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Scope and Contents From the Series: Malcolm Farmer spent a lot of time among the Navaho, including as a student at the University of Arizona; Desert Laboratory, Southwest Museum, l935; Soil Conservation Service, Arizona-New Mexico, l935 on the Social and Economic Survey of the Navajo; Navajo Service, Arizona-New Mexico l938; Navajo Tribal Council – Arizona, New Mexico l950-52, as researcher and expert witness for the lands case Navajo Nation v. United State of America. He spoke of Navaho as his "second language." His letter of...

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Hogans, pottery, dyes

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Farmer argues for the creation of the Navajo Museum at Window Rock. Farmer suggests a Navajo Tour of approx 12 sites on the reservation

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"A Short History of the Navajo People" by Van Valkenburgh (1938); "Navajo Indians in a Changing World" by Rickets and McPhee (1941)

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MSS, notes, letters regarding the publication of "Indians of Northern Arizona and the Sitgreaves Report" in the Ethnohistory Quarterly, Indiana University.

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Chapters 15, 16, 17 are on the Navajo.

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Manuscripts

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Rough and Smooth Pottery" n.d. approx 20 typed pp.; 4. "Examples of Early Navajo Pottery" , 2. "A Rocky Mountain Ceramic Tradition" nd, approx 20 typed pp.

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Carbon copy, approx. 175 pages

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Pen, ink, charcoal

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Not clear if this is Rogers' journal or written by Malcolm Farmer. Tucked into this journal is a 7 December 1948 letter from Robert Heizer to Malcolm Farmer asking for "California materials" under his curatorship at the San Diego Museum of Man for Carbon 14 analysis.

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Probably based on notes from Hawley Ellis. This is an example only (one of the better ones) of pen and ink drawings by Malcolm Farmer that often accompanied his notes.

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Navaho and Ute land claims, Navaho Tribal Council, San Juan River, John Collier's attack on Meyers, grazing fight; "Low, the Poor Indian" by Owen P. White; "Why the Navajo Is Great!" and "An Indian Tells How It Is To Be "A White Man."

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File on Navajo star ceiling, Pueblo influence, use of red ochre more world-wide through time from Olduvai to Paleolithic Europe, etc. Short typed paper., 15 pp.

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Papers by Farmer. "Towers and Defensive Features of Archaeological Horizons of the Greater Southwest;" ""A Suggested Typology of Defensive Systems of the Southwest;"" ""Possible Defensive System Traditions in the Southwest;"" ""Towers of the Pueblo Refugee Navajo Area of Northwestern New Mexico"" (1978)

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not attributed but assume it was written and illustrated by Malcolm Farmer.