MS-118
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Overview of the Collection | |
| Creator: | Speir, Leslie |
| Title: | Leslie Spier collection, |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1886-1936 |
| Quantity: | 26 notebooks, 99 photographic images (99 prints, 62 nitrate negatives), 20.8 cm textual material, 1 tobacco sample |
| Abstract: | This collection contains field notebooks, photographs and publications produced during Spier’s work with the Havasupai, Maricopa-Halchidoma, Southern Diegueno and Zuni tribes. Also, there are photographs from various other tribes, as well as maps. |
| Identification: | MS-118 |
| Language: | Material in English |
| Repository: |
Museum of Northern Arizona 3101 N. Fort Valley Rd. Flagstaff, AZ 86001 928-774-5211 ext. 256 or 269 library@mna.mus.az.us |
Leslie Spier (1893-1961) was an American anthropologist who specialized in the area of ethnography. Spier was born and raised in New York where he received his Bachelor of Science from College of the City of New York in 1915. As an undergraduate student he worked as an Assistant Anthropologist for the New Jersey Archaeological and Geographical Survey. For his graduate work, Spier studied at Columbia University. During this time he worked at the American Museum of Natural History as an Assistant Anthropologist. He received his doctorate in Anthropology in 1920.
Spier spent a large portion of his career engaged in field work with a many diverse American Indian tribes including the Zuni, Havasupai, Kiowa, Wichita, Caddo, Diegueno, Salish, Wishram, Klammath, Maricopa, Okanagon, Mohave and Modoc. His publications are based on this field work including “Havasupai Ethnography,” which is held as the gold standard for thoroughness in the field. It also represented advances in anthropological thought and methodology of the time.
Spier is also recognized for his contribution to the area of anthropological publication. He strongly advocated the recording of research for the use of other scholars. This led him to engage in a large amount of editorial work for a number of journals, monograph series and special volumes. Further, Spier himself initiated a number of anthropology publications including: The Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, The University of New Mexico Publications in Anthropology and The University of Washington Publications in Anthropology.
The collection is comprised mostly of field notes, photographs and publications produced during Spier’s work with the Havasupai, Maricopa-Halchidoma, Southern Diegueno and Zuni tribes. Additionally, there are a number of photographs from various other tribes, as well as a series of maps.
No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.
Published and unpublished materials are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Spier (Leslie) Papers, 1924-1961, UC Berkley Bancroft Library
Leslie Spier papers, 1920-1939, UC Berkley Bancroft Library
Leslie Spier collection, MS-118 [Box Number]. Museum of Northern Arizona. Flagstaff, Arizona.
The collection was donated in 1967 by Ana Gayton Spier. Additional material was donated by Dr. Robert Spier in 1978.
Processed in February of 2010
No further accruals are expected.
| Series 1: Havasupai 1918-1932 17 notebooks, 14.5 cm textual material, 16 photographic images (16 prints) | |||||||||||
| Series is comprised of 17 field notebooks from 1918 to1921, 16 photographic images, Spier’s personnel copy of Havasupai Ethnography in which he has affixed photos and added notes. Also included are notes, abstracts, and an index of cultural items used in the writing of Havasupai Tales, as well as a manuscript of this document. Lastly there are a number of newspaper clippings about the Havasupai Indians. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 1 | 1-3 | Havasupai Field Notebooks, 1918-1921 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Havasupai Photographs, 1918 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Havasupai Ethnography, 1928 | |||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 2 | 1-5 | Havasupai Tales, 1928-1932 | |||||||||
| 2 | 6 | Havasupai Newspaper Clippings, 1918-1919 | |||||||||
| Series 2: Maricopa – Halchidoma 1929-1931 6 notebooks, 63 photographic images (63 prints, 62 nitrate negatives) | |||||||||||
| Series contains 6 field notebooks from 1929 to 1931, and 63 photographic images. Images are of Maricopa and Halchidoma people, houses, sweathouses, pottery, weaving, cradle boards, artifacts, Tonto and Casa Grande ruins, and saguaro cacti. | |||||||||||
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| 2 | 7 | Maricopa-Halchidoma Field Notebooks, 1929-1931 | |||||||||
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| 3 | 1 | Maricopa-Halchidoma photographs, 1929-1930 | |||||||||
| Series 3: Yuman Comparative Study circa 1934-1936 6 cm textual material | |||||||||||
| Series contains notes and source materials for Comparative Studies as well as a manuscript of this document. | |||||||||||
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| 3 | 2-4 | Yuman Comparative Study, circa 1934-1936 | |||||||||
| Series 4: Southern Diegueno 1920 2 notebooks, 4 photographic images (4 prints), 0.3 cm textual, 1 tobacco sample | |||||||||||
| This series is comprised of 2 field notebooks 4 photos and a number of hand-drawn maps and a small sample of tobacco which were found inside one of the notebooks. | |||||||||||
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| 3 | 5 | Southern Diegueno Field Notebooks, 1920 | |||||||||
| 3 | 6 | Southern Diegueno Photographs, 1920 | |||||||||
| Series 5: Zuni 1916 1 notebook | |||||||||||
| Series is one field notebook from 1916. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | ||||||||||
| 3 | 7 | Zuni Field Notebook, 1916 | |||||||||
| Series 6: Miscellaneous Tribes undated, 1918 16 photographic images (16 prints) | |||||||||||
| This series contains 16 photographs of Native Americans from the Papago, Yuma, White Mountain Apache, and Cherokee tribes | |||||||||||
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| 3 | 8 | Miscellaneous Tribes Photographs, 1918 | |||||||||
| Series 7: Maps 1886-1933 21 maps | |||||||||||
| This series contains 21 maps. Two are hand copied maps: one of Papago Rancherias Past and Present and one of Southern Paiute Country. The remainder are topographic maps including: Camp Mohave (1892); Chino, Arizona; Diamond Creek, Arizona (1892); Echo Cliffs, Arizona (1892); Fort Defiance, Arizona-NM (1892); Holbrook, Arizona (1893); Kaibab, Arizona (1886); Maricopa, Arizona (1915); Mt. Trumball, Arizona (1892); Prescott, Arizona (1887); St Johns, Arizona (1892); Tusayan, Arizona (1886); San Francisco Mt., Arizona (1894); Verde, Arizona (1892); St. Thomas, Nevada (1893); Chaco, New Mexico (1893); Largo, New Mexico (1895); Wingate, New Mexico (1892); Mt. Taylor, New Mexico (1899). Maps include Spier’s own notes. | |||||||||||
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| MF 1-5 | Maps, 1886-1933 | ||||||||||