Richard D. Cushman papers, [ca. 1950-1981]
Collection Number: 4518
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Richard D. Cushman papers, [ca. 1950-1981]
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4518
Abstract:
Notebooks, files relating to the Yao language, reprints in English and Chinese on
the Yao Rebellion of 1832, Cornell University anthropology course materials and a
set of 23 Yao/Mien paintings (ca. 1950) collected by Richard Cushman from northern
Thailand, includes one Yao/Mien shaman headdress.
Creator:
Cushman, Richard D.
Quanitities:
17.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Richard David Cushman received an AB in 1962, MA in 1968 and Ph.D. in anthropology
from Cornell University in 1970. His main work was with the Yao tribal people in northern
Thailand, an ethnic group which is mainly located in south China. The Yao have a strong
literary tradition, expressed in Chinese characters but in Yao language; their religious
tradition is apparently something close to Taoism. One of Cushman's main preoccupations
during field work in Thailand in the early 1970s was to collect Yao texts. He collected
these by two main methods: 1) he hired older men to copy their religious texts into
hardbacked notebooks; and 2) when he could obtain access to the original manuscripts,
he photographed them. He also tape recorded Yao music and chanting on reel-to-reel
audio tape.
Notebooks, files relating to the Yao language, reprints in English and Chinese on
the Yao Rebellion of 1832, and Cornell University anthropology course materials. Also
reel-to-reel and cassette tape recordings of Yao music and chanting.
The collection also includes a set of 23 Yao/Mien paintings (ca. 1950) collected
by Richard Cushman from northern Thailand, includes one Yao/Mien shaman headdress.
The audio tapes in this collection have been digitized and are available upon request
with advance notice of two (2) business days.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Richard D. Cushman papers, #4518. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Please ask for library staff assistance when unrolling scroll (9ft long) in Box 20.
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings,
viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized. The audio tapes
in this collection have been digitized and are available through the Cornell Library's
digital collections portal.
Names:
Cornell University. Department of Anthropology
Cornell University. Class of 1962
Places:
Southeast Asia.
Thailand, Northern.
Subjects:
Yao paintings (Southeastern Asia)
Yao literature (Southeastern Asia)
Yao language (Southeastern Asia)
Yao (Southeast Asian people)
Form and Genre Terms:
Audiocassettes
Paintings.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
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Notebooks and research materials
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Box 1 |
Language study notebooks (Yao)
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Box 2 |
Language study notebooks (Yao)
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Box 3 |
Language study notebooks (Yao)
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Box 4 |
Books
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Box 5 |
"Notes from the Xanadu Rookery" - 19 composition books of pencil holographic transcriptions,
1 notebook
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Box 6 |
"Notes from the Xanadu Rookery" - 19 composition books of pencil holographic transcriptions,
1 notebook
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Box 7 |
"Efeo Yo Materials" - 1 envelope photocopies
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Box 7 |
"Gaze" - 3 envelopes of photocopies
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Box 7 |
2 notebooks of photocopies
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Box 8 |
"Hisc" - 2 envelopes of photocopies
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Box 8 |
"Klhtt" - 3 envelopes of photocopies
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Box 11 |
Address book
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Scope and Contents
Located with photographic materials.
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Box 12 |
"OMF Mien Materials"
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Box 15 |
18 notebooks, language study
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Box 15 |
3 paperbound volumes
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Box 12 |
2 spiral notebooks, ink writing
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Box 14 |
Subject file folders (letter size)
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Box 17 |
Subject file folders (legal size)
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Box 18 |
Subject file folders (legal size)
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Photographs and artwork
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Box 4 |
Photographs
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Box 9 |
Snapshot photograph albums of photographs of a book, sequenced/indexed
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Box 10 |
Snapshot photograph albums of photographs of a book, sequenced/indexed
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Box 11 |
Snapshot photograph albums of photographs of a book, sequenced/indexed
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Box 11 |
Negatives (indexed), photographs, slides.
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Box 16 |
Loose pictographic material
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Box 20 |
Yao/Mien scroll (9ft long)
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Conditions Governing Use
Please ask for library staff assistance when unrolling scroll.
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Box 21 |
Smaller Yao/Mien paintings
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Scope and Contents
Includes one Yao/Mien shaman headdress
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Mapcase Folder 1 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 2 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 3 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 4 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 5 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 6 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 7 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 8 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 9 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 10 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Mapcase Folder 11 |
Oversized Yao/Mien paintings
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Audiotapes
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Scope and Contents
Indexed and identified
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Conditions Governing Use
Due to the fragility and potential degradation of moving image and sound recordings,
viewing and listening is limited to items that have been digitized.
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Existence and Location of Copies
Digital copies available upon request with advance notice of two (2) business days.
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Box 4 |
Cushman tape recording
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Box 13 | T001 |
Cushman tape recording
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Tandy_Concertape
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tape reels
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Cushman tape recording
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tape reels
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Cushman tape recording
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tape reels
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Box 13 | T004 |
Cushman tape recording
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Sony C-90HF
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Audiocassettes
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Audiocassettes
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Box 13 | T1 |
Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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Cushman tape recording
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