| | 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." | |
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