Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974. Papers, 1892-1981.
Title:
Papers, 1892-1981.
Series I (5.25 linear ft.) contains letters, carbons, telegrams, and postcards generated by Hallowell and his colleagues, Native American field informants, students, and family. The primary focus of most correspondence is professional research. Correspondents include: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Franz Boas, Ruth Leah Bunzel, Joseph Casagrande, Gordon Day, Frederick Eggan, Loren Eiseley, William Fenton, M. Inez Hilger, E. Adamson Hoebel, Bruno Klopfer, Clyden Kay Kluckhorn, A.L. Kroeber, Dorothea Cross Leighton, Ralph Linton, Margaret Mead, Henry Allen Moe, Elsie Clews Parsons, Frank Speck, Leslie Spier, Melford Spiro, C. F. Voegelin, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin, and Anthony Wallace. Series II (.75 linear ft.) contains materials concerning Hallowell's involvement with professional societies, foundations, conferences, and committees; biographical and bibliographical materials; reviews of "The Role of Conjuring in Salteaux Society;" and an interview with Hallowell by Anne Roe. Series III (3 linear ft.) contains notes and drafts of reviews, lectures, articles, and a handbook. One of the earliest works included here is Hallowell's master's thesis, "The Problem of Fish Nets in North America." Several of Hallowell's later works are represented, including "Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere Re-examined," "The Backwas of the Frontier," and "Rorschach Protocols of 151 Berens River Adults and Children and 155 Adults from Lac du Flambeau." Series IV (1.5 linear ft.) contains notes and articles written by Hallowell's students and colleagues. The authors best represented are William A. Caudill, who studied the Ojibwa, and Blanche Green Watrous, who administered Rorschach Tests to Native American children in the Lac du Flambeau and Berens River areas. Series V (9 linear ft.) contains field and reading notes taken by Hallowell, his students, and colleagues; as well as some course materials. The bulk of the field notes include ethnological observations, folklore, Rorschach Tests, and drawings of the Ojibwa-speaking peoples in Canada (Berens River Saulteaux) and Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. Other major subjects of this series include the Abenaki, marriage and the family, nets and netting, bear cult, self and ego, and Rorschach methodology and materials.
ArchivalResource:
28.5 linear ft.
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