National Anthropological Archives

MS 7505 Field material concerning the Comanches

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS7505
Creators:
Carlson, Gustav G.
Dates:
1933
Languages:
Undetermined
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Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Includes folktales and ethnological notes. Many of the latter have to do with war, kinship relations, and sexual practices.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Gust G. Carlson, of the University of Michigan, was a scholarship holder with the Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, ethnological field school group led by Ralph Linton. The group worked with Comanche Indians at Walter, Oklahoma. Other members of the group were Waldo Wedel (see his Comanche notes), and E. Adamson Hoebel (see photo lot 91-9).

Administration

Custodial History
The material was received through Thomas W. Kavanagh, July 1, 1991.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 7505, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

More Information

Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 7505

Local Note

Local Note
Mostly typescript; some manuscript documents


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Folklore -- Comanche Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Sexual practices -- Comanche Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
War -- Comanche Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kinship -- Comanche Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Language and languages -- Documentation Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Niuam (Comanche) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico) Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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