Manuscripts
name: label: Collection Creator
content: La Barre, Weston, 1911-1996
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content: Raoul Weston La Barre papers
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content: Raoul Weston La Barre papers / Series 3: Aymara Studies
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1948-1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1976-057, Subseries 3.3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series includes typewritten manuscripts which show the results of La Barre's field work in South America and his study of the Aymara. The manuscripts deal broadly with the ethnological and cultural aspects of the Aymara and, more specifically, with their vocabulary and ethnobotany. Included are musical scores and a bound volume of "The Aymara Indians of the Lake Titicaca Plateau, Bolivia" which was the original manuscript for the American Anthropological Association's "Memoirs", #68, 1948. It is edited throughout. Also included are three published maps of Bolivia and southern Peru showing political and ethnological aspects of the area and two photostat copied maps detailing the physical characteristics of the area. Lastly, this sub-series includes miscellaneous notes in various forms pertaining to the Aymara and South America. They are recorded in several languages, some in the vernacular. There are also pamphlets, magazine and newspaper clippings, journal articles, and processed materials which cover a wide range of Bolivian and South American topics such as potatoes, llamas, and Incas. The material is in several languages.