Finding Aid to the A. H. Gayton papers, circa 1925-1965
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Finding Aid to the A. H. Gayton Papers, circa 1925-1965
Collection number: BANC MSS 79/6 c
The Bancroft Library
University of
California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Processed by:
- The Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- ca. 1979
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
- Finding Aid revised by:
- Alison E. Bridger in 2007
© 2007 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Collection Summary
Collection Title: A. H. Gayton Papers,
Date (inclusive): circa 1925-1965
Collection Number: BANC MSS 79/6 c
Creator: Gayton, A. H. (Anna Hadwick), 1899-1977
Extent:
Number of containers: 1 carton and 1 box
Linear feet: 1.5
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Abstract: The A.H. Gayton Papers contains material relating primarily to her work as an
anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley and especially to her research on the Yokuts
Indians in California, including correspondence to and from other anthropologists, field notes, and
manuscripts of some of her writings. Her papers relating to Peruvian textile materials and to the
California-Portuguese remained in the possession of Professor Robert Spier. Her books were given to the
University of California at Santa Cruz.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance
notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please
consult the library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], A. H. Gayton papers, BANC MSS 79/6 c, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
Separated Material
Photographs have been transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Identifier/Call Number: (BANC PIC 1979.004--POR)
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The A.H. Gayton Papers were given to The Bancroft Library from her stepson, Professor F.G. Spier in
July 1978.
Accruals
No additions are expected.
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
The A.H. Gayton Papers contains material relating primarily to her work as an anthropologist at the
University of California, Berkeley and especially to her research on the Yokuts Indians in
California, including correspondence to and from other anthropologists, field notes, and manuscripts
of some of her writings. Her papers relating to Peruvian textile materials and to the
California-Portuguese remained in the possession of Professor Robert Spier. Her books were given to
the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Carton 1
Outgoing
1936-1965
Physical Description: carbon copies
Scope and Content Note
Mainly relating to the publication of Yokuts and Western Mono Ethnography.
Incoming
Scope and Content Note
Letters from other anthropologists concerning work with the Youkuts Indians.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
Carton 1
California. University. Press,
1946
Scope and Content Note
by S. T. Farquhar
Carton 1
California. University, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology,
1943-1947
Carton 1
Espinosa, Aurelio Macedonio, b. 1880,
1937 May
Scope and Content Note
Note by Elsie Clews Parsons also on the same sheet
Farquhar, Samuel Thaxter, 1890-1949
see California. University.
Press
Carton 1
Fenenga, Franklin,
1948 July 12
Carton 1
Gifford, Edward Winslow, 1887-1959,
1946 June 16
Carton 1
Kroeber, Alfred Louis, 1876-1960,
1941-1946
Carton 1
Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957,
1946 October 7
Physical Description: unsigned carbon
Carton 1
Lynch, John M.,
1950-1955
Scope and Content Note
regarding his interest in the Kocheyali Indians. Also included: a copy of his manuscript,
The Kocheyali and the Indians of Squaw Valley.
Carton 1
Nettl, Bruno, b. 1930,
1965
Carton 1
Newman, Stanley Stewart, b. 1905,
1935
Scope and Content Note
Regarding his work on Yokuts tales.
Carton 1
Parsons, Elsie Worthington (Clews), 1875-1941,
see Espinosa, Aurelio
Macedonio
Carton 1
Rogers, Barbara (Thrall),
1940 February 12
Scope and Content Note
With this, copies made by Mrs. Spier of Mrs. Rogers' Chukchansi fieldnotes at Coarsegold,
June-July 1938.
Carton 1
Thompson, Dorothy (Burr), b. 1900,
1962 January 2
Carton 1
Voegelin, Charles Frederic, b. 1906,
1937 February 13
Series 2
Field notebooks,
1925-1929
Physical Description: 19 volumes and 3 folders in Carton 1
Carton 1
Yokuts. Wukchumni.
1925
Physical Description: 6 volumes
Carton 1
Yokuts. [Wukchumni, Gawia],
1925?
Physical Description: 1 volume
Carton 1
[Yokuts],
1926.
Physical Description: 2 volumes
Carton 1
[Yokuts]. Woponuch, Entimpich, Wutschumni,
1926
Physical Description: 1 volumes
Carton 1
[Yokuts]. Michahai, Woponuch,
1926-1927
Physical Description: 1 volume
Carton 1
Yokuts. Chunut (Tachi), Choinimni,
1927
Physical Description: 1 volume
Carton 1
[Yokuts],
1929
Physical Description: 1 volume
Carton 1
[Yokuts]. Chunut. 1929 1 volume
Carton 1
Yokuts,
undated
Physical Description: 3 volumes
Carton 1
Field notes: Yokuts and Western Mono,
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders
Carton 1
Field trip accounts,
1927
Physical Description: 1 volume
Carton 1
The Cultural Setting of Yokuts-Mono Shamanism, unpublished,
circa 1929-1930?
Carton 1
The Narcotic Plant Datura in Aboriginal American Culture. (Her thesis)
undated
Carton 1
Yokuts and Western Mono Ethnography (Fragments, published and unpublished)
undated
Physical Description: 3 folders
Carton 1
Yokuts-Western Mono Genealogies (unpublished ms.)
undated
Carton 1
Sketch maps, with lists of place names to be included on maps (for publication?),
undated
Carton 1
Miscellaneous typescripts of Indian legends and myths from various sources; notes
regarding Indian myths,
undated
Carton 1
Baskets, Twoiling
undated
Carton 1
Genealogies, biographical data
undated
Box 1: card file box
Notes on Yokuts and Western Mono Names
undated
