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Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1914-1960
(Bulk: 1914-1915)
Creator:
Mason, John Alden, 1885-1967
Extent: 0.3 linear foot
J. Alden Mason, noted archaeological anthropologist and linguist and curator of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology, conducted ethnographic and archaeological research in Puerto Rico from 1914 to 1915. Holdings include field
notebooks, most notably phonetic recordings of Puerto Rican folklore from Utuado, San German, Loiza, Copa, and Coamo. Notable
items include a draft of the manuscript "Painted Cave Petroglyphs in Puerto Rico" from 1939 and correspondence regarding wax
cylinder recordings. Included also are letters from Mason to his daughter, Kathy, and several translated tales sent to her.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1949-2003
(Bulk: 1962-1965)
Creator:
Elder, Jacob D., 1913-2003
Extent: 5 linear feet
Born in Trinidad in 1913, Jacob Elder was a primary school tescher and community development officer before attending Penn
to study for his doctorate in folklore. Elder specialized in the traditional music of Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to
his scholarly studies, Elder worked to develop the Steel Band and song competitions in his native land to encourage the restless
youth to find purpose and fulfillment. Manuscript holdings include approximately two linear feet of cultural material, research,
working manuscript and disertation, song, lyric and interview transcriptions, folktales, stories and scripts. The West Indies
Recordings contain approximately 160 hours of recorded sound collected in Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, and St. Vincent between
1959-1965, during Elder’s dissertation fieldwork.
Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]
1915-1991
(Bulk: 1915)
Creator:
Owen, Mary
Extent: 05 linear foot
The Mary Owen Guatemalan Folktale collection consists of two folders of folktales gathered by Mary Owen at the request of
her friend George Byron Gordon, Director of the Free Museum of Science and Art, later the Penn Museum. Mary Owens transcribed
seventeen folktales with notes and explanations from her valuable years of experience living in the Alta Verapaz region. Mary
Owen's folktales were published in 1938 as a children's book co-authored by Marie Hendrick Jessup and Leslie Bird Simpson.
Her work is also recognized in the book, "Maya Folktales from the Alta Verapaz", edited by Elin C. Danien.
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