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The Papers of John P. Harrington
at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
JOHN R. JOHNSON, AMY MILLER, AND LINDA AGREN
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Abstract. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is the repository
for a small but significant portion of the unpublished papers and personal
library of John Peabody Harrington. The ethnographic and linguistic papers,
correspondence, and photographs in the Museum’s collection are being organized according to the format used by the National Anthropological Archives.
Summaries of these components of the collection elucidate Harrington's research interests, field methods, and personal history.
Introduction
From 1981 to 1983, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History became a
repository for several caches of John P. Harrington’s papers that belonged to
his daughter, Awona Harrington, and her estate. The collection includes
original field notes, research notes, drafts of published and unpublished
manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, transcripts and photostats of
archival material, books, personal possessions, and other miscellaneous items.
Most of this material came to the Museum too late to be included in the
microfilming project undertaken by the Smithsonian Institution (Harrington
1981-91).
A detailed cataloging of the Harrington collection at the Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History began in fall 1991 in response to the increasing
interest in Harrington’s career and contributions as well as to the growing
recognition that portions of his field notes are missing from the collection
housed at the National Anthropological Archives. The authors have worked
over the past year to inventory and organize those portions of the collection
likely to be of most interest to visiting researchers. Enough of the Harrington
collection has now been inventoried so that a preliminary report describing the
scope of the collection can be presented.
History of the collection
The first cache of Harrington’s notes to come to the attention of the Museum
staff was stored by his nephew Arthur in the family home in Simi Valley.
Arlene Benson reported the material’s existence. She lived across the street
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