A. L. Kroeber Papers, 1869-1972
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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3d5n99tn No online items Guide to the A. L. Kroeber Papers, 1869-1972 Processed by Xiuzhi Zhou Jane Bassett Lauren Lassleben Claora Styron; machine-readable finding aid created by James Lake The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu © 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Note History --History, University of California --History, UC BerkeleyGeographical (by Place) --University of California --University of California BerkeleySocial Sciences --AnthropologySocial Sciences --Area and Interdisciplinary Studies --Native American Studies Guide to the A. L. Kroeber BANC FILM 2049 BANC MSS C-B 925 1 Papers, 1869-1972 Guide to the A. L. Kroeber Papers, 1869-1972 Collection number: BANC FILM 2049 BANC MSS C-B 925 The Bancroft Library University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Contact Information: The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720-6000 Phone: (510) 642-6481 Fax: (510) 642-7589 Email: [email protected] URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu Processed by: Xiuzhi Zhou Jane Bassett Lauren Lassleben Claora Styron Date Completed: 1997 Encoded by: James Lake © 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Collection Summary Collection Title: A. L. Kroeber Papers, Date (inclusive): 1869-1972 Collection Number: BANC FILM 2049 BANC MSS C-B 925 Creator: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960 Extent: Originals: 40 boxes, 21 cartons, 14 volumes, 9 oversize folders (circa 45 linear feet)Copies: 187 microfilm reels: negative (Rich. 1840) and positive (BANC FILM 2049 and BANC FILM 3431) Repository: The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California 94720-6000 Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Abstract: Kroeber conducted field work with several Klamath River groups, including the Karok, Wiyot, and Yurok Indians; the Yokuts Indians of Central California; with Ishi, the last member of the Yahi band of the Sacramento Valley; the Mohave Guide to the A. L. Kroeber BANC FILM 2049 BANC MSS C-B 925 2 Papers, 1869-1972 Indians of the Colorado River region; and the Zuni Indians of New Mexico, among many other groups. He also carried out archaeological field work in Mexico and Peru. He published more that 500 books and articles on anthropological topics, and served as an expert witness in the Indian land claims cases Clyde F. Thompson et. al. v. United States, Docket No. 31, and Ernest Risling et. al. v. United States, Docket 37. Languages Represented: English Access RESTRICTED ORIGINALS. USE MICROFILM COPY ONLY WITH CALL NO. BANC FILM 2049. Use of originals only by permission of the Curator of the History of Science and Technology Collection. Publication Rights Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], A. L. Kroeber papers, BANC FILM 2049, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Title: Samuel A. Barrett Papers, Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 86/172 c Title: Theodora Kroeber Papers, Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 80/44 c Title: Robert Fleming Heizer Papers, Identifier/Call Number: BANC FILM 2106, Series 3, Indian Land Claims Title: Records of the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Identifier/Call Number: CU-23 Title: Ethnological Documents of the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Identifier/Call Number: CU-23.1 Title: Indian Stocks and Tribes of...California, Identifier/Call Number: G4361.E1 1939.T34 Case XD Title: Robert Fleming Heizer [Collection of miscellaneous maps], Identifier/Call Number: G9990.H4 Selected printed materials have been removed from the collection. Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1971.001, BANC PIC 1978.169--PIC, and BANC PIC 1978.128--PIC). Selected maps have been transferred to the Map Collection of The Bancroft Library. Philip S. Sparkman's writings on Luiseño grammar have been transferred to the Ethnological Documents of the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CU-23.1. Thomas T. Waterman's Yurok and Diegueño field notebooks have been transferred to the Ethnological Documents of the Department and Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CU-23.1. Acquisition Information The A. L. Kroeber Papers were given to The Bancroft Library by Theodora Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer, and were originally cataloged as BANC MSS C-B 925. The current collection, also cataloged as BANC MSS C-B 925, is a consolidation of the following collections: BANC MSS 71/83 c BANC MSS 78/22 c BANC MSS 83/109 c BANC MSS 88/45 c Funding The archival processing and microfilming of the A. L. Kroeber Papers have been made possible by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Title II-C, Strengthening Research Library Resources Program. The project was jointly carried out by the Library Conservation Department of the University of California, Berkeley, and The Bancroft Library. Guide to the A. L. Kroeber BANC FILM 2049 BANC MSS C-B 925 3 Papers, 1869-1972 Acknowledgments It would not have been possible to complete the archival processing and microfilming of the A.L. Kroeber Papers without the generous assistance of various colleagues at BMI Imaging Systems, in Sunnyvale, California, and the University of California, Berkeley. Bay Microfilm, Inc. staff members Meg Cudal, Jan Hawley, Muoi Huynh, Dennis Jefferson, Robert Piercy, and Dody Van Dyke did an outstanding job with every aspect of an exceedingly challenging microfilming project. Our colleagues in the U.C. Berkeley Library Conservation Department, including Nancy Harris, Lynn Jones, Barclay Ogden, Cameron Olen, Wendy Partridge, and Ann Swartzell, obtained the grant funding, handled the accounting, and performed the necessary preservation treatments with skill and dispatch. William Roberts, University Archivist, gave us the benefit of his expert curatorial judgment. We had exceptional help from our dedicated and willing student assistants, Erica Boyd, Susana Franco, Janet Lee, Brian C. Pierini, and Sierra Van Borst. Beverly Ortiz, California Indian expert and doctoral student in the U.C. Berkeley Anthropology Department, and long-time staff editor for the Anthropology Department, Grace Buzaljko, each aided us immeasurably with anthropological terminology and the identification of correspondents. Joan Berman, Native American Studies bibliographer at Humboldt State University, Sherrie Smith-Ferri, curator at the Grace Hudson Museum, and F. Alex Long helped a great deal by providing information on when and where Kroeber conducted his field work, and by critiquing earlier drafts of this finding aid. We are also most grateful for the interest and support of Dr. Karl Kroeber, Professor of English at Columbia University. Dr. Leanne Hinton of the Linguistics Department made extraordinary efforts to successfully locate and donate eight additional Kroeber field notebooks to The Bancroft Library. Note on Microfilm The A. L. Kroeber Papers have been microfilmed in order to preserve the original manuscripts and to make the wealth of information contained in them more readily available to researchers. Great care has been taken in the filming of these papers to ensure that the microfilm is an accurate and complete copy of the originals. There are instances, however, when the originals are not legible or are incomplete or contain anomalies, and these defects are reflected in the microfilm. Because the microfilm must be black and white in order to satisfy archival standards, colors shown on the original documents are not entirely discernible on the microfilm. The microfilming technicians have made every effort to capture all the text shown on each document. At times, they have made intentional retakes of documents. The filmers have photographed a document a second (or even third) time at a different exposure rate or at a different angle to ensure that all the information on the face of the document is captured on the microfilm. Retaken images are designated on the microfilm itself by the use of an in-frame target that reads "Note to researcher: retake of preceding frame." The reverse side of a page is indicated on the microfilm by an in-frame target that reads "Verso." For oversize documents, the filmers have adjusted the reduction ratio and have filmed the document in its entirety, to give an overview of the whole document. Then they have filmed the document in sequential segments, using the standard exposure rate, moving from left to right, top to bottom, so that the details are captured on the microfilm. Certain items have not been filmed because of their fragile physical condition. These items are noted on the container listing and on the microfilm. If you wish to see any of these unfilmed items, please consult with the Curator of the History of Science and Technology Program at The Bancroft Library. The following notes pertain to specific series of documents within this collection: Series 1, Correspondence: Kroeber often sent out the fair copies of his letters and retained only informal drafts or notes of his letters for his own records. Because he sometimes used light or colored pencil on colored paper, some of these letters are very difficult to read in the original, and also on the microfilm. He also retained some very poor carbon copies of some of his letters, which are also barely legible in the original and hard to read on the microfilm.