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Finding Aid to the Robert Harry Lowie Papers, 1872-1968

Collection Summary

Collection Title:
Robert Harry Lowie Papers, 1872-1968

Collection Number:
BANC MSS C-B 927

Origination:
Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957

Extent:
Number of containers: 16 boxes, 7 cartons, 1 oversize folder, 4 card file boxes, and 1 volume
Linear feet: Approximately 17.5

Repository:
The Bancroft Library.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000

Physical Location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Abstract:
Correspondence and papers relating to his career as professor of anthropology, University of California, Berkeley; field notes of his work on Indians and Indian linguistics, particularly the Crow Indians, as well as of Chipewyan, Hidatsa, Hopi, Kiowa, and Washo Indians; lecture notes; diaries; manuscripts of his writings; subject files and personalia.

Languages Represented:
Collection materials are in English,
German,
Crow,
Chipewyan,
Hopi,
Kiowa,
Washo,
as well as some Assiniboine (Sioux dialect),
Bannock (Northern Paiute),
Cocopa,
Hidatsa,
and Wahpetan (Sioux dialect)