US-RiBrHMA-msJLG Guide to the J. Louis Giddings Collection1937-1967 (bulk 1956-1964) Finding aid prepared by Anthony M. Belz. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

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English 19 linear feet (bulk 1956-1964) 1937-1967 The collection encompasses the years 1937-1967 and consists primarily of a single series of ten boxes of subject files. Additional material includes numerous newspaper clippings, correspondence, printed material, press releases, photographs, slides, glass plate negatives and films. English, 1 item in Dutch, 1 item in Swiss Standard German Giddings, James Louis Giddings (J. Louis) Collection Biographical Note

J. Louis Giddings (1909-1964)

James Louis Giddings, Jr., a prominent Arctic archaeologist and pioneer of dendrochronology was born in Caldwell, Texas on April 10, 1909 to James Louis Giddings (1879-1955) and Maude Matthews (1881-1962). From 1927 until 1930, Giddings attended Rice University in Houston, Texas where he studied English and Biology. After enrolling in a summer course at University of Colorado and inspired by the beauty of the Rocky Mountains, he moved to Colorado for a year before deciding to relocate to Alaska and enrolling at Alaska College (now University of Alaska, Fairbanks). In 1932, Giddings received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and was then employed as an assistant thawing engineer with the Fairbanks Exploration Department for the U.S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Company from 1932 until 1937. As he observed the mining equipment excavating silt, he became curious as to whether or not it would be possible to date the frozen spruce trees that came from the soil. This curiosity ultimately led him to the University of Arizona and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, which was established by the astronomer, A.E. Douglass.

In 1938, Giddings was hired as a Research Associate studying tree-ring dating at the University of Alaska and the same year published his first paper in the Tree-Ring Bulletin. Tree-Ring dating, or dendrochronology, examines patterns of yearly tree ring growth to establish datable sequences of tree rings which can then be correlated to remains of ancient wood found in archaeological sites, providing a firm and reliable dating technique. An interest in Kobuk River cultures began in the winter of 1934-1935, when he used his last amount of savings to live in an Inupiat village. It wasn’t until Giddings began studying dendrochronology that he was provided with the opportunity to participate in his first archaeological excavation in 1939, at Point Hope, Alaska, a small peninsula in the Chukchi Sea. Two Arctic archaeologists, Froelich Rainey and Helge Larsen who were investigating the origins of the Ipiutak culture, invited him to join the expedition to Point Hope. It was during this time that Giddings realized dendrochronology could be applied to dating early Alaskan archaeological sites. In 1940, using wooden artifacts from Kobuk River sites, he became the first ever to use this new dating technique in the Arctic.

Giddings continued to explore the Kobuk River region near Kotzebue Sound with Rainey and Larsen in 1940 and 1941, as well as St. Lawrence Island on his own. Also in 1940, Giddings was promoted to Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska. Recognizing the potential of applying tree-ring dating techniques to archaeological sites, and drawn to the field of archaeology by Rainey and Larsen, Giddings pursued his Master of Arts degree in Anthropology from the University of Arizona, which he received in 1941. During World War II, Giddings served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve in the South Pacific from June 15, 1943 until January 1, 1946. Upon returning from wartime duty, Giddings took the summer of 1946 to canoe down the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territory of Canada with his wife, Ruth Warner Giddings (m. 1943) to collect samples from the subarctic tree line. He resumed excavations in 1947 at Cape Denbigh in Norton Sound where he first identified a previously unknown Paleo-Eskimo culture in Alaska, which he named the Denbigh Flint Complex. These types of artifacts are part of a broader Arctic Tool Tradition that is found throughout Paleolithic arctic cultures from Russia to Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Giddings continued to work in Cape Denbigh until 1952.

In 1949, he left his position at University of Alaska and was hired as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and assistant curator of the American section at the University of Pennsylvania museum. He completed his PhD in 1951, and his dissertation was entitled, “The Arctic Woodland Culture of the Kobuk River” which was published as a monograph in 1952. In 1953, Giddings spent the field season investigating the limits of the arctic coniferous tree line in the western part of Hudson Bay, Canada beginning in northeastern Manitoba, and continuing into the Northwest Territories. (part of which is now the territory of Nunavut).

In 1956, Giddings left the University of Pennsylvania and was named assistant professor of sociology and the first director of the Haffenreffer Museum of the American Indian at Brown University. Giddings established the newly named Haffenreffer Museum, as a teaching and research center and a museum for the public. The same year, Giddings began investigating a geological formation known as beach ridges in Kotzebue Sound at Cape Prince of Wales, Cape Espenberg and most notably, Cape Krusenstern. This beach ridge archaeology provided a horizontal stratigraphy of past geologic beach lines extending back thousands of years. Giddings identified 114 such beach ridges extending miles inland at Cape Krusenstern. These ancient beach ridges provided a backward timeline; each successive beach ridge excavation uncovered representations of all known prehistoric arctic cultures in Northern Alaska.

In 1959, Giddings was promoted to full professor of anthropology at Brown, formally establishing the anthropology department at the university. In 1960, Giddings excavated the Battle Rock site, near Cape Krusenstern in the Middle Kobuk River Region. In 1961, he returned to the Onion Portage on the Kobuk River, an inlet river site which is a seasonal caribou crossing. Giddings wished to investigate whether or not the microblade and cores he had excavated from House 1 in 1941 belonged to the Denbigh Flint Complex of the Small Arctic Tool Tradition. What he ultimately discovered beneath the last sterile layer of that house confirmed his suspicion that the Denbigh Flint Complex culture did indeed exist there.

The Onion Portage site was a remarkable discovery in the understanding of the entire prehistory of the arctic region, eventually revealing more than 30 stratigraphic layers and 7 distinctive cultural bands, at a depth of nearly five and one half meters. The site, which is considered the most important archaeological site in the arctic, was declared a National Historic Landmark in June 1978, as The Onion Portage Archaeological District. After taking a sabbatical in Denmark at the National Museum of Copenhagen, in 1962 and half of 1963, working with specialists on Arctic sites such as Sarqaq in Greenland, Giddings then returned to continue to excavate Onion Portage in the summers of 1963 and 1964. In 1964, Giddings published a seminal monograph on Arctic archaeology, titled, “The Archaeology of Cape Denbigh.”

On November 3, 1964, Giddings was involved in a multiple car accident traveling from Bristol, Rhode Island to Providence which resulted in serious, but not life threatening injuries. Unfortunately while recuperating, Giddings suffered from thrombosis and died on December 9, 1964 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In 1966, the Department of the Interior honored Giddings, “the leading Alaskan archaeologist at the time of his death” by a naming a 10,180-foot Alaskan peak, Mount Giddings. In 1972, the Brown University anthropology department parted amicably from the sociology department and the building was named Giddings House. Giddings' memoir, Ancient Men of the Arctic was published posthumously in 1967.

References:

Collins, H. B. “James Louis Giddings (1909-1964).” Arctic 18.1 (1965): 66-67.

Giddings, J. Louis. Ancient Men of the Arctic. New York: Knopf, 1967.

Larsen, H. “James Louis Giddings, Jr.” American Antiquity. 31.3 Part 1 (1965): 398-401.

Mitchell, M. “Giddings, James Louis.” Encyclopedia Brunoniana. Providence, RI: Brown University Library, 1993.

Rainey, F. G. “J. Louis Giddings (1909-1964).” American Anthropologist, New Series. 67.6, Part 1. (1965): 1503-1507.

(10 December 1964). Dr. Giddings dies at 55 after crash. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p.

(10 December 1964). Dr. Giddings, anthropology professor at Brown, dies. Providence Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 28.

Collection information

Series arranged alphabetically, chronologically, by collection number and type of materials.

Collection is arranged into six series and one subseries:

Series 1. Subject Files Series 2. Newspaper Clippings Series 3. Correspondence Series 4. Printed Material Subseries 4. Press Releases Series 5. Photographs, Slides and Glass Negatives Series 6 Films

A pioneer of dendrochronology and a preeminent Arctic archaeologist, J. Louis Giddings was a prolific writer, publishing over 70 articles in academic journals and several seminal books on Arctic cultures and archaeology in his nearly 30 year career. The collection encompasses the years from 1937 until 1967, with the bulk of the material ranging from 1956 to 1964. It includes materials such as business records related to his numerous archaeological expeditions to Alaska, expense reports, invoices purchase orders, field notes, grant applications, biographical notes, book review manuscripts, conference proceedings and early business records of the Haffenreffer Museum of the American Indian. Also included in this collection are correspondence, newspaper clippings, printed material, photographs and slides, and films. Additional materials were collected by his wife, Ruth (Bets) Warner Giddings and represent continued work on Giddings’ archaeological sites in Alaska by his colleagues after his untimely death in December 1964.

All responsible investigators shall have access to the collection for legitimate research and study, subject to procedures necessary to safeguard the objects and to restrictions required by limitations of normal operating hours, exhibition requirements, available study space and facilities, and the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology staff time.

Costs of reproducing documentary materials and photographs may be charged to investigators. No distinctions in such charges shall be made on the basis of the value or rarity of the original materials. Methods of reproduction may be limited if necessary to protect the originals from possible damage.

J. Louis Giddings Collection. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. Bristol, Rhode Island.

Administrative information

Materials prior to 1964 were collected by J. Louis Giddings and retained by the Haffenreffer Museum of the American Indian upon his death in December 1964. Materials dated 1965 and later were collected by Ruth Warner Giddings who was named curator of the museum after her husband’s death.

Series I, Subject Files inventory described and created by Ann McMullen, March 1990. Series II through IVb were digitized by Rodney Gerry, August-October 2013. Series VI inventory created by Rodney Gerry, June 2014 Collection arranged and described by Anthony M. Belz, February 2014; revised June 2014.

Additional information

Articles found in New York Times Article Archives, Pembroke College Record and the Brown University Daily Herald, digitized and downloaded; not in our collections. Available upon request in electronic format (.pdf).

(1956, April 22). Museum head named at Brown. Special to the New York Times. New York. n.p.

(1961, October 30). A grim fight for life is shown in old ruins. New York Times. New York. n.p.

Fenton, John H. (1967, January 7). 800 B.C. Artifact find in Alaska aids theory of 2-Continent link. New York Times. New York. n.p.

(1956, January 10). Brown receives historical home site of Indian king, Philip. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 3.

(1956, April 13). Official notes. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 3.

(1956, April 20). Brown adds anthropology curriculum. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1956, October 2). Museum of Indian relics opens weekly. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 3.

Larsen, Inger. (1956, October 19). Discovery of ancient house changes migration theories. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1956, December 7). Club notes. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 4.

(1957, March 15). Professors, Anglican monk are guests at coffee hour. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1957, April 30). Giddings, Creed, Dillon teach graduate courses. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 4.

(1957, September 20). Woolley, West house capture prizes at freshman outing with originality, spirit. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 3.

(1957, December 10). Question club holds third coffee hour. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

Conner, Carol. (1958, January 10). Students hear chapel, paint Indian exhibit. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 2,4.

(1958, April 29). Prof. J.L. Giddings represents U.S. at circum-polar conference. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 4.

(1958, September 19). Freshman class enjoys good weather; houses compete at annual A.A. picnic. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 2.

(1959, December 11). Question club sponsors coffee hour with faculty. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 2.

(1960, January 13). Brown faculty members attend Chicago meetings. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 6.

(1960, March 8). Sleepy Pembrokers escape Haffenreffer estate’s cabin fire. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 4.

MacIntosh, Judy. (1960, September 23). Excursion taken by adventurous frosh results in honors, but strictly for fun. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 2.

(1961, March 3). Luders, Feldman, Giddings star on television show. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 3.

(1961, October 27). Brown professor Louis Giddings makes vital archaeological discovery in Arctic. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1961, October 31). Dr. Louis Giddings makes new discoveries; sheds light on origin of man in America. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p.3.

(1962, April 24). Giddings, Heath, and Kopytoff give Brown faculty lectures. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 4.

(1963, February 12). Recent research of Brown anthropologists stimulates interest in a growing department. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1963, March 22). Dugdale will supervise Brown University press. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1963, October 11). Publishing program heralds Brown’s bicentennial year. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 2.

(1963, October 24.) Parents day will feature concert, lectures, buffet. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1964, December 11). Dr. J. Louis Giddings dies; auto accident proves fatal. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1965, January 15). Giddings projects will be continued by Penn’s Rainey. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

(1966, February 4). Alaskan peak named for Brown professor. Pembroke Record. Pembroke College. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 1.

University of Alaska. Elmer E. Rasmuson Library Alaska & Polar Regions Collections. Typescript carbon copy of Giddings Dissertation, The Arctic Woodland Culture of the Kobuk River w/photographs.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Buried wood from Fairbanks, Alaska." Tree-Ring Bulletin 4 (1938): 3-5.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Recent tree-ring work in Alaska." Tree-Ring Bulletin 5 (1938): 16.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The Application of Tree-Ring Dates to Arctic Sites." Tree-Ring Bulletin 7.2 (1940): 10-14.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Dendrochronology in Northern Alaska." University of Alaska Bulletin 12.1 (1941): 4.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Rock paintings in Central Alaska." American Antiquity 7 (1941): 69-70.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Ethnographic notes, Kobuk River Region, Alaska." The Kiva 6 (1941): 25-28.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Dated sites on the Kobuk River." Tree-Ring Bulletin 9 (1942): 1.

Giddings, J. Louis. "A plan for mapping Arctic Sea currents." The Geographic Review 33 (1943): 326.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Some climatic aspects of tree growth in Alaska." Tree-Ring Bulletin 9 (1943): 4.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Dated Eskimo Ruins of an Inland Zone." American Antiquity 10.2 (1944): 113-134.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Mackenzie River Delta chronology." Tree-Ring Bulletin 13 (1947): 26-29.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Chronology of the Kobuk-Kotzebue Sites." Tree-Ring Bulletin 14.4 (1948): n.p..

Giddings, J. Louis. "Diagonal flaking from Kotzebue, Alaska." American Antiquity 14 (1948): 127.

Giddings, J. Louis, and Ivar Skarland. "Flint stations in Central Alaska." American Antiquity 14.2 (1948): 116-120.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Early flint horizons on the North Bering sea coast." Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Series II 39 (1949): 85-90.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Early Man on the Bering Sea coast." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Series II. 13.1 (1950): 18-21.

Giddings, J. Louis. "New light on Early Man in Alaska." Bulletin of Philadelphia Anthropological Society 3.2 (1950): 2-4.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Traces of Early Man on the North Bering Sea coast." Bulletin, University Museum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1950. 3-13.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The Denbigh Flint Complex." American Antiquity 16.3 (1951): 193-203.

Giddings, J. Louis. "(review) Larsen & Rainey's ‘Ipiutak and the Arctic Whale Hunting Culture’." American Antiquity 17.2 (1951): 158-60.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Problems of Early Man in Alaska." National Research Council Bulletin. 122 (1951): 50.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The forest edge of Norton Bay, Alaska." Tree-Ring Bulletin 18.1 (1951): 2-6.

Giddings, J. Louis. “The Museum of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks.” Museum. 4.2 (1951): 115-117.

Giddings, J. Louis. The Arctic woodland culture of the Kobuk River. Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania Museum Monograph no. 8, 1952.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Ancient Bering Strait and population spread." Science in Alaska. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Institute of North America, 1952. 85.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Driftwood and Problems of Arctic Sea Currents." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 96.2 (1952): 129-142.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Observations on the "Eskimo Type" of kinship and social structure." Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska. Fairbanks: University of Alaska, 1952. 5-10.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Chairman's Remarks Papers of the 1st Alaskan Science Conference, Science in Alaska 1950." National Research Council Bulletin 122 (1952): 42-43.

Giddings, J. Louis. "A holiday with the Padlimiut." Bulletin of the Philadelphia Anthropological Society 7 (1953): 1.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Yukon River spruce growth." Tree-Ring Bulletin 20.1 (1953): 2-5.

Giddings, J. Louis, and David M. Hopkins. "Geological background of the Iyaltayet archaeological site, Cape Denbigh, Alaska." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 121.11 (1953): n.p..

Giddings, J. Louis. "(review of) T.L. Smiley's ‘A summary of tree-ring dates from some South-western archaeological sites’." American Antiquity 18 (1953): 282.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Early Man in the Arctic." Scientific American 190.6 (1954): 82-88.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Tree-Ring Dating in the American Arctic." Tree-Ring Bulletin 20.3 & 4 (1954): 23-25.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The Denbigh Flint complex is not yet dated." American Antiquity 20.4 (1955): 375-376.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The Burin Spall Artifact." Arctic 9.4 (1956): 229-237.

Giddings, J. Louis. "A Flint Site in Northernmost Manitoba." American Antiquity 11.3 (1956): 255-268.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Pillows" and other rare flints." Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 4.2 (1956): 117-120.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Forest eskimos: an ethnographic sketch of the Kobuk River People in the 1880's." University Museum Bulletin XX Number 2. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania , 1956. 1-61.

Giddings, J. Louis. "(review of) R. Heizer's ‘Archaeology of the Uyak site, Kodiak Island’." American Anthropologist 59.2 (1957): 371-372.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The tenuous Beaufort Sea archaeology." The Proceedings of the Fifth Alaskan Science Conference. Fairbanks: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Alaska Division, 1957. 94-99.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Round houses in the Western Arctic." American Antiquity 23.2 (1957): 121-135.

Giddings, J. Louis . The results of a field trip to Eschscholtz Bay, Alaska. Montreal, Quebec : Arctic Institute of North America, 1957.

Giddings, J. Louis. The Indian and Roger Williams. Providence, Rhode Island: Typescript Manuscript (Carbon Copy), 1957.

Giddings, J. Louis. Archaeological and physiographic investigations in the Kotzebue Sound. Providence, R.I.: Brown University, 1958.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Archaeological studies of Kotzebue Sound, Alaska." Year Book of the American Philosophical Society, 1959. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1959. 513-514.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The Archaeology of the Bering Strait." Current Anthropology 1.2 (1960): 121-138.

Giddings, J. Louis. "A view of archaeology about Bering Strait." Acta Arctica 12 (1960): 27-33.

Giddings, J. Louis. "The archaeology of Bering Strait." Bobbs-Merril Reprint Series in the Social Sciences, A297. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1960. 121-138.

Giddings, J. Louis. "First traces of man in the Arctic." Natural History 60.9 (1960): 10-19.

Giddings, J. Louis. Kobuk River people. Fairbanks: Studies of Northern People: Dept. of Anthropology and Geography, University of Alaska, 1961.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Archaeology at Cape Krusenstern." Science in Alaska 12 (1961): 6.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Cultural continuities of Eskimos." American Antiquity 27.2 (1961): 155-173.

Giddings, J. Louis . "(review of) W.A. Davis ‘Archaeological investigations of inland and coastal sites of the Katmai Monument, Alaska’." American Antiquity 27.1 (1961): 126.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Development of tree-ring dating as an archaeological aid." Tree Growth. New York: Ronald Press, 1962. 119.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Seven Discoveries of the Bering Strait." Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 106.2 (1962): 89-93.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Side-Notched Points Near Bering Strait." Prehistoric Cultural Relations Between the Arctic and Temperate Zones of North America 11. Arctic Institute of North America Technical Paper (1962): 35-38.

Giddings, J. Louis, and Hans-Georg Bandi. "Eskimo-archaologische Strandwalluntersuchungen auf Kap Krusenstern Nordwest-Alaska." Germania 40.1 (1962): 1-21.

Giddings, J. Louis. Alaska Aboriginal Culture. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 1962.

Giddings, J. Louis, and G.W. Moore. "Record of 5000 years of arctic wind direction recorded by Alaskan beach ridges." Geological Society of America Special Paper 68 (1962): 232.

Giddings, J. Louis. "(review of) S.I. Rudenko's "The ancient culture of the Bering Sea and the Eskimo problem"." Ethnohistory 9 (1962): 209.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Eskimos and old shorelines." American Scholar 31.4 (1962): 585-594.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Onion Portage and Other Flint Sites of the Kobuk River." Arctic Anthropology 1.1 (1962): 6-27.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Some Arctic spear points and their counterparts." Anthropological Papers of the University of Alaska 10.2 (1963): 1-12.

Giddings, J. Louis. The archaeology of Cape Denbigh. Providence: Brown University Press, 1964.

Giddings, J. Louis. "A Long Record of Eskimos and Indians at the Forest Edge." Context and Meaning in Cultural Anthropology. New York: Free Press, 1965. 189-205.

Giddings, J. Louis. "Cross-Dating the archaeology of Northwestern Alaska." Science, New Series 153.3732 (1966): 127-135.

Giddings, J. Louis. Ancient men of the Arctic. New York: Knopf, 1967.

Giddings, J. Louis. 10,000 ans d'histoire arctique. Paris, France: Fayard, 1973.

Giddings, J. Louis, and Douglas D. Anderson. Beach ridge archeology of Cape Krusenstern: Eskimo and pre-Eskimo settlements around Kotzebue Sound, Alaska. Washington DC: National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1986.

Series II through IVb are available as Portable Document Format (.pdf) files.

Series V is partially digitized as Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpeg) files

Names Giddings, Ruth Elizabeth Warner Subjects Alaska -- Antiquities. Archaeological dating -- Alaska -- Kotzebue Sound Region. Bering Sea Coast (Alaska) Dendrochronology Eskimos--Alaska Eskimos--Alaska--Social life and customs Excavations (Archaeology)--Alaska Inupiat -- Alaska -- Kotzebue Sound Region -- Antiquities. Inupiat -- Alaska -- Krusenstern, Cape -- Antiquities. Kotzebue Sound Region (Alaska) -- Antiquities. Krusenstern, Cape (Alaska) -- Antiquities. Onion Portage Site (Alaska) RIAMCO Browsing Term Social Life and Customs Series I: Subject Files 10.0 Linear feet Scope and Contents

These papers include files and correspondence of J.L. Giddings, including those from his early work in Arctic archaeology in the 1930s, post-war employment a the University of Pennsylvania and its University Museum, appointment as Director/Curator of the Haffenreffer Museum of the American Indian on its donation to Brown in 1955, employment at Brown University in the Sociology/Anthropology department, professional and personal correspondence 1956-1964, Museum records of the same period, administrative and academic files relating to Brown University and its Anthropology Department, correspondence and clippings relating to his death.

Arrangement

Colleagues' correspondence are filed under their names. However, additional correspondence with those individuals may be found in the alphabetical files, for example letters to/from J. Van Stone also occur in the "V" file. Other correspondence has been maintained in the files and file headings that Giddings maintained, such as "Expeditions" or "Danish Year Correspondence."

Processing Information

The Subject Files Series was described and arranged by Ann McMullen, March 1990

Box 1 A 35.0 folders File A (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1956-1965 A (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Ackerman, Robert 1.0 folder 1954-1966 Alaska Correspondence 2.0 folders 1966-1967 Alaska Grocery Orders (and Supplies) 1.0 folder 1965 Alaska Personnel 1.0 folder 1965 Alaska Expenses 1.0 folder 1964 Research Annual Reports to C.E. Bunnell (then president, University of Alaska) 1.0 folder 1938-1946 1948-50 & 1955 Progress Report Cape Denbigh 1.0 folder 1948-1955 Field Trip 1.0 folder 1949 Receipts, etc. Field trip 1.0 folder 1952 Alaska trip 1.0 folder 1958 Alaska trip 1.0 folder 1959 Alaska trip 1.0 folder 1960 Alaska trip 1.0 folder 1961 Alaska trip, expenses 1.0 folder 1963 Alaska Expedition Budget 3824-4 (NSF GS 447) 1.0 folder 1964-1965 Alaska Expenditures 1.0 folder 1965 Expedition Purchase Requisitions and Invoices 1.0 folder 1967 Expedition Purchase Orders, completed Alaska Grant 1.0 folder 1966-1968 AAA 1.0 folder American Antiquity correspondence 1.0 folder American Philosophical Society--JLG 1.0 folder American Philosophical Society-- RWG 1.0 folder AAM 1.0 folder Ancient Men of the Arctic, Orders 1.0 folder Anderson, Douglas (JLG, RWG to DDA) 1.0 folder 1959-1965 Applications for Field Work 1.0 folder Archaeological Societies 1.0 folder Arctic Institute of North America 1.0 folder 1948-1956 Arctic Institute of North America 1.0 folder 1957-1963 Arctic Research Laboratory 1.0 folder Arizona Trip--Tree Ring Conference 1.0 folder 1960 Art Services 1.0 folder Box 1 B 33.0 folders File B (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1965 B (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Bandi, Hans George 1.0 folder 1959-1965 Bank, Theodore P. 1.0 folder 1952-1964 Beaver, Master 1.0 folder Bibliography 1.0 folder Biographical Notes JLG 1.0 folder Bobbs-Merrill Index 1.0 folder Bone Sheets 1.0 folder Book Review Manuscripts 1.0 folder Brew, J.O. (PM/H) 1.0 folder 1960-1962 Brown, Jerry (CRREL) 1.0 folder 1960-1966 Brown University Anthropology Department Applicants 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Correspondence 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Courses, Grades, Students 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Examinations 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Matters 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Syllabuses, JL Giddings 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Syllabuses, General 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Curriculum, Classes, Grades, etc. 1.0 folder Brown University Anthropology Department Ethnohistory (1961 meeting at JCB and HMA) 1.0 folder Brown Examination 1.0 folder Brown Faculty Bulletins, Memos, Information 1.0 folder Brown Interdepartmental Correspondence 1.0 folder Brown Lectures 1.0 folder Brown Library Books, etc. 1.0 folder Brown University Budget 1960-61 1.0 folder 1960-1961 Brown University Budget 1962-63 1.0 folder 1962-1963 Brown University Budget 1963-64 1.0 folder 1963-1964 Brown Budget, Research E859 1.0 folder 1963-1964 Brown Budget NSF G 17473 1.0 folder Brown Budget Insurance Fund 1.0 folder Brown Human Biology 1.0 folder Box 1 C 24.0 folders Brown Interdepartmental Correspondence 1.0 folder 1957-1965 Brown Keeney 1.0 folder 1957-1966 Brown Memos and Directives 1.0 folder Brown Pembroke 1.0 folder Brown Smiley (director of Observatory) 1.0 folder Brown Sociology Department 1.0 folder Brown Sociology Department 1.0 folder E-873 (documents related to shipment of artifacts from Thailand DDA) 1.0 folder 1963-1964 Budgets Misc. 1-259 etc. 1.0 folder Bunnell, C.E. 1.0 folder 1940-1950 Business Services 1.0 folder Byers, Douglas S. 1.0 folder 1943-1960 File C (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Cameron, Angus (Knopf)--about Ancient Men... 1.0 folder Cameron--Knopf 1.0 folder Canadian Correspondence 1.0 folder 1946-1954 Chard, Chester (Arctic Anthropology) 1.0 folder 1958-1965 Clippings, General 1.0 folder 1953-1965 Clippings, General 1.0 folder Colinvaux, Paul 1.0 folder 1962-1965 Collins, Henry B. 1.0 folder 1946-1966 Corbett, John M. 1.0 folder 1957-1964 Committee on the Recovery of Archaeological Remains 1.0 folder Committee on Archaeological Terminology 1.0 folder 1950-1956 Box 1 D 31.0 folders Cotter, John L. 1.0 folder 1959-1962 Crackpots 1.0 folder Current Anthropology, Sol Tax. ed. 1.0 folder File D (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1961 D (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Denbigh Report Correspondence 1.0 folder Dighton Rock 1.0 folder Douglas, A. E. 1.0 folder 1938-1962 Duplicating Requisitions 1.0 folder 1957-1965 Duplicating Requisitions 1.0 folder 1966 File E (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1958-1966 E (Miscellaneous) Eiseley Publications 1.0 folder Employment 1.0 folder 1957-1962 English Correspondents 1.0 folder Epstein, Jeremiah 1.0 folder 1958-1962 Eskimos, Correspondence, etc. 1.0 folder File F (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1958-1965 F (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Flora 1.0 folder Florin, Sten 1.0 folder 1964-1967 Ford, James A. 1.0 folder 1949-1964 Frick, Childs 1.0 folder 1937-1964 File G (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1966 G (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Geist, Otto Wm. 1.0 folder 1938 JLG Personal Correspondence 1.0 folder 1951-1954 Personal JLG 1.0 folder 1956-1962 Travel--Denmark 1.0 folder Giddings (death) --newspaper accts of accident, etc. 1.0 folder L, B Giddings Assorted Correspondence 1.0 folder Box 1 E 46.0 folders Grants and Fellowships: General 1.0 folder Grants, Fellowships etc. 1.0 folder Grants, Fellowships etc. JLG 1.0 folder $3000 Purchase and Requisitions 3912-4 (NSF GU 976) 1.0 folder $1500 Research Budget 3940-4 (NSF GU 468) 1.0 folder $1050 Phosphate Analysis, etc. 3947-4 (NSF GU 468) Florin 1.0 folder E-3896 Budget ($700) GU-448 3904-4 1964-65 1.0 folder Budget NSF E-167 1.0 folder $2000 Purchase and Requisitions 3964-4 (NSF GU 1934) 1.0 folder Griffin, James B. 1.0 folder 1949-1966 Guarantees and Instructions 1.0 folder Guthe, Alfred K. 1.0 folder 1948-1966 File H (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1965 H (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Haffenreffer Family Correspondence 1.0 folder 1956-1966 Haffs wanted HMA to publish a journal/publication, also brochure/leaflet 1.0 folder Haffenreffer Family Correspondence--Bets 1.0 folder 1967 Haley, J. W. 1.0 folder Harp, Elmer 1.0 folder 1951-1966 Haury, Emil W. 1.0 folder 1938-1966 History, local 1.0 folder Hoffman, Hans 1.0 folder 1954-1962 Holtved, Erik 1.0 folder 1948-1964 Hopkins, David 1.0 folder 1950-1966 Huntsman, Judith Misc. Notes 1.0 folder File I (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1966 I (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder INQUA 1.0 folder Interior Dept. (and National Park Service) 1.0 folder Interior Dept. US 1.0 folder Interior Dept. (Ms Alaska Aboriginal Culture) 1.0 folder Irving, William (see also I file) 1.0 folder 1950-1966 File J (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1964 J (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Japanese letters 1.0 folder 1960 Johnson, Fred 1.0 folder 1949-1958 Journal of a Bidarka Expedition 1838 1.0 folder File K (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1966 K (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Kevhok--a departmental newsletter of the 1960s 1.0 folder Keys 1.0 folder Knuth, Count Eigil 1.0 folder 1964-1966 Koehler, Arthur--Forest Products Lab 1.0 folder Krusenstern marker 1.0 folder File L (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1958-1966 L (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Box 1 F 34.0 folders deLaguna, Frederica 1.0 folder 1942-1965 Larsen, Helge 1.0 folder 1939-1966 Laughlin, William 1.0 folder 1950-1966 Lectures 1.0 folder Libby, W.F. 1.0 folder 1953-1962 Livingstone, D.A. 1.0 folder 1957-1960 Lowther, Gordon 1.0 folder 1959-1962 File M (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1966 M (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder MacNeish, Richard S. 1.0 folder 1952-1961 MSS--abstracts etc. JLG 1.0 folder Maps 1.0 folder MAT Program (Summer School Indian Course for teachers) 1.0 folder Meldgaard, Jorgen 1.0 folder 1951-1964 Mexico (notes, exhibit materials) 1.0 folder Michael, H.N. 1.0 folder 1958-1964 Miscellaneous (includes an acct book: DDA ?) 1.0 folder Moore, George W. 1.0 folder 1959-1962 Moore, Terris 1.0 folder 1949-1964 Murray, Fr. R.W. 1.0 folder 1949 Museum. Acquisitions, Property, Inventory 1.0 folder Applications for jobs (museum) 2.0 folders Museum Budget 1.0 folder 1956-1957 Museum Budget 1.0 folder 1957-1958 Museum Budget 1.0 folder 1958-1959 Museum Budget 1.0 folder 1961-1962 Museum Budget 1.0 folder 1964-1965 Museum Budget 1.0 folder 1965-1966 Museum Budget 1.0 folder 1966-1967 Museum Publicity, Clippings 1.0 folder 1955-1965 Museum Displays and Labels 1.0 folder Box 1 G 34.0 folders Museum Employees 1.0 folder Museum Equipment (Office Equipment) 1.0 folder 1966-1967 Museum Equipment: Inventory 1.0 folder Typewriter IBM 3970-4 1.0 folder Museum Exhibit Cases 1.0 folder Exhibitions 1.0 folder Exhibitions 1.0 folder 1956-1964 Exhibitions Expansion Plans 1.0 folder Friends of the Museum 1.0 folder Gifts to Museum (non-artifacts) 1.0 folder Gifts for Photos Projects (from Moore, RWG, Memorial) 1.0 folder (Notes on Exhibits, Ed Programs) 1.0 folder Inquiries about Museum etc. 1.0 folder Inquiries 1.0 folder Museum Insurance Matters 1.0 folder Museum Loans--Incoming (to Museum) 1.0 folder Museum Maintenance and Procedures 1.0 folder Brown Haffenreffer Mt. Hope Farm Motorized Patrol 1.0 folder Petty Cash 1.0 folder Museum Petty Cash 1.0 folder Museum Plans and Ideas 1.0 folder Museum Plans and Regulations 1.0 folder Museum Property Junked or Sold 1.0 folder Public Relations 1.0 folder Publications to Order (Lists for Library) 1.0 folder Museum Publicity etc. 1.0 folder Public Relations 1.0 folder 1957-1960 Public Relations 1.0 folder 1961-1962 Public Relations 1.0 folder 1963-1966 Purchase Orders Completed 1.0 folder Purchase Requisitions and Invoices Sales 1.0 folder Purchase Requisitions and Invoices Museum 1.0 folder Resources 1.0 folder Museum Sales (University Museum Reproductions) 1.0 folder Box 1 H 22.0 folders Sales Desk Bank Deposits 1.0 folder Sales Desk Cost of Goods Sold 1.0 folder Sales Desk Purchase 1.0 folder Museum Sales Desk (University Museum Reproductions, Inventory Sheets) 1.0 folder Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service, etc. 1.0 folder Bibliography SW Mexico 1.0 folder Stock Issues Brown University 1.0 folder Student payments 1.0 folder Student payments Brown University 1.0 folder Museum Summer Personnel and Procedures 1.0 folder University Museum and University Pennsylvania 1.0 folder Visitors--Group Appointments 2.0 folders Visitors--Registered 1.0 folder Wooden Indians 1.0 folder Work Orders 1.0 folder Work Orders Brown University 1.0 folder Museums 1.0 folder N file (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1958-1965 National Research Council (National Academy of Sciences) 1.0 folder National Science Foundation 1.0 folder National Science Foundation Brown Grants 1.0 folder Box 1 I 44.0 folders National Science Foundation: Proposal Recommendations 1.0 folder Natural History 1.0 folder Office of Naval Research 1.0 folder Newcomb, Simon J. 1.0 folder 1946-1948 New York Academy of Science 1.0 folder Nike 1.0 folder File O (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1958-1964 O (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Obsidian Dating 1.0 folder Oschinsky, Lawrence 1.0 folder 1960-1962 File P (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1958-1966 P (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Park Service Publications 1.0 folder Pewe, Troy L. (also Hopkins, David M.) 1.0 folder 1964 Photographs etc. 1.0 folder Photos, Aerial, etc. 1.0 folder 1957-1960 Postage Rates 1.0 folder Press Release 1.0 folder Printing 1.0 folder Project Eye Opener 1.0 folder 1968 Project Eye Opener 1.0 folder Projectors 1.0 folder 1959 Q (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder File R (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1966 Rainey, Froelich 1.0 folder 1940-1966 Readers Digest 1.0 folder Recommendations 1.0 folder Recommendations 1.0 folder 1957-1958 References (Book Lists) 1.0 folder Reference Materials 1.0 folder Reprint Requests 2.0 folders Rhode Island Historical Society 1.0 folder Robbins, Maurice (Massachusetts Archaeological Society) 1.0 folder Rouse, Irving 1.0 folder 1952-1965 File S (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1942-1966 S (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Schaefer, J. P. 1.0 folder 1957-1962 Schumacher, Paul J.P. 1.0 folder 1959-1966 Schulman, Edmund 1.0 folder 1941-1960 Schuster, Carl 1.0 folder 1962 Science and Science Service 1.0 folder Science Information Exchange 1.0 folder Simmons, William 1.0 folder 1960-1965 Box 1 J 39.0 folders Skarland, Ivar 1.0 folder 1940-1964 Slides, Kodachromes, etc. 1.0 folder Smith, Arthur George 1.0 folder 1950-1960 Smith, Watson (see also S file) 1.0 folder 1960-1965 Society for American Archaeology 2.0 folders SAA Abstracts 1.0 folder Solecki, Ralph 1.0 folder 1949-1961 Staehle, Henry C. 1.0 folder 1958-1964 Stefansson, Vilhjalmur 1.0 folder 1947-1960 Stephenson, R.L. 1.0 folder 1958-1962 Stovall, J. Willis (Univ. of Oklahoma) 1.0 folder 1948-1949 Subscriptions etc. and books 1.0 folder Subscriptions and books 1.0 folder Swindler, Daris 1.0 folder 1960-1962 File T (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1958-1966 T (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Talks, speeches 1.0 folder Taylor, William 1.0 folder 1960-1966 Textbooks 1.0 folder Thermofax 3M 1.0 folder Travel 1.0 folder Travel Payments Brown University 1.0 folder Tree Ring Matters 1.0 folder File 0 (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1966 UNESCO 1.0 folder Unident 1.0 folder University of Arizona 1.0 folder File V (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1962-1966 V (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Van Stone, James W. (see also File V) 1.0 folder 1951-1962 File W (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1957-1966 W (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder Wenner-Gren 1.0 folder West, Frederick-Hadleigh (see also File W) 1.0 folder 1958-1960 Wien, Alaska Airways 1.0 folder Witthoft, John 1.0 folder 1954-1960 Wormington, H. M. 1.0 folder 1949-1966 File X,Y,Z (Miscellaneous) 1.0 folder 1948-1965 Series II: Newspaper Clippings 72.0 items 1941-1965 Series Description

Contains newspaper clippings related to J. Louis Giddings’ professional work appearing in the press.

(1948, May 9). Arctic expeditions set for summer. New York Times. n.p. 1.0 page 1948 (1955, December 21). Brown gets 350 acres of Haffenreffer estate. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. pp. 1, 30. 1955 (1956, September 18). Warns of museum removal. Bristol Phoenix. Bristol, Rhode Island. p. 1-2. 1956 (1956, October 8). Indians still produce shiny new arrowheads. Bristol Evening Bulletin. Bristol, Rhode Island. n.p. 1956 (1956, October 16). Museum future outlined by director. Bristol Phoenix. Bristol, Rhode Island. p. 1. 1956 (1956, October 19). Giddings discovers ancient Eskimo dwellings in Alaska. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. pp. 1, 6. 1956 (1956, October 21). Ancient ‘house’ found in Arctic. New York Times. n.p. 1956 (1956, October 21). Lost Alaskan culture found by Brown anthropologist. Sunday Standard-Times. New Bedford, Massachusetts. n.p. 1956 (1956, October 25). Headless hunters. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1956 (1956, October 30). Rare find in the Arctic circle. Bristol Phoenix. Bristol, Rhode Island. n.p. 1956 (1957, February 10). New bank quarters to show sand murals. Providence Sunday Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1957 (1957, May 26). Pines may be older than redwoods. Providence Sunday Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1957 Troy, G. (1957, June 9). Mt. Hope’s tribal treasures. Providence Sunday Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. Section 6. n.p. 1957 (1957, August 23). List of Indian books compiled. Bristol Phoenix. Bristol, Rhode Island. p. 10. 1957 (1957, September 18). Portsmouth school pupils visit Indian museum. Herald News. Fall River, Massachusetts. n.p. 1957 (1957, September 18). Portsmouth students tour Indian museum. The News. Newport, Rhode Island. n.p. 1957 (1957, October 11). 7,000 have visited museum in year. Bristol Phoenix. Bristol, Rhode Island. n.p. 1957 (1957, December 17). Brown gets land. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1957 (1958, February 16). Massasoit: First politician in Warren? Providence Sunday Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. (1958, April 25). Bristol planning board gets Brown request. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 27. 1958 (1958, April 29). Prof. J.L. Giddings represents U.S. at Circum-Polar conference. Pembroke Record. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. p. 4. 1958 (1958, May 12). Brown professor to address conference. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 2. 1958 (1958, September 19). Brown sociologist heard news late. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 20. 1958 (1958, September 23). Giddings announces lectures on early American Indians. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1958 (1958, September 23). Brown to offer public courses at museum. Bristol Phoenix. Bristol, Rhode Island. n.p. 1958 (1958, October n.d.). Museum starts Indian lectures. Unknown Newspaper. n.p. 1958 (1958, October 26). New archeological dating plan. Providence Sunday Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1958 Charney, L. (1958, December 11). Concept of race is topic for panelists. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. pp. 1, 4. 1958 (1959, February 22). Brown to offer more courses in anthropology. Providence Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1959 Allen, I. (1959, March 10). Haffenreffer estate lacks development plans. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. pp. 1-2. 1959 (1959, May 5). Professor plans new Alaskan study. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 23. 1959 (1959, May 29). Three to comb Alaska ‘ridge beaches.’ Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 14. 1959 McLaughlin, G. (1959, June 14). Eskimo exhibit new collection at Bristol museum. Providence Sunday Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. Opper, S. (1960, April 29). Anthropology division adds new courses; Heath to study Brown drinking habits. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 10. 1960 (1960, December) Urheimat der Indianer. Zurich, Switzerland. n.p. December 1960 (1961, October 28). Migration theory hit: Alaska findings cited. Seattle Post Intelligencer. Seattle, Washington. n.p. 1961 Sullivan, W. (1961, October 30). Ancient culture traced in Alaska. New York Times. p. 31. 1961 (1961, October 30). Arctic area migration theory is challenged. Arizona Daily Star. Tucson, Arizona. n.p. 1961 (1961, October 31). Dr. Louis Giddings makes new discoveries; sheds light on origin of man in America. Pembroke Record. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 3. 1961 (1961, October 31). Anthropologist wins support for theory. Providence Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1961 (1961, October 31). People and places. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 2. 1961 Born, M. (1961, November 7). Indian culture on record. Special to the Christian Science Monitor. n.p. 1961 (1961, November 12). Prehistoric shelters. New York Herald Tribune. New York, New York. n.p. 1961 (1961, November 29). Russerne opdagede Amerika pastar professor i USA. Kristeligt Dagblad. n.p. 1961 (1962, February 16). Giddings investigates relics of Eskimo, Am. Indian. Brown Daily Herald. Brown University. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1962 (1962, December 2) A neighborly view. Providence Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1962 Kaull, J.T. (1963, April 8). After 7 years, Brown still seeks to sell Bristol tract. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 39. 1963 Hodge, C. (1964, August 11). Giddings sifting soil in Alaska. Arizona Daily Star. Tucson, Arizona. p. 1. 1964 (1964, November 4). Brown professor badly hurt in Seekonk highway crash. Providence Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1964 (1964, December 10). Dr. Giddings dies at 55 after crash. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1964 (1964, December 10). Dr. Giddings, Anthropology professor at Brown, dies. Providence Journal. Providence, Rhode Island. p. 28. 1964 (1964, December 10). J. Louis Giddings, Anthropologist. Special to the New York Times. n.p. 1964 Sullivan, L.O. (1965, June n.d.) …Journey of mixed emotions. Unknown Newspaper. p. 1-2. 1965 (1965, October 14). Ancient houses uncovered by expedition in arctic Alaska. Anchorage Daily Times. n.p. 1965 (1965, October 14). Brown unit uncovers 4,000-year-old house. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. p.1, 28. 1965 (1965, October 15). Archaeologists Find Remains in Alaska. Unknown Newspaper. Seattle, Washington. n.p. 1965 (1965, October 15). Ancient houses are discovered on Alaska Site. Register. New Haven, Connecticut. n.p. (1965, October 15). Brown’s Alaskan diggings uncover earliest houses. Berkshire Eagle. Pittsfield, Massachusetts. n.p. (1965, October 15). Ancient houses in Alaska discovered. Sun. Westerly, Rhode Island. n.p. (1965, October 15). Ancient Alaska houses found by Brown group. Call. Woonsocket, Rhode Island. n.p. (1965, October 22). Blades are 4000 years old. News. Springfield, Massachusetts. 1965 Aarons, R.F. (1965, October 28). Both Lief, Chris are latecomers. Washington Post. Washington, D.C. n.p. 1965 (1966, May 13). Family outing. Providence Evening Bulletin. Providence, Rhode Island. n.p. 1966 Undated Newspaper Clippings 6.0 items Born, M. Arctic trek questioned. Special to the Christian Science Monitor. n.p. Famed Scientist Museum Head. ca. 1956 Giddings off to Alaska again. Providence Journal Bulletin. Historical Soc. Annual Outing at Mount Hope. Indian Museum in Bristol Will Expand Exhibits. Providence Evening Bulletin. October 16 Museum Seeks Statue’s Origin. New London, Connecticut. November 11, no year. Photograph from the Providence Evening Bulletin of the museum and buildings. 1955 or 1956 Prehistoric Travel Editors Tour Series III: Correspondence 11.0 items 1956-1957 Series Description

Contains various types of correspondence addressed to Giddings.

from Howard S. Curtis 1.0 letter April 21, 1956 from C. Schaefer 1.0 letter April 27, 1956 from Anne V. Seymour 1.0 letter September 28, 1956 from Juan Lopez-Morillas 1.0 letter November 28, 1956 from Gail S. Farago 1.0 letter December 7, 1956 from Richard E. Hale 1.0 letter December 12, 1956 from Clifford P. Monahon 1.0 letter June 5, 1957 from Mrs. Paul C. Rogers 1.0 letter January 8, 1957 addressed to Mr. F. Hartwell Swaffield of the Brown Club of Boston. 1.0 postcard December 4, 1956 from Roger Williams Park Museum and Planetarium. 1.0 postcard February 8, 1957 from the Bristol Historical Society Meeting. 1.0 postcard May 21, 1957 Series IV: Printed Material 7.0 items Series Description

Miscellaneous printed material relating to professional conferences, lectures and news.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Program for Section H 1.0 pamphlet/1 page 1957 Brown Varsity Football Schedule 1.0 card 1956 Invitation for Lecture entitled ‘Museum Trails: An Illustrated Lecture on Eskimo Origins with a preamble on the Study of Anthropology at Brown’ 1.0 item December 10, 1956 Invitation for the Newport Historical Society Quarterly Meeting 1.0 item March 5, 1957 The Brown University Weekly Bulletin 1.0 page with envelope October 8-October 13, 1956 The Brown University Weekly Bulletin 1.0 page January 27-February 3, 1957 The Brown University Weekly Bulletin 1.0 page October 5-October 11, 1958 Press Release - University of Pennsylvania News Bureau 1.0 page October 1953 Press Release - Brown University 1.0 page February 1960 Press Release - Brown University 1.0 page April 22, 1961 Press Release - Brown University 1.0 page April 30, 1961 Press Release - New York Times 1.0 page October 30, 1961 Press Release - U.S. Information Agency Broadcasting Service 1.0 page November 20, 1961 Series V: Photographs, Slides and Glass Negatives 3.0 Linear feet Series Description

Collection of numerous photographs, slides and glass negatives taken during excavations in Alaska from 1941-1964.

Uncataloged Color Slides 400.0 slides 41-1 thru 41-15, 41-17 1941 48-1 thru 48-46 1948 49-1 thru 40-23 1949 50-1, 50-2 1950 51-1 thru 4b 1951 52-1 thru 52-38 & 52-AR-1 thru 52-AR-25 1952 EB-1 thru EB-44 1956 AL-58-1 thru AL-58-118 1958 AL59-1 thru AL59-66 & 59-HS-67 thru 59-HS-99 1959 AL-60-1 thru AL-60-258 1960 AL-61-1 thru AL-61-63 & 61-PD-87 thru 61-PD-151 & 61-DA-66 thru 61-DA-150 & 61-JLG-152 thru 61-JLG-177 1961 63-JLG-1 thru 63-JLG-13 1963 64-1 thru 64-321 & Expedition 1964 64-1 thru 64-321 1964 Boxes of glass negatives 1.6 Linear feet Series VI: Films 16.0 reels Series Description

Collection of films taken during archaeological excavations in the Arctic.

Untitled 1.0 reel Diameter-7 ¼” labeled “O.P. ORIG” “37’” A note inside the can “O.P. orig. Tom H. of A. G5-66 reel 2” is written on an appointment calendar page (Feb. 6+7 1970) 1.0 reel Diameter-7 ¼” labeled “F-7028 O.P. 1967 ORIG ” on top, “10-1” on bottom, “F 7028 BROWN UNIV.IR.ORIG EKTA” on side 1.0 reel Diameter-7 ¼” labeled “REJECTS–Mr. Giddings I” 1.0 reel Diameter-9 ½” labeled “O.P. orig.” 1.0 reel labeled “O.P. orig.” Diameter-10 ½” labeled “WORK PRINT REEL 1, pt. 1 65-66” 1.0 reel 1965-1966 Diameter-10 ¾” labeled “WORK PRINT REEL 1, pt. 2 65-66” “O.P. work print” on side 1.0 reel 1965-1966 Diameter-10 ¾” labeled “O.P. work print” & “B-W work Print” 1.0 reel Diameter-10 ¾“ “ORIGINAL COLOR Photo-Lab Brown University Providence, R.I.” on top, “K-4175–BROWN UNIVERSITY–PHOTO LAB–ATT. P.J. LAGOY–IR–KODA-MASTER”, on edge 1.0 reel Diameter-10 ¾” labeled “Black +White Work Print” on top, “O.P. Work Print” on edge 1.0 reel Diameter-11 ¼” labeled “Mr. Giddings June, 1963” Note inside “Mr. Giddings Film” is taped to the reel with “June, 1963” imprinted on the tape “End of first part” written on the reel 1.0 reel 1963 Diameter-12 ¼” labeled “Films for Mrs. Giddings Original Films” on note taped to top 1.0 reel Diameter-12 ¼” Labeled “O.P. Reel 2 1965-6 WORK PRINT 65-66 REEL 2” 1.0 reel 1965-1966 Diameter-12 ½” labeled “Mr. Giddings film Time 38 min – silent” 1.0 reel Diameter-14” labeled “F5668–BROWN UNIV. (REEL 1-PT-1) (REEL 1–PT2) 2-16 ORIG KODA” 1.0 reel Diameter-15” labeled “2 x 750” Taped to lid inside: “Precision Film Labs, Inc. Subject: Brown University 2 reels” “O.P.originals” 1.0 reel Diameter-15”