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Papers of William Neil Smith

1829 to 1975
1944 to 1970
MS 316
Digital Collection
Collection Guide

Includes biographical information, correspondence, writings, publications, field notebooks, field research data sheets, subject files, bibliography cards, photographs, negatives, color slides, motion picture film, and sound recordings, chiefly from 1944-1970, of William Neil Smith, relating to his anthropological field work amongst the Seri Indians of Tiburon Island and the northwest coast of Sonora, Mexico.

Included materials:
Audio Recordings
Film
Photographs
Manuscript
Subject Area:
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
Mexican
Collection Area:
Borderlands

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