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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Constance Goddard DuBois Mission Indian Papers
Creator:
DuBois, Constance Goddard
Identifier/Call Number: MS.859
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date: undated
Abstract: This is a collection of notes made by Constance Goddard DuBois regarding Mission Indian games, history, language, music, and
names. Notes are undated.
Language of Material:
English
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This is a collection of notes made by Constance Goddard DuBois regarding Mission Indian games, history, language, music, and
names. Notes are undated.
Constance Goddard Du Bois (1889-1934) was a successful novelist who lived in Connecticut and became interested in the Indians
of southern California on a visit there around the turn of the century. From 1897 to 1907 she became increasingly involved
in efforts to assist the Luiseño and Diegueño peoples of the area, spending many of her summers with them. At home in the
winter, she worked vigorously to bring the difficult living situations of the Luiseño and Diegueño people to the attention
of her neighbors and officials of the Indian Bureau, through correspondence and lectures. Her efforts put her in touch with
anthropologists and other scholars with similar interests, and she began to publish some of the many myths and legends she
collected from her Diegueño and Luiseño friends in southern California.
DuBois' longest ethnographic work was a detailed monograph on "The Religion of the Luiseño Indians of Southern California"
(1908), edited by Alfred L. Kroeber. In addition, she published 23 shorter articles about the region's native peoples, with
particular emphases on their mythology, ceremonies, and crafts.
Constance Goddard DuBois Mission Indian Papers, undated, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.859.
Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 December
12, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Luiseño Indians
Indians of North America -- Education
Indians of North America -- California
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Rites and ceremonies
Indians of North America -- Missions -- California
Indian languages
Manuscripts
Diegueño Indians.
Indians of North America -- California -- Songs and music
Indian names
Sandpaintings
Missions -- California