Finding Aid to the Frank Waters Book of the Hopi Manuscript MS.581
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 October 9
210 South Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91502
rroom@theautry.org
Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Frank Waters
Book of the Hopi Manuscript
Creator:
Waters, Frank
Identifier/Call Number: MS.581
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1961-1963
Abstract: Contains materials dated from 1961-1963, including drawings and source material, contents page, introduction of the book and
typed carbon of 525 pages of the manuscript. Contains two pages of the Hopi alphabet and a list of the Hopi Indian spokesmen
for the book.
Language of Material:
English
.
Processed by Glenna Schroeder, circa 1977-1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012
October 9, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Contains drawings and source material, contents page, introduction of the book and typed carbon of 525 pages of the manuscript
which was first published by The Viking Press, Inc. in 1963. Contains two pages of the Hopi alphabet and a list of the Hopi
Indian spokesmen for the book. There is information about the writing of the book and the evaluation of it by the Southwest
Museum staff in MS.3 Southwest Museum Institutional Archives.
Frank Waters (1902 July 25 - 1995 June 3) was an American writer. He is known for his novels and historical works about the
American Southwest.
Waters was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to May Ione Dozier Waters and Frank Jonathon Waters. His father, who was part
Cheyenne, was a key influence in Water's interest in the Native American experience. Frank Jonathon Waters took his son on
trips to the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico in 1911, described by Frank in his book
The Colorado.
Waters published numerous fiction and non-fiction works over the course of his life, many focused on Native Americans in the
Southwest. In 1953, Waters was awarded the Taos Artists Award for Notable Achievement in the Art of Writing. He held a variety
of other jobs, including writer for C.O. Whitney Motion Picture Co., Los Angeles (1957), writer-in-residence, Colorado State
University, Fort Collins (1966); and director, New Mexico Arts Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (1966–68). He lived alternately
in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico and Sedona, Arizona. Frank Waters died at his home in Arroyo Seco on 1995 June 3.
Frank Waters Book of the Hopi Manuscript, 1961-1963, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.581; [folder number] [folder
title][date].
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Information about the writing of the Book Of The Hopi and the evaluation of it by the Southwest Museum staff in MS.3
Southwest Museum Institutional Archives.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Drawings
Hopi language -- Alphabet
Hopi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies
Manuscripts
Typescripts
Hopi Indians
Book of the Hopi