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Title: Navajo Relief Scrapbook
Identifier/Call Number: MS.1322
Contributing Institution:
Autry National Center, Braun Research Library
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.5 linear feet
1 scrapbook
Date (inclusive): 1947-1948
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.
creator:
Coze, Paul, 1903-1974
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).
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.
Paul Coze (1903-1974) was a French-American anthropologist, artist, and writer, most notable 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, 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.
Donation from Paul Coze, 1949.
Navajo Relief Scrapbook, 1947-1948, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MS.1322.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Autry National Center. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Autry Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Autry National Center
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.
Collection is open for research. Appointments to view materials are required. To make an appointment please visit http://theautry.org/research/research-rules-and-application
or contact library staff at rroom@theautry.org.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Clippings
Correspondence
Navajo Indians
Navajo Indians -- Government relations
Navajo Indians -- Social life and customs
Scrapbooks