Pliny Earle Goddard American Indian notebooks, 1901-1929

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Series I: Mescalero



Box 1 Item 1 Mescalero 1, 1917

Digital identifier: cul:fqz612jnwm


Box 1 Item 2 Mescalero 2, 1906

Digital identifier: cul:pc866t1hm4


Box 1 Item 3 Mescalero 3, 1909

Digital identifier: cul:xwdbrv1732


Box 1 Item 4 Mescalero 4, 1909

Digital identifier: cul:79cnp5hrwv


Box 1 Item 5 Mescalero 5, 1909

Digital identifier: cul:83bk3j9n18


Box 1 Item 6 Mescalero 6, 1908

Digital identifier: cul:4xgxd255vc


Box 1 Item 7 Mescalero 7, 1906

Digital identifier: cul:00000001mp


Box 1 Item 8 Mescalero 8, 1906

Digital identifier: cul:73n5tb2sx9


Box 1 Item 9 Mescalero 9, 1906

Digital identifier: cul:2jm63xskqc



Box 2 Item 10 Mescalero 10, 1906

Digital identifier: cul:qz612jm7rg


Box 2 Item 11 Mescalero 11, 1906

Digital identifier: cul:pk0p2nggn3


Box 2 Item 12 Mescalero 12, 1901

Digital identifier: cul:0zpc866vp2

Series II: California / Northwest


Box 2 Item 13 Maple Creek

Digital identifier: cul:dr7sqv9ts0


Box 2 Item 14 Mad River

Based on evidence internal to the item (handwriting, attribution on cover), this notebook is most likely by Alfred L. Kroeber.

Digital identifier: cul:gxd2547fvp


Box 2 Item 15 Coquille 1

Digital identifier: cul:wstqjq2f3v


Box 2 Item 16 Coquille 2

Digital identifier: cul:7pvmcvdqkr


Box 2 Item 17 Chasta Costa

Digital identifier: cul:j3tx95x8jz


Box 2 Item 34 Chasta Costa - Edward Sapir notes

In September 2022, 23 pages of notes attributed to Edward Sapir were discovered tucked into the back of Goddard's Chasta Costa notebook. These were removed, placed in a separate folder, and assigned item number 34 in the collection

Digital identifier: cul:x95x69pbq6


Box 2 Item 18 Tututni

Digital identifier: cul:9zw3r22b8r

Series III: Navajo, 1923-1925

Published in Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 34, pt. 1, pp. 1-179, 1933. Digital version of published text: https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/231. Per the introduction of the published text, "The Navajo texts were collected in 1923 and 1924 by Doctor Pliny Earle Goddard [...] Doctor Goddard had recorded the texts at the dictation of Sandoval, a Navajo, learned in his lore, but not a medicineman."

The page order for these notebooks is not always clear, as they are not paginated. If upon consulting a digital copy the page order seems unclear or incorrect, please contact rbml@columbia.edu to request a review of the physical item.


Box 2 Item 19 Navajo 1

Digital identifier: cul:08kprr50sr



Box 3 Item 20 Navajo 2, 1923

Digital identifier: cul:9zw3r22bcg


Box 3 Item 21 Navajo 3, 1924-1925

Digital identifier: cul:8kprr4xk8n


Box 3 Item 22 Navajo 4, 1924

Digital identifier: cul:3bk3j9kgj4


Box 3 Item 23 Navajo 5

Digital identifier: cul:s1rn8pk2zd

Series IV: Sarsi, 1905-1911

Published in University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 11, pp. 189-277, 1915. Digital version of published text: https://archive.org/details/universityof11univ/page/188/mode/2up. Per the introduction of the published text, "The texts here presented were collected during the summer of 1905. [...] The larger number of these texts were revised in 1911 with the aid of Charlie Crowchief, who was the interpreter used in obtaining them originally. [...] The main informant was Eagle-ribs, a man then about 65 years old. As he says in one of his narratives, he ranked as a chief according to the old order."


Box 3 Item 24 Sarsi 1

Digital identifier: cul:9w0vt4bb9g


Box 3 Item 25 Sarsi 2

Digital identifier: cul:zgmsbcc48x



Box 4 Item 26 Sarsi 3

Digital identifier: cul:9kd51c5cs4


Box 4 Item 27 Sarsi 4

Digital identifier: cul:zpc866t39f


Box 4 Item 28 Sarsi 5

Digital identifier: cul:p5hqbzkjxz


Box 4 Item 29 Sarsi 6

Digital identifier: cul:79cnp5hs5h


Box 4 Item 30 Sarsi 7

Digital identifier: cul:7h44j0zr77


Box 4 Item 31 Sarsi 8

Digital identifier: cul:8w9ghx3hct


Box 4 Item 32 Sarsi 9

Digital identifier: cul:m0cfxpnxs5


Box 4 Item 33 Sarsi 10, 1911

Digital identifier: cul:zw3r2282cg