Allan R. Holmberg research materials on the Siriono Indians, 1939-1967
Collection Number: 6826
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Allan R. Holmberg research materials on the Siriono Indians, 1939-1967
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
6826
Creator:
Holmberg, Allan R.
Quanitities:
.6 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Allan Holmberg was a professor of anthropology at Cornell University from 1948 until
his death in 1966. He authored the book Nomads of the Long Bow which was about the Siriono Indians.
This collection contains mostly field notes and photographs relating to Allan Holmberg's
work with the Siriono Indians of eastern Bolivia as a Fellow of the Social Science
Research Council. The correspondence folder in the collection mostly concerns re-analysis
of Holmberg's research data and access to his papers.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Allan R. Holmberg research materials on the Siriono Indians, #6826. Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Subjects:
Siriano language.
Siriono Indians.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Field notes
CONTAINER LIST
|
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Correspondence
|
1943, 1960-1967 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Siriono kinship
|
1946-1948, 1963 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Articles and press releases
|
1950 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Photographic prints and negatives
|
1939-1940 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5-7 |
Field notebooks
|
1939-1941 |
| Box 2 |
Field notes (HRAF)
|
1940 | |