Stephen T. Boggs papers
name: label: Creator
content: Boggs, Stephen T.
place: label: Place
content: North America
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Stephen T. Boggs in 2015.
creator: label: Creator
content: Boggs, Stephen T.
culture: label: Culture
content: Lake Superior Chippewa [Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin]
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content: Stephen T. Boggs papers
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Stephen T. Boggs is a cultural anthropologist who began his anthropological studies at the London School of Economics in 1947. He carried out doctoral work at Washington University and conducted fieldwork among Ojibwa communities in Wisconsin and Manitoba. He was faculty at the University of Hawaii, and served as Executive Secretary of the American Anthropological Association from 1961-1966.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950 - circa 1970
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2015-07
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers contain field notes on Flambeau language and religion, including documentation of a Drum Dance, War Dance, Medicine initiation, and Native American Church ceremonies with participant interviews; interviews with anthropology field workers; and three essays.

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