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BANC MSS 86/172 c
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Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Samuel Alfred Barrett papers
Creator:
Barrett, S.A.
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 86/172 c
Physical Description:
32 linear feet
(25 cartons, 3 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1893-1977
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.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The papers were transferred to The Bancroft Library from the Robert H. Lowie Museum in April, 1986.
Existence and Location of Copies
Samuel A Barrett: "Geography. Miwok, Yokuts, Washo, Mono" Carton 9, folder 18: also available on microfilm with call number
BANC FILM 2448.
Copies of Sierra Miwok material from Carton 12 (folders 27-45) and Carton 14 (folder 60): also available on microfilm with
call number BANC FILM 2552:1 (BNEG Box 2827).
Copies of Sierra Miwok material from Carton 20 (Filebox 5) and Carton 23 (part of Filebox 4): also available on microfilm
with call number BANC FILM 2552:2 (Bneg Box 2828).
Pomo Coastal notebook: also available in digital format: accessible through Online Archive of California.
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.
[Identification of item], Samuel Alfred Barrett papers, BANC MSS 1986/172, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
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.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1986.078--PIC and 1988.074--B).
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.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Pomo Indians
Miwok Indians
Hopi Indians.
Cayapa Indians
Kwakiutl Indians
Indians of South America.
Indians of North America--California