C. Hart Merriam papers relating to work with California Indians
Contributors: Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979; Heizer, Robert Fleming, 1915-; Online Archive of California
Published: 1898
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Languages; Social life and customs; Indian Names; Indians of North America; Anthropological linguistics; Social conditions
Other titles: History of science and technology collection.
Description: Field notes, vocabulary schedules, manuscripts, typescripts, notebooks, clippings, and printed matter relating to Merriam's work with California and other Indian tribes (1898-1938). Primary material includes lists of tribes, bands and villages of California Indian tribes; ethnogeographic and ethnographic information; and lists of Indian words and their meanings. Secondary material includes Merriam's research files containing clippings and other printed matter on Indian tribes and Indian welfare in California and the West. Also included are manuscripts and typescripts of Merriam's published work on California Indians and typescripts of Robert Heizer's compilations of Merriam's work, published posthumously.
Notes: Included in: History of Science and Technology Collection.

RESTRICTED ORIGINALS. USE MICROFILM COPY ONLY WITH CALL NO. BANC FILM 1022. Use of originals only by permission of the Head of the History of Science and Technology Collection.

Also available on microfilm.

Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1978.008--PIC)

Related collections: C. Hart Merriam papers (BANC MSS 83/129 c); C. Hart Merriam pictorial collection (BANC PIC 1980.023); Florence Merriam Bailey papers (BANC MSS 79/139 c and BANC MSS 82/46 z)

C. Hart Merriam papers, including personal journals from 1873-1938; Also located at: Library of Congress Manuscript Division.

Naturalist and founder of the U.S. Biological Survey (1885-1910). Studied California Indians, recording their languages (ca. 1898-1938).

Finding aid is a revised edition of Robert Heizer's Catalogue issued in 1969.

Finding aid available in Library. Electronic version available on the Internet.