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Contributing Institution:
Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: Ruth Falkenburg Kirk Collection
Creator:
Kirk, Ruth Falkenburg
Identifier/Call Number: MS.758
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1939-1950
Abstract: This is a collection of articles and manuscripts written by Ruth Falkenburg Kirk, mostly regarding Zuni fetishes, from 1939-1950.
Materials include a lecture given by Kirk, and a catalog of Zuni ceremonial jars for sale, which includes photographs and
one piece of correspondence.
Language of Material:
English
.
This is a collection of articles and manuscripts written by Ruth Falkenburg Kirk, mostly regarding Zuni fetishes, from 1939-1950.
Articles include "The 'Shalako' of the Zunis," August 18, 1939 and "Introduction to Zuni Fetishes," August 13, 1942, both
articles being from
The Gallup Gazette and an article from the School for Advanced Research publication
El Palacio entitled "Buffalo Hunting Fetish Jar," dated May 1950.
Titles of manuscripts are "About the little Santu at Zuni" (1939), "On the White Man's Warpath" (1940) which is Zuni Teddy
Weahkee's account of his time in the United States army during World War I as related to Kirk, "Red Ant Fetishes" (1939),
"Zuni Fetishes" a lecture given by Kirk at the Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 12, 1940, and a
separate, 45-page manuscript also titled "Zuni Fetishes."
This collection also includes a catalog of Zuni ceremonial jars for sale, which includes photographs and one piece of correspondence
from Southwest Museum curator M. R. Harrington to Southwest Museum Director Frederick Webb Hodge, dated October 27, 1942.
Some of the manuscripts include black and white photographs.
Ruth Falkenburg Kirk Collection, 1939-1950, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.758; [folder number] [folder
title][date].
Processed by Library staff before 1981. Finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 November
28, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
Donations from Frederick Webb Hodge, 1939-1942; Ruth Falkenburg Kirk, 1939-1949; Library Staff, 1950.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry Museum of the American West. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Research Services and Archives. Permission for publication is
given on behalf of the Autry Museum of the American West as the custodian of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Introduction to Zuni Fetishes Buffalo Hunting Fetish Jar Shalako of the ZunisWorld War, 1914-1918
Red Ant Fetishes
Zuni Fetishes
About the little Santu at Zuni
On the White Man's Warpath
Typescripts
Manuscripts
Photographs
Zuni Indians
Santos
Fetishes (Ceremonial objects)
Weahkee, Teddy