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Finding Aid to the Earl H. Morris Personal Papers Finding aid to the Earl H. Morris personal papers This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-10-09 Finding aid written in English Describing Archives: A Content Standard CU Museum of Natural History 15th and Broadway Henderson Building University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder, Colorado, 80302 [email protected] Finding aid to the Earl H. Morris personal papers Table Of Contents Summary Information .............................................................................................................................. 3 Biographical / Historical ..................................................................................................................... 3 Scope and Contents ............................................................................................................................. 5 Conditions Governing Access ............................................................................................................. 7 Processing Note ................................................................................................................................... 7 Administrative Information ...................................................................................................................... 8 Collection Inventory ................................................................................................................................. 8 Correspondence, 1897-1897 ................................................................................................................. 9 Fieldwork, 1915-1915 ........................................................................................................................ 33 Atahonez (Prayer Rock District), 1931-1931 ................................................................................. 33 Aztec Ruins, 1923-1923 ................................................................................................................. 34 Bernheimer Expeditions, 1921-1921 .............................................................................................. 36 Canyon del Muerto and Canyon de Chelly, 1923-1923 ................................................................. 37 Chichén Itzá, 1924-1924 ................................................................................................................ 39 Durango District, 1937-1937 .......................................................................................................... 40 Gobernador District, 1915-1915 .................................................................................................... 42 Kawaikuh, 1928-1928 .................................................................................................................... 43 La Plata District, 1915-1915 .......................................................................................................... 45 Mesa Verde, 1934-1934 ................................................................................................................. 47 Mimbres, 1924-1924 ...................................................................................................................... 47 Quirigua, 1934-1934 ...................................................................................................................... 48 Rio Grande Valley, 1915-1915 ...................................................................................................... 49 Solomonsville, 1931-1931 ............................................................................................................. 49 Inventories, 1917-1917 ................................................................................................................... 50 Manuscripts, 1917-1917 ..................................................................................................................... 51 Research files, 1908-1908 .................................................................................................................. 56 Reference files, 1908-1908 ............................................................................................................ 56 Subject files, 1910-1910 ................................................................................................................. 57 Biographical materials, 1908-1908 .................................................................................................... 59 Ephemera, 1923-1923 ........................................................................................................................ 60 Photographs, undated ......................................................................................................................... 61 Glass plate negatives, 1924-1924 ................................................................................................... 62 Lantern slides, undated ................................................................................................................... 64 Photographic prints, 1893-1893 ..................................................................................................... 68 Acetate and nitrate negatives, 1915-1940, undated ........................................................................ 77 - 2 - Finding aid to the Earl H. Morris personal papers Summary Information Repository: CU Museum of Natural History Creator: Morris, Earl Halstead, 1889-1956 Title: Earl H. Morris personal papers Identifier: EHM Date: 1897-1984 Physical 38.5 linear feet Description: Physical 86 boxes Description: Language of English Materials: Biographical / Historical Earl Halstead Morris, 1889-1956, was an American archaeologist active in Mesoamerica and the United States southwest. Morris led excavations in the field from 1916-1940 for the University of Colorado (CU), American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the School of American Archaeology (SAA). These excavations lead to the production of 69 publications in the period of 1911-1956 and to the accumulation of extensive museum collections of pottery, stone implements, baskets, sandals, and human remains at the institutions for which he worked. Morris corresponded and collaborated with influential archaeologists, anthropologists, and scientists including Nels Nelson, A. V. Kidder, Jesse Nusbaum, Walter Fewkes, Edgar Hewett, Clark Wissler, A. E. Douglass , Junius Henderson, and Sylvanus G. Morley. Childhood and family Morris was born in 1889 in Chama, New Mexico Territory, the only child of Scott Neering Morris, a teamster and construction engineer, and Juliette Amanda Halstead, a teacher. Until the death of Morris' father in 1904, the family moved frequently for economic opportunity, primarily between lumber camps and mining boomtowns in southwestern Colorado and northern New Mexico. They occasionally returned to the valley of the San Juan River in northern New Mexico for the winter. Morris' father had an interest in archaeology, collecting pottery and other objects in the vicinity of their winter residences and occasionally selling his collections. He encouraged this interest in young son and also provided Morris with "a good knowledge of practical mechanics and especially of earth moving" which would come to serve in Morris' career. His mother provided him with a well-rounded education despite lack of consistent attendance in school and he graduated as valedictorian of his high school class in Farmington, New Mexico in 1908. With the help of an unnamed benefactor, he matriculated at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the same year. Early career While pursuing a bachelor's degree in psychology, Morris made the acquaintance of Junius Henderson, founder of the Museum of Natural History at CU, who would provide Morris with opportunities for pursuing archaeology. In the same period, he also met archaeologist Edgar L. Hewett by chance on a train. Hewett, a well-known archaeologist instrumental in the enactment of the 1906 Antiquities Act, invited Morris to join him on excavation at present-day Bandalier National Monument in 1911. Morris again joined Hewett in 1912 on excavation at Quirigua, Guatemala, this time dropping out of school to do so. In Quirigua Morris made the acquaintance of Sylvanus G. Morley of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Morley would later offer him a position as director of excavations at Chichen Itza. In 1913, - 3 - Finding aid to the Earl H. Morris personal papers University of Colorado Museum founder Junius Henderson secured $300 for Morris to conduct excavations "in the country east of Mesa Verde" adjacent to the La Plata river. Henderson again secured $300 for further excavations in the summer of 1914, a year in which Morris would also return to Quirigua, this time under the supervision of Neil Judd. Morris resumed his education at CU at an undetermined point and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1914 and a master’s degree in 1915. Morris' early activities impressed recently appointed CU President Livingston Farrand. In 1915, Farrand arranged for Morris to work under the supervision of Nels Nelson, archaeologist with AMNH, in the Galisteo Basin south of Lamy, New Mexico. Nelson was at this time attempting to prove the effectiveness of applying the technique of stratigraphy to the United States Southwest whereby the order and position of archaeological remains are examined to establish a timeline of occupation. The results of Nelson's excavations that summer would prove influential; it was
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