Preliminary Inventory to the Ethel John Lindgren-Utsi papers
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Title: Ethel John Lindgren-Utsi papers
Date (inclusive): 1924-1944
Collection Number: 79007
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 motion picture film reel.
(1.8 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Journals, relating to anthropological field trips to Manchuria, 1929- 1932; notes, relating to the literature of anthropology;
and a film of domesticated reindeer in Manchuria.
Creator:
Lindgren-Utsi, Ethel John, 1905-1988
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1979.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ethel John Lindgren-Utsi Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical / Historical
British anthropologist.
Scope and Contents
Journals, relating to anthropological field trips to Manchuria, 1929-1932; notes, relating to the literature of anthropology;
and a film of domesticated reindeer in Manchuria.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Motion pictures
Anthropology
Ethnology -- China -- Manchuria
Reindeer
box 1
ANTHROPOLOGY.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on methodology, lectures, conferences and minutes of a symposium on "Patterns of Culture", 1936.
box 1
BARGA.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on the province of Barga and some of its ethnic groups, including a letter from V.V. Radin, dated Dec.15, 1933, describing
Hailar, the capital.
box 1
BOOKS.
Scope and Contents note
Notes, translations, excerpts from various books, studies, encyclopedias, etc., in particular notes from "The Natives of the
Amur Country", by L. Schrenck. Also included is a letter from Miss Esther Vernon Jones to Prof. Lowie, concerning the carbon
copies of the translations that EJL sent to him.
box 1
BURYATS.
Scope and Contents note
Notes.
box 1
CHINA.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on Chinese customs, terms of relationship, architecture, theatre, including notes given by Chin and some comments by
Ferdinand Lessing.
box 1
COLLECTIONS.
Scope and Contents note
Copy of the museum register of the collection deposited at the University Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, 1930;
list of articles collected by EJL in NW Manchuria, 1931 and 1932; inventory of Numinchen, Solon and Dagur collections, Aug-Sept.
1931.
box 1
DAGURS.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on Dagurs of Barga, June 1931; Dagur terms of relationship, burial customs, folklore and language, soldiers and `white
bandits', villages and temples.
box 1
DIARY.
Scope and Contents note
"An old note-book" and EJL's diary, copied from entries in Featherweight diary, Jan. 1934.
FIELD-TRIPS.
Scope and Contents note
Field note-books from five expeditions in NW Manchuria.
box 1
1) Ust-Urov Trip
June-Sept. 1929
Scope and Contents note
Including a supplement from O. Mamen's notes; "Kumarchen-Russian Notes" and "Romance of the Border".
box 1
2) Chol Trip
Aug.-Sept. 1931
Scope and Contents note
Including two supplements and O. Mamen's account.
box 2
3) Winter Trip
Oct.-Dec. 1931
Scope and Contents note
Including a supplement and an extract from a letter to Valeska Bary, dated Feb.20, 1932, concerning the Reindeer Tungus visited
during the Winter Trip.
box 2
4) Imin Trip
March 1932
Scope and Contents note
Including a supplement.
box 3
5) Larch River Trip
May-July 1932
Scope and Contents note
Including a supplement and an extract from a letter from Dmitri Lavrentivich Molokov, dated June 19, 1935, filed as supplement
to Larch River Trip.
box 3
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Scope and Contents note
Two issues of "Memorandum of Information on Foreign Affairs", May and June 1940.
box 3
GANJUR FAIR.
Scope and Contents note
Notes, Sept. 1931.
box 3
GLOSSARY.
Scope and Contents note
Glossary of various items, 1932-1933.
box 3
HAILAR OBO.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on Obo Festival (Natum), June 1929; the road Hailar-Solon Obo, June 1931; Bayin Khan Obo founded, June 1931; Solon Obo,
June 1931; Yamen's visit to Hailar Obo, July 1931; Panchen Lama's visit to Hailar Obo, Sept. 1931.
box 3
HEDIN, SVEN.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper article on Sven Hedin's life and political standpoint, March 30, 1940.
box 3
IRELAND.
Scope and Contents note
Notes recorded at Athlone, April 24, 1935.
box 3
JAPAN.
Scope and Contents note
Newspaper clippings on North Japan Alps, 1939, and a transcription of a conversation with Mr. Ishikawa on current events in
Japan and about Dr. Nitobe, Jan.21, 1934.
KALLEN, H. K.
Scope and Contents note
Reprints of four of his articles:
box 3
"Beauty and Use: A pragmatic interpretation"
May 1939
box 3
"Education of Jews in our time"
May 1939
box 3
"The Meanings of `unity' among the Sciences"
Sept. 1939
box 3
"Of War and Peace"
Sept. 1939
box 3
KHINGAN OROCHENS.
Scope and Contents note
Notes.
box 3
MAMEN, O.
Scope and Contents note
Two diaries from 1929 and 1932, and a record of C.E.R. meteorological observations for Barga, 1917 to 1921.
box 3
MISCELLANEOUS.
Scope and Contents note
List of people that EJL sent her article in
G.J, June 1930; stories told by a young English university graduate girl: "An English village `John' " and "An Impression of Radcliffe
hall", recorded Dec.25, 1930, and a list of scientific instruments, bought in 1931.
box 4
MONGOLIA.
Scope and Contents note
"Etcetera & Mongolica", written in Peking, Jan.5, 1931 (original conversations: June 1927 - June 1928); guide to a study by
Mrs. Kimiko Torii, entitled "Mongolia studied from ethnographical viewpoint" and a translation of a study by K.F. Golstunski
on Mongol-Oirat Laws.
box 4
NUMINCHEN.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on Numinchen census, terms of relationship, vocabulary, etc., including field-notes from the Winter Trip, March 1931,
during which EJL spent five days among the Numinchen.
box 4
PASSPORT ENTRIES OF E.J. LINDGREN.
Scope and Contents note
Including EJL's letter to Valeska Bary, dated Oct. 8, 1941, concerning in part her passports.
box 4
PLAETSCHKE, BRUNO.
Scope and Contents note
Account of Dr. Bruno Plaetschke's journey to Ganchen and onwards, July 1932.
box 4
POETRY.
Scope and Contents note
"Virginalia" - poems by Nadine Huang (Juan)? Holograph.
box 4
PSYCHOLOGY.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on books, conferences, lectures, etc.
box 4
REFUGEES.
Scope and Contents note
Reports concerning resettlement of refugees, 1939; newspaper clippings and extracts of correspondence relating to the fund-raising
activities of the International Refugee Colonisation Society, Nov. and Dec. 1939.
box 4
REINDEER TUNGUS.
Scope and Contents note
Field-notes on Reindeer Tungus customs, relationship terms, vocabulary, etc.; listings of Mongol and Tungus objects in the
University Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Cambridge; description of Tungus material in the Ethnographical Museum of Vladivostok
and Copenhagen; list of titles of scenes from the Anthropological Film of the Reindeer Tungus of Manchuria; Granfelt's notes;
Petri's description of his photographs on Siberian Tungus; notes and translations of studies on various Tungus people and
languages.
box 4
SHAMANISM.
Scope and Contents note
Notes, in particular a description of Khoan and Ba Shamans' performance, July 5-7, 1931; letter from John MacCurdy, dated
April 7, 1930, on the theme of shamanism and a list of papers by EJL published before Jan.31, 1940, in which some mention
is made of shamanism; speech, 1944.
box 4
SHIROKOGOROVA - NW MANCHURIA.
Scope and Contents note
Record of a trip in that area in 1915.
box 4
SIMPSON, MAY.
Scope and Contents note
Her recollections of Ethel May Roe.
box 4
SINKIANG.
Scope and Contents note
Description of the tribes of Sinkiang, Oct. 1929, and the account of EJL's encounter with the Yakut Simen Starostin, Aug.
1934.
box 4
SOLONS.
Scope and Contents note
Notes on Solon vocabulary and drumsticks, including notes taken during the Winter Trip.
box 4
THREE RIVERS HISTORY.
Scope and Contents note
Extract of a letter from Bishop Jonah of Manchuli describing the Three Rivers region.
box 4
TORGUT FROM ASTRAKHAN.
Scope and Contents note
Historical, biographical and anthropological notes, 1931.
box 4
URGA.
Scope and Contents note
Notes recorded in 1928.
box 4
ZIONISM.
Scope and Contents note
"The Jewish Organizations' ABC", 1939; report concerning possibilities for Jewish settlement in Surinam (Netherlands Guiana),
1939, and a reprint of a conference by J. and J. Tharaud, 1926, on the subject of Israel.
Motion Picture Film
Physical Description: 1.0 reel
film Shelf
16mm Film of domesticated reindeer in Manchuria
drawer mc25
1 oversize photograph depicting the Convention of Anthropology in Copenhagen.
August, 1938
