Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Navajo Relief Scrapbook
- Dates:
- 1947-1948
- Creators:
- Coze, Paul
- Abstract:
- This is a scrapbook created by Paul Coze regarding Navajo relief actions between 1947 and 1948. It contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and has one photograph on the cover. Paul Coze was the secretary for the Pasadena chapter of the Navajo Trail Relief Caravan.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear Feet 1 scrapbook
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
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Navajo Relief Scrapbook, 1947-1948, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.1322.
Background
- Scope and content:
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This is a scrabook created by Paul Coze regarding Navajo relief actions between 1947 and 1948. It contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, and has one photograph on the cover.
- Biographical / historical:
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Paul Coze (1903-1974) was a French-American anthropologist, artist, and writer, most notable as for his consideration as a French authority on Native Americans, and for his public art in the 1960s.
During years of art training, an increasing fascination with cowboys and Native Americans led to four museum-sponsored anthropological expeditions to western Canada (1928-1932) and a book, Moeurs et histoire des Peaux-Rouges (1928, with Rene Thévenin). Many of Coze's hundreds of collected artifacts now reside at the Royal Alberta Museum.
Coze moved to the United States circa 1938, lived in Pasadena, California since 1942, spending two years producing major educational murals at Mesa Verde National Park. Paul Coze was the secretary for the Pasadena chapter of the Navajo Trail Relief Caravan in 1947.
Settling in Phoenix, Arizona full-time in 1951, he founded an art school and created nine major pieces of public art in the city, including large multimedia installations at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum and other civic landmarks, most with Native themes. Coze provided artistic designs for Arizona's celebration of 50 years of statehood, The Arizona Story, in 1962.
- Acquisition information:
- Donation from Paul Coze, 1949.
- Processing information:
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Processing and finding aid completed by Holly Rose Larson, NHPRC Processing Archivist, 2012 October 5, made possible through grant funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commissions (NHPRC).
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2023-06-08 17:49:49 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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- Terms of access:
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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.
- Preferred citation:
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Navajo Relief Scrapbook, 1947-1948, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.1322.
- Location of this collection:
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4700 Western Heritage WayLos Angeles, CA 90027, US
- Contact:
- (747) 201-8448