Description
The Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expedition (RBMVE) Archives results from excavations that were conducted between 1933 and
1938 along the Colorado River basin directed by Ansel Hall, Head of Education for the Western Region, National Park Service,
based in UC-Berkeley. The interest of the National Park Service to establish a park in the Rainbow Bridge area of southeastern
Utah and down into Tsegi Canyon in northern Arizona gave Hall the opportunity to organize an intensive survey of this extended
area, covering 3,000 square miles. Intending to take only ten experienced men from UC-Berkeley for a preliminary exploration
of the area in 1933, he instead led seventy-five men from major universities around the country. A caravan left from each
coast, one from The Explorers Club in New York City, the other from UC-Berkeley. They converged on a predetermined date in
the desolate settlement of Kayenta, Arizona. The archive consists of maps, photographs and negatives, site cards, original
field notes and diaries, catalog ledgers, ceramic tabulation strips, cassette tapes, published and unpublished reports on
the progress of ethnographic, archaeological, and botanical research, funding and organizational documentation, analyses,
and correspondence. The collection also includes primary materials relating to the Fowler exhibition Honoring the Dead: Anasazi Ceramics from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition, 1983, at the Museum of Cultural History.
Restrictions
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Registrar. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of The Fowler Museum at UCLA as the owner 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.