Sallie Key Meyers account of Zuni culture

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

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.

Terms of access:

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.

Preferred citation:

Sallie Key Meyers account of Zuni culture, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.1 Linear Feet 1 box
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Sallie Key Meyers account of Zuni culture, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

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 includes recordings of social structures and rituals associated with the Zuni people.

Biographical / historical:

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

Acquisition information:
Donated by Terry L. Meyers
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard