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Title: Carobeth Laird papers
Date (inclusive): 1927-1991
Collection Number: MS 109
Creator:
Laird, Carobeth, 1895-1983
Extent:
8.04 linear feet
(11 boxes, 2 flat file folders)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: This collection contains manuscripts, press clippings, and other material regarding the research of Carobeth Laird, a noted
anthropologist, linguistics specialist, and ethnographer who studied the Chemehuevi people of southeastern California and
western Arizona. Materials regarding her first husband, American linguist and ethnologist John Peabody Harrington, are also
included.
Languages: The collection is in English.
This collection is open for research.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Carobeth Laird papers (MS 109). Special Collections & University Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Provenance unknown.
Processed by Julianna Gil, Student Processing Assistant, 2018.
Processing of the Carobeth Laird papers was completed by undergraduate students from the University of California, Riverside
as part of the Special Collections & University Archives Backlog Processing Project started in 2015. This project was funded
by the UCR Library and administered by Jessica Geiser, Collections Management Librarian.
Carobeth Laird was an accomplished anthropologist, linguistics specialist, and ethnographer who studied the Chemehuevi people
of southeastern California and western Arizona.
Laird was born in Coleman, Texas on 20 July, 1895 and married noted linguist and ethnologist John Peabody Harrington in 1916.
Together they conducted field work and ethnographic research on Native American tribes. Laird's experiences through six years
of marriage to John Harrington led to her book
Encounter with an Angry God, published in 1975.
After the dissolution of her marriage to Harrington, Carobeth married George Laird, her principal informant while studying
the Chemehuevi tribe. Laird's work focused particularly on the language and mythology of the Chemehuevi, culminating in two
books:
The Chemehuevis (1976) and
Mirror and Pattern (1984).
In her later years Laird lived in a nursing home and wrote a memoir, titled
Limbo (1979), based on her experiences there and her view of time.
Carobeth Laird passed away on the fifth of August, 1983.
This collection contains manuscripts, press clippings, and other material regarding the research of Carobeth Laird a noted
anthropologist, linguistics specialist, and ethnographer who studied the Chemehuevi people of southeastern California and
western Arizona. Material regarding her first husband, American linguist and ethnologist John Peabody Harrington, is also
included.
The collection is arranged into three series as follows:
- Series 1: Literary works, 1970-1991; undated
- Series 2: Lynn Laredo, 1976-1987
- Series 3: Personal, 1927-1987
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Harrington, John Peabody
Chemehuevi Indians
Ethnology
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence
Manuscripts