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Title: Robert S. Curry Personal Papers and Photographic Materials
Dates: 1974-1994
Collection number: MS.1277
Creator:
Curry, Robert S.
Creator:
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Collection Size:
4 Hollinger boxes
11 binder boxes
Repository:
Autry National Center. Institute for the Study of the American West
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Abstract: The materials predominately consist of color slides taken during Robert S. Curry's travels to Mayan cities, California, and
the Southwest.
Physical location: Braun Research Library
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Collection is open for research. Appointments to view materials are required. To make an appointment please visit http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/research_application.php
or contact library staff at (323).221-2164.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Braun Research Library, Autry National Center. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Library Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Braun Research Library 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.
[Item identification] Robert S. Curry Personal Papers and Photographic Materials, MS.1277. Braun Research Library, Autry National
Center, Los Angeles, CA
Materials were donated to the Braun Research Library by the Robert S. Curry estate in 2006.
Processed by Liza Posas, 2008.
Biography / Administrative History
Robert S. Curry volunteered for the Southwest Museum's Anthropological Department for 15 years. He worked with Dr. Kathleen
Whitaker, former SWM curator, on her publication Southwest Textiles: Weavings of the Navajo and Pueblo. His personal research
interests included ledger art and winter counts.
Scope and Content of Collection
The materials predominately consist of color slides taken during Robert S. Curry's travels to Mayan cities, California and
the Southwest. Other photographic material includes color photographs and 35 mm negative strips and rolls. Personal papers
consist of Curry's manuscripts, research materials and notes, and journal writings that pertain to the Lakota Winter Count
and Hopi culture.
Materials are divided into two series separated by type of material: Series I. Personal Papers and Manuscripts, and Series
II. Photographic Material. Series II is further divided into subseries by medium. All levels are arranged alphabetically by
subject or geographic location and then chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Curry, Robert S.
Tawahongva, Duane.
Southwest Museum of the American Indian (Los Angeles, Calif.)
California--Descrption and travel--Pictorial works.
Guatemala--Description and travel--Pictorial works.
Mexico--Description and travel--Pictorial works.
Series I: Personal papers and manuscripts on Hopi and Lakota cultures
Series II: Photographic Material
Sub-series I: Negative rolls, 35 mm
Travel to Guatemala, Mexico, and United States, 1976-1985
Unidentified people and groups [no date]
Sub-series II: Photographs
Native American objects and art by Duane Tawahongva, 1990-1994
Travel in the United States, 1994
Unidentified people and groups [no date]
Sub-series III: 35 mm slides
Unidentified locations and people (possibly family), [no date]
Duane Tawahongva artwork, 1990-1994.
Lakota, 1991
Pow Wow, 1977-78
Unidentified group, 1980
Travel to Europe, Mesoamerican Ruins, Mexico and the U.S., 1974-1991
More detailed inventory and description of materials are in Microsoft Excel file. A copy of the file can be provided to researchers
upon request.