Materials relating to field work
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962
setName: label: See more items in
content: William Duncan Strong papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4.76 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921-1963
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1974-28, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged chronologically by expedition.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Descriptions in quotation marks are Strong's own.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series includes diaries, journals, field and photograph catalogues, expenses, maps, manuscripts, ethnological notes, correspondence, and specialist's reports identifying faunal and vegetal remains. The materials relate to field work done both while Strong was a student and during his career. They include his work in California, Oregon and Washington, Labrador and Baffin Island, the Great Plains, Honduras and the Bay Islands, and Peru. The collection does not include records from Strong's 1924 and 1925 ethnological study of the Serrano, Cahuilla, Cupeño, and Luiseño of Riverside and San Diego counties in California or Strong's work on Max Uhle's Peruvian archeological collection.

Other information concerning Strong's field expeditions can be found in Series 2: Correspondence; Series 4: Miscellaneous research notes, Series 5: Maps and charts; Series 7: Manuscripts of writings; Series 8: Writings by other authors; Series 11: Miscellany, "News clippings and printed matter"; and Series 12: Photographs.