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Sallie Key Meyers account of Zuni culture

 Collection
Identifier: SC 01877

  • Staff Only
  • No requestable containers

Scope and Contents

This collection contains papers that document the Zuni culture and its history since the sixteenth century. It has more than forty pages of papers that include recordings of social structures and rituals associated with the Zuni people.

Dates

  • Creation: 1930

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Conditions Governing Use

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Director of Special Collection or the holder of the copyright if not Swem Library.

Biographical / Historical

Sallie Key Meyers is the mother of journalist and novelist Harold Burton Meyers, and the grandmother of Professor Emeritus of English at William & Mary, Terry L. Meyers. She was born in 1890 and died in 1938, and served as a teacher at the Zuni Day School in Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico from 1928-1930.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (1 box)

Language

English

Arrangement

This collection contains one folder.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Terry L. Meyers

Title
Guide to Sallie Key Meyers account of Zuni culture
Status
Completed
Author
William & Mary Special Collections Research Center staff
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository

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