Analysis of the George H. Pepper Collections

这笔赠款允许雷曼博士研究和准备出版笔记，以及Geroge H.Pepper收藏的文化和考古材料。乔治·佩珀在经历了近30年的人类学生涯后，于1924年去世。他在新墨西哥州的大型史前遗址Pueblo Bonito和美国西南部的其他遗址进行了极其重要的考古发掘。作为其民族志工作的一部分，他在普韦布洛人和纳瓦霍人中进行了研究，并收集了广泛的文物。他的笔记包括对制造工艺和本地术语的详细描述。然而，他发表的这些数据相对较少，他的笔记和手工艺品散布在许多美国机构。雷曼博士研究了这些材料中的大部分，并转录了佩珀博士的笔记。这笔赠款允许他完成这项任务。他将专注于剩下的一批他没有检查过的藏品。这份报告储存在杜兰大学的中美研究所。这将使他能够：1：完成普韦布洛和纳瓦霍民族志材料的清点和分析；2：将这些信息与以前收集的数据结合起来，编制胡椒的考古和民族志收藏的全面目录，以及；3：使用最近从查科峡谷发现的未出版的考古材料，发布一份关于普韦布洛·博尼托的修订报告和一份关于查科史前的新合成。这项研究很重要，因为它将为学者提供获取不再通过田野调查获得的原始人种学和考古数据的途径。随着实地研究的成本增加，以及与传统民族合作变得更加困难，像胡椒这样的材料变得越来越重要。在它丢失之前对其进行编目和描述是至关重要的。

This grant permits Dr. Reyman to study and prepare for publication notes, and cultural and archaeological materials included in the Geroge H. Pepper collection. George Pepper died in 1924 after an anthropological career which spanned almost thirty years. He conducted extremely important archaeological excavations at Pueblo Bonito, a large prehistoric site in New Mexico and at other sites in the U.S. Southwest. As part of his ethnographic work, he conducted studies among the Pueblo and Navaho peoples and collected a wide range of artifacts. His notes include detailed descriptions of manufacturing processes and native terminology. However he published relatively little of this data and his notes and artifacts are scattered across a number of U.S. institutions. Dr. Reyman has studied much of these materials and transcribed Dr. Pepper's notes. This grant permits him to complete this task. He will focus on the one remaining collection which he has not examined. This is stored at the Middle American Research Institute at Tulane University. This will allow him to 1: complete an inventory and analysis of Pueblo and Navajo ethnographic materials; 2: integrate this information with previously collected data to produce a comprehensive catalogue of Pepper's archaeological and ethnographic collections and; 3: use recently discovered unpublished archaeological materials from Chaco Canyon to publish a revised report on Pueblo Bonito and a new synthesis of Chacoan prehistory. This research is important because it will provide scholars with access to primary ethnographic and archaeological data no longer obtainable through fieldwork. As the costs involved in field research increase and as it becomes more difficult to work with traditional peoples, material such as Pepper's gains in importance. It is essential that it be catalogued and described before it is lost.