Constance Goddard DuBois Mission Indian Papers, undated

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Summary

Creators:
DuBois, Constance Goddard
Abstract:
This is a collection of notes made by Constance Goddard DuBois regarding Mission Indian games, history, language, music, and names. Notes are undated.
Extent:
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Language:
English .
Preferred citation:

Constance Goddard DuBois Mission Indian Papers, undated, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.859.

Background

Scope and content:

This is a collection of notes made by Constance Goddard DuBois regarding Mission Indian games, history, language, music, and names. Notes are undated.

Biographical / historical:

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 LuiseƱo and DiegueƱo 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 LuiseƱo and DiegueƱo 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 DiegueƱo and LuiseƱo friends in southern California.

DuBois' longest ethnographic work was a detailed monograph on "The Religion of the LuiseƱo 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.

Processing information:

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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Preferred citation:

Constance Goddard DuBois Mission Indian Papers, undated, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.859.

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