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Daniel J. Crowley research files, 1924-1980

Finding aid prepared by Jesse Fivecoate.

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Crowley, Daniel J., 1921-1998.

Title
Daniel J. Crowley research files, 1924-1980

Collection No.
C596

Extent
8.2 cubic feet (9 boxes)

Language
Materials are primarily in English with some other languages represented such as French.

Abstract
Daniel J. Crowley was a folklorist with research and ethnographic interests in African and African diaspora communities. This collection consists of collected folktales Crowley had planned to use to create a tale-type index.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.

Biographical Note

Daniel J. Crowley (1921-1998) was an eminent scholar of folklore, anthropology, and art history. Having served as professor of anthropology and art history for over thirty years at the University California, Crowley's contributions to the field of folklore, anthropology, art history are chronicled in his publications that include four books and over 350 articles and reviews. Professor Crowley's monograph I Could Talk Old-Story Good; Creativity in Bahamian Folklore is a classic example of a performance-centered folkloristic ethnography.

While his fieldwork spanned Western Europe, South America, and Polynesia, Crowley was specifically interested in African and African diaspora communities, with a concentration in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Crowley's collections of folktales show a breadth of traditional tales from the Americas and Africa.

Arrangement

Collection is arranged in one series: Research files.

Scope and Content Note

This collection consists of collected folktales Crowley had planned to use to create a tale-type index. The files appear to be arranged by informant's surname. The papers in this collection contain animal tales, etiological tales, trickster tales, and supernatural tales. All files are undated but likely span 1924-1980.

Related Material

Related photographs may be available in the University Archives Photographs Database .

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Accession 2014/087
Usage Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
[Item], Daniel J. Crowley research files, Collection C596, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Provenance
This collection was transferred from Indiana University's Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology to the University Archives in 2014 to become part of the Folklore Archives.
Processing Information
Processed by Jesse Fivecoate.

Completed in 2015.

Container List


Series: Research files, circa 1924-1980 

Box 1 Abraham (Tiv)

Agar (Xhosa)

Alarcon (Lerrche Arabic, Morocco)

Almkirst [Almkvist?] (Barabra)

Arnaud (Lozi)

Pachet (Egypt)

Augustiny (Kamba Sukeema)

Aumme (Cleah-Berber)

Badibanga (Luba)

Badibanga (Lulua, Luba)

Baker (Swahili)

Barker & Senclair (West Africa)

Baskerville (Baganda, Ganda)

Bassett (Berber)

Bateman (Zanzibar, Swahili)

Bauman (Hottentot)

Beech (Suk, Swahili)

Bell (Ovimbundu)

Blair "Tales of Amadou Koumba"

Benchenels (Algiers)

Berenger

Berger (Ndali, Konde, Ngonde)

Bergheld (Somali)

Bertjpid (Thonga)

Birkeli (Sakalava, Malagasy)

Bittlemieux (Mayombian)

Boas (Vandau)

Bleek (Hottentot, Naron, Kun)

Bleek & Lloyd (Bushman)

Bouveignes (Luba)

Brincker (Ndonga)

Brunot (Morocco)

Brutzer (Kamba)

Barton (Luba)

Barton “Magic Drum” (Luba)

Busse (Namwanga, Nyika)

Battner (Swahili)

B- “Miscellaneous” (Bourgeois, Bachmann, Bingler, “Balan” (author?))

Cagnolo (Kikuya)

Calloway (Zulu)

Campell (Tuareg)

Capus (Sumbwa)

Box 2 Cardinall (Togoland)

Casalis (Basato)

Cesard (Haya)

Charlton (Hausa)

Chatelain (Kimbundu)

Clarke (Sierra Leone)

Claus (Gogo)

Cohen (Algiers- Jewish)

Cole (Goho)

Courlander (West Africa)

Congo

Crazzolara (Nuer)

Crowise (Temne)

Daelemen (Mfimu)

Dallet

Dammann (Bondei, Digo, Vei, Zaramo, Zigula)

David (Soninke)

Dayrell

Dayrell (Ikom)

De Clurg (Luba, (Bena) Kamioke)

De Larrea (Bujebas)

Dennet (Fjort)

Dermenghem (Kabyles)

Dewar (Namwanga)

Doke (Lamba)

Dornan (Bushmen)

Driberg (Lango)

Duisberg (Kanun)

Dupuis (Songhai, Yakouba)

Edgar (Hausa)

Edgar (Hausa)

Ekwensi (Ibo)

Elchorn (Shambala)

Ellis (Vai, Tshi, Ewe, Yoruba)

Elmslie (Nyasaland)

Ennis (Umbundu)

Equilbecg,

(From West Africa numbers 1-50)

Box 3 (From West Africa numbers 50 on)

Esser (Nkundo)

Evans (Auak, Zande)

Faublée,

(Bara numbers 1-50)

(Bara numbers 50-100)

(Bara numbers 100 on)

Felkin (Madi)

Fell,

(Tonga numbers 1-50)

(Tonga numbers 51-103)

Ferrand (Madagascar)

Ferstel (Yao)

Finnegan (Limba)

Fisch (Dagomba)

Fletcher (Hausa)

Fokken (Larusa)

Frichs (Masai)

Froberius,

General (4 folders)

(Congo, Benalulua)

(Mande)

Box 4 (Sudan)

Fuja (Yoruba)

Gaden (Senegal)

Gegenbach (Nyanga)

Guiga (Tamsia)

Guillot

Gutmann,

(Chaga numbers 1-100)

(Chaga numbers 100 on)

Hacqleard (Songhai)

Haflinger (Matengo)

Hallowell (Yao, Nyasaland)

Hambly (Orimbandu)

Hames (Malvia)

Harris, Habley, Heepe

Hasluck (Algeria)

Held (Miscellaneous: Swahili, Zulu, Madagascar, Hottentot, etc.)

Helser (Bura (Nigeria))

Hendle (Pogoro)

Herskovits,

(Dahomey numbers 1-50)

(Dahomey numbers 50 on)

Hilberth (Gbaya)

Himmelheber (Aura Poku (Baule))

Hoffman (Sotho)

Holas (Kono) Holland (Nyanja)

Hollis (Nando)

Honey (Bushmen)

Hudson (Galla)

Hulstaert (Nkundo)

Hurel (Rwanda)

Irle (Herero) & Iyeki (Lingola)

Ittmann (Bankon)

J. Jacobs (Tetela (Bantu))

Jacottet,

(Basuto, 1 Kololo, 1 Totela)

Box 5 (Soubiya)

Johnson, F. (Nilyamba)

Johnson (Bantu, Hausa)

Joset (Itan-Pygmies)

Justiniard (Chlauh (S. Morocco))

Junod (Ronga, Pongo)

Kato (Karana)

Kirk (Somali)

Koelle

Kohl Larsen,

(Iraqw)

(Kindiga)

(Issausu-märchen, Nilyamba)

Kootz (Safwa, Nyixa)

Krebs, Klingenheben

Krug (Bulu)

Kruger (Venda, Sotho)

Krumm (Matambi)

Lademann

(Wakamit, Swahili)

(Swahili; duplicates numbering)

Landeroin (Hausa)

Laoust,

(Berbers numbers 1-74)

(Berbers numbers 75 on)

Larochette (Mangbeta)

Lederbogen (Duala)

Freeman (Jamou)

Leur-Provencal (North Morocco)

Lewinski (Kamba)

Lofszyc

Lindblom (Kamba)

Lippert (Hausa)

Locuis (Tunisia)

Lukas (Kanuri)

Mercier, Magnun, Malcolm, Mitterratzner

MacDonald (Yao, Nyanja)

Maguire (Dorobo, Mosiro)

Malingoud (Bedouins (Algeria))

Mamet (Bolia; Nkundo)

Manclere (Arabie, North African)

Marcals

Box 6 Markowitz (Bushmen)

Martin (Tunisia)

Maupoil (Fon)

Mbiti,

(Kamba numbers 1-30)

(Kamba numbers 30 on)

Meeusen (Lega)

Meinhoff (Pogoro, Swahili, etc.)

Merino

(Amharic numbers 1-59)

"Neglects Wife number 3" (Amharic)

Merker (Masai)

Metois (Sahariens)

Migeod (Mende)

Mischlich (Hausa)

Mohl (Kaffin)

Mutwa (Zulu)

Nassau (Mpongwe)

Nicolas (Beiber (Mauritania))

Norton Tswana)

Ogler (Shilluk)

Pages (Rwanda)

Palacin (Jewish Morocco)

Palacin

Pankhurst (Ethiopia)

Peeraer (Luba)

Pellat (Moroccan Berber)

Pettinen (Ndouga)

Planert (Bushman, Hottentot)

Posselt (Shona, Findwe)

Prietze (Hausa)

Prost (Songhai)

Rattray (Akan, Ashanti)

Rattray (Hausa)

Rattray (Nankanse)

Raum (Chaga)

Rehse (Kiziba)

Reinisch,

(Bilin)

(Saho)

(Somali)

Box 7 Renel (Madagascar) (2 folders)

Renon (Tunisia)

Reuss (Zigula)

Rondu (Sammlung)

Rivel (Kiroa Contes)

Roscoe (Bakitara, Baganda)

Rossini (Tigrinya)

Rouch (Songhai)

Routledge ((A)kikuya)

Rowling (Ganda)

Savory (Basuto)

Schaegelen (Wagogo)

Schleicher (Somali)

Schoeman (Heikum Bushmen)

Schon (Hausa)

Schönhäm (Ewe)

Schultze (Nama Hottentot)

Schwab (Bulu)

Seid (Tchad)

Seidel (Shambala, etc.)

Sibree (Madagascar)

Senghor (Senegal)

Sieber (Wute)

Sillery (Kwaya)

Smith (Ila)

Spiess (Ewe)

Stamberg (Chaga)

Stannus (Yao)

Stappers (Luba)

Steere (Swahili)

Struyf (Kongo)

Talbot (Nigeria)

Tauxier (Sudan)

Tauxier (Yatenga, Gouru)

F. Taylor (Fulani, Hausa)

W.E. Taylor (Swahili (Mombasa))

Tessman,

(Fang)

(Gbaya)

Theal (Xhosa)

Box 8 Theuws (Luba)

N. Thomas (ESA, Ora Tribe, Kakaruku, Temne)

Thomas (Ibo) (2 folders)

Torrend (Bantu)

Travele (Bambara)

Tremearne (Hausa) (3 folders)

Turnbull (Mbunti (Pygmy))

Van Caeneghem (Luba)

Vanneste (Alur)

Veel (Forigo, Pondo, Xliosa)

Von Masikesi (Manyika)

Von Sicard,

(Karanga numbers 1-99)

(Karanga numbers 100-200)

Walker (Yoruba)

Warmelo (Ndebele)

Waters (Xhosa)

Weeks (Congo Tales)

Werner (Swahili, Duruma)

Westermann (Ewe, Fulaui, Kpelle, Shilluk, Sokote)

Whitely "African Prose"

Wilson (Berber, Kabyle)

Box 9 Wolff (Kinga)

Woodward (Makua Bondei)

Wright (Lango)

Zeltmer (Sudan)

Zuure (Barundi, Murundi, Rundi)

Unidentified informants,

22 (1051-1100)

23 (1051-1100)

24 (1051-1100)

25 (1051-1100)

26 (1051-1100)

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