MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Title:
Dates:
1933-2001
Abstract:
A Yale-educated ethnographer, William Fenton devoted most of his career to study of the Haudenosaunee. Receiving his doctorate in 1937, Fenton worked with the Bureau of American Ethnology for a number of years before becoming Director of the New York State Museum and professor at SUNY Albany.
The Fenton Papers covers all aspects of William Fenton's professional life, documenting his varied positions as community worker for the New York Agency of the U.S. Indian Service, 1935-1937 (accounts, reports, correspondence); associate anthropologist and senior ethnologist in the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1939-1951 (includes notebooks, letters from the field); Executive Secretary of Anthropology and Psychology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council, 1952-1954; and Assistant Commissioner, New York State Museum and Science Service, 1954-1968.
Call #:
Mss.Ms.Coll.20
Extent:
60.5 Linear feet
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Agendas | Anthropological museums and collections -- Laws and legislation | Anthropologists. | Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969 | Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, NY). | Children's songs | Conference on Iroquois Research | Cornplanter, Jesse J. | Deardorff, Merle H., d.1971 | Dodge, Ernest Stanley | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844 | Eagle dance | Eulogies | Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005 | Field notes. | Gelatin silver prints | Genealogies | Gibson, John Hardy | Gibson, Simeon | Graymont, Barbara | Handsome Lake Code | Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971 | Harris, Helen | Herskovits, Melville J. , (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | Hill, Cephas | International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (7th : 1964 : Moscow, Russia) | Iroquois Indians | Iroquois Indians -- Games | Iroquois Indians -- Religion | Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs | Iroquois dance | Iroquois masks | Jamieson, Sadie | Jennings, Francis, 1918- | Keppler, Joseph | Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963 | Kinzua Dam (Pa.) | Lafitau, Joseph-Francois, 1681-1746 | Lectures | Lévi-Strauss, Claude | Logan, Frank | Maps | Maps. | McIlwraith, T. F. (Thomas Forsyth), 1899- | Meetings -- New York (State) -- Rennselaersville | Memorial service | Minutes | Mohawk Indians | Moscow (Russia) -- Description and travel | Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation | Negatives | New York | New York State Museum | Notebooks | Ojibwe people | Redeye, Clara | Redeye, Henry | Redeye, Sherman | Rennselaerville (N.Y.) | Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979 | Royal Ontario Museum. Division of Art and Archaeology.. | Saint Petersburg (Russia) -- Description and travel | Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939 | Seneca | Seneca Indians -- Genealogy | Seneca Indians -- Music | Seneca Indians -- Religion | Seneca Indians -- Relocation | Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs | Seneca masks | Shawnee Indians | Siksika Indians | Snow, Jones | Sound recordings | Soviet Union -- Description and travel | Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950 | Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961 | United States. Department of the Interior | Wallace, Paul A. W. | Wampum belts | Waugh, F. W., (Frederick Wilkerson), 1872-1924 | White, Leslie A., 1900-1972 | White, Marian E. (Marian Emily), 1921-1975 | Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947 | Witthoft, John
