| 1 | Author: | Griffen, William B. | Add to Favorites |
| Title: | William B. Griffen papers, 1955-1965 ead | ||
| Date(s): | 1955-1965 | ||
| Abstract: | Collection includes handwritten field notebooks and revised notes of observations of the Seri Indians of Mexico. Most of the notebooks focus on family organization and social customs of the Seri. Rites associated with events such as birth, puberty, marriage, and death are recorded throughout the notebooks. Collection also contains fifty four black and white photographs of people and buildings taken in Desemboque, Sonora, Mexico, 1955; correspondence and other materials relating to a paper written by Griffen and Ed Moser entitled "A Spanish Transcription of Terms from a Native Indian language"; and photocopies of two published works: "Notes on Seri Indian Culture Sonora, Mexico," and "Seventeenth Century Seri." | ||
| Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | ||
| Subjects: | Seri Indians | Seri Indians -- Genealogy | Seri Indians -- Kinship | Seri Indians -- Pictorial works | Seri Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Seri language | Anthropologists -- Archives | ||
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