Muriel Thayer Painter Collection 1939-1975.

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Muriel Thayer Painter Collection 1939-1975.

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Collection consists of the papers of Muriel Thayer Painter relating to Mrs. Painter's work in the Pascua Yaqui community. Included are field notes on Pascua and San Xavier and materials relating to her community activities with the Tucson Festival Society and Pascua Yaqui Association. Also included are materials from Refugio Savala, a Yaqui poet, including his manuscript Autobiography of a Yaqui Poet

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Painter, Muriel Thayer

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Muriel Thayer was born in Minneapolis in 1892. She attended University of Minnesota and graduated from Wellesley in 1916 with a degree in social work. During 1938-39, Bronislaw Malinowski was a guest lecturer at the University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology. Muriel Thayer Painter joined Malinowski in observing the Yaqui Easter ceremony in Spring, 1939. From the beginning, Muriel Painter's commitment to study the Easter ceremony, and eventually the entire ceremoni...