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Sixty-six pages comprise copies of Margaret Mead's typed or written field notes about the Mundugumor people of New Guinea from mid-October to mid-December 1932. There are numerous terms in indigenous text. The notes are on various topics, but kinship makes up a large part. These copies are accompanied by a hand-written note that reads, 'Mundugu Duplicates - Xeroxed for Levy Straus [sic; apparent reference to Claude Levi-Strauss] but never sent be... Sixty-six pages comprise copies of Margaret Mead's typed or written field notes about the Mundugumor people of New Guinea from mid-October to mid-December 1932. There are numerous terms in indigenous text. The notes are on various topics, but kinship makes up a large part. These copies are accompanied by a hand-written note that reads, 'Mundugu Duplicates - Xeroxed for Levy Straus [sic; apparent reference to Claude Levi-Strauss] but never sent because he said he didn't need them. (Sept. 11, 1973)' That note includes the initials 'SS' at the top and the notation 'File in Dup. Bin please' at the bottom Show more Show less

Handwritten, abbreviated tree of the present Bemba royal house showing descent through the female line in red, chieftanships shown in capitals. Copy mailed to P.E. Hall, Esq.

Field Note. Date: 26.x.40. This typewritten fieldwork file contains information about agriculture and the cultural customs involved when men give gardens to their wives or children. These customs include who owns the garden and the food produced once given, who can sell the food, where food from the garden can be stored, how it will be prepared, and the size of the garden in relation to the status of the wife to whom it is given.

Typewritten notes, with handwritten notations, titled 'Arapesh 1931-2: Kinship, Social Organization, Economic Relationships' discuss kinship roles and relative functions; payments for blood; attitudes toward the past; use of personal names; names for pigs; kinship terminology; marriage; gens; and ancestral spirits.