Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Barrett, S.A.
- Extent:
- 32 linear feet (25 cartons, 3 oversize folders)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Samuel Alfred Barrett papers, BANC MSS 1986/172, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of some personalia and correspondence, extensive field notes, writings, and records relating to the American Indian Film Project, dating primarily from the early and late years of Barrett's working life. Biographical information contains course notes, diaries of trips to Africa, Hawaii, the American Southwest, national parks in the Western United States, and the Yucatan Peninsula. Correspondence includes letters to and from Alfred Kroeber, George G. Heye, Frederick J. Dockstadter, and other anthropologists, Milwaukee Public Museum colleagues W.C. McKren, Robert E. Ritzenthaler, and Stephan F. De Borhegyi, and with various Barrett family members. Writings are articles, monographs, speeches, and book reviews. Field notes date from 1896 and reflect Barrett's work with the Pomoan peoples, the Cayapa Indians of Ecuador, the Hopi, Kwakiutl, and Sierra Miwok Indians, as well as information about the Chippewa, Menominee, Piute, Washo, Wintun, and Yuki Indians. Most papers relating to his tenure at the Milwaukee Public museum remained with that institution and not generally present in this collection.
- Biographical / historical:
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Ethnologist, linguist, writer, and film maker, Barrett studied with Alfred L. Kroeber at the University of California, Berkeley, and received a doctorate in anthropology in 1908. He was curator of anthropology (1911-1920), and director (1920-1940) of the Milwaukee Public Museum.
- Acquisition information:
- The papers were transferred to The Bancroft Library from the Robert H. Lowie Museum in April, 1986.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Lauren Lassleben in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Additional processing by Lauren Lassleben in 2005. In 2022, the finding aid was edited to deal with some inaccuracies and encoded in EAD for online publishing by Marjorie Bryer.
- 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.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Samuel Alfred Barrett papers, BANC MSS 1986/172, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481