he completed the fellowship in 1939, he gained a teaching position at Rutgers University, where he remained until 1943.
During World War II, he worked as a Community Analyst for the War Relocation Authority in Utah and was trained as a parachustist. He also served on the staff of Field Marshal Montgomery. In the later stages of the war, he conducted field research in China and India (1943-1945). Finally, he worked with the Atlantic Fleet until his discharge from the naval reserve in 1946.
After leaving the military, La Barre took a position at Duke University, where he taught anthropology from 1946 until his retirement in 1977. During his tenure at Duke, he also taught courses in psychiatry at the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine (1956-1969). He became a James B. Duke Professor of Anthropology at Duke University (an endowed chair) in 1970.
His best-known works are
The Peyote Cult (first published in 1938, reaching its 5th edition in 1989), which studied the use of peyote in the Native American Church, and The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion (1970), which explored the birth of religions through a psychoanalytic lens.
La Barre died on March 13, 1996, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Chronology
1911
Born December 13, Uniontown, Pennsylvania
1933
A. B. Princeton University
1935
Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology—Field work among Kiowas, Oklahoma
1936
Yale Institute of Human Relations—Field work among Plains Indians, Oklahoma, with R. E. Schultes
1937
Ph.D. (Anthropology), Yale University
1937-1938
Sterling Fellowship—Field work among the Aymara and Uru, Bolivia
1938-1939
Research, the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
1939
Married Maurine Boie, July 9
1939-1943
Instructor, Rutgers University
1943
Community analyst, War Relocation Authority, Topaz, Utah
1943-1945
Field work, China and India
1946-1970
Professor, Duke University
1956-1959
Professor, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
1959-1969
Visiting Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
1970-1977
James B. Duke Professor of Anthropology at Duke University
1996
Died March 13, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Processing Information
The folder titles of this collection were written by the creator of the collection, Raoul Weston La Barre. Some of these folder titles include offensive or outdated language. The original titles have been retained to preserve the historical integrity of the archival record. Use of this language does not reflect the views of the National Anthropological Archives or the Smithsonian Institution.
Processed by Anna Z. Thompson October 1998
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Preferred Citation
The Raoul Weston La Barre papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers of Raoul Weston La Barre were received by the National Anthropological Archives in 1975 as a donation from Mr. La Barre.
Related Materials
Weston La Barre papers, University Archives, Duke University, https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/ualabarre/
Selected Bibliography
1937. "The Peyote Cult." PhD diss., Yale University, 1937.
1938. The Peyote Cult. Yale University Publications in Anthropology, no. 19. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1938.
1948. The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau. Memoir series of the American Anthropological Association, no. 68. Menasha, Wisconsin: American Anthropological Association, 1948.
1954. The Human Animal. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1954.
1962. They Shall Take Up Serpents: Psychology of the Southern Snake-handling Cult. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962.
1970. The Ghost Dance: Origins of Religion. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970.
1980. Culture in Context: Selected Writings of Weston La Barre. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1980.
1984. Muelos: A Stone Age Superstition About Sexuality. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
1991. Shadow of Childhood: Neoteny and the Biology of Religion. University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Peyote
Aymara
Uru
Kiowa
Native American Church.
Kiowa Studies
Series 1
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1935
Scope and Contents
This series contains field notes from 1935 which deal with material gathered on the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology field trip. Included are:
Three spiral steno notebooks with notes from conversations with Indian informants. They are arranged in a chronological sequence and contain, among many other items of interest, a diagram of the seating arrangement at peyote meetings and a pattern for buckskin garments.
Notes from the notebooks organized into typed copy for inclusion with the notes of other members of the field trip. Included is information on the sun dance ritual, women's societies, cults, names and naming.
Additional notes on Kiowa ethnography which are typed and bound. All of the daily notes of all of the members of the 1935 Santa Fe Lab are included. Subjects are arranged with most entries recorded with the interviewer's and informant's names as well as the date. There is also a partial index and a genealogical chart.
Chapters written by La Barre for a proposed general ethnography of the Kiowa Indians to be written by William Bascom, Donald Collier, R. Weston La Barre, Bernard Mishkin and Jane Richardson (Hanks). The document was never published.
3 x 5 noteslips containing bibliographic and research notes which represent much of the material used by La Barre in his early study of the Kiowa Indians. The noteslips consist of broad general subgroups pertaining to the Kiowa. Research notes are arranged alphabetically by subject and bibliographic notes are arranged alphabetically by author.
A bound manuscript entitled, "The Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian." This autobiography of Charles E. Apekaum, an interpreter for the 1935 Santa Fe Lab, was recorded by La Barre in Anadarko, Oklahoma in 1936. It was reproduced by Microcard Publications in 1957.
A small booklet on the ethnobotany of the Kiowa which contains fourteen leaves of dried specimens. The samples are generally labeled with the common and scientific names, the name in the Kiowa language and the local Kiowa usage.
Field Notes - Paste-ups of Students' Field Notes
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Notebook One
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Notebook Two
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Notebook Three
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Kiowa Field Trip, #1
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1935
1
Kiowa Field Trip, #2
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1935
1
Kiowa Field Trip, #3
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1935
1
Typescript of Students' Notes on Kiowa Ethnography
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2A
Scope and Contents
All of the daily notes of all of the members of the 1935 field training party of the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology led by A. Lesser of Columbia University. Members of the party were William Bascom, Donald Collier, R. Weston La Barre, Bernard Mishkin and Jane Richardson (Hanks). The document is bound and has 1,314 pages. Some of the chapters were written by La Barre.
Photocopy of Students' Notes
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10 Folders
2B
2C
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Contains copies of typescripts of the students' compiled notes from the previous box to be used for Xeroxing.
Noteslips
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Kiowa Bibliography
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Kiowa Notes
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Kiowa Vocabulary
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3
Manuscripts
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4
"The Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian," 184 pages.
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Miscellaneous Manuscripts
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Plant Specimens
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Genealogical Chart
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oversize
Peyote Studies
Series 2
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1937-1970
Scope and Contents
This series includes correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, and note cards relating to La Barre's study of peyote.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in four subseries: (2.1) Correspondence, 1941-1968; (2.2) Manuscripts, 1937-circa 1964; (2.3) Noteslips, undated; (2.4) Printed and Processed Material, circa 1959-1970
Correspondence
2.1
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1941-1968
Scope and Contents
Some of the material in this sub-series is related to La Barre's continued study of and interest in peyotism. Additional materials refer to his interest in the "drug culture" of the 1960's. Much of the material concerns problems, editorial and otherwise, encountered in publishing various manuscripts, especially the third edition of
The Peyote Cult. There is substantial correspondence with and involving the Shoe String Press. Material of a professional nature dealing with peyote in general and its relationship to the Native American Church in particular is included. Also included is correspondence from/to acquaintances made on field trips in Oklahoma and material on publishing issues.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or institution with which the correspondent was affiliated.
A - H
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Aberle, David
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Anderson, Edward
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American Anthropologist (Ralph Linton)
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5
American Nature Association (Richard Westwood)
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5
Armstrong, Robert
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5
Arons, Myron
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5
George Banta Publishing Company
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5
Barber, Carroll
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5
Bascom, William
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5
Chief Big Elk
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5
Blum, Ralph
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5
Bruman, Henry J.
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5
Collier, Donald
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5
Curtis, Luke
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5
Desmonde, W. H.
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5
Devereux, George
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5
Doubleday, Doran & Co.
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5
Eggan, Fred
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5
Ericson, Keith
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5
Finkelstein, Nat
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5
Fischer, Roland
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5
Fugle, Eugene
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5
Gebhard, Paul
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5
Ginsberg, Allen
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5
Goggin, John M.
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5
Health, Education and Welfare, U.S. Department of (George Cosmides, Gordon Macgregor, W. B. Rankin)
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5
Heifetz, Harold
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5
Hijaf, Luis
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5
Hoebel, E. Adamson
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5
Howard, James
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5
Human Relations Area Files
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5
Hume, C. Ross
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5
Hunt, Henry
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5
I - R
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Interior, U.S. Department of the (John Collier, Alice L. Marriott, H. Scudder Mekeel)
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5
Ishikawa, Motosuke
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5
John, Peter
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5
Jones, Volney H.
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5
Kahan, F. H. (Mrs.)
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5
Kamen-Kaye, Dorothy
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5
Kiev, Ari
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5
Kiraly, Josef
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5
Kirk, Ruth
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5
Kluver, Heinrich
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5
La Farge, Oliver
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5
Leary, Timothy
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5
Legman, G.
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5
Levy, Jerrold
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5
Little Crow, Murray
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5
McAllister, J. Gilbert
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5
MacGregor, Gordon
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5
Machel, Albert
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5
Malouf, Carling
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5
Mead, John A.
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5
Meyers, Edward
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5
Miller. Peter S.
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5
Mirel, Elizabeth
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5
Monro, John U.
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5
Moore, Barrington, Jr.
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5
Opler, Morris E.
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5
Osmond, Humphrey
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5
Parker, Kenneth
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5
Parsons, Elsie Clues
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5
Pettit, James
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5
Prince, Raymond
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5
Rascle, Maurice
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5
Ravicz, Robert
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5
Rebell, Jane M.
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5
Reko, B. P.
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5
Redfield, Robert
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5
Rhodes, Willard
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5
S - Z
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Schultes, R. E.
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5
Shaeffer, James B.
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5
Shoe String Press (A. S. Bittker, Frances T. Ottemiller, Clyde Rykken)
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5
Soustelle, Jacques
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5
Smith, Elna
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5
Speck, F. G.
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5
Spier, Leslie
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5
Spindler, George D.
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5
Stewart, Omer
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5
Tax, Sol
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5
Time, the weekly newsmagazine
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5
Texas Cactus Growers
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5
Vestal, Paul A.
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5
Wallis, Mrs. Wilson (Ruth)
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5
Wasson, R. G.
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5
White, Leslie A.
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5
Wilson, Alfred
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5
Zenner, Walter
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5
Manuscripts
2.2
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1937-circa 1964
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains unbound manuscripts in the form of typewritten texts dealing with peyote and the Native American Church. The manuscripts include academic papers by Richard E. Schultes, descriptions of peyote meetings and position statements on the use of peyote. Bound manuscripts include "The Peyote Cult," La Barre's doctoral dissertation presented at Yale University in 1937 which was the result of two summers of field work. It contains appendices not in any published form of the thesis, a bibliography, photographs, and illustrations.
"The Last Five Years of Peyote Study" anthology with students' criticisms
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circa 1964
5
Scope and Contents
Includes an updated section written especially for the 3rd edition, the index and bibliography, and an anthology on drugs and drug use for parents and physicians with historical notes and a descriptive and annotated bibliography
Unbound
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"Statement," R. Weston La Barre
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1937
5
"Working Paper - Navajo Use of Native Psychoactive Drugs," Jerrold E. Levy
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1963
5
"The Chapter La Barre Didn't Write," Camille Orso
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5
"Plantae Mexicanae VIII," Robert E. Schultes
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5
Untitled paper on peyote by Robert E. Schultes
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5
"The Peyote Cult," R. Weston La Barre
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1964
5
"Statement on Peyote As Presented to the Ecclesiastical Superiors," The Father of the Saint LaBre Indian Mission, Northern Cheyenne Indians, Tongue River Reservation
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1939 June
5
Scope and Contents
Includes sermons given on the subject.
"Statement on Peyote," J. S. Slotkin and Sol Tax
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5
"Psychological Aspects of Menomini Peyotism," J. S. Slotkin
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1951
5
"Peyote Ritual of the Northern Cheyenne"
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5
Manuscripts
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"Preservation of Aboriginal Values as Evidenced by Crow Peyote Leaders," Robert Kiste
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5
"Drug Use: A Manual for Parents and Physicians," R. Weston La Barre
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Bound Manuscript, "The Peyote Cult," clxxix pages
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1937
6
Scope and Contents
This manuscript contains appendices which do not appeart in any published version of the thesis. ny published Numbers following photograph captions in the box list in Series 4 refer to corresponding photographs in this thesis, "The Peyote Cult."
Noteslips
2.3
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undated
Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes 3x5 noteslips containing bibliographic and research notes which represent much of the material used by La Barre in his early study of peyotism. The noteslips consist of broad general subgroups pertaining to peyote. Research notes are arranged alphabetically by subject and bibliographic notes are arranged alphabetically by author. There is some material relating directly to the 3rd edition of
The Peyote Cult.
Peyote—1935
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7A
Datura—Bibliography
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7A
Peyote—Miscellaneous Ref.
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7A
Peyote—Bibliographical items
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7A
Peyote by Tribes
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A
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Anxiety
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Aphrodisiac
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Attitudes-A
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Attitudes-M
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B
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Bean
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Bible
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C
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Christian elements
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Church
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D
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Doctoring
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Drinking
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Drum
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E
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Economics
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F
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Feathers
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Food
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Gourd
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H
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I
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Incense
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J
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K
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L
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Leader
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M
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Mescal
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Maps*
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N
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Narcotic complex
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Native American Church
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O
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Older Persons
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Origin-A
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Origin-P
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P
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Peyote
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Peyote Woman
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Physiology
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Prophecy
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Q
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R
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S
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Schism
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Songs
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Symbolism
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T
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Teonanacarl
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U
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V
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W
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Water
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When
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Where
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Who
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Why
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Women
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X-Y-Z
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Notes on 3rd ed. The Peyote Cult
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Printed and Processed Material
2.4
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circa 1959-1970
Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes various miscellaneous materials such as reprints, pamphlets, and newspaper and magazine clippings emphasize the use of drugs in contemporary society (the 1960s), hallucinogenic drugs in general and mescal and peyote in particular. There is also a "Ku Kluck Klan" broadside warning against the use of "peyota". Other materials include listings of expenses for the summers of 1935 and 1936, sample questionnaires for gathering information about peyote meetings, diagrams of peyote altars, and a resolution of the Native American Church denouncing treatment by the press dated October 2, 1932.
Smithsonian Drug Conference
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1970 June 7-8
8
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, processed, and other materials collected when La Barre was a member of the Smithsonian's Advisory Panel for Drug Exhibit - Anthropological Aspects, 1970. The principal correspondent is William G. Wing; others are S. Dillon Ripley, Ander Richter, Walter Modell, A. R. Lindesmith and P. C. Ritterbush.
Legal File
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1960s
8
Scope and Contents
Includes government documents on the subject of peyote and its religious use as well as correspondence with Barron Bruchlos, a New York City coffee house owner who publicly sold peyote.
Peyote Cult, 3rd ed.
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"Twenty Years of Peyote Studies" (ca. 1959, various materials used in the update "Twenty Years...")
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circa 1959
8
Printed and Processed
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2 Folders
8
Used in "The Peyote Cult" - empty file
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8
Miscellany - Expenses, etc.
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9
Printed and Processed
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2 Folders
9
Aymara Studies
Series 3
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1937-1959
Scope and Contents
This series contains notes, correspondence, and publications related to La Barre's work with the Aymara, Uru, and Chipaya. The materials primarily relate to the Aymara.
Arrangement
This series is arranged in 3 sub-series: (3.1) South American Correspondence, 1937-1959; (3.2) Field Notes, 1937-1938; (3.3) Manuscripts, circa 1948-1949
South American Correspondence
3.1
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1937-1959
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains correspondence. Most of the material is filed under the name of the correspondent, with the rest filed under the name of the institution with which the correspondent was affiliated. Most of the material pertains to the funding and sponsorship for publication of La Barre's various manuscripts and of editorial matters arising from the publication of these texts. There are also materials to and from South American governments concerning the 1937-1938 field trips; and inventory lists concerning material lent to the Newark, New Jersey, Museum for an exhibition in 1941.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
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American Anthropologist (Ralph Linton, J. Alden Mason)
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10
American Museum of Natural History (H. L. Shapiro, G. G. Simpson)
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American Philosophical Society (E. G. Conklin)
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Angel, Laurence
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10
Argentina, Museo de La Plata
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10
B-D
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Beck, Frank
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Bolivia, Republic of
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Brooks, Ernest Jr.
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Botanical Museum, Harvard (H. C. Cutler, F. T. Hubbard)
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10
Bureau of American Ethnology (G. P. Murdock, F. H. H. Roberts, J. H. Steward, Alfred Metraux)
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10
"Chronica Botanica" (Frans Verdoorn)
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10
Duke University Research Council (J. T. Lanning, P. Gross, N. I. White, W. H. Wannamaker)
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10
F-R
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Fortuny's Publishers, Inc.
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10
Ginn & Co.
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10
Hodge, W. H.
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10
International Journal of American Linguistics (Karl F. and Erminie W. Voegelin)
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10
International Missionary Council (J. M. Davis)
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10
Keller
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10
Kroeber Anthropological Society (Sally Martin)
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10
Moreno, H.
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10
The Newark Museum
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10
Newman, M.
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10
Osborne, D.
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10
Potato Association of America, (W. H. Martin)
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10
Raymond, N.
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Richardson, Jane
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Robinson, M.
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Roovers Bros., inc.
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10
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Schmidt, Karl P.
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Schultes, Richard Evans
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Social Science Research Council (Pomfret, John E.)
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Spier, Leslie
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10
The Torrey Botanical Club (Rickett, H. W.)
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10
Tschopik, Harry
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10
The Viking Fund (Fejos, Paul; Osgood, Cornelius)
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Wagley, Charles
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Wright, Harry B.
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Yale University, Office of the Provost
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Field Notes
3.2
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1937-1938
Scope and Contents
This sub-series contains four spiral-bound notebooks which contain notes on vocabulary and linguistics, with some material in prose form and in the vernacular, and 3x5 noteslips of bibliographic and research notes which represent much of the material La Barre used in his early studies of the Aymara. In addition to the main body of notes, there is also a bibliography and a number of special subgroups. There is also some material on the Uru and Chipaya of Bolivia.
Arrangement
Research notes are arranged alphabetically by subject and bibliographic notes by author.
Four small spiral bound notebooks on the Aymara
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1937-1938
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Noteslips
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Aymara Notes
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A
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Anxiety
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Aphrodisiac
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Attitudes-A
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Attitudes-M
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B
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Bean
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Bible
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C
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Christian elements
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Church
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D
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Doctoring
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Drinking
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Drum
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E
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Economics
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F
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Feathers
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Food
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Gourd
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H
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I
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Incense
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J
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K
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L
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Leader
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M
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Mescal
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Maps*
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N
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Narcotic complex
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Native American Church
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O
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Agriculture
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Animal Husbandry
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Apacheta
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Ayullu
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Birth
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Chicha
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Chullpa
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Coca
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Colla
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Dance
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Disease
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Economics
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Ethnobotany
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Ethnometeorology
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Fauna
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Food
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Fuel
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Hair
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History
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House
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Hunting
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Inca
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Kinship
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Language
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Linguistics
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Llama
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Marriage
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Material Culture
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Medicine
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Moities
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Musical instruments
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Physical anthropology
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Political Organization
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Potatoes
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Religion
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Sacrifice
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Sickness
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Social organization
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Temperament
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Textiles
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Tiahuanaco
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Treatment
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Vicuna
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Witchcraft
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Botanical identification
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Botanical Identification
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Aymara Materia Medica
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Animal Materia Medica
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Mineral Materia Medica
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Bibliography for Materia Medica
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Linguistics
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Miscellany
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Uru
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Uru Bibliography
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Chipaya
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Manuscripts
3.3
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circa 1948-1949
Scope and Contents
This sub-series includes typewritten manuscripts which show the results of La Barre's field work in South America and his study of the Aymara. The manuscripts deal broadly with the ethnological and cultural aspects of the Aymara and, more specifically, with their vocabulary and ethnobotany. Included are musical scores and a bound volume of "The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau, Bolivia" which was the original manuscript for the American Anthropological Association's "Memoirs", #68, 1948. It is edited throughout. Also included are three published maps of Bolivia and southern Peru showing political and ethnological aspects of the area and two photostat copied maps detailing the physical characteristics of the area. Lastly, this sub-series includes miscellaneous notes in various forms pertaining to the Aymara and South America. They are recorded in several languages, some in the vernacular. There are also pamphlets, magazine and newspaper clippings, journal articles, and processed materials which cover a wide range of Bolivian and South American topics such as potatoes, llamas, and Incas. The material is in several languages.
"Aymara Biologicals and Other Medicines"
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"Aymara Folktales"
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"Aymara Texts"
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"Aymara Texts, Pacasa Dialect"
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Index - The Aymara of the Lake Titicaca Plateau
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Music (a-h)
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"The Aymara Indians of Lake Titicaca Plateau, Bolivia," bound
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Miscellaneous Maps
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circa 1910-1919
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Printed Material
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Miscellaneous Notes
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Photographs
Series 4
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1935-1938
Scope and Contents
The majority of the Kiowa photographs were taken on La Barre's two field trips to Oklahoma in 1935 and 1936. Many are of Indians whom La Barre had met and with whom he attended peyote meetings. There are no photographs of actual peyote meetings. There are some photographs of the Santa Fe Lab group. Other subjects covered include ceremonial altars, ashes and other paraphernalia as well as ceremonial structures. Included with the ceremonial structures are photographs of the museum-meeting room of the Native American Church in El Reno, Oklahoma. Most photographs are also presented or referred to with captions in the scrapbook, "Kiowa Indian Snapshots, 1935, Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology" (in this series, Box 13) and in "The Peyote Cult," La Barre's doctoral dissertation (Series 2, Box 6). Numbers following photograph captions in the box list refer to corresponding photographs in the thesis copy of "The Peyote Cult."
The scrapbook, in addition to the 1935 photographs from the Santa Fe Lab field trip to the Kiowa, also contains pictures from the 1936 Yale Institute of Human Relations and American Museum of Natural History peyote field trip. Most of the photos have captions. Subjects include portraits of Indians in Oklahoma whom La Barre knew, members of the field trips, and various objects of the peyote ritual.
The last box in this series contains photographs dated from 1937 to 1938, arranged by subject of the Aymara and Uru of Bolivia which were taken by La Barre or a member of his party. Included are a few photographs of Amazon (Bororo) Indians given to La Barre.
The Aymara pictures deal with a number of cultural aspects with an emphasis on festivals and dancing. There are a number of portraits of Indians, none identified. Other subjects addressed include agriculture, boats and fishing, habitations and markets. Religious processions are included under ceremonials. There are three sheets of contact prints which have not been sorted by subject as well as twenty-two color negatives depicting objects in the La Barre Aymara Collection at Duke University. The Uru photographs also cover cultural aspects of their life, but are fewer in number and more limited in scope than the Aymara pictures.
Kiowa - Peyote
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People - Indian, identified (neg)
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Homer Barnett (Buffalo)
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Bert and Rebecca Buffalo
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Alice-Take-It-Out and Lily Buffalo
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Mary Buffalo and Grandchildren
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Mary Buffalo, seated
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Mary Buffalo, tipi poles in background
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Mary and Lily Buffalo on horses
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Lily Buffalo
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Charley Apekaum and Jonathan Koshiway (62)
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Ned Brace (81)
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Old Lady Kintadl
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Little Henry in ceremonial dress - backview
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Little Henry ("Packing Stone") and wife
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Peyote Boys (Kickapoo) (19)
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Peyote Boys (63)
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Peyote Boys
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Ponca Peyote Leaders (33)
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Tom Panther (Shawnee) (27)
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James Sun-Eagle (Pawnee) (Sun-Chief) (32)
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Bert Crowlance
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Sam Bassett, Jim Pettit, Ralph Dent (34)
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Sam Bassett, Jim Pettit, Ralph Dent
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Henry Murdock (Kickapoo) (18)
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Jim Aton (57)
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White Fox
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Kitty Kyabi, Estelle Moonlight-Maiden
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Miss Yale Spotted Bird
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Lynn Ware (part Yaqui)
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Heap o' Bears
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Mack Haag (Cheyenne) (76)
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Senko
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Jonathan Kashiway (Oto) (77)
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Albert Stamp (Seminole) and wife (20)
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Group at Oto meeting (35)
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Alfred Wilson (Cheyenne) (75)
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Old Man Horse, Monroe Huntinghorse, Pitma
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Charley Apekaum
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Monroe Huntinghorse (?), Pitma (?)
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Ceremonial, structures (neg)
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Three unidentified persons in front of tipi
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Museum-meeting room - El Reno (exterior) (79)
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Meeting room (interior) (80)
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1928 Studebaker
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Kickapoo Bark House
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Wichita Grass House (21)
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Wichita Grass House
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Nearly finished "shade" (26)
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"Shade"
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"Shade" being built (25)
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"Sweat-bath lodge" (7)
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Ceremonials (prints)
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Wood placed in ritual position, Wichita moon (50)
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Wichita grass house (21)
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Meeting room (interior) (80)
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Sash, "Dai Be Ga"
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Thunderbird (ashes) (54)
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Ponca - white eagle (ashes)
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"Scissors-tail" bird (ashes) (47)
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Quawpaw altar (85)
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Peyote kerchief (altar cloth) (8)
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Parade (neg)
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Indians mounted on horses in parade
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Indian dancers - parade, Anadarko, OK
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Dancer with feather mask
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Young dancer
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Indian girls riding on car in parade
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Indians walking in parade
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Miscellany (prints)
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Envelope of miscellaneous negatives and contact sheets
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1916 Ford
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Some mescaline visions
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Young Indian boy dancer, Miami, OK
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Little Henry and wife (also known as Packing Stone) Kiowa (33)
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Painting showing "father peyote"
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Headquarters of Native American Church in 1935
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Sam Bassett, Jim Pettit, Ralph Dent
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Tennyson Berry
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Peyote boys
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Lily Buffalo
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Victor Griffin (Quapaw)
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Old Lady Kintadl
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Jonathan Koshiway (Oto)
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Dancer with feather mask
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Miscellany - Non-Indian (neg)
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Two men on horseback
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Two unidentified persons
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Donald Collier
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Donald Collier, Jane Richardson Hanks, William Bascom
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Farm near Redstone, OK
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1916 Ford
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Five unidentified persons: (?) Charley Tyner far left; (?) Collins Panther second on right
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Jane Richardson Hanks
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Hubert Mason
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Prairie Dwelling
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Double Exposure
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Three unidentified persons
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Mt. Sheridan
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Parade - People, Indian (prints) (empty file)
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Ceremonials (neg)
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Altar, cement - Quapaw (85)
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Ashes, "Scissors-tail" bird (47)
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Wood placed in ritual position (50)
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Altar cloth, Kiowa (8)
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Ashes, waterbird (48)
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Ashes, Ponca-White eagle
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Quapaw Church group (87)
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Quapaw Peyote church (86)
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Victor Griffin (Quapaw) (36)
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"Nigger Jim" (83)
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The inside of dismantled Seminole altar (65)
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Dismantling tipi (53)
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Ashes, thunderbird (54)
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Ashes, thunderbird (51)
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Ashes, thunderbird
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Painting, symbolic peyote (frontispiece)
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Sash, "Dai Be Ga"
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Ashes, crescent arrangement (49)
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Dismantled Seminole altar
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Scrapbook - "Kiowa Indian Snapshots, 1935, Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology"
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1935-1936
13
Scope and Contents
Also contains photos from the peyote field trip of 1936, sponsored by the Yale Institute of Human Relations and the American Museum of Natural History.
Aymara/Prints
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Agriculture
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Boats and fishing
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Burials
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Ceremonials
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Dance
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Dress, festivals and marriage
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Food
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Habitations
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Markets, outdoor
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People - Indian, unidentified
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People - Non-Indian
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Scenic Views
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Structures
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Transportation, burden carrying
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Miscellany
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Weaving
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Aymara/Negatives
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Scope and Contents
Same subject areas as above.
La Barre Aymara Collection at Duke University (color negatives)
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Contact Prints
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Uru/Prints
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Boats
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Habitations
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People - Indians, unidentified
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Weaving
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Miscellany
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Amazon (Bororo) Indians
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Term Papers
Series 5
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1934-1935
Scope and Contents
The two La Barre term papers in the sub-series were written while he was at Yale University. Both are bound.
"Psychology and Ethnology, An Experiment in the Psychologico-Historical Method of Interpretation of Edward Sapir"
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1934
12
Scope and Contents
Details "an experiment in the psychological historical method of interpretation of Edward Sapir."
"Sleds and Toboggans, A Distribution Study"
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1935
12