Box

Envelope

Date

Subjects

1

(oversized)

1884

Trip from the East Coast through the Panama Canal to San Francisco, with visits to Mexican West Coast cities and towns. FRAGILE. Includes samples of microfilm.

1

(oversized)

1902, 1903

Philosophizing on the desert. Description of Desert, "God's there and man can feel his presence." Assault of Indian policeman Salvador Duro of Mesa Grande. A Mesa Grande episode involving Mr. James A. Gadney - Jan 5, 1893 Attempted robbery. Diegueno Rain Dance. The tragedy of the boarding school. Indian Funeral. Diegueno Indian Tradition. Eagles Rattlesnakes. Notes on Indian Tradition of Capitan Grande. Manner of poisoning arrows. Removal of San Felipe Indians. Fiesta de Los Muertos. Salvador Duro charged with attempted murder. El Dia de los Muertos (Nov 2, 1903)

1

3

1893, 1899

Chicago World's Fair, list of expenses, poem: "Mary, Mary...". Sketches. Fight with Indians at Warners and Coyote of 1850 as described by Marco, March 1899

1

4

1896, 1897

Nov 28 to Jan 30 - Trip to Tijuana and back to Mesa Grande, then trip to Yuma, Indians there. River trip down Colorado to Col. Lerdo, Hardy River, El Mayor, Hunting and Fishing, Cocopa.

1

5

1902

Desert trip to Borrego with map of trip. FRAGILE.

1

6

1903

Diegueno vocabulary. Beautiful artifact drawings. FRAGILE.

1

7

1903

Accounts. Languages. Lithia Mine. Natural food stuffs of Indians before whites came to CA. Loco weed. "My Trip to Coyote Assessing and Collecting." Drawings of artifacts. John Joe Adams comments on Indian events. Agua Caliente Indian Removal. Brief comment on Indianapolis. Comments on cattle, people. Drawing of Morton Smith's house. Indian place names near Mesa Grande. Story of the mythical being's footprint. Indian medicine. Toloache fiesta. Drawing of Wildcat Dance. Peon game (gesture drawings).

1

8

1904

Trip to relieve Campo Indians. Assorted comments about Indian situation and Indians of the area there and at Laguna.

1

9

1904

Story of the killing of Frank Fox in 1890, with drawing of burial stones. Indian basket story. Indian financial and mathematical problems.

1

10

1906

Expenses, lists, drawings and diagrams, artifacts mentioned.

1

11

1906

Trip through Arizona, East Grand Canyon. Narrative of Grace G. Harvy, photographer in S.F. Earthquake. Landscape drawings. Acoma.

1

12

1908

Image Ceremony Koo-Rook at Wee-a pipa Aug 24-30, 1908. Death Dance Holsh-roy Ne Mulp. Mesa Grande Nov 13-18, 1908. Description and drawings of image manufacture and ceremonial place and things. Descriptions of trip to Inaja Rancheria with Marion. Information on Indian foods and counting.

1

13

1909

San Francisco Trip, Redwoods, Santa Cruz, Lotario Duro counting, house plans

1

14

1911

Mt. San Jacinto Trip, July. Drawing of Warner's Ranch Old Store. Drawing of cabin, of House of Maria, San Ygnacio and of Sunrise Peaks, north of San Ygnacio. Acorn storage baskets, olla, cabin. Drawings of Lost Valley and Rock formations at top of pass to Chihuahua. Rock art in Hemet Valley, Cahuilla Valley, Strawberry Valley, San Jacinto. Drawing of old pine, cabin. Drawing of San Jacinto, trees, camp, Hidden Valley. Rough map of trip. "An ordinary camp trip."

1

(2 notebooks)

1911- 1912

Trip to Stonewall Peak. Household notes and expense list. Information about Locario Chavish of Rincon. Description of Juan Sotelo Trip to Cuyamaca for Indian things with Jose Agua. Trip to Los Conejos Reservation.

1

1912

Trip to Salton Sea. Vocabulary. Trip to find ollas near San Felipe Cañon. Drawings of ollas, and of palm leaf skirt. Burial ollas, description of cremation.

1

16

1912, 1916

Image in the cave ceremony. Joe Watch, Stonewall Mountain. Word list. Diary of the Great Storm, Jan 14-30, 1916.

1

17

1913

Original Indian Catalog, No. 2. Numbers, drawings and descriptions of many artifacts and their origins. FRAGILE.

1

(2 notebooks)

1917

Oct. Desert Trip. Description of collecting, of people, of a death ceremony. List of expenditures. Palm Springs, Coachella, Banning, Image Burning ceremony. Lists and catalogue of artifacts. Fig Tree John

1

1917

"Banning, Palm Springs, Martinez Cahuillas". List of purchases, Cahuilla vocabulary.

1

19

1917

"Banning, Sobaba, Cahuilla, Willie Boy, Nov." People, stories, shipping artifacts to Heye.

1

20

1918

"Image Ceremony Wa Koo-Rook, Campo, Yuma, Cremation Yuma." Drawings of mourning people, of images, diagrams of ceremony, of "shield man", "bow man", and "carrying the image", of "end view of funeral pyre", of man chanting and playing a box-drum and rhythm stick.

1

(2 notebooks)

1918

Yuma, July. Koo-Rook Ceremony. Contains list of expenditures, list of photos, a few notes about Yuma.

1

1918

Blind Indian, Locario Chavish, Rincon. Description of his efficiency in easily gathering wood and known for many other accomplishments.

1

(2 notebooks)

1918

Arizona trip, Dec. expenses. Catalogue.

1

1918

Cocopah, Yuma, Pima, Papago.

1

23

1918

"Notes on Arizona Trip." Cocopah. Description of Frank Tehana, of Yuma/Cocopah living conditions. Drawing of fishing with net, cradleboard, Somerton, collecting, trip to Casa Grande, drawing of mixing bowl and basket. Sacaton Flats collecting, metates, basket drawings, drawing of Pima chin stripes, Casa Grande ruins. Blackwater, Papago village, Swastika on baskets. Pima villages, rock art. Pictured Pima history. Casa Blanca. Stories, Tucson, Santa Rosa. Letter from B. Gross. Papago Graves. Globe.

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24

1918

"Campo Ollas." "Desert Mortuary Ollas." May. Careful drawings of ollas and other artifacts.

1

(2 notebooks)

1919

Papago catalogue (1918-1919). Apache catalogue (1918-1919). San Carlos, Rice Bylos, Geronimo.

1

1919

"Arizona Notes." Yuma Koo-Rook ceremony, with drawings. Mojave Indian Buckeye, Globe, Tempe Mesa, Prairie Schooner by the Salt River. Rice. White River Agency. Cibique, Grasshopper and Oak Creek, Apache, Malpais Mesa Pictographs.

1

(2 notebooks)

1920

"Mojave, Maricopa." List of purchases and expenses.

1

1920

Papago Ceremony - Sonora Quito Vaca. Menager store and its surroundings. Ajo. Legend of Quitovaca Ceremony. Ka o ho ta (Rainbow, storyteller). Diagrams of ceremony, drawings of costume, people, paraphernalia, structure for Saguaro fruit harvest.

1

(2 notebooks)

1920

Maricopa - Pima Reservation

1

1920

Arizona Notes. "Chimehueva". Mojave - Hualapai. Mojave - Apache. Maricopa.

Box

Folder

Date

Subjects

3

1

E. H. Davis Papers Inventories - Duplicate Sets.

3

2

1931

Touring Topics, October 1931.
-"The Pursuits of a Museum Collector" by Edward H. Davis as told to John Edwin Hogg.
-" Uncle Nate of Palomar" by Virginia Stivers Bartlett.

3

3

1941, n.d.

"The Boy Sacrifice"
"Funeral Services for Sotario Duro." January 20, 1941
"A Yaqui Raid in 1915"

3

4

n.d.

"Mr. And Mrs. Newlin and little girl lived..."

3

5

n.d.

Hand-drawn map of Nayarit, Mexico

3

6

1869

Receipt of payment from Jonas Smith, Jr., Esq., to William C. Gilman, July 9, 1869.

3

7

1918

"Sacred Festival of Yuma Indians Draws Big Crowd," Yuma (Arizona) Morning Star, July 23, 1918.

3

8

n.d.

Fragment about Comeyi [Kumeyaay] Indians

3

9

n.d.

Fragment about Day of the Dead.

3

10

c. 1922

1922 Yuma Image Ceremony of the Dead

3

11

n.d.

List of Indian words. Newspaper photo of Captain Ambrose Snow.

3

12

n.d.

Fragments
- Getting shot.
- "The Man Before the Mast" (poem).
- "William Tillman, Cook."
- Indian houses.
- Story about a concert musician.

3

13

n.d.

"Secrets of the Desert."

3

14

1920

"Aw' Aw Tan - Pima Indian Tale." December 1920.

3

15

n.d.

Short manuscripts on sacrifice. 3 variants/copies of a longer manuscript entitled "The Sacrifice."

3

16

n.d.

"Notes from a collector."

3

17

n.d.

"William Tillman, Cook." 4 variants/copies.

3

18

n.d.

"A Forgotten Tragedy." 8 variants/copies. Drawing and photo of tombmarker.

3

19

n.d.

"A Yaqui Raid in 1915." 2 variants/copies.

3

20

n.d.

"Last of the Old Desert Cowmen."

3

21

n.d.

"The Pima Calendar Stick."

3

22

n.d.

"The Pima Calendar Stick."

3

23

n.d.

"Left San Diego on ..."

3

24

1926

"The Vanished Tribes of Lower California." 2 variants/copies

3

25

n.d.

Girls' schooling

3

26

n.d.

"The Shrine of the Martyred Children."

3

27

n.d.

"The Bisnaga or Barrel Cactus." 2 variants/copies.

3

28

n.d.

"Secrets of the Desert."

3

29

n.d.

"A Leaf from the Life of Ed. H. Davis."

3

30

n.d.

"Legend of the Papagos in Sonora."

3

31

n.d.

"Story of the Schooner S. J. Waring."

3

32

n.d.

"Yellow Sky: Ami Qut a Qus."

3

33

1946

Re: The S. J. Waring, September 6, 1946. Includes two photos of Harold Erland.

3

34

n.d.

"The Lost Painting of Lower California," by E. H. Davis as told to John Crippen, Jr.

3

35

n.d.

"The Painted Cave of Baja California." 2 variants/copies.
"Tatahuila Dance."

3

36

n.d.

"The Fight at Campo." 2 variants/copies.

3

37

n.d.

"Pancho Villa - The Scourge of Mexico." 3 variants/copies
Rejection letter from Touring Topics magazine.

3

38

n.d.

"The Gestapo."

3

39

n.d.

"Unpaid Debt of Vengeance Bared by Once-Famous Pilot Left for 16 Days to Perish in Desert Wastes."

3

40

1934

"La Noche de las Velas." September 1934.

3

41

n.d.

"Bill Farre as a Tracker."
"La Noche de las Velas."
"Personal narrative of the Snake Dance of the Hopis by Ernest V. Sutton as told to Ed. H. Davis."
Letter to Sunset Magazine.
"Old Jose Soliloquizes."

3

42

n.d.

"Driving Loco Horses."
"Cattle Stealing at Mesa Grande."
"An Incident of the Desert."

3

43

1942

"Petra Cota of Mesa Grande." December 11, 1942.

3

44

1935

"The Men Before the Mast" (poem). 6 variants/copies. August 1935.

3

45

n.d.

"Charles H. Cameron: Line Rider."

3

46

1921, 1930

"Artifacts." Bill of Lading for shipment from E. H. Davis to the Museum of American Indians. April 6, 1921.
Drawing of Steatite tube. July 31, 1930.