MS-0870 Smithsonian Institution. National Anthropological Archives Photocopies 1935-1955 1 m The records in this unit were selected from the National Anthropological Archives, MS No. 4516 by the British Columbia Indian Languages Project. Records include field notes, drafts of manuscripts and correspondence of Philip Drucker relating to Indians in British Columbia and Alaska. The files are arranged according to the numbers assigned at the National Anthropological Archives. Presented by Randy Bouchard, British Columbia Indian Languages Project, 1978. Box File Contents Date Northwest coast: Native Brotherhoods (see Drucker, "The Native Brotherhoods: Modern Inter-Tribal Organization on the Northwest Coast", BAE bull. 168, 1958) 1 1-3 Part 1: field notebooks of southeast Alaska, 1952 volumes 1-3, approximately 240 pp. 1 4-9 Part 2: field notebooks of British Columbia, volumes 1953 1-6, approximately 1100 pp. 1 10 Part 3: field notebook of southeast Alaska, 27 pp. 1953 1 11 Part 4: field notebook of British Columbia "Pt. Simpson notes", 31 pp. Drafts 2 1 Part 5: miscellaneous drafts of sections of bull. 168, part 1. Some marked, "Early drafts, now rewritten (mostly)." Part, part typed, some carbon copies, ca. 225 pp. 2 2 Part 6: histories of cooperative organizations in British Columbia villages. Typed sections not published in bull. 168. "Greenville", 13 pp.; "Port Simpson tribes, 8 pp.; "Kincolith," 4 pp.; also "Kincolith Potlatches," 5 pp. 2 3 Part 7: early drafts of sections of bull. 168, part 2, with some information not included in the published version. "B. C. Brotherhood: origin and history," 16 pp.; "Biographical Notes on Alfred Adams," 2 pp.; "The Indians and the Fishing Industry," 5 pp.; G:\RSD\@ORCS09\13050.20\MS-0870.DOC:2000/02/23 Page 1
"Strikes," 3 pp.; "The Niska Land Committee, 5 pp.; "B.C. Brotherhood: Policies," 7 pp. 2 4 Part 22 (15): Christmas songs (in Tsimshian?) printed by Duncan Memorial Church; includes inserted sheet with beginning of one song written by Drucker in phonetic symbols, 4 pp. 2 5 Part 22 (16): "Metlakatla Christian Mission," short history, 32 pp. Northwest coast: Nootkan Tribes (see Drucker, "The Northern and Central Nootkan Tribes," B.A.E. bull. 144, 1951) 2 6-9 Part 23: Nootka field notebooks, volumes 1-4 3 1-6 Part 23: Nootka field notebooks, volumes 5-10 4 1-5 Part 23: Nootka field notebooks, volumes 11-15 4 6 Part 24: sections of Nootka field notebooks, approximately 130 pp., typed 5 1 Part 25: contents of Nootka field notebook 4, 72 pp., typed. Also carbon copy, 72 pp. 5 2 Part 26: contents of Nootka field notebook 6, Page 1 and last 20 pp. not included. 58 pp., typed. Also carbon copy, 58 pp. 5 3 Part 27: notes copied from Nootka field notebooks on "Property rights and rank," "Personalities," and "War," and single pages on other subjects. Approximately 65 pp., typed carbon copy. Also a section on culture and personality, 16 pp., 5 4 Part 28: notes on dances, typed from field notebooks, 50 pp., typed carbon copy 5 5 Part 29: "Chiefs, collection of family histories, including mythology, 25 pp., typed 5 6 Part 30: "Lucky-bag", miscellaneous ethnological field notes, 150 pp., typed and 5 7 Part 31: miscellaneous notes typed from field notebooks, 35 pp., typed Other ethnological notes 5 8 Part 32: Hesquiat seats, Clayoquot: Geneal. Seats. Terr. Includes notes on drift whales and drawings G:\RSD\@ORCS09\13050.20\MS-0870.DOC:2000/02/23 Page 2
showing their apportionment within a clan, 3 pp.; drawings of fishing equipment, 2 pp.; chart of names of Kyuquot houses and their etymologies, 1 p.; unlabelled genealogical chart, 1 p.; chart of seating arrangement with genealogical chart on back, 1 p.; chart of seating arrangement and chart of apportionment of seal according to rank, 1 p.; maps, of seating and genealogical diagrams and 1 p. note on witchcraft, 11 pp. 5 9 Part 33: notes on ownership rights of dentalia grounds. Handwritten notes and 2 hand-drawn maps 5 10 Part 34: short ethnological notes, 9 pp., typed and Drafts 5 11 Part 35: drafts of sections of paper on Nootka ethnology, evidently written while at U. of Calif., Berkeley (comments by A. L. Kroeber, p. 1), and ultimately published, with some revision, as B.A.E. bull. 144. Approximately 325 pp. Maps 5 12 Part 36: map of Vancouver Island approximately 24" x 30". Has a few native names added by Drucker and several numbers for which no key is present. Map in very poor condition 5 13 Part 37: map of northern Vancouver Island approximately 30" x 48". Has a few native names added by Drucker and several numbers for which no key is present Data collected from other sources 5 14 Part 38: rough sketches of five Nootka masks in U.S. National Museum, 1 p. Northwest coast: miscellaneous ethnology 6 1 Part 40: NWC special notes (rituals, etc.), Winter 36-37, 13 pp., 6 2 Part 41: field notebook, Bellabella Indians, Fall 1938, 4 pp., 1938 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\13050.20\MS-0870.DOC:2000/02/23 Page 3
6 3 Part 42: field notebook, Bellabella and others. Informants identified by name, Fall 1938?, 128 pp., 6 4 Part 43: field notes, Tsimshian (Gitxsan), 9 pp. In notebook, undated, 6 5 Part 44: notes on potlatches, dances, and other ceremonies; Koskimo Kwakiutl, 6 pp.; Kwexa Kwakiutl (Fort Rupert), 3 pp.; Bellabella Kwakiutl, 15 pp.; Wikeno, 22 pp.; Masset Haida, 12 pp. (on neg. mf reel no. 29); Tsimshian, 5 pp.; Haisla, 10 pp.; Xaihais, 13 pp.; Bella Coola dances, 12 pp. All typed. Several, if not all of these are typescripts from notebook (42) 6 6 Part 45: notes on Bella Coola (?) shamanism, 12 pp., ; and Kimsquit towns, 1 p., 6 7 Part 46: "Heiltsuk Soc. Org., Kinship." "To be revised", original notes, 19 pp., [1938?] Unpublished papers by Drucker 6 8 Part 47: "Diffusion in Northwest coast culture growth in the light of some distributions," Ph. D. thesis, University of California, 1936, 168 pp. 6 9 Part 48: "Research problems and conditions on the Northwest coast," intended for publication in Anthropology in British Columbia (Provincial Museum, Victoria), but not published in that journal. Includes permission for publication from Secretary of Smithsonian, ca. 1954, 11 pp., typed 1936 Data collected from published and unpublished sources 6 10 Part 49: "Ethnical and geographical study of the Tsamsiyaen Nation," by William Beynon. Transcript (original notebooks 1-6 not located 9/61) of data collected 1954-55; notebooks 1-3 and part of 4. 13 pp. typed carbon copy 6 11 Part 50: correspondence between William Beynon, Port Edward, B.C., and Drucker, 13 Feb 1954-26 Sep 1955. Also letters and memos concerning American Museum of Natural History grants to Beynon as an informant. Letters from Beynon, 21 pp. typed and and 1 telegram. Replies from Drucker, 13 pp. typed carbon copy. Correspondence re grants, 10 pp., typed 1954-1955 1954-1955 G:\RSD\@ORCS09\13050.20\MS-0870.DOC:2000/02/23 Page 4
7 1 Part 54: "NWC source material (chiefly historical) by Tribes." Ethnological notes from published and manuscript sources ("Jacobs MS.", date and repository not known). 137 pp., typed and, undated 7 2 Part 57: notes and letters (1954) about Salish weaving, 4 pp. Photographs of Salish blankets from U.S. National Museum and Peabody Museum, 8 prints, annotated by Drucker 1954 Northwest coast: archaeology (see Drucker, "Archaeological Survey on the Northern Northwest Coast," anthropological paper no. 20, B.A.E. bull. 133, 1943) 7 3 Part 61: archaeological field notebook, Fall 1938. 90 pp., including site plans and cross-section drawings pasted into notebook. Pp. 110-115 are a record of photographs taken 7 4 Part 62: field notebook, "British Columbia coast survey, Fall 1938, R.K.B.", notes by R. K. Beardsley, "an undergraduate anthropology student at the University of California" (bull. 133, p. 24), 39 pp., 7 5 Part 63: cross-section drawings of excavations, 6 pp., undated 1938 1938 Other notes and draft 7 6 Part 64: outline, draft and bibliographical notes for "Archaeological survey on the Northern Northwest Coast," anthropological paper no. 20, B.A.E. bull. 133. Includes outline, 1 p., typed and ; draft, almost identical to published version, 215 pp., typed and ; bibliographical notes, 8 pp., ; comments by A. L. Kroeber, 3 pp., 7 7 Part 65: "Puget Sound Archaeol. Mat'l.", descriptive tabulation of artifacts found, 12 pp.,, undated 1943 Data collected from museums & other sources 7 8 Part 66: "NWC Comparative collections", notes and G:\RSD\@ORCS09\13050.20\MS-0870.DOC:2000/02/23 Page 5
sketches of artifacts in museums, approximately 160 loose pp.; small notebook, approximately 70 pp.; 11 photographs of artifacts in (Vancouver?) City Museum; 1 photograph of housepit in Kitkahtla, B.C.; 1 photograph of Pillar Rock (location not known) 7 9 Part 67: Notes on archaeological specimens at National Museum of Canada and Peabody Museum, Harvard, including drawings and bibliography (ca. 1935-38; address in notebook is Berkeley), 74 pp., 7 10 Part 69: correspondence between Wilson Duff, Provincial Museum, Victoria, B.C., and Drucker, concerning a Japanese pottery fragment found near Vancouver Island, Feb- Mar 1953, 8 pp. and 4 photographs 7 11 Part 71: maps of "Nootka-Nanaimo," "Queen Charlotte Is. - Bella Bella," "Ocean Falls-Ootsa Lake," "Campbell River-Rivers Inlet," "Victoria- Vancouver" [ca. 1935-1938] 1953 Northwest coast: cultural element distributions (see Drucker, "Culture Element Distributions: XXVI, Northwest Coast," University of California Anthropological Records 9:3, 1950) 8 1 Part 72: introduction, published in revised form, 8 pp., typed 8 2 Part 73: "Areal patterns", unpublished draft on Northwest coast patterns of culture, 52 pp., draft. 30 pp. each of typed original and carbon copy 8 3 Part 74: data collected from published sources for individual culture elements, listing artifact or trait and publication, 81 pp., typed 8 4 Part 75: "Nootkan. Data fr. historic sources", Nootka cultural element references copied from early publications, approximately 75 pp., typed and 8 5 Part 76: 4 Nootka Element Lists 1936", approximately 200 pp., typed and 8 6-7 Part 77: "NWC Element Lists--'Synthetic", original cultural element lists and computations. Also drafts of alternate sections", approximately 60 pp., in 3 folders [two in box] 8 9 Drucker, Philip: sketch of bird-head mask (?) G:\RSD\@ORCS09\13050.20\MS-0870.DOC:2000/02/23 Page 6