Te Ata Fisher Collection
Scope and Contents
Performer. Correspondence (1920-1994) to and from Te Ata Fisher, along with printed materials (1923-1976) used by Te Ata as resource material for her performances as a storyteller and interpreter of Indian folklore and culture. The collection also includes a scrapbook (1936) of a Scandinavian tour, four scrapbooks concerning Te Ata's life and works, along with some correspondence (1922-1953) and printed material, mostly reprints (1913-1936), relating to Te Ata's husband, Clyde Fisher, a naturalist.
Dates
- Creation: 1913-1995
Creator
- Ata, Te (Mary Frances), 1895-1995 (Person)
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
8 Cubic Feet (8 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Te Ata Fisher.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Fisher, Te Ata. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1986.
Subject
- Vestal, Stanley, 1887-1957 (Person)
- Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975 (Person)
- Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966 (Person)
- Curtis, Charles, 1860-1936 (Person)
- Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 (Person)
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Box: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 2 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 3 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 4 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 5 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 6 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 7 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 8 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 9 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 10 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 11 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 12 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 13 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 14 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 15 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 16 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 17 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 18 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 19 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 20 (Mixed Materials)
- Oversize Box: 1 (Mixed Materials)
- Box: 3 Certificates and Diplomas (Mixed Materials)
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Monnet Hall, 3rd Floor
630 Parrington Oval
Norman Oklahoma 73019
405-325-2904
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu