Field notebooks, 1883-1894.

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Field notebooks, 1883-1894.

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Field notebooks detailing the customs and ceremonies of the Hopi Indians, collected by Parsons, 1874-1941. Thirty of these volumes were the notebooks of Alexander M. Stephen (d. 1894), a U.S. Army officer who started observing Hopi life, ca. 1882. Although chiefly concerned with the Hopis, there are some notes on Hopi-Navajo relations and a few references to the Tewa and Hokya Indians. Stephen's pencilled notes and drawings were edited by Dr. Parsons as the HOPI JOURNAL OF ALEXANDER M. STEPHEN (New York, Columbia University Press, 1936). Also, three unpublished notebooks of observations made by Jeremiah Sullivan who also lived among the Hopis in the 1880s. A letter from anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber to Dr. Parsons explains the provenance of one of Sullivan's notebooks. (These last three notebooks have also been attributed to A.M. Stephen by Alex Patterson, Feb. 1994. See his note added to the Contents list.).

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960

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