Box 3
Contains 26 Results:
Boundary Fieldwork - Memos, reports, notes, 1952
Hearings - Notes, Correspondence, 1950-1951
Mainly correspondence from Littell to Farmer, Perry, Gorman.
Memorandum, Historical References, Notes, undated
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Navajo Hopi Boundaries - Notes, circa 1935
Sources: Castaneda, Mathews, Whipple, Opler, Spier, Bandelier, etc. Tracing locations of Apache bands, Supai, Yavapai, Utes, Paiute, etc.
Navajo Land Claim Problems - Notes, undated
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Petitions, Memos, Notes, 1951
Hopi Tribe petition; memo of US treaty with Navajo chiefs from Connelley's history; draft of Navajo Petition dated Oct, 1949; description of photos at the SW Museum
Receipts - Land claims work, 1951-1955
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Report on the Territory of the Navaho Indians, Malcolm Farmer - Preliminary, 1951
October 1951. 120 pp. World Aeronautical Maps I (sections A - D) and n (sections A - D)
Report on the Territory of the Navaho Indians, Malcolm Farmer - Final, 1951
120 pp.
Utah Case - Notes, 1950
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Van Valkenburgh - "Some Historical Aspects of the Navajo Land Problem", 1941
90 pp., marked "original in the files of R. Young, Navajo Services, Window Rock, Arizona. Footnotes include references to "letter books", Fort Defiance, l880 – l883.
Van Valkenburgh - Summer work plan, comments/reports, Navajo boundaries, population, historical sources, 1952
Includes copy of Littell, Volume II; copy of Littell memorandum on Vogt Report on Farmer's study, marked "confidential"; insert of paper from 1950 (?) on Navajo Population Growth, 14001950 and estimating 80,000 Navaho by 1970; 8 pp and 2 graphs.
Farmer with Parents and Brother, 1935
Copies of the 95+ letters Malcolm wrote to his father (Ollef Farmer), his mother (Nellie Farmer), and his brother (Albert Farmer). Letters concern his experiences during the eight months he worked as an ethnobotanist for the Soil Conservation Service on the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Knox Patterson (attorney), 1950-1951
Norman Littell (attorney representing the Navajo), 1950-1953
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Frederick Sleight (later director of Palm Springs Museum), 1950-1953
Includes map, some photos. "Preliminary Sketch Map - Navajo Traditional Geography" by Frederick W. Sleight, and letter describing map - "The Hopi can put a hole in a good section of the Navajo claim as I see it"; " A definition of Navajo Sacred Places."
Assorted, 1950-1953
Includes 1952 letter from Sam Ahkeah, Navajo Tribe President introducing Farmer as "working for the good of the Navajo people," in "seeking to establish the original Navajo boundaries."
Stephen Jett, 1964-1978
"Pueblo Indian Migrations . ." AA, Vol 29, No 3 of Jan 1964. Follow up letter between Farmer and Jett in 1982 on war dogs in the mural at Canyon del Muerto. Farmer ceased his Navajo work around 1966.
Navajo Nation Archaeology Department, 2001
Gobernador polychrome pottery study
Agriculture - "Navajo Agricultural Origins", 1952
Manuscripts and notes. "A comparative study of the agricultural practices of the Navaho Indians and of the surrounding groups to determine the origins of the Navaho agricultural complex." Typed, approx. 45 pp.; Expanded manuscript, no bibliog.., 29 pp. and handwritten draft stating: "material in this thesis is from three major sources: (1) field work among the Navaho in l935, l938, l950-51 and l952. (2) general anthropological observations in arid America (3) library resources.
Basketry; Clans; Chronology; Pottery Associations (Navajo) - Notes, undated
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Ceramics - Apachean ceramics, undated
Includes notes on the purchase of a cooking vessel in l930 from FH Krankhite
Ceramics - "Ceramic Traditions in the Far West of North America and Enigma of Navajo Pottery," by Farmer, 1982
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Ceramics - "Ceramics of the Continental Divide of North America," by Farmer, Oct. 1990
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Ceramics - "Continental Divide Ceramic Tradition" and "A Western Continental Ceramic Tradition" by Farmer, 1991
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