TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Biography of Jane Richardson Hanks
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence, 1935-1968
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Inventory of the Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa Papers, 1935-1968,bulk 1935-1940
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Lisa Janssen, 2004. ©2004. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1908- |
| Title | Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa Papers |
| Dates | 1935-1968, |
| Dates | bulk 1935-1940 |
| Extent | 2.5 cubic ft. (7 boxes) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, field notes, and writings of anthropologist Jane Richardson Hanks, mainly documenting her 1935 graduate student field work with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Ayer Modern MS Hanks |
| Collection Stack Location | 3 60 12 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa Papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Jane Richardson Hanks, February, 1994.
Processed by
Lisa Oppenheim, May, 1999.
Access
The Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Jane Richardson Hanks
Anthropologist; student of the Kiowa and Blackfoot Indians, and of the people of Thailand.
Jane Richardson was born on August 2, 1908, in Berkeley, California, where she grew up in a University affiliated family, exposed to a wide variety of subjects, people, and countries. As a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, working with anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie, Jane Richardson was selected to participate in a field expedition to study the Kiowa in Oklahoma during the summer of 1935. Sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation-funded Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe and led by Columbia University professor Alexander Lesser, Richardson joined four other graduate students on the expedition: Weston La Barre (Yale), Donald Collier (University of Chicago), William Bascom (Northwestern), and Bernard Mishkin (Columbia). She returned to Berkeley for two more years of graduate work and then headed to Columbia University where she wrote her dissertation on Kiowa law under Ruth Benedict. The dissertation was published in 1940 as "Law and Status Among the Kiowa Indians" in the Monographs of the American Ethnological Society, no. 1.
Richardson joined psychologist Abraham Maslow as a research assistant in 1938 to study the Blackfoot Indians. There she met another psychologist, Lucien M. Hanks, Jr., whom she subsequently married. The Hanks had three children and lived their lives at Bennington College in Vermont, and in Thailand, the subject of the remainder of Jane Richardson Hanks' published work. She resides in Bennington, Vermont.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence, field notes (including sound recordings of Kiowa songs), and writings of Jane Richardson Hanks, mainly documenting her 1935 graduate ethnological field work with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma, but also a Kiowa Pow Wow in 1968. Also field notes, writings, and correspondence of Alexander Lesser, Weston LaBarre, Donald Colllier, William Bascom, and Bernard Mishkin; and slides and motion pictures of the 1968 Pow Wow.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1935-1968. Box(es) 1
- Series 2: Field Work, 1935-1968. Box(es) 1-6
- Series 3: Writings, 1935-ca. 1940. Box(es) 7
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Bascom, William Russell, 1912-
- Collier, Donald, 1911-
- Cozad, Bilo
- Hanks, Jane Richardson, 1908-
- La Barre, Weston, 1911-
- Lesser, Alexander, 1902-
- Mishkin, Bernard, 1913-
- Monroe Hunting Horse
- Old Man Horse
- Stumbling Bear
- White Horse
Subjects
- Anthropologists-Oklahoma
- Ethnologists-Oklahoma
- Graduate students-Oklahoma
- Indians of North America-Oklahoma-Music
- Indians of North America-Study and teaching-Oklahoma
- Kiowa Indians-Music
- Kiowa Indians-Study and teaching
- Manuscripts, American--Oklahoma
- Powwows-Oklahoma
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Container List
Series 1: Correspondence, 1935-1968 |
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| Includes letters from fellow graduate students, and other correspondence relating specifically to Hanks' Kiowa work. Correspondents include David Paddly, William Bascom, Donald Collier, Alexander Lesser, David Elbin, John Harrington, and Al and Pam Waters. There are also excerpts from Hank's personal correspondence which provide a number of insights into her work and her Kiowa informants. | |||||||||||
| Arranged with outgoing letters (1935) preceding incoming (1936-1968). | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Outgoing, 1935, 1968 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Incoming - Fellow Graduate Students, 1936-1945 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Incoming - Others, 1938-1968 | |||||||||
Series 2: Field Work, 1935-1968 |
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| 1935 field work files include notebooks containing Hanks' interviews and analysis of Kiowa Indian social conditions, legal matters, and songs; reel-to-reel recordings of Kiowa songs performed by White Horse, Old Man Horse, Monroe Hunting Horse, Bilo Cozad, and Stumbling Bear (copies made from original wax cylinders now housed in the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University); field notes of the five graduate students involved in the Kiowa project combined and organized by Dr. Lesser under specific ethnographic themes; and field notes submitted to Lesser by Hanks, Bascom, La Barre, and Mishkin. There are also slides and motion pictures taken by Hanks at a 1968 Kiowa Pow Wow. | |||||||||||
| Arranged by type of material: field notes, recorded songs, slides, motion pictures (with copies on videotape), and genealogy index cards. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Notebooks I-IV, 1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Notebooks V-VIII, 1935 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Notebooks-Photocopies of Selected Portions from Notebooks V, VII, VIII (recordings of songs) | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Notes Based on Notebook VII, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 8 | Song Transcripts and Analyses-Original and Corrected, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 9 | Song Transcripts, Interviews-Photocopies of Monroe Hunting Horse Interview and Song Texts in Folder 8 | |||||||||
| 2 | 10 | Song Transcripts, Interviews and Analyses with Notes / Drawings of Texts in Folders 8 and 9 | |||||||||
| 2 | 11 | Phonetic Systems and Song Analysis-Notes | |||||||||
| 2 | 12 | Genograms | |||||||||
| 2 | 13 | Field Notes Summaries-Selected Topics, June 27-Aug. 12, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 14 | Field Notes Summaries-Selected Topics, Aug. 14-Aug. 28, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 15 | Field Notes-Cut and Paste Fragments | |||||||||
| 2 | 16 | Field Notes-Gueton, Jimmy (Informant)-Response Summary | |||||||||
| 2 | 17 | Lesser, Alexander-Assignments to Team and Jane Richardson, and Summaries, 1935 | |||||||||
| 2 | 18-19 | Lesser, Alexander-Combined Graduate Student Field Notes - Thematically Arranged | |||||||||
| 3 | 20-23 | Lesser, Alexander-Combined Graduate Student Field Notes - Thematically Arranged, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 24 | Lesser, Alexander-Combined Graduate Student Field Notes - Miscellaneous Fragments, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 25 | Notes Submitted to Lesser-Richardson, Jane, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 26 | Notes Submitted to Lesser-Bascom, William, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 27 | Notes Submitted to Lesser-La Barre, Weston, 1935 | |||||||||
| 3 | 28 | Notes Submitted to Lesser-Mishkin, Bernard, 1935 | |||||||||
| 4 | 29 | Songs-Reel-to-Reel Recordings, 401/Pre54-031-F | |||||||||
| 4 | 30 | Songs-Reel-to-Reel Recordings, 402/Pre54-031-F | |||||||||
| 4 | 31 | Songs-Reel-to-Reel Recordings, 403/Pre54-031-F | |||||||||
| 4 | 32 | Songs-Reel-to-Reel Recordings, 404/Pre54-031-F | |||||||||
| 4 | 33 | Songs-Reel-to-Reel Recordings, 405/Pre54-031-F | |||||||||
| 5 | 34 | Slides-Pow Wow, July, 1968 | |||||||||
| 5 | 35 | Motion Pictures-Pow Wow (4 reels), July, 1968 | |||||||||
| 5 | 36 | Motion Pictures-Pow Wow-Video Transfer | |||||||||
| 6 | -- | Genealogy Index Cards, 1935 | |||||||||
Series 3: Writings, 1935-ca. 1940 |
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| Includes Hanks' Kiowa law thesis notes, outlines, and title page; a paper on the Kiowa by Hanks, miscellaneous notes, and writings of Donald Collier and Bernard Mishkin. Arranged with Hank's writings preceding the writings of others. | |||||||||||
| Arranged with Hank's writings preceding the writings of others. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 7 | 37 | Outline, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 38 | Outline, Notes, and Drafts of Master's Thesis, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 39 | Notes for Thesis on Kiowa Law, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 40 | Papers-Economics and Society; The Kiowa of Oklahoma (with comments by R. Lowie) | |||||||||
| 7 | 41 | Published dissertation, "Law and Status Among the Kiowa Indians", American Ethnographic Society, Monograph No. 1 - Title Page and Table of Contents, 1940 | |||||||||
| 7 | 42 | Secondary Source Research, Notes, and Fragments | |||||||||
| 7 | 43 | Writings-Collier, Donald | |||||||||
| 7 | 44 | Writings-Mishkin, Bernard, 1935 | |||||||||