Indians of North America

David Park McAllester was professor of Anthropology and Music at Wesleyan University from 1947 to 1986. He studied and wrote about the rites and ceremonies of the Navajo Indians and was a co-founder of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

This collection contains drafts of published and unpublished writings, extensive correspondence, field notes and one nineteenth century family photograph album.

The majority of this collection is 18th- and 19th-century documents from around the Middletown, Connecticut area, with some documents from the 17th- and 20th-centuries.