Field data and field notes
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Takaki, Michiko, 1930-2014
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content: Michiko Takaki papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 21.35 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1935-1985
label: Date
content: bulk 1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2016-23, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 1 is divided into the following 4 subseries based on original order: (1.1) Field data, 1935, circa 1950-1985; (1.2) Field data: Butbut, circa 1960-1969; (1.3) Field notes, circa 1964-1968; (1.4) Fieldwork administration, circa 1962-1984.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series is comprised of field-gathered data, notes, notebooks, and administrative materials related to Michiko Takaki's doctoral fieldwork in the Philippines between 1964 and 1968. It contains economic, linguistic, and cultural material about the Kalinga people of the northern Luzon region, as well as background data on the region gathered before her fieldwork began. It also includes administrative data related to the organization, logistics, and financial aspects of field study – notably, grant applications and inventories of artifacts, specimens, maps, and notes.

The series includes bound notebooks and unbound sequential notes written by Takaki and her Kalinga informants (some of which were later typed and can be found in Series 6: Kalinga texts); forms, lists, and tables recording climate and subsistence activities in the northern Luzon region; drafts of analysis of the gathered data; carbon copies of typed documents for editing and emendation; interfiled correspondence from informants, colleagues, and Filipino contacts; and language files.

Takaki's field data consists largely of loose (unbound) material that was stored as a unit from the 1960s until her death in 2014 – passing from her research station in the Philippines, to her office at the American Museum of Natural History, through various offices at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and finally on to her home on Isabella Street in Boston.