Finding Aid to the Otto Maenchen-Helfen Papers, 1921-1974, bulk 1921-1965
Finding Aid to the Otto Maenchen-Helfen Papers, 1921-1974, bulk 1921-1965
Collection Number: BANC MSS 78/101
The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
- Finding Aid Written By:
- Bancroft Library staff
- Date Completed:
- April 2010
Scope and Content of Collection
Series 1 Correspondence 1921-1961
Arrangement
Scope and Content Note
Personal to Maenchen-Helfen (mostly in German) 1921-1961
Personal (mostly in German) 1938-1943
Re: Cahill and Trousdale publications 1958-1960
Series 2 Publications 1924-1974
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Scope and Content Note
Bücherbesprechungen: Review 1924
Zwerghirsch 1930
Japan-Kalifornien 1931
Die Träger des Tierstils im Osten 1934
Herakles in China 1935
Carved Red Lacquer of the Ming Period 1936
Zur Geschichte der Lackkunst in China 1936
Chinesisches Lackgerät 1937
Der Schub Auf Die Sonnen 1937
Materialien zur Geschichte de Chinesischen Lacks, Zur Üe-tsï-frage 1938
The Ting-Ling, Svetadvtpa in Pre-Christian China 1939
Early Chinese Pottery 1941
From China to Palmyra 1943
Huns and Hsiung-Nu 1944-1945
The Legend of the Origin of the Huns 1944-1945
Some Remarks on Ancient Chinese Bronzes 1945
Are Chinese Hsi-Pi and Kuo-Lo Loan Words? 1945
The Yüeh-Chi Problem Re-Examined 1945
Reviews: Ackerman from Art Bulletin/E.A, Thompson, A History of Attila and the Huns 1946
History in Linguistics 1948
Inverted Tree circa 1949
Manichaeans in Siberia 1951
A Parthian Coin Legend on a Chinese Bronze 1952
Reviews: 1) Kirfel: Die Dreikopfige Gotthart 2) Altheim: Atilla und die Hunnen 1952
Reviews: Finsterbusch from Orientalistiche Literaturezitung 1954
The Date of Ammianus Marcellinus' Last Books 1955
Psuedo-Huns 1955
Reviews: 1) The Russian Works, 2) Anales de Historica Antigua y Medieval 1956
Crenelated Mane and Scabbard Slide 1957
Germanic and Hunnic Names of Iranian Origin 1957
Reviews: 1) Carter, 2) Loehr: Chinese Bronze Age Weapons 1957
Die Jassar-Berge, Zinige Bemerkungen zur Palaeoethnologie, and The Ethnic Name Hun 1959
Reviews: Altheim, Geschicte der Hunnen 1959
Archaistic Names of the Hiung-Nu, Ein Unbeachtetes Zeugnis fur das Keltentum der Bastarnen 1961-1962
Reviews: Sullivan's Introduction to Chinese Art 1961-1962
Zu Moor's Thesen Über die Hunnen 1963
The Date of Maximus of Turin's Sermo XVIII. Le Crogne di Aquileia 1964
Early Barbarian Tombs of China's Border 1965
Umehara and Rudenko Artibus Asiae XXVII 1965
Akatir 1966
Thegri and Tengri 1966
Byzantinische Zeitschrift 1968
Bibliographies 1969
The World of the Huns 1973-1974
The Huns on the Danube undated
Materialtien zur Geschichte des Chinesischen Lacks undated
Books Reviews and Articles about Professor Maenchen-Helfen undated
Vortrag Wein-Munchen undated
Series 3 Professional Associations 1931-1965
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American Oriental Society 1931-1942
University of California 1934-1965
University of California 1934-1965
Series 4 Research 1921-1967
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Scope and Content Note
Adam undated
Aetius-Hostage, Aetius and the Burgundians undated
Afrasiab Photographs undated
Alans in the West and River Burials undated
Albero Secco undated
Altheim undated
Animal Handles with photographs undated
Apahida undated
Appendices and Allegedly Religious Motives in Hunnic Art undated
Archaeology, China/Chinese circa 1960
The Archaeological Evidence undated
Archaeology of Korea, Arimitsu Lectures 1951
Arrows undated
Asia. Innermost undated
Assorted Artifacts with photographs undated
Assorted Cardboard Index Pages containing notes and captions undated
Atlas SSSR 1950
Attila undated
Attila, typescript in German undated
Attila, Huns Threaten West Wars on the Balkan undated
Attila's Kingdom circa 1967
Attila's Kingdom Economy undated
Battle of the Huns Draft undated
Bird's Head, Bottles, and Buckles undated
Borovoe undated
Bow, Politische Geschicte undated
Bows/Bogen, includes illustrations undated
Bows at High Altai undated
Bows, Hunnic undated
Bows, material and literature used undated
Bronzes, Chinese Art undated
The Burgundians undated
Burial types undated
Burials, River and Alans in the West undated
Camel/Gyongosapat pictures undated
Chernyakhov undated
China Borders/Okladnikov's "Bows" undated
China, Historical Chart 1958
China's Cultural Development Chart undated
Chinese Art, Bronzes undated
Chinese Notes undated
Chinese Notes undated
"Collapse" undated
Concesti photographs undated
Cranes and Pygmies, Monsters undated
Cranial Deformation circa 1966
Cranial Deformation Notebook undated
Crenelated Mane undated
Crenelated Mane, includes illustrations undated
Csongrad undated
Danube, On to undated
Two Dark Decades 1950-1955
Deformation undated
Deformed Heads, photographs undated
Der Stand der Hunnenforschung undated
Die Russen undated
Dress undated
Eidola undated
Erdfischung undated
Far Eastern Bibliography 1932-1936
Fibulae undated
German Bibliography with notes undated
Germanic finds in Hungary undated
Gesamtdarstellungen and Thompson undated
Gesellschaft undated
Graves, Hunnic undated
Győngyősapáti undated
Handbook of the Department of Oriental Art 1933
Heikel-Talas undated
Hephthalites, Xyon, Kidara undated
Herakles in China undated
Hiu Shï Lu, general undated
Hiu Shï Lu Composition Books, I and II. undated
Hormilac, draft undated
Horses 1921-1960
Hsi-Pi undated
Hsi-Pi and Kuo-Lo undated
Huai and Ordos undated
Hun Composition Notebook undated
Caucasus Huns undated
Hunnic Cauldrons circa 1964
Huns, crafts, cauldrons, diadems, etc. undated
Hun Destroyers undated
The Huns in Dionysus Periegetes circa 1960
Early Hun Drafts undated
Early Huns in Eastern Europe undated
Huns, Hsiung-Nu 1963
Huns, in Italy 452 A.D. undated
Huns, material 395 A.D. undated
Huns, material 451-452 A.D. undated
Huns, material 452-453 A.D. undated
Huns, Origin of the circa 1958
Huns and religion undated
Huns-Sarmatian Swords undated
Hun society undated
Huns, use of gold, jewelry, etc. undated
Hunnic warfare undated
Huns, weaponry, language, etc, bibliography undated
Huns, list of people whose works were used during research undated
Illustrations/Photographs, cauldrons 1935-1965
Illustrations/Photographs, crenelated mane undated
Illustrations/Photographs, diadems undated
Illustrations/Photographs, granulation, miscellaneous undated
Illustrations/Photographs, horses house undated
Illustrations/Photographs, Hunnic art, articles undated
Illustrations/Photographs, Hunnic art, miscellaneous undated
Illustrations/Photographs, jewelry circa 1961
Illustrations/Photographs, mirrors undated
Illustrations/Photographs, miscellaneous, Kava, Aguck undated
Illustrations/Photographs, Octar and Ruga undated
Illustrations/Photographs, race circa 1958
Illustrations/Photographs, religion, Eidola undated
Illustrations/Photographs, Samokvasov, Caucasus jewelry undated
Illustrations/Photographs, Uoin, Ula, and Ordos circa 1959-1963
Illustrations/Photographs, warfare circa 1960
Inverted Tree undated
Iranisches bei Berossos undated
Iuvare Occisos Parentes/Killing Parents circa 1965
Jakuszowice undated
Jumg Keng circa 1937-1946
Kama, Kharina, and Bashkirskii undated
Kan X. die Renwirtschaft undated
Kazakhstan circa 1956
Kenkol, Kerch, Panticapaeum undated
Khwarezm undated
Karasuk, China 1928-1947
Kirgiz undated
Kyros undated
Lacquer, Black undated
The Lacquer Tree undated
Lacquer, Ancient Chinese undated
Lacquer, Chinese circa 1941
Lacquer, Chinese Art circa 1938
Lacquer, Chinese Art History undated
Lacquer, Chinese technique undated
Lacquer, Japanese circa 1941
Lacquer, Materialien zur Geschichte des Chinesischen Lacks undated
Lacquer, technique and masters undated
Lacquer, Oriental 1921-1938
Langobards in "Attila's Kingdom" undated
Language of the Huns undated
Language Introduction, Germanic, Iranian, and Tribal circa 1955
Language Conclusion, Ethnic Name undated
"Light and Laughter" 383-427 A.D. undated
The Literary Evidence undated
Magna Mater Scythia undated
Manichaeism, Manichaean rock pictures in Siberia 1931-1957
Maps, Classical lands, Cradle of Western civilization undated
Maps, Far East and Central Asia undated
Maps, Hungary undated
Maps, Patsch circa 1965
Maps, Sarmatians undated
Maps, Sarmatian and Chernyakhov circa 1964
Maps, Romania undated
Maps, Central Asia 1949
Maps, Chernyakhov undated
Maps, various historical events undated
Maps, various undated
Märchen von der Scwanenjungfrau 1936
Mirrors, drafts circa 1960-1965
Mirrors, drafts undated
Miscellaneous, mythological creatures, in Chinese, German, and Greek undated
Miscellaneous, writings and translations undated
Musliumova/Muslyumovo undated
Novogrigor'evka undated
Octar and Ruga undated
Parducz, Hunnenzeit photographs undated
Paulus, Khwarezm undated
Pazyryk, lecture in Italian undated
Photographs, miscellaneous, includes negatives undated
Photographs, "World of the Huns" undated
Pottery undated
Photostat undated
Priscus Collapse and Aftermath, 376-476 A.D. undated
Proben undated
Psuedo-Huns. Ammianus, Jerome undated
Quiver undated
Race undated
Race II circa 1959
Radensk, Saga, Shcherbatinamotlovina, Shipovo undated
Religion undated
Religion, Sacred sword undated
Ruga undated
Sarmatian Distribution undated
Sarmatians circa 1959
Sarmatians, Early, Middle, and Late undated
Sarmatians, Latest undated
Sarmartians, Late undated
Sarmatians, West of the Don, Maslovo, etc. undated
Sarmatian Script undated
Schamanismus undated
Scythian art, early, lectures, "Romans and Barbarians Attila's Court" undated
Scythia, Early Sarmatian, Early on Volga undated
Scyths, Sarmats undated
Shou Chou undated
Siberia, prehistory undated
Si-Pi undated
Si-Pi and Kuo-Lo, Chinese Lacquer undated
Silk Road, East on undated
"Speculations about the Language of the Huns" undated
Sprache undated
Strap Ends undated
Swan Maiden undated
Swords, Central Asia and China undated
Swords, Sarmatian Bosp. and general term for swords circa 1959
Sword, Sasanian circa 1965
Szeged, Nagyszéksόs undated
Szirmabesenyő, Szirmateseny undated
Tribal Names undated
Turkmenistan, Southern 1963
Temple Pendants undated
Tuva undated
Typescripts, various, German and Italian undated
Uldin and Charaton undated
Verknaya Rutkha/Ruchka undated
Varia Au Shk undated
Viele Sonnen undated
Warfare 9 undated
Wein, Simmering, Zdvizhengkde undated
World Tree Bibliography undated
Wu-Sun undated
Yueh-Chih and notebooks (2) with bibliographies undated
Series 5 Biographical Materials 1965-1969
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Maenchen-Helfen's Honorary Degree 1965
Photographs, Maenchen-Helfen's Study, includes slides 1969
Addresses and phone numbers of certain colleagues undated