| Abstract: | Correspondence, research materials,
published and unpublished manuscripts and articles, slides, photographs, and one audio tape,
primarily from 1943 to 1957, of anthropologist George C. Barker. The collection documents
Barker's anthropological research into folk drama and ritual, the social functions of
language, the Pachuco language of Hispanic youths, and Yaqui Indian culture and customs. A
1964 gift to the Southwest Folklore Archives from George C. Barker, Sr. Deaccessioned from
the collection in 1993 were approximately 0.2 feet of duplicates and items of a personal
nature. In 1996 two 11 x 14 black-and-white photographs by Alfred A. Cohn were transferred
to the L. Marguerite Collier Collection, Southwest Folklore Center Manuscripts Collection MS
611. This collection is part of the Southwest Folklore Center collection. The Southwest
Folklore Center was founded in 1979 after the dissolution of the University of Arizona
Folklore Committee and collected information about folk communities, arts, music, and other
humanities-related materials. This collection was previously SWF 004. The materials were
transferred to Special Collections in 2017. | |