"Broken Circle: The Search for Navajo Origins," Farmer, 1978
File — Box: 2, Folder: 1-4
Scope and Contents
Typed and handwritten manuscript. Dedication to Richard Fowler Van Valkenburgh. "The Problem" is biographical: 1929 first visit; l935 field work in ethnobotany and Navajo culture; Navajo informants Wide Hat at Canyon de Chelly, Mary Brown (weaver), Old Scout and an "Old Man" (survivor of the Long Walk to Fort Sumner in l864); Steamboat Canyon to observe farming practices "attend sings and explore for evidence of earlier occupation." Returned late l935 to do field work in eastern California and into Nevada with parties from the Desert Laboratory of the Southwest Museum (William Campbell and Malcolm Rogers). Charles Amsden – more on Navajo. Studied with Byron Cummings at U of A Tucson. 1937 survey with Richard Van Valkenburgh near Counselor’s Trading Post (between Aztec and Cuba), Fort Defiance (Three Turkey House), to Aztec etc. "We climbed El Huerfano Mesa on June 26, 1938. … This was one of the most important of Navajo sacred places, "Mountain Around Which Moving Was Done" where First woman of Navajo myth had lived." Returned after WW II to work on Navajo lands claim project; Towers; Rock Art; Bears; Projectile Points; Ceramics; Search in the North; Beringia and Beyond; Eurasian Origins; Circulpolar Tradition; Navajo; Search for Hypothesis
Dates
- 1978
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 5 boxes (5 cu. ft.), plus 1 extra oversized folder
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Farmer, Malcolm F. (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451