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Extensive archival holdings complement the artifact collections and comprise an unparalleled resource for research on Native American cultures. Manuscripts, photographs, field notes, sound recordings and other documents provide a rich body of material for studies in archaeology, ethnography, culture history, linguistics, material culture, rock art, and more.
The John P. Harrington Collection
- 300 microfilm reels of California and Great Basin ethnographic and linguistic field notes, photographs, and correspondence.
- Additional original materials not duplicated in the Smithsonian’s holdings include approximately 1000 pages of ethnographic and linguistic field notes, 4500 letters, 1185 photographs, 896 negatives, and numerous sound recordings.
- Collections also document Harrington’s life before and after his career with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Other Linguistic Materials
- California Indian linguistic manuscripts and Chumash lexical files of Madison S. Beeler and Richard Applegate (Professors of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley).
Field Note Archives
- Archaeological field notes and photographs by David Banks Rogers and Phil Orr provide context for the extensive artifact collection.
- Journals of Stephen Bowers, early collector of Chumash
 archaeological material, also include the earliest known documentation of Chumash rock art.
- Records of California Indian artifacts held in European museums were compiled by Robert Heizer, Travis Hudson, and Thomas Blackburn.
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