Hester A. Davis Papers Inventory (#5044)
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
- Processed by
- Bridget T. Lerette
- Date Completed
- January 2002
- Encoded by
- Bridget T. Lerette
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Descriptive Summary Including Abstract
- Title
- Hester A. Davis Papers (#5044) 1954-1964
- Creator
- Davis, Hester A., 1930- .
- Extent
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- About 15 items (0.5 linear feet)
- Repository
- Southern Historical Collection
- Abstract
- 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. The collection includes 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.
Administrative Information
- Usage Restrictions
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Terms
- 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.
Biographical Note
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.
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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.
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Description
Papers,1954-1964.
About 15 items.
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.
Folder
1
Field journals, 1954-1956
Folder
2
Field project report, 6 February 1955
Folder
3
Statement of the projects of the Cherokee Historical Association, Inc., 1954
Folder
4
Survey of a Cherokee Indian community, 14 May 1955
Folder
5-9
Term papers: Haverford College, January-February 1955
Folder
10
Other materials, 1956-1964
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Related Collection
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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).