THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME FOUR A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY, LANGUAGE, AND CULTURE OF THE SOUTHWEST EDITED BY Elaine L. Mills and AnnJ Brickfield KRAUS INTER ATIONAL PUBLICATIONS A Division of Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME FOUR A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: Native American History, Language, and Culture of the Southwest Prepared in the National AnthropologicalArchives Department ofAnthropology National Museum ofNatural History Washington, D.C. THE PAPERS OF John Peabody Harringtan IN THE Smithsonian Institution 1907-1957 VOLUME FOUR A GUIDE TO THE FIELD NOTES: Native American History, Language, and Culture of the Southwest EDITED BY Elaine L. Mills and AnnJ. Brickfield KRAUS INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS A Division of Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited White Plains, N.Y. © Copyright The Smithsonian Institution 1986 All rights reserved. No part ofthis work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in anyform or by any means-graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or taping, information storage and retrieval systems-without written permission ofthe publisher. First Printing Printed in the United Str.:tes of America The paper in this publication meets the minimum Contents requirements of American National Standard for Information Science- Permanence of Papers for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. INTRODUCTION N / Vll Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Scope and Content ofthis Publication IV / vn (Revised for vol. 4) History ofthe Papers and the Microfilm Edition IV / vnl Harrington, John Peabody. The papers ofJohn Peabody Harrington in the Editorial Procedures IV / X Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957. A guide to the Acknowledgements IV / xn field notes. Vol. 4 also edited by Ann J. Brickfield. Vol. 4 prepared in the National Anthropological Archives, Dept. of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. Bibliography: v. 1, p. NOTES TO RESEARCHERS N / xv Contents: v. 1. A guide to the field notes: Native Using the Guide IV / xv American history, language, and culture of Alaska/ Northwest Coast- -v. 4. A guide to the field Using the Microfilm IV / XVl notes: Native American history, language, and culture of Note on Terminology IV / xvn Southwest. 1. Indians- Manuscripts- Microform catalogs. 2. Indians-Languages-Manuscripts- Microform catalogs. 3. Harrington, John Peabody-Manuscripts­ Microform catalogs. 4. National Anthropological Archives- Microform catalogs. I. Mills, Elaine L. MAPS N / X1X II. Title. Z1209.H33 1981 [E58] 970.004'97 81-7290 Tribal Territories in Southwest IV / xx ISBN 0-527-84243-5 (v. 1) Sites ofFieldwork in Southwest IV / XXl ISBN 0-527-84262-1 (v. 2) ISBN 0-527-84287-7 (v. 3) ISBN 0-527-84329-6 (v. 4) IV /vi Contents PHOTOGRAPHS IV / xxzzz Scene in Navaho Territory IV / xxiv Adolph Dodge Bitanny IV / xxiv Harrington and Navaho Tribal Members IV / xxiv Harrington at Excavation ofElden Pueblo Site IV / xxv Ruins at Elden Pueblo IV / xxvi Harrington, J. O. Prescott, and Hopi Singers IV / xxv'! Governor ofTaos IV / xxvii Blue Lake IV / xxvii Black Mesa IV / xxviii Tewa Ceremony IV / xxviii Scene in Tewa Territory IV / xxviii SERIES DESCRIPTIONS Introduction and REEL CONTENTS IV / 1 Apache and Kiowa Apache IV / 1 Navaho IV / 6 Hopi IV / 26 SCOPE AND CONTENT Zuni IV / 32 OF THIS PUBLICATION Acoma / Laguna / Santo Domingo IV / 38 "A Guide to the Field Notes: Native American History, Language, and Cochiti IV / 43 Culture ofthe Southwest," is the fourth volume ofa ten-volume official Jemez IV / 44 inventory for the microfilm edition of The Papers ofJohn P. Harrington Isleta / Isleta del Sur / Piro IV / 47 in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957. This inventory supersedes Picuris IV / 52 any other published or unpublished finding aids describing the collec­ Taos IV / 54 tion. Volume One covers the region Alaska/Northwest Coast, Volume Tewa IV / 62 Two covers Northern and Central California, and Volume Three covers Southern California/Basin. Subsequent volumes of this inven­ General and Miscellaneous Materials IV / 72 tory will be issued as each section of the microfilm edition becomes available, and will cover Harrington's field notes on the Plains, North­ APPENDIX IV / 77 east/Southeast, and Mexico/Central America/South America. There will also be a volume on Harrington's notes and writings on special Abbreviations and Special Uses ofTerms IV / 77 linguistic studies and one on his correspondence and financial records. At the completion of the project all the volumes will be issued in a cumulated hardbound edition. The materials described herein represent the results ofJohn P. Harrington's study ofthe native languages and cultures ofthe South­ IV /vii IV / viii John Peabody Harrington Southwest IV fix west, the area in which he first undertook fieldwork. The field notes portion of these California-based papers was actually.loan.ed on a l?ng­ were recorded just prior to and during his employment as ethnologist term basis to the Department ofLinguistics at the V nlverslty ofCalIfor­ (1915-1954) by the Bureau of American Ethnology. The documents nia, Berkeley, under the charge of Professor Mary R. Haas. After e~­ focus primarily on linguistic data, although they also include significant tensive use there by several generations of graduate students In amounts of ethnographic and historical information. linguistics, cultural anthropology, and archeology, they were shipped to Only original documents created by Harrington, his co­ the Smithsonian during the period from 1976 to 1979. workers, and field assistants or field notes given to him by others are Work on organizing the Harrington Papers began almost as contained in this publication. Related materials collected by Harring­ soon as the first boxes of documents arrived at the archives. Early in ton such as printed matter, journals, and books are not included. Photo­ 1962, Catherine A. Callaghan, then a graduate student at V.C., Berke­ stats, microfilm, and typed and handwritten copies ofpublications and ley, was hired on a temporary appointment to tackle the monumental manuscripts which lack his annotations have likewise been omitted. task of preparing a box list for several tons of notes. She spent several Some additional field notes from Harrington's work in the months identifying as many bundles as possible by tribe or language, at Southwest may be housed among his papers at the Santa Barbara Mu­ least down to the family level. seum ofNatural History. The anthropologists on the staffplan to inven­ Refinement of this initial sorting was continued by the then tory and microfilm those documents, funding permitting. Other current archivist Margaret C. Blaker and later, in the early 1970s, by a smaller blocks of Harrington's papers can be found outside the Smith­ member ofher staff,jane M. Walsh. Throughout this period the papers sonian Institution - notably at the Southwest Museum and the Ban­ were available to researchers, some ofwhom were able to make sugges­ croft Library, V niversity of California, Berkeley- and additional tions for improving the identification ofsmall portions ofthe collection. items may subsequently come to light. This publication presently repre­ A new energy was infused into the work on the papers after sents the majority of Harrington's output in the area. the arrival in 1972 ofNational Anthropological Archives Director Her­ manj. Viola. He not only encouraged the application ofmodern a:chi­ HISTORY OF THE PAPERS val methods to avoid the piecemeal efforts of the past, but also actIvely AND THE MICROFILM EDITION sought ways to improve the accessibility of the material to a steadily growing number of researchers. Encouraged by the interest ofa ~um­ The original documents comprising The Papers ofJohn Peabody H arring­ ber ofmicrofilm companies in publishing the papers on HIm, he decIded ton are housed in the Smithsonian Institution's National Anthropologi­ in 1975 to submit a proposal for funding such a project to the National cal Archives (N.A.A.) where they were brought together after Harring­ Historical Publications and Records Commission (N.H.P.R.C.). ton's death in 1961. Some of the papers were already located on the A major consultant in developing the documentation for this Smithsonian premises in the archives of the Bureau of American Eth­ proposal was Geoffrey L. Gamble, then a ~mit~sonian Fellow d?ing nology (B.A.E.), having been deposited by him as individual manu­ work on Harrington's Yokuts field data. Dunng hIs year at the archIves, scripts while in the bureau's employ. Others were located at various warehouses in the Washington, D.C., area and elsewhere. he began integrating the Berkeley-based material with the material. in Washington and compiled the first systematic inventory of th~ entIre The great bulk ofthe papers was sorted in a numberofstorage collection. Through correspondence and attendance at meetIngs he locations in California by his daughter Awona Harrington and sent to helped to marshall support for the archives' project among members of Washington, D.C., over a period of several years. Although the lin­ the anthropological profession. guist-ethnologist had expressed the wish that his field notes be given to In December 1976 the Smithsonian Institution received a some institution in California, Miss Harrington recognized that the grant from the N.H.P.R.C. for the first year ofan envisi?ned five-~ear approximately one million pages were actually government property as venture, and work on the "Harrington Microfilm ProJect" officIally they had been created while her father was a federal employee. A sizable began. Herman j. Viola was the project director. Elaine L. Mills, an IV Ix John Peabody Harrington Southwest IV /xi archives staff member who had already done considerable work on The fact that Harrington, for many reasons, was a poor docu­ Harrington's photographs, was chosen as editor.