Dr. Joe Ben Wheat served as Curator of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum from 1953 until 1997. The Museum holds many records of his archaeological and ethnohistorical research. The museum’s website and related webpages are listed below.
The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO
A finding aid for “Blanket Weaving in the Southwest and Southwest Textile Database records, SWT. CU Museum of Natural History” can be found here. This collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, image rights forms, museum catalogs, and images related to the efforts of Ann Lane Hedlund and the Gloria F. Ross Center for Tapestry Studies to publish Joe Ben Wheat’s manuscript on Southwestern weaving, posthumously titled Blanket Weaving in the Southwest (University of Arizona Press, 2003), and efforts to create a database of the textiles examined and photographed by Wheat, entitled the Southwest Textile Database (joebenwheat.org). The records show the editing and review process which brought Blanket Weaving to publication as well as the extensive efforts of Hedlund and other Center staff to secure rights for the many images featured in the book and its sister project, the textile database.
A finding aid for “Joe Ben Wheat papers, JBW. CU Museum of Natural History” can be found here. This collection contains documents, photographs, and objects created or collected by Joe Ben Wheat (1916-1997), an archaeologist, anthropologist, and curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History. Types of textual material include: original research and analysis, correspondence, newspaper clippings, magazines, academic journal articles, manuscripts, archaeological site reports, and conference materials. Photographic material includes photographic prints, negatives, and color slides. The collection also includes yearbooks, maps, cassette tapes, microcassette tapes, bound notebooks, and other unique ephemera such as awards and personal objects owned by Wheat.
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