- Local call number
- nm67g000s000b001f0001
- Media type
- Text
- Creator
- Hanks, James J.
- Title
- Accounts Book - Kaiparowitz Plateau Expedition, 1928.
- Original creation date
- 1928
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Hanks, James J.
- Content Summary
- Book contains detailed accounts for the 1928 Kaiparowitz Plateau Expedition, broken down by disbursement category, specific item, daily record, and final accounting per expedition member. Disbursement categories are automobile, gas and oil, horses, food, equipment, meals,and miscellaneous, all broken down by item and date. Some of the more interesting items listed include payments to Indian guides, and expenses for ceremonials, song books, and unspecified entertainment. Other members of the expedition included Clyde Kluckhohn (leader), Nelson Hagan, Lauriston Sharp, and William Gernon.
- Biography/History
- During 1927 and 1928, Clyde Kluckhohn led several of his young college friends on expeditions to explore the area around Wild Horse Mesa in the Navajo Indian Reservation. He later described the groups' adventures in a book entitled Beyond the Rainbow. James Judge Hanks, who acted as the primary photographer, was a member of both expeditions. The James J. Hanks Collection provides a personal and local glimpse of contemporary reports of these expeditions, including such examples as a colorful account by Hanks of a meal shared on the trail with a Navajo family, and a detailed account book containing fascinating information about expedition expenditures. Other highlights of the collection include descriptions of Hanks' expedition photographs, maps of the area (one with the route traveled marked on it by hand), Hanks' own sketched maps of the route, and a series of letters from Hanks to his mother providing a uniquely personal picture of the expedition and many of its most exciting moments.
- Finding Aid
- http://aao.lib.asu.edu/ViewRecordFrame.jsp?record=0000000846
- Subjects
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Account books
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Camping--Equipment and supplies
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Travel costs
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Ethnological expeditions--Southwest, New
- People
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Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960
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Sharp, Lauriston
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Gernon, William
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Hagan, Nelson
- Organizations
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Garwood Foundation
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Kaiparowitz Plateau Reconnaissance Expedition
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