William N. Fenton Papers

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Date: 1933-2001 | Size: 60.5 Linear feet
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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.

Background note

Born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on December 15, 1908, William Nelson Fenton, became a leading scholar of the history and culture of the Haudenosaunee. Raised in New Rochelle until the age of 16, he passed his summers on the family farm in western New York state, located midway between two Seneca Indian reservations. Exposed to anthropological work, Fenton's interests were encouraged by his father and grandfather, friends to Indians there, who assembled a small collection of Indian memorabilia which was later acquired by the Museum of the American Indian.

After receiving his B.A. from Dartmouth in 1931, Fenton attended Yale for graduate study in anthropology. At the end of his first year in New Haven, the Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe awarded him a scholarship for training in field archaeology on the Great Plains of Nebraska and South Dakota, where he took part in his first professional ethnological interviews. Returning to his old home in New York in 1933, Fenton embarked on what would become more than fifty years of field research on the Allegany, Cornplanter, Cattaraugus, and Tonawanda Seneca Reservations and on the Six Nations Reserve in Canada. From 1935 until he received his doctorate in 1937, Fenton also served as a community worker for the United States Indian Service, working principally on the Tonawanda Reservation.

In his first academic appointment in 1937, Fenton introduced anthropology to St. Lawrence University, though he remained for only three semesters before being called to replace J.N.B. Hewitt at the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) of the Smithsonian Institution, earning promotion to Senior Ethnologist in 1943. During the war years, he served as a Research Associate of the Ethnogeographic Board and as Secretary of the Smithsonian War Committee. While a member of the Committee on International Relations in Anthropology at the National Research Council (NRC) from 1952 to 1954, he served as the first Executive Secretary of the Division of Anthropology and Psychology. Meanwhile, he was employed as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Catholic Universities, and at the University of Michigan.

In 1954, Fenton returned to New York State with his wife, Olive (1908-1986), and their three children to become Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Museum and Science Service in Albany, serving as director of the State Museum for thirteen years. In 1968, he abandoned administration and returned to teaching as Research Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Albany. In 1979, the trustees named him Distinguished Professor, and Anthony F.C. Wallace delivered the honorary lecture.

Throughout his career, Fenton's research centered on the religious ceremonies and customs of the Iroquois, epitomised by his translation (with Elizabeth Moore) of The Customs of the American Indian Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times by Father Joseph François Lafitau, his 1987 book, The False Faces of the Iroquois, and his last major work, The Great Law and the Longhouse: A political history of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Fenton received numerous awards, including the Peter Doctor Award of the Seneca Nation (1958), the Cornplanter Medal for Iroquois Research (1965), the Citizen Laureate Award of the University of Albany Foundation (1978), the Distinguished Service Award of the American Anthropological Association (1983), and an LL.D. from Hartwick College (1968). He was president of the American Folklore Society (1959-1960), the American Ethnological Society (1959), and the American Society for Ethnohistory (1961); a Board member of the American Anthropological Association; and a trustee of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (1976-1989). He was a founder of the Conference on Iroquois Research in 1945, and a founding member of the SUNY Albany chapter of Sigma Xi. He was also a long-time member of the Phillips Fund Committee of the American Philosophical Society (1975-1991) and of the American Committee of the Permanent Council of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1952-1972), as well as Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Albany. He passed away on June 17, 2005.

Scope and content

The William N. Fenton Papers (1635-1994) contain correspondence, subject files, manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Fenton, papers by colleagues, research notes, and photographs, which document Fenton's career as an anthropologist. The most recent items in the collection are letters dated 1994. Documenting both Fenton's research on the Iroquois and the evolution of Iroquois studies, the collection also includes photocopies of primary materials dating back into the seventeeth century.

The Fenton Papers focus on Haudenosaunee ("Iroquois") ethnology and political history, and include an important series of correspondence between Fenton and his Seneca consultants, Clara and Sherman Redeye and Jesse J. Cornplanter, 1933-1967, among others. Fenton also gathered works written by Cornplanter himself. Of related interest are a collection of Seneca genealogies; the extensive documentation of the protracted controversy between the Seneca Nation and the U.S. Government over the construction of the Kinzua Dam; and material concerning Fenton's controversial role in resisting early attempts at cultural repatriation waged by the Onondaga Indians in the "Great Wampum War of 1970" (restricted access; see: Fenton, "The New York State Wampum Collection: The Case for the Integrity of Cultural Treasures," APS Proceedings. 115:6, 1971).

Having been instrumental in their organization, Fenton kept a wealth of material on the Conferences on Iroquois Research, 1948-1966. Fenton's research on Iroquois ceremonial False Faces is documented by research notes, photographs, and a penultimate draft of the book manuscript, and his participation in international anthropological organizations is evidenced by the material on the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Of special note is the journal he kept for the VIIth International Congress which met in Moscow in 1964. There is also material on the Committee on International Relations in Anthropology, 1945-1950.

Among the miscellaneous materials in the collection are copies of the original, and unpublished, Iroquois field notebooks of Alexander A. Goldenweiser, taken at the Six National Reserve in Canada, 1911-1918. Edward Sapir, who supervised Goldenweiser's research, helped Fenton recover the originals, which Goldenweiser passed to Sapir's graduate students, and ultimately to Fenton in the 1930s. The originals were sent to the National Museum of Man (now the Canadian Museum of History) during the 1970s. There is material concerning Fenton's preparation of these notebooks for publication, including a very informative introduction prepared by one of Fenton's graduate students.

The papers (60.5 linear feet) are divided into eight series:

Series I. Correspondence1897-199439 boxes; 19.25 linear feet
Series IIa. Subject files1846-199215 boxes; 7.5 linear feet
Series IIb. Iroquois Documentary History Project1635-19893 boxes; 1.5 linear feet
Series III. Works by Fenton1711-199113 boxes; 6.25 linear feet
Series IV. Works by others1848-199410 boxes; 4.5 linear feet
Series V. Research notes1912-198117 boxes; 10.5 linear feet
Series VI. Photographs1880-199312 boxes; 7 linear feet
Series I-VI. Oversized1 box; 0.25 linear feet

Oversized materials follow the same series arrangement as noted above. Cross referencing to oversized material appears on the folders in the standard sized boxes. All photographs and negatives have been removed from Series I-V and placed in Series VI. Cross references appear in the original series. Reprints have been moved to the printed materials collection of the APS library. If a reprint was found as an enclosure, a photocopy of the title page was filed in its place. To retrieve reprints, consult the card catalog for printed materials. Microfiche, microfilm, and audio- and video-cassette recordings have also been removed from the collection; to retrieve those items, consult the card catalog for manuscript materials.

Digital objects note

This collection contains digital materials that are available in the APS Digital Library. Links to these materials are provided with context in the inventory of this finding aid. A general listing of digital objects may also be found here.

Collection Information

Physical description

60.5 linear feet

60.5 linear feet

Provenance

The Fenton Papers have been donated by William N. Fenton and family between 1982 and 2006.

Preferred citation

Cite as: William N. Fenton Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Processing information

Catalogued by Miriam Spectre and Tim Wilson, 1996. Additional materials cataloged by Brian Carpenter, 2017. (See processing note for Series VIII.)

Separated material

William N. Fenton, collector, n.d., [c.1984]. 1 audiocassette tape. Radio broadcast: "Manhattan at Large." Councilman Stanley Michaels, host. Topic: "The Future of the Museum of the American Indian." Guests: Dr. Edmund Carpenter, Anthropologist, Member Board of Trustees, Museum of the American Indian; Pamela Mann, Asst. N.Y., Attorney General; N.Y. Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell, Jr.; Randle Borshi, Deputy Commissioner, N.Y. City Dept. of Cultural Affairs.

William Fenton and David Sapir. Oct. 1, 1984. 1 VHS videocassette tape. Produced by Allan Burns. Dept. of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32611.

3 green vinyl records removed from Ser. II, International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (7th : 1964 : Moscow).

13 microfiche: 9 of correspondence between Edward Sapir and Alexander A. Goldenweiser, 1911-1925; 4 of correspondence between Edward Sapir and F.W. Waugh, 1912. Appears to be from the National Museums of Canada.

3 reels of microfilm (3 copies): Jesse J. Cornplanter and Joseph Keppler correspondence, 1900-1938, from Museum of the American Indian.

1 reel of microfilm: Samuel Wharton. Facts and observations respecting the country granted to his majesty by the Six Nations (London, 1775), 170 pp.+, from the Library of Congress, 3 Mar. 1952.

1 reel of microfilm: Du Simitiere Papers (1769); Christopher Sauer material (1749), from Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Related material

There are many audio recordings donated by William Fenton, in addition to the audio in Series VII of this collection, that have been separated into their own collections. These are: Onondaga text and translation of the Gibson-Goldenweiser text of the Deganawidah epic (Mss.Rec.125), Interviews concerning the paintings of the Seneca artist Ernest Smith (Mss.Rec.126), Seneca Chanters of the Dead (Mss.Rec.127), Seneca texts relating to the Green Corn Ceremony; An origin of the False Faces (Mss.Rec.128), Seneca Chants and Ceremonies (Mss.Rec.130), Indian Language Field Recordings (Mss.Rec.138), Iroquois material (Mss.Rec.150), and The Future of the Museum of the American Indian (Mss.Rec.183). Fenton's papers are among several collections pertaining to the history, culture, and languages of the Haudenosaunee, including the papers of Elisabeth Tooker, Ely S. Parker, Frans Olbrechts, and Anthony F. C. Wallace, Paul A. W. Wallace, and Frank Speck, Floyd G. Lounsbury, George Snyderman.

Fenton's papers are among several collections pertaining to the history, culture, and languages of the Haudenosaunee.

Other major Haudenosaunee-related collections
Frank Speck Papers View Collection
Frans M. Olbrechts Papers View Collection
Ely S. Parker Papers View Collection
ACLS Collection View Collection
Paul A. W. Wallace Papers View Collection
Anthony F. C. Wallace Papers View Collection
Elisabeth Tooker Papers View Collection
Floyd G. Lounsbury Papers View Collection
George Snyderman Papers View Collection

Bibliography

Fenton, William N., The False Faces of the Iroquois (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma, 1987). 970.3 F36f

Fenton, William N., ed., Parker on the Iroquois (Syracuse: Syracuse Univ., 1968). 970.3 P22i

Indexing Terms


Corporate Name(s)

  • Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, NY).
  • Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
  • New York State Museum
  • Royal Ontario Museum. Division of Art and Archaeology..
  • United States. Department of the Interior

Genre(s)

  • Agendas
  • Field notes.
  • Gelatin silver prints
  • Genealogies
  • Lectures
  • Maps.
  • Minutes
  • Negatives
  • Notebooks
  • Sound recordings

Occupation(s)

  • Anthropologists.

Personal Name(s)

  • Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969
  • Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
  • Congdon, Charles E. , (Charles Edwin), b. 1877
  • Cornplanter, Edward
  • Cornplanter, Jesse J.
  • Deardorff, Merle H., d.1971
  • Dodge, Ernest Stanley
  • Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
  • Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005
  • Foster, Michael K.
  • Gibson, John Hardy
  • Gibson, Simeon
  • Goldenweiser, Alexander, 1880-1940
  • Graymont, Barbara
  • Hallowell, A. Irving (Alfred Irving), 1892-1974
  • Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971
  • Harris, Helen
  • Herskovits, Melville J. , (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
  • Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
  • Hill, Cephas
  • Jamieson, Sadie
  • Jennings, Francis, 1918-
  • Johnny John, Chauncey
  • Keppler, Joseph
  • Kidder, Alfred Vincent, 1885-1963
  • Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
  • Lafitau, Joseph-Francois, 1681-1746
  • Lévi-Strauss, Claude
  • Logan, Frank
  • Lounsbury, Floyd Glenn, 1914-1998
  • McIlwraith, T. F. (Thomas Forsyth), 1899-
  • Parker, Arthur Caswell, 1881-1955
  • Redeye, Clara
  • Redeye, Henry
  • Redeye, Sherman
  • Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich), 1908-1979
  • Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
  • Snow, Jones
  • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
  • Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961
  • Sturtevant, William C.
  • Tooker, Elisabeth, 1927-2004
  • Trigger, Bruce G.
  • Wallace, Anthony F. C., 1923-2015
  • Wallace, Paul A. W.
  • Waugh, F. W., (Frederick Wilkerson), 1872-1924
  • Wheeler-Voegelin, Erminie, 1903-1988
  • White, Leslie A., 1900-1972
  • White, Marian E. (Marian Emily), 1921-1975
  • Wissler, Clark, 1870-1947
  • Witthoft, John
  • Woodbury, Hanni

Subject(s)

  • Anthropological museums and collections -- Laws and legislation
  • Eagle dance
  • Handsome Lake Code
  • Iroquois Indians -- Games
  • Iroquois Indians -- Religion
  • Iroquois Indians -- Social life and customs
  • Iroquois dance
  • Iroquois masks
  • Kinzua Dam (Pa.)
  • Seneca
  • Seneca Indians -- Genealogy
  • Seneca Indians -- Music
  • Seneca Indians -- Religion
  • Seneca Indians -- Relocation
  • Seneca Indians -- Social life and customs
  • Seneca masks
  • Wampum belts

Collection overview

Series I. Correspondence
1897-199439 boxes; 19.25 linear feet

Incoming and outgoing manuscript and typescript letters, carbons, telegrams, and postcards generated during Fenton's career. The largest series in the collection, Series I is arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name and then chronologically within each folder. Unidentified correspondence has been filed as "Unidentified" and is arranged chronologically. Enclosed manuscripts have been removed from this series and placed in Series III or IV as appropriate. As with the reprints, a photocopy of the title page was filed with the original letter. The bulk of this series covers the years 1930 to 1993.

Correspondents include anthropologists, government officials, students, publishers, Native Americans, and interested amateur anthropologists. Among the topics covered in this series are: Iroquois ceremonies and customs, relocation and administration of the Museum of the American Indian, and Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. For lists of correspondence related to construction of Kinzua Dam and to wampum belts, see the folders labeled "Kinzua Dam" and "Wampum" in Series II. Material relevant to Fenton's work for the United States Indian Service is filed under "United States. Department of the Interior." Letters of reference are filed under the name of the person who is the subject of the letter. For lists of correspondence with colleagues about Fenton's publications, see Series III under the publications' titles.

Also included in this series is correspondence from several Native Americans detailing reservation life, customs, and ceremonies.

Principal correspondents include:

  1. Barbeau, C. Marius
  2. Boas, Franz
  3. Carpenter, Edmund S.
  4. Congdon, Charles E.
  5. Deardorff, Merle H.
  6. Dodge, Ernest Stanley
  7. Foster, Michael K.
  8. Goldenweiser, Alexander A.
  9. Graymont, Barbara
  10. Hallowell, Alfred Irving
  11. Harrington, Mark Raymond
  12. Herskovits, Melville J.
  13. Hewitt, J.N.B.
  14. Jennings, Francis P.
  15. Kemp, Jack
  16. Kennedy, Robert F.
  17. Keppler, Joseph
  18. Kidder, Alfred V. II
  19. Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
  20. Levi-Strauss, Claude
  21. Logan, Frank
  22. Lounsbury, Floyd G.
  23. McIlwraith, Thomas F.
  24. Mead, Margaret
  25. Parker, Arthur C.
  26. Rockefeller, Nelson A.
  27. Sapir, Edward
  28. Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
  29. Shimony, Annemarie
  30. Speck, Frank G.
  31. Spier, Leslie
  32. Sturtevant, William C.
  33. Tooker, Elisabeth
  34. Trigger, Bruce G.
  35. Voegelin, Erminie
  36. Wallace, Anthony F.C.
  37. Wallace, Paul A.W.
  38. Waugh, F.W.
  39. White, Leslie A.
  40. White, Marian E.
  41. Wissler, Clark
  42. Witthoft, John
  43. Woodbury, Hanni J.
  1. Cornplanter, Edward
  2. Cornplanter, Jesse J.
  3. Gibson, John Hardy
  4. Gibson, Simeon
  5. Harris, Helen
  6. Hill, Cephas D.
  7. Jamieson, Sadie
  8. Redeye, Clara
  9. Redeye, Sherman
  10. Sky, Howard
Series IIa. Subject files
1846-199215 boxes; 8.25 linear feet

Minutes, reports, agenda, conference abstracts, bulletins, legal documents, calendars, and newspaper clippings, arranged alphabetically by title. The earliest item in this series is a photocopy of an 1846 library catalog from the Thomas Indian School. The Museum of the American Indian files, which include minutes and agenda from the period when Fenton was an active board member, account for a significant portion of Series II. Fenton's reports on travel and work completed as a community worker for the U.S. Department of the Interior appear in this series as well. Of interest is the material on the construction of Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River, and on the plans to establish Iroquoia, a tourist center to provide an historically accurate re-creation of an Iroquois community. Also of note are the wampum files which contain material on the ownership of numerous wampum belts at the Museum of the American Indian, the Rochester Museum and Science Center, and the New York State Museum. Copies of the title pages of reprints by and about Horatio Hale are filed under "Hale" in the series.

Series IIb. Iroquois Documentary History Project
1635-19893 boxes; 1.5 linear feet

Material gathered during a project undertaken by the Newberry Library to compile a documentary history of the Iroquois. Involved in the project were Fenton, Francis P. Jennings, and Mary A. Druke Becker, among others. This series contains material that was compiled by the project, including photocopies of historical documents, such as treaties, deeds, and minutes of meetings with Iroquois leaders. There are two folders of project reports ("Iroquois Documentary History Project Reports") written by Becker, Fenton, and Jennings. Correspondence involving this project has been filed in Series I, in the files of Becker and Jennings.

Series III. Works by Fenton
1711-199113 boxes; 6.5 linear feet

Fenton's typewritten and handwritten drafts, and outlines, preparatory notes and research for articles, books, reviews, lectures, and tributes to colleagues. This series is arranged by title. Cross-references appear for correspondence, photographs, and reprints which appear in this series. The earliest materials in this series are research items gathered for The Customs of the American Indian Compared with the Customs of Primitive Times by Father Joseph François Lafitau, including photocopies of several journals from the early 1700s. Fenton's earliest manuscripts were written in 1931: "Outdoor Wisdom," a review of William Hillcourt's The Boy Campers, and "Thoreau on Education," a paper written when Fenton was a student at Dartmouth. There is also a 1932 paper, "The Connecticut Algonkians," which was written for George P. Murdock's course in ethnology at Yale. Of note are the drafts, notes, and research for The False Faces of the Iroquois. "Social and Ceremonial Organization of the Six Nations Reserve in 1910," a proposal for publication of Alexander A. Goldenweiser's notebooks, is interesting in the way Fenton chooses to organize the material. Also of note is Fenton's translation of the Deganawidah epic as it was conveyed to Goldenweiser. Several drafts of "Mohawk," co-authored by Elisabeth Tooker, appear in this series as well. Materials for several of Fenton's articles on Horatio Hale are filed under "Hale."

Series IV. Works by others
1848-199410 boxes; 4.75 linear feet

Articles, notes, and papers written by colleagues and students of Fenton. This series is arranged alphabetically by author and then by title. Authors with three or more manuscripts in this series include Raymond D. Fogelson, Francis P. Jennings, Gertrude Prokosch Kurath, and Elisabeth Tooker. Also included are photocopies of many of Alexander A. Goldenweiser's Iroquois Notebooks containing Goldenweiser's research which was sponsored by the Anthropological Division of the National Museum of Canada in the early 1900s (Fenton's unpublished version of Goldenweiser's notebooks is contained in Series III under the title "Social and Ceremonial Organization on the Six Nations Reserve in 1910"). A photocopy of Edward Cornplanter's handwritten version of the Handsome Lake Code is also contained in Series IV.

Series V. Research notes
1912-198117 boxes; 8.5 linear feet

Loose notes, notebooks, and card files. The notes and notebooks are arranged by folder title and include the subjects of Seneca social and political organization, plants and medicine, song texts, and Seneca genealogies. Series V also includes six card files: "Ethnography of North America I," "Ethnography of North America II and Oceania + Australia," "Herbarium: Allegany Seneca Systematics," "Iroquois Medicines (F. Waugh Waugh)," "Sources and References in Lafitau / Political Anthropology," and "Materia Medica and Seneca Place Names." The card files provide a bibliography for those areas of study, as well as abstracts and quotations of source material. Notes which were too large to fit in the card file boxes were placed in folders and filed with the notes and notebooks. A photocopy of the first sheet of notes was placed in the card file with a cross reference. Similarly, photographs were removed to Series VI, and photocopies were placed in the card file with a cross reference.

Subseries V-A. Field notebooks and Journals
  
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This subseries contains field notebooks and journals. Other subseries within Series V may contain other loose notes conducted during the same field work trips documented in these notebooks and journals.

1. Allegany
  
2. Six Nations (Grand River)
  
3. Tonawanda
  
Subseries V-B. General notes
  
Series VI. Photographs
1880-199312 boxes; 4.75 linear feet

Photographs, both positive and negative, of Fenton's activities while in the field, artifacts, and false faces, and friends. The majority of the negatives in this series document Fenton's field work in the 1930s and 1940s. Fenton assigned a number to each negative and maintained an index which is arranged by negative number; this index is filed in Series VI under "Negatives." There are few prints of Fenton's field work, with the exception of his friends and informants, including Simeon Gibson, Helen Harris, Henry Redeye, Howard Sky, and Jones Snow. Photographs of false faces account for most of the prints. The false face material falls into two sections according to its original order. The first section, filed under "False Faces," retains Fenton's original distinctions by type of false face (e.g. "smiling," "spoon mouth blower"). Additional false face photographs removed from Series I-V have been titled "False Faces" but have not been interfiled with Fenton's original files. The other false face photographs were originally filed with the drafts of The False Faces of the Iroquois. This section includes information on printing, reduction or enlargement, captions, and figures; these prints have been filed under The False Faces of the Iroquois. Series VI also includes several photographs of the wampum transfer from the Museum of the American Indian to the Six Nations Reserve in 1988. For additional prints of several of Fenton's negatives, see the George S. Snyderman Papers, Coll. No. 51.

Native American Images Note : Over 1,000 negatives of Iroquoian life on the Tonawanda and Allegany reservations of western New York from 1933-1951. Images depict Seneca Indians social customs including dances, sports, festivals, societies and other everyday activities. Taken by Fenton with Native American consultants Chauncey Johnny John, Jonas Snow, and Henry Redeye, the 1937-1941 negatives show details of wearing and carving of false faces. Also, over 1,500 black and white, some color, photographs of museum exhibited false faces. Collected from the Museum of the American Indian-Heye Foundation, The Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, and the Buffalo Historical Society, the black and red wooden masks illustrate such expressions as hanging mouth, protruding tongue, and grimace with teeth. The balance of the collection contain photographs of wampum, corn husk masks, rattles, and drums with some oversize maps of Native American reservations near Lakes Erie and Ontario. Note: Iroquoian False Faces are considered sacred so respectful use of the collection is requested.

Series VII. Recordings
 1 box; .25 linear feet
Series VIII. Long-term research notes
1764-200012 boxes; 6.75 linear feet

This series consists of materials donated by Frenton to the APS Library from 1996 through his death in 2005, with additional material sent in 2006. These materials are predominantly research materials that Fenton retained until the end of his life for the purpose of continuing his own ongoing writing projects. A large portion of these materials are typewritten materials derived from or composed during his earliest years of fieldwork among the Seneca in the mid to late 1930s.

Although Subseries C, D, and E within this series are labeled as specifically materials from Allegany, Tonawanda, etc., materials from or about these specific communities also appear in Subseries A and B.

Subseries VIII-A. Chronological files
  
Subseries VIII-B. General files
  
Subseries VIII-C. "Green Corn Festival at Coldspring Longhouse"
  
Subseries VIII-D. "Seneca Field Notes: Allegany Reservation, 1933-1951: Seneca Ceremonies at Coldspring Longhouse"
  
Subseries VIII-E. Tonawanda files
  
Subseries VIII-F: Historical document copies
  

This subseries of copies of historical documents assembled by Fenton according to the places from which he obtained them. The first subsection consists of typewritten transcriptions only. The remaining subsections are copies only, predominantly photostat negative copies. Some additional photocopies of archival documents that Fenton obtained may be found above in Series IV: Works by Others. The holding institutions for these documents should be contacted directly for questions regarding copies of originals and publication inquiries.

1. Samuel Kirkland transcriptions
  

Transcripts of the Samuel Kirkland journals and related manuscripts (1764-1806) from the Hamilton College Library. Copied in 1949-1950 under the direction of Joseph D. Ibbotson.

2. Heye Foundation materials
  
3. Vassar College materials
  

Photostat copies of letters pertaining to Seneca, Tuscarora, and Six Nations history, 1794-1823.

4. Buffalo Historical Society
  
5. New York Historical Society
November 21, 1798 
Series I-VI. Oversized
  box Oversize


Detailed Inventory

Series I. Correspondence
1897-199439 boxes; 19.25 linear feet

Incoming and outgoing manuscript and typescript letters, carbons, telegrams, and postcards generated during Fenton's career. The largest series in the collection, Series I is arranged alphabetically by correspondent's name and then chronologically within each folder. Unidentified correspondence has been filed as "Unidentified" and is arranged chronologically. Enclosed manuscripts have been removed from this series and placed in Series III or IV as appropriate. As with the reprints, a photocopy of the title page was filed with the original letter. The bulk of this series covers the years 1930 to 1993.

Correspondents include anthropologists, government officials, students, publishers, Native Americans, and interested amateur anthropologists. Among the topics covered in this series are: Iroquois ceremonies and customs, relocation and administration of the Museum of the American Indian, and Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. For lists of correspondence related to construction of Kinzua Dam and to wampum belts, see the folders labeled "Kinzua Dam" and "Wampum" in Series II. Material relevant to Fenton's work for the United States Indian Service is filed under "United States. Department of the Interior." Letters of reference are filed under the name of the person who is the subject of the letter. For lists of correspondence with colleagues about Fenton's publications, see Series III under the publications' titles.

Also included in this series is correspondence from several Native Americans detailing reservation life, customs, and ceremonies.

Principal correspondents include:

  1. Barbeau, C. Marius
  2. Boas, Franz
  3. Carpenter, Edmund S.
  4. Congdon, Charles E.
  5. Deardorff, Merle H.
  6. Dodge, Ernest Stanley
  7. Foster, Michael K.
  8. Goldenweiser, Alexander A.
  9. Graymont, Barbara
  10. Hallowell, Alfred Irving
  11. Harrington, Mark Raymond
  12. Herskovits, Melville J.
  13. Hewitt, J.N.B.
  14. Jennings, Francis P.
  15. Kemp, Jack
  16. Kennedy, Robert F.
  17. Keppler, Joseph
  18. Kidder, Alfred V. II
  19. Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
  20. Levi-Strauss, Claude
  21. Logan, Frank
  22. Lounsbury, Floyd G.
  23. McIlwraith, Thomas F.
  24. Mead, Margaret
  25. Parker, Arthur C.
  26. Rockefeller, Nelson A.
  27. Sapir, Edward
  28. Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr.
  29. Shimony, Annemarie
  30. Speck, Frank G.
  31. Spier, Leslie
  32. Sturtevant, William C.
  33. Tooker, Elisabeth
  34. Trigger, Bruce G.
  35. Voegelin, Erminie
  36. Wallace, Anthony F.C.
  37. Wallace, Paul A.W.
  38. Waugh, F.W.
  39. White, Leslie A.
  40. White, Marian E.
  41. Wissler, Clark
  42. Witthoft, John
  43. Woodbury, Hanni J.
  1. Cornplanter, Edward
  2. Cornplanter, Jesse J.
  3. Gibson, John Hardy
  4. Gibson, Simeon
  5. Harris, Helen
  6. Hill, Cephas D.
  7. Jamieson, Sadie
  8. Redeye, Clara
  9. Redeye, Sherman
  10. Sky, Howard

General physical description: 39 boxes; 19.25 linear feet

[Floppy disks]
  

Floppy disks containing outgoing correspondence by Fenton. Some of the letters may also be found as physical printouts in the other correspondence folders. The information on their contents is derived from labels on the physical disks. The files have not yet been transferred to accessible file formats.

Letters, 12/31/93 to 3/24/94
1994 

Physical & technical details: 5-1/4" floppy disk

Letters, 1995 to 2/8/96
1995-1996 

Physical & technical details: 3-1/2" floppy disk. Contains 32 files.

Letters, 1997
1997 

Physical & technical details: 3-1/2" floppy disk

Aaron, Daniel
1982 box Series I-1
Abbett, Robert W.
  box Series I-1

-See Ser. I, Morgan, Arthur E.

Abbot, C.G.
  box Series I-1

-See Ser. I, Smithsonian Institution -See Ser. I, Strong, William Duncan

Aberle, Sophie D.
1958 box Series I-1
Abler, Thomas S.
1965, 1968, 1986, 1988-1992, 2000 box Series I-1

-See also Ser. I, American Ethnologist (1992)

Abrams, Cornelius
1945, 1947 box Series I-1
Abrams, George H.J.
1966-1994, 2001 box Series I-1

Eggan, Fred -See also Ser. I, Carpenter, Edmund S. -See also Ser. I, Eggan, Fred -See also Ser. I, Museum of the American Indian -See also Ser. I, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum

2001 item is forwarded article on Rochester Museum's return of Seneca human remains.

Abrams, Robert
  box Series I-1

-See Ser. I, Museum of the American Indian

Academy of Independent Scholars
1986-1987 box Series I-1
Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.
1943 box Series I-1
Adams, Charles C.
1936-1943, 1954 box Series I-1
Adams, Harriet Dyer
1972, 1993 box Series I-1
Adams, Percy G.
  box Series I-1

-See Ser. I, Sturtevant, William C.

Adams, Spencer L.
1943-1944 box Series I-1
Adams, Walter Randolph
1977 box Series I-1
American Philosophical Society
  box Series I-1
Adirondack Conference Centers
1966 box Series I-1

Jones, Richard A.

Adirondack Park
1989 box Series I-1
Adney, E. Tappan
1944 box Series I-1

-See also Ser. I, Deardorff, Merle H. (1944)

Aerovias Brazil
1954 box Series I-1
African Studies Center
1969 box Series I-1
Aginsky, Burt W.
1970 box Series I-1

-See also Ser. I, American Anthropological Association

Aitken, Neil
1969 box Series I-1
Akwesasne Mohawk Counselor Organization
1945, 1949, n.d. box Series I-1

Fadden, Ray

Akwesasne Notes
1969-1970, 1972 box Series I-1

Gambill, Jerry

Albany College of Pharmacy
1972 box Series I-1
Albany Institute of History and Art
1966 box Series I-1
Albany Jewish Community Center
1990 box Series I-1
Aldine Publishing Co.
1969 box Series I-1
Alexander, Joy
1984 box Series I-1
Alexander, Matt
  box Series I-1

-See Ser. I, Brandhorst, Bob

Alexander, William P.
1943 box Series I-1
Allard, H.A.
1947 box Series I-1

Rehder, Harald A.

Allegany School of Natural History
1939-1941 box Series I-1

Gordon, Robert B. Hamlin, Chauncey J. Seelye, Laurens H.

Allegheny College
1968 box Series I-1
Allen, Hope Emily
1948 box Series I-1

-See also Oversized

Alspach, Russell
1960 box Series I-1
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1949 box Series I-1
American Anthropological Association
1935-1984 box Series I-1

Aginsky, Burt W.

American Association for the Advancement of Science
  box Series I-1

Barnett, H.G. Boggs, Stephen T. Cooper, John M. Ehrich, Robert W. Foster, George M. Fox, John W. Hoijer, Harry Hymes, Dell Lehman, Edward J. McIlwraith, Thomas F. Murdock, George Peter Shapiro, Harry L. Stout, David B. Tax, Sol Voegelin, Erminie W. Woodbury, Nathalie F.S. Woodbury, Richard B. -See also Ser. I, Ehrich, Robert W. -See also Ser. I, Flick, Hugh M. -See also Ser. I, Tax, Sol -See also Ser. I, Washburn, Wilcomb

American Anthropologist
1940-1972 box Series I-1

Mason, J. Alden Spindler, George D.

American Antiquarian Society
1950 box Series I-1
American Antiquity
1945-1946, 1961 box Series I-1

Byers, Douglas S. Collier, Donald

American Archivist
1958 box Series I-1
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1943, 1948 box Series I-1

Shapiro, Harry L. -See also Ser. I, American Anthropological Association

American Association on Indian Affairs, Inc.
  box Series I-1

-See Ser. I, Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc.

American Council of Learned Societies
1940-1944, 1962, 1980-1982 box Series I-1

Goodchild, Donald Graves, Mortimer

American Ethnological Society
1958, 1970-1976, n.d. box Series I-1

Holmberg, Allan R. Kimball, Solon T.

American Ethnologist
1992 box Series I-1

Abler, [Thomas S.]

The American Folklore Society, Inc.
1942-1989 box Series I-1

Davidson, D. Sutherland Dorson, Richard M. Hand, Wayland D. Leach, MacEdward Voegelin, Erminie W. -See also Ser. I, Bosch-Gimpera, P.

The American Herbal and Botanical Institute
1943 box Series I-1
American Historical Review
1943, n.d. box Series I-1

Chalmers, Harvey II

American Indian Art Magazine
1994 box Series I-1
American Indian Community House
1985 box Series I-1

-See also Ser. I, Museum of the American Indian

American Indian Culture and Research Journal
1981-1991 box Series I-1
American Indian Quarterly
1987 box Series I-1
American Jewish Museum of Art and Culture
1969 box Series I-2
American Museum of Fly Fishing
1991 box Series I-2
American Museum of Natural History
1940-1984 box Series I-2

Freed, Stanley A. Shapiro, Harry L. Wissler, Clark -See also Ser. I, Cardinal Lithographers, Inc. -See also Ser. I, Museum of the American Indian

American National Biography
1992-1993 box Series I-2
American Notes & Queries
1946 box Series I-2
American Philosophical Society, Folder #1
1947-1967 box Series I-2
American Philosophical Society, Folder #2
1968-1984 box Series I-2
American Philosophical Society, Folder #3
1995-1996 box Series I-2

de Laguna, Frederica Delancey, Scott Freeman, John F. Hauptman, Laurence Marc Newhouse, Seth Speck, Frank G. -See also Ser. I, Adams, Walter Randolph -See also Ser. I, Jacobs Research Funds -See also Ser. I, Kenneth Nebenzahl, Inc. -See also Ser. I, Snyderman, George S. -See also Ser. I, Sturtevant, William C. -See also Oversized

American Society for Ethnohistory
1968-1985 box Series I-2

Koehler, Lyle Snow, Dean R. Spores, Ronald -See also Ser. I, Ethnohistory

Americana Institute
1941 box Series I-2

Fisk, H.E.

Amerindian
1953 box Series I-2
Anderson, Jerald H.
1992 box Series I-2
Anderson, Myrdene
1991 box Series I-2
Andrews, David H.
1970 box Series I-2
Annual Reviews, Inc.
1969 box Series I-2
Anthropological Quarterly
1975 box Series I-2
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
1949 box Series I-2
Appell, George N.
1967-1969 box Series I-2
Aquila, Richard
1974 box Series I-2
Archaeological Society of Delaware
1944 box Series I-2

Weslager, C.A.

Archives de la Compagnie de Jésus
1979 box Series I-2

some in French

The Archives of the Moravian Church
1959 box Series I-2
Arete Publishing Co.
1977 box Series I-2
Arizona State Museum
1986 box Series I-2
Armstrong, Margaret E.
1948 box Series I-2
Armstrong, William H.
1972 box Series I-2
Arnason, Thor
1980 box Series I-2
Arts Club of Washington
1946 box Series I-2
Arum, Stephen
1969 box Series I-2
Ashton, J.W.
  box Series I-2

-See Ser. I, Indiana University

Assembly of First Nations
1986 box Series I-2

British Museum

Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc.
1942-1953 box Series I-2

Carmer, Carl Emerson, Haven Hassrick, Royal B. McDermott, Patricia Solenberger, Robert Reeves -See also Ser. I, Madigan, LaVerne

Atkinson, Brooks
1968 box Series I-2
Aubery, John S.
1995 
Averkieva, Yu.P.
1965 box Series I-2

Zolotarevskaja, I.A.

Avirom, Don
1987 box Series I-2

Lowie Museum of Anthropology

Axtell, James
1974-1993 box Series I-2
Bachrach, Deborah
1986 box Series I-2

Museum of the American Indian

Bahr, Donald M.
1992 box Series I-2
Bailey, Alfred G.
1939-1944, 1976 box Series I-2

McCrum, Blanche Prichard

Bailey, David W.
1945 box Series I-2
Bailey, Edna
1968 box Series I-2
Bailey, Nicodemus
1939, 1960, 1965 box Series I-2

-See also Ser. I, Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Baldus, Herbert
1953-1954 box Series I-2
Baligadoo, Urszula Chodowiec
1969-1980 box Series I-2
Banko, Walter M.
1988 box Series I-3

-For photos., See Ser. VI, False Face (Six Nations Reserve, Caledonia 1988)

Barbeau, C. Marius
1939-1967 box Series I-3

Canada Council Canadian Social Science Research Council Chafe, Wallace L. Desrosiers, Leo-Paul Elliott, Flavia Lounsbury, Floyd G. National Museum of Canada Sturtevant, William C. -See also Ser. I, Bridges, Marjorie Lismer

Barber, Daniel M.
1966 box Series I-3
Barck, Dorothy C.
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, New-York Historical Society

Barker, E. Gilbert
1968-1969 box Series I-3
Barner, Jennifer C.
1989 box Series I-3
Barnes, Millie Jo
1968 box Series I-3
Barnes, Stanley N.
1942 box Series I-3
Barnett, [H.G.]
1945 box Series I-3

-See also Ser. I, American Anthropological Association

Barnouw, Victor
1949 box Series I-3
Barrett, S.A.
1964 box Series I-3
Barrus, George Latta
1960 box Series I-3
Barse, Reva Cooper
1944-1948 box Series I-3
Barthold, Allen J.
1944 box Series I-3
Bartholomew, David
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J.

Bartlett, Charles E.
1955-1960 box Series I-3

-See also Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J. -See also Ser. I, Liesinger, Rudolph O.

Bartlett, Charles E., Jr.
1978 box Series I-3
Bartlett, Sally
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J.

Barton, William O. (Mrs.)
1966 box Series I-3
Basa, Louise
1974 box Series I-3
Bascom, William R.
1949 box Series I-3
Basehart, Harry W.
1941-1971 box Series I-3
Bates, Erl
1961 box Series I-3
Batkin, Jonathan
1995 
Bauman, Frederick
1990 box Series I-3
Bausor, S.C.
1943 box Series I-3
Beachamp, William M.
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Corning, Erastus II

Beals, Ralph L.
1946, 1969 box Series I-3

Goldschmidt, Walter

Bean, Lowell J.
1970 box Series I-3
Beatty, Willard W.
1940-1941 box Series I-3
Béchard, Henri
1979 box Series I-3
Becker, Howard
1946 box Series I-3
Becker, Marshall Joseph
1976, 1990 box Series I-3

Spada, Albert

Becker, Mary A. Druke, Folder #1
1973-May 1979 box Series I-3
Becker, Mary A. Druke, Folder #2
Jun. 1979-1980 box Series I-3
Becker, Mary A. Druke, Folder #3
1981-1993 box Series I-3
Becker-Donner, Etta
1953, 1957 box Series I-3
Beecher, Willis J.
1905 box Series I-3

Starr, Frederick

Bell, Earl H.
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Snyderman, George S.

Bell, R. Murray
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Champlain Society

Bell, Robert E.
1951, 1953 box Series I-3
Bell, Whitfield
1995 
Benedict, Ernest
1940-1941 box Series I-3
Benedict, Sali M.K.
2000 

Other Descriptive Information: This item was processed and added to the collection in 2017 from materials received between 1996-2006.

Benezet, Louis
1969-1970 box Series I-3
Benham, Floyd H.
1949 box Series I-3
Bercker, Paul
1959 box Series I-3
Berkhofer, Robert
1980 box Series I-3
Berry, C.H.
1941 box Series I-3

-See also Ser. I, Deardorff, Merle H.

Berry, Rose V.S.
1940 box Series I-3
Best, Elsdon
1975 box Series I-3

Morgan, L.H.

Bethlehem Public Library
1988 box Series I-3
Bethune, Anne B.
1945 box Series I-3
Bettarel, Robert
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Straight, Stephen M.

Bharati, Agehananda
1972 box Series I-3
Biddle, Martin
1977 box Series I-3
Biedermann, Hans
1962 box Series I-3
Bierhorst, John
1973, 1987-1995 box Series I-3

Smithsonian Institution

Bigler, Eugene
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J. (1951)

Bihler, Hugh J.
1969 box Series I-3
Billet, James
1970-1971 box Series I-3
Billington, Ray Allen
1969, 1980 box Series I-3
Bishop, Charles A.
1971, 1977 box Series I-3
Bishop, Morris
1949 box Series I-3

-See also Ser. I, Stewart, Alexander

Bishop Museum
1975, 1980 box Series I-3

Force, Roland W. -See also Ser. I, Moorhead, M.J.

Blackburn, R. H.
1998-1999 
Blackfeet Tribal Business Council
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Fickinger, Paul L.

Blackwood, Beatrice M.
1955-1968 box Series I-3

Pitt Rivers Museum

Blakely, Stuart B.
1949 box Series I-3
Blaker, Margaret C.
  box Series I-3

-See Ser. I, Smithsonian Institution

Blanchard, David
1979 box Series I-4
Blankenship, Roy
1977-1993 box Series I-4

Carpenter, Edmund S. University of Pennsylvania Press

Blau, Harold
1967-1969, 1996 box Series I-4

1996 letter concerns Frans Olbrechts.

Bleimeyer, Rose T.
1939 box Series I-4
Bliss, Wesley L.
1942-1943 box Series I-4
Blitzer, Charles
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, American Folklore Society, Inc.

Bloomfield, Leonard
1943, 1945 box Series I-4
Blue, Jamie
1987 box Series I-4
B'nai B'rith
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith

Boas, Franz
1933 box Series I-4
Bobrinskoy, Theodora Platt
1948 box Series I-4
Bodine, John J.
1963 box Series I-4
Bodleian Library
1966 box Series I-4
Boggs, Stephen T.
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, American Anthropological Association -See Ser. I, Krader, Lawrence

Bogyi, A.M.
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, Noakes, G.T.

Bohannon, Paul J.
1966 box Series I-4
Bolton, Jacklin T.
1963 box Series I-4
Bomberry, Evelyn
1977-1978 box Series I-4
Bomberry, Walter (Mrs.)
1943 box Series I-4
Bond, Richmond P.
1947-1948 box Series I-4
Bonos, Constantine A. (Mrs.)
1940 box Series I-4
Bonvillain, Nancy
1969 box Series I-4
Bookman, George B.
1972 box Series I-4
Borhegyi, Stephan F.
1969 box Series I-4
Bosch-Gimpera, P.
1959 box Series I-4

American Folklore Society

Botkin, B.A.
1944 box Series I-4
Bower, Blair T.
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, Taylor, Walter

Bowles, Gordon T.
1953 box Series I-4

-See also Ser. I, Dodge, Ernest Stanley

Boy Scouts of America
1946-1947 box Series I-4

Swanton, John R.

Boyd, Julian P.
1948 box Series I-4
Bradley, James W.
1987, 1992 box Series I-4
Bragdon, Kathleen J.
1986 box Series I-4
Brandao, Joe
1995-1996 

Encloses copy of "Nation Iroquoise" manuscript from National Archives of Canada.

Brandhorst, Bob
1968 box Series I-4

Alexander, Matt Parker, Judy

Brandon, William
1968-1970 box Series I-4
Brandreth, Courtenay
1942 box Series I-4
Brant Historical Society
1942 box Series I-4
Joseph Brant Museum
1968-1969 box Series I-4
Brantford Expositor
1943, 1945, 1988 box Series I-4
Brasser, Ted J.
1967-1974, n.d. box Series I-4

McGee, Dorothy H.

Bresson, Martine
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, Smith, Donald B.

Breuer, Ernest
1970 box Series I-4
Brew, J.O.
1948, 1958, 1961 box Series I-4
Brewer, George E.
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, State University of New York at Albany

Bridges, Marjorie Lismer
1939-1943 box Series I-4

Barbeau, C. Marius

British Broadcasting Corporation
1991 box Series I-4
British Museum
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, Assembly of First Nations

Brock, R.W.
1910 box Series I-4

Sapir, Edward

Brock, Robin
1994 box Series I-4
Brockner, Winston William
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, Deardorff, Merle H. (1943)

Bronsdon, Madeline
1970 box Series I-4
Brooks, Anthony, Jr.
1989 box Series I-4

Erickson, John Spittal, William Guy

Broughton, John G.
1957-1977 box Series I-4

Butler, Mary Dodds, Christopher D. Flick, Hugh M. Hotchkiss, Nancy Indian Historian Kehoe, Thomas F. Snyder, Warren A. Spittal, William Guy Tax, Sol -See also Ser. I, Butler, Mary -See also Ser. I, Field Museum of Natural History -See also Ser. I, Robinson, Roy H. -See also Ser. I, Roseberry, [Cecil R.] "Tip" -See also Ser. I, Tooker, Elisabeth

Browman, David L.
1977 box Series I-4
Brown, Alison K.
1999 
Brown, Augustus F.
1948-1949 box Series I-4
Brown, George W.
1946 box Series I-4
Brown, Harcourt
1950 box Series I-4
Brown, Jennifer S.H.
1986 box Series I-4
Brown, Judith K.
1968-1969 box Series I-4
Brown, Margaret
1988 box Series I-4
Bruce, Louis R.
1969 box Series I-4
Bruner, Laman H., Jr.
1965 box Series I-4
Brunsteter, Della
1939 box Series I-4
Bryan, Mina R.
1955 box Series I-4
Brydan, Sherry
1994 box Series I-4
Bucher, Bernadette
1966 box Series I-4
Buck, George J.
1941, 1947 box Series I-4
Buck, Roy
1951, 1959, 1971 box Series I-4
Sir Peter Buck Memorial Recovery Trust
1982 box Series I-4
Bucknell University Christian Association
1968 box Series I-4
Buffalo Area Convention and Visitors Bureau
1970 box Series I-4
Buffalo Museum of Science
1982-1984 box Series I-4
Bulgheroni, Raul R.
n.d. box Series I-4
Bullard, William R., Jr.
  box Series I-4

-See Ser. I, Florida State Museum

Bunny, Thomas W.
1974 box Series I-4
Burch, Wanda
1992 box Series I-4
Burdick, Usher L.
1946 box Series I-4
Burke, Charles H.
1923 box Series I-4

Cornplanter, Jesse J. -See also Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J.

Burke, Ronald K.
1969 box Series I-4
Burns, Allan F.
1985 box Series I-4
Burns, John William
1984-1985 box Series I-4
Burridge, K.O.L.
1974 box Series I-4
Burrows, Edwin G.
1945 box Series I-4
Butler, Mary
1939-1940, 1968 box Series I-4

Broughton, John G. Funk, Robert E. Ritchie, William A. -See also Ser. I, Broughton, John G.

Butterfield, Lyman H.
1953, 1956, 1972 box Series I-4

-See also Ser. I, Institute of Early American History and Culture

Byers, A. Martin
1971 box Series I-4
Byers, Douglas S.
1941-1968 box Series I-4

Johnson, Frederick -See also Ser. I, American Antiquity -See also Ser. I, Dodge, Ernest Stanley

Byrne, Desmond
1969 box Series I-4
Cadbury, Joel S.
1995 
Cadbury, Warder H.
1987 box Series I-5
Cadzow, Donald A.
  box Series I-5

-See Ser. I, Deardorff, Merle H. (1947-1948) -See Ser. I, Pennsylvania Historical Commission -See Ser. I, Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology

Caedmon Records, Inc.
1963 box Series I-5
Cairns, Huntington
1947 box Series I-5

White, Leslie A.

Calapai, Letterio
1947 box Series I-5
Caldwell, Joseph R.
  box Series I-5

-See Ser. I, Grassmann, Thomas

Calloway, Colin G.
1991 box Series I-5
Cameron, Duncan F.
1968-1971 box Series I-5

-See also Ser. I, Glenbow Museum

Camp, William G.
1942 box Series I-5
Campbell, Frank
1956 box Series I-5
Campbell, Lyle R.
1976 box Series I-5
Campisi, Jack
1971, 1994 box Series I-5
Canada Council
1974 box Series I-5

-See also Ser. I, Barbeau, C. Marius

Canada. Customs
1945 box Series I-5
Canada. Indian Affairs
1933, 1939-1940 box Series I-5
Canada. National Revenue
1945 box Series I-5
Canada. Province of British Columbia Archives
1985 box Series I-5
Canada. Public Archives
1939, 1985 box Series I-5
Canada. Treaties and Historical Research Centre
1977 box Series I-5
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
1945 box Series I-5
Canadian Geographical Journal
1943 box Series I-5
Canadian Museum of Civilization
1988-1992 box Series I-5

-See also Ser. I, National Museum of Man

Canadian Social Science Research Council
1945 box Series I-5

-See also Ser. I, Barbeau, C. Marius

Canoe Island Lodge
1965 box Series I-5
Cantor, Nathaniel
1940, 1944, 1956 box Series I-5
Cantril, Hadley
1945 box Series I-5
Cappon, Lester J.
  box Series I-5

-See Ser. I, Institute of Early American History and Culture

Cardinal, Jare R.
1982, 1992 box Series I-5
Cardinal Lithographers, Inc.
1975 box Series I-5

American Museum of Natural History

Cardy, Michael
1987 box Series I-5
Carey, Hugh
1977 box Series I-5
Carlen, Robert
1970 box Series I-5
Carlisle, David B.
1973 box Series I-5
Carlson, Norman P.
1987, 1991-1992 box Series I-5

includes some of WNF's Chautauqua notes

Carmer, Carl
1943, 1959 box Series I-5

-See also Ser. I, Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc. -See also Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J.

Carnahan, John W.
1972 box Series I-5
Carnegie Corporation of New York
1968 box Series I-5
Carnegie Museum
1956, 1965-1966 box Series I-5
Carnell, Prentiss, III
1965 box Series I-5
Carpenter, Edmund S.
1941-1991, 1998 box Series I-5

-See also Ser. I, Blankenship, Roy -See also Ser. I, Museum of the American Indian -See also Ser. I, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum

Carr, Lloyd G.
1944 box Series I-5
Carrière, Joseph-M.
1947 box Series I-5
Carse, Mary King Rowell
1942-1949 box Series I-5
Carter, Conrad P. (Mrs.)
1941 box Series I-5
Carter, Edward C., II
1996 

Edward C. Carter II was Librarian of the American Philosophical Society.

Carter, George F.
1945-1946 box Series I-5
Casagrande, Joseph B.
1957 box Series I-5
Cassidy, William
  box Series I-5

-See Ser. I, Taylor, William

Cassie, Don R.
1969-1971 box Series I-5
Cayuga County Historical Society
1940-1989 box Series I-5

Drummond, Richard C.S. Groat, Charles V. Long, Walter K.

Cayuga Museum of History and Art
  box Series I-5

-See Ser. I, Cayuga County Historical Society

Ceci, Lynn
1968, 1977-1987, n.d. box Series I-5
Central States Anthropological Society
1971 box Series I-5

Lurie, Nancy Oestreich Ritzenthaler, Robert

Chabot, Huguette
1969-1970 box Series I-5
Chafe, Wallace L.
1960-1969, 1982 box Series I-5

Smithsonian Institution -See also Ser. I, Barbeau, C. Marius -See also Ser. I, Foster, Michael K. -See also Ser. I, Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch

Chalmers, Harvey, II
  box Series I-5

-See Ser. I, American Historical Review

Chamberlain, Dudley
1949 box Series I-5
Champlain Society
1976-1981 box Series I-5

Bell, R. Murray Warkentin, John -See also Ser. I, Moore, Elizabeth L.

Champlin, John H.
  box Series I-5

-See Ser. I, Congdon, Charles E.

Chapman, Ellwood B.
  box Series I-6

-See Ser. I, Pennsylvania Parks Association

Chapman, Thomas P., Jr.
1947 box Series I-6
Chappell, Robert A.
1962 box Series I-6
Charles, Prince of Wales
  box Series I-6

-See Ser. I, Treaty and Aboriginal Rights Research Centre of Manitoba, Inc.

Chatfield, Jennifer
1977 box Series I-6
Chautauqua Institution
1940, 1992 box Series I-6
Cherokee-Iroquois Conference
1978-1979 box Series I-6

-See also Ser. IIa, same title

Chew, Wilford
1969 box Series I-6
Chicago Natural History Museum
1948 box Series I-6
Chilcote, Lee A.
1990 box Series I-6
Chinard, Gilbert
1952 box Series I-6
Chinese Art Society of America
1944 box Series I-6

Cox, Warren E.

Chodowiec, Urszula
  box Series I-6

-See Ser. I, Baligadoo, Urszula Chodowiec

Christie, T. Laird
1980-1983 box Series I-6
Ciborski, Sara
1989 box Series I-6
City of Liverpool Museums
1969-1971 box Series I-6

Hunt, Charles Priestley, E.J. Priestman, K.B.

Clark, Austin H.
1950-1951 box Series I-6
Clarke, T. Wood
1940 box Series I-6
Clarkin, William
1969 box Series I-6
Cline, Walter
1946 box Series I-6
Cloud, Wilton (Mrs.) [Alta]
1955 box Series I-6

Stevens, Bertha

Coates, Robert M.
1968 box Series I-6
Coatsworth, Emerson S.
1951-1953 box Series I-6
Cochran, Gertrude
1990 box Series I-6
Cochrane, Ruth Hale
1985 box Series I-6

Hartley, Erma Hale

Coe, Stephen H.
1968-1970 box Series I-6
Cohen, Felix S.
1949-1950 box Series I-6

Nichols, John R. Snyderman, George S. -See also Ser. I, Snyderman, George

Cohen, Hennig
1960 box Series I-6
Cold Spring Longhouse
1955 box Series I-6
Cole, Douglas
1985 box Series I-6
Cole, Fay-Cooper
1958 box Series I-6

-See also Ser. I, Kidder, Alfred V. II

Coleman, R.V.
1949-1950 box Series I-6
Collamer, Jeanette R.
1972, 1974 box Series I-6

Rochester Museum and Science Center -See also Ser. I, Rochester Museum and Science Center

Collier, Donald
1964 box Series I-6

-See also Ser. I, American Antiquity -See also Ser. I, Council for Museum Anthropology -See also Ser. I, Field Museum of Natural History

Collier, John
  box Series I-6

-See Ser. I, United States. Dept. of the Interior

Collier, John, Jr.
1963 box Series I-6
Collier, Robert S.
1994 box Series I-6
Collins, Arthur
1969 box Series I-6
Collins, Donald L.
1957 box Series I-6
Collins, Evan R.
1968 box Series I-6
Collins, Henry B.
1962 box Series I-6

Kidder, Alfred V. II

Colonial Williamsburg
1953, 1965 box Series I-6

-See also Ser. I, United States. Dept. of the Interior

Colonie Central High School
1961 box Series I-6
Columbia University
1977 box Series I-6
Commager, Henry S.
1962 box Series I-6
Commentary
1949 box Series I-6
Commerford, Lester
1951 box Series I-6
Committee on Anthropological Research in Museums
1970-1972 box Series I-6

Freed, Stanley A. -See also Ser. I, Council for Museum Anthropology

Compton Brothers Co.
1954 box Series I-6
Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia
1950 box Series I-6
Conable, Barber B., Jr.
1983-1993, 1999 box Series I-6

Congdon, Lillian -See also Ser. I, Museum of the American Indian

Conable, Daniel B.
1969 box Series I-6
Conant, Lawrence M.
1948 box Series I-6
Conard, A. Mark
1976 box Series I-6
Condominas, Georges
1972-1973, 1976 box Series I-6
Congdon, Charles E., Folder #1
1938-1943 box Series I-6
Congdon, Charles E., Folder #2
1944-1974 box Series I-6
Congdon, Elizabeth
1948, 1951 box Series I-6
Congdon, Lillian
1987 box Series I-6

-See also Ser. I, Conable, Barber, Jr.

Congdon, Richard Bell
1941-1942, 1965-1969 box Series I-6

Sharp, Lauriston -See also Ser. I, Congdon, Charles E.

Congdon, William J.
  box Series I-6

-See Ser. I, Congdon, Charles E.

Conklin, Harold C.
1942-1950, 1969-1991, 1995-1996 box Series I-6

Includes 7 photographs from October 1996. -See also Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J.

Conklin, Jean
1991 box Series I-6
Conklin, May
1944, 1947-1948 box Series I-6
Connecticut College
[1969] box Series I-6
Conservationist
1954 box Series I-6
Cook, Bill
1946 box Series I-7
Cook, Charles
1990 box Series I-7

Tonko, Paul

Cook, William J.
  box Series I-7

-See Ser. I, Cornplanter, Jesse J.

Cookenham, Walt, Jr.
1974 box Series I-7
Cooper, G. Arthur
1944 box Series I-7

-See also Ser. I, Weslager, C.A.

Cooper, John M.
1936-1945 box Series I-7

DuRand, Elden E. -See also Ser. I, American Anthropological Association

Cooper, Leroy
1934 box Series I-7
Corey, Albert B.
1946 box Series I-7
Cornehlson, John H., Jr.
1948 box Series I-7
Cornelius, Carol
1991 box Series I-7
Cornelius, Laura M.
1906 box Series I-7

Maxon, S.A.

Cornell University
1944, 1971, 1980, 1989 box Series I-7
Corning, Erastus II
1965-1981 box Series I-7

Beachamp, William M. Dodge, Ernest Stanley

Cornplanter, Edward
1897-1914 box Series I-7

Keppler, Joseph Parker, Arthur C. -See also Ser. I, Cornplanter, Nancy

Cornplanter, Elsina
1956 box Series I-7
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #1
1900-1935 box Series I-7
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #2
1936-1942 box Series I-7
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #3
1943-1947 box Series I-7
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #4
1948-1949 box Series I-7
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #5
1950-1951 box Series I-7
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #6
1952-1953 box Series I-8
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #7
1954-1955 box Series I-8
Cornplanter, Jesse J., Folder #8
1956-1957, n.d. box Series I-8
Cornplanter, Jesse J.--Originals, Folder #1
1904-1944 box Series I-8
Cornplanter, Jesse J.--Originals, Folder #2
1945-1949 box Series I-8
Cornplanter, Jesse J.--Originals, Folder #3
1950-1954 box Series I-8
Cornplanter, Jesse J.--Originals, Folder #4
1955-1957, n.d. box Series I-8
Cornplanter, Nancy
1902 box Series I-8

Cornplanter, Edward

Cosmos Club
1945, 1954, 1987 box Series I-8

Lowenthal, Max Oehser, Paul H. University of Oklahoma Press

Costa, Richard H.
1982 box Series I-8
Coste, Ann R.
  box Series I-8

-See Ser. I, Museum of the American Indian

Costikyan, Edward N.
1991 box Series I-8

Kornblau, David L. Paul, Weiss, [et al.]

Cotter, John L.
1969 box Series I-8
Council for Museum Anthropology
1974-1975 box Series I-8

Collier, Donald Freed, Stanley A. University of Pennsylvania. University Museum -See also Ser. I, Committee on Anthropological Research in Museums

Council of Indians in Canada
1965 box Series I-8
Council on Anthropology and Education
1969 box Series I-8

Gearing, Frederick O.

Countryman, Edward
1989 box Series I-9
Covey, Barbara L.
1972 box Series I-9
Cowan, J. Milton
  box Series I-9

-See Ser. I, UNESCO

Cowan, William
1984-1987 box Series I-9

Foster, Michael K. Koerner, Konrad -See also Ser. I, Foster, Michael K.

Cox, Warren E.
1939, 1944 box Series I-9

-See also Ser. I, Chinese Art Society of America

Cranbrook Institute of Science
1942-1984 box Series I-9
Crane, Theodore R.
1952 box Series I-9
Crary, John C., Jr.
1959 box Series I-9
Cronk, Michael Sam
1993 box Series I-9
Cross, Michael S.
1977 box Series I-9

-See also Ser. I, Moore, Elizabeth L.

Crossette, George
1974 box Series I-9

-See also Ser. I, Oehser, Paul H.

Crouse, Dorothy
1956-1958 box Series I-9
Crouse, Florence
  box Series I-9

-See Ser. I, Redeye, Clara

Crouse, Myrtle
1959 box Series I-9

-Deardorff, Merle H.

Crouse, Wilford (Mrs.)
1939 box Series I-9
Crow, James
1941, n.d. box Series I-9
Crowe, Patrick J.
1993 box Series I-9
Crowell, Marnie Reed
1973 box Series I-9

Einhorn, Arthur

Crowley, Thomas J.
1967-1968 box Series I-9
Cummings, John
1956 box Series I-9
Cunard, Sherwyn
1972 box Series I-9
Cunningham, Wells
1949 box Series I-9
Curley, Richard
1968 box Series I-9
Dabney, Lewis M.
2001 

Other Descriptive Information: This item was processed and added to the collection in 2017 from materials received between 1996-2006.

Dallaire, Louise
  box Series I-9

-See Ser. I, National Museum of Man -See Ser. I, Woodbury, Hanni

Dalton, Ernest R.
1969 box Series I-9
D'Amato, Alfonse
1981 box Series I-9
Damkoehler, Julia E.
1994 box Series I-9
Daniel, Warren J.
1945 box Series I-9
Dark, Philip J.C.
1969, 1972 box Series I-9
Darnell, Regna
1969-1984, 1999 box Series I-9
Dartmouth College
1931-1992 box Series I-9

DeGrange, McQuilkin Goddard, Richard H. Hanson, A.H. Hayward, Sidney Chandler McFarland, Alex J. McKennan, Robert A. Rockefeller, Nelson A.

Dartmouth College Library
1939-1989 box Series I-9