Finding Aid to the Ruth Falkenburg Kirk Collection MS.758

Holly Rose Larson

Library and Archives at the Autry

2012 November 28

210 South Victory Blvd.

Burbank, CA 91502

rroom@theautry.org

URL: https://theautry.org/research-collections/library-and-archives

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 .

Scope and Contents

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.

Preferred Citation

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].

Processing History

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).

Acquisition

Donations from Frederick Webb Hodge, 1939-1942; Ruth Falkenburg Kirk, 1939-1949; Library Staff, 1950.

Conditions Governing Use

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.

Conditions Governing Access

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

Introduction to Zuni Fetishes Buffalo Hunting Fetish Jar Shalako of the Zunis

World 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