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Provenance

Received from Hester A. Davis of Fayetteville, Ark., in December 2000 (Acc. 98810).

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• Anthropologists--North Carolina.
• Anthropology--Research--North Carolina.
• Anthropology--Study and teaching (Higher)--North Carolina.
• Cherokee (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Cherokee Indian Reservation (N.C.).
• Cherokee Indians--Economic conditions.
• Cherokee Indians--Education.
• Cherokee Indians--Social conditions.
• Cherokee Indians--Social life and customs.
• Davis, Hester A., 1930-
• Indians of North America--North Carolina.
• Women graduate students--North Carolina.

• Hester A. Davis and John L. Grant Collection (Collection 12), North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (including some photographs that were transferred from the Hester A. Davis Papers).

Hester A. Davis was a graduate student at Haverford College in 1954 and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 1955-1956. Along with other anthropology graduate students, Davis studied life on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in western North Carolina. She wrote her masters thesis, "Social Interaction and Kinship in Big Cove Community, Cherokee, N.C.," based on this field work.

Papers, 1954-1964, that are chiefly field work notes, reports, and other materials from research conducted by Hester A. Davis and Haverford College students at the Big Cove community on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in Cherokee, N.C. Included are descriptions of the community's physical environment, demographics, social structure, economy, education, assistance programs, and everyday life.