Guide to the Papers of Henry Otley Beyer

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Collection Summary

Creator
H. Otley Beyer
Title
Papers of Henry Otley Beyer
Date Range
1850-1964
Collection Number
MS 4877
Extent
28 metres (100 boxes, 185 volumes, 4 elephant folios)
Language of Materials
English
Repository
National Library of Australia

Introduction

Scope and Content

Papers of H. Otley Beyer including correspondence, programs, photographs, maps, notebooks, articles, drafts of books, printed materials, theses, undergraduate students' work, conference papers, newspaper cuttings, charts, genealogies and other papers. Also includes bound volumes containing original source material on archaeology, ethnography, languages, history, culture and religion of ethnic groups in the Philippines including the Ifugao, Bantok, Igorot, Moro and Iloko. Most, but not all volumes were written or compiled by Beyer.

Conditions Governing Access

Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2631796).

Conditions Governing Use

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Henry Otley Beyer, National Library of Australia, MS 4877, [series and/or file number]'.

Provenance

The Beyer collection was purchased by the Library in 1972. Additions to the collection were received between 1978 and 1995.

Existence and Location of Copies

The Beyer Papers and volumes are available on microfiche at McG 1255.

(See the Microfiche Quantities List for the quantities of microfiche for each file.)

A photographic record of Beyer's collection of Chinese ceramics and local history and other photographs are held in the Pictorial section of the National Library at Q40, 41 and 42. Maps from the Beyer Collection are held in the Map Section.

Biographical Note

Henry Otley Beyer was born on 13 July 1883 in Edgewood, Iowa U.S.A.. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Denver, Colorado.

Beyer went to the Philippine Islands in 1905 and worked first as a teacher in the Bureau of Education. Later he was sent to study the Ifugaos of the Banaue Valley of North Luzon and during this time also studied the Philippine language, mythology, folklore, custom law and pre-history.

In 1908 Beyer travelled to China, Egypt, Southern Asia, the Moorish States of North Africa and Europe and completed, under the Robert Winthrop Scholarship, a post-graduate year at Harvard studying anthropology. When Beyer returned to the Philippines he collected his 150 volume Philippine ethnographic series containing data on the tribes of Luzon, Visayas, Mundando and Sulu Archipelago.

Beyer was appointed ethnologist in the Philippines Bureau of Science and part-time Head of the Philippine Museum in 1909. When the Department of Anthropology, within the College of Liberal Arts in the University of Philippines was set up in 1914, Beyer became its first Head. In 1921, Sociology was fused with Anthropology and the Department of Anthropology and Sociology was set up. Beyer remained its Head until 1951.

When specimens of fossils and artefacts dating from the old stone age were unearthed in the Sierra Madre Foothills, Beyer continued his archaeological work as well as his work in Batangas, Laguna de Bay Basin and Central Luzon. During this time his Philippine Ethnographic series and Philippines before Magellan were published.

In 1928 a remarkable site (Iron-age pre-Spanish village) was found in the Rizal province and Beyer worked on this site. The Rizal-Bulakan and Batangas surveys together recovered a history of the central Luzon population for more than 10,000 years.

During the 1936 - 37 period Beyer's work on Philippine Tektites began to attract attention. His paper on this subject was published in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1942.

President Manuel Quezon and Beyer agreed in 1937 that Beyer would donate his entire archaeological collection provided the government would build an adequate museum to house the collection. Plans were drawn up but work had not yet begun when war broke out in 1941. A Japanese ethnologist, Tado Kano helped Beyer save most of his collection during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. Beyer was interned for two years, whilst his collection was housed in the Watson building off the campus of the University of the Philippines.

After the war the University was transferred to Diliman, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology separated. Beyer left the University in 1954 and was appointed Emeritus Professor of Anthropology.

Between 1910 and 1953 Beyer wrote and published a large number of scientific papers and books on Philippine archaeology, ethnology and history. For his work Beyer was awarded an Honorary doctorate in science from Silliman University, a doctor of science in Anthropology from Ateno de Manila and a doctor of laws from the University of the Philippines.

When Beyer died on 31 December 1966, he was buried in an Ifugao burial shed on one of the hills of Banaue.

Item Descriptions

Series [unnumbered]. Papers

Correspondence (1907 - 1964) (File) - Box 1

Correspondence (1907 - 1964) (File) - Box 2

Programs (File) - Box 3

Photographs, plans, plates (File) - Box 4

Maps (File) - Box 5

Notebooks (File) - Box 6

Beyer's articles and addresses (includes articles, photographs and draft proofs of his books and printed material) (File) - Box 7-15

Pangasinan papers, Pampangan papers (File) - Box 16

General Philippines papers (File) - Box 17

General Philippines papers (File) - Box 18

General Philippines papers (File) - Box 19

General Philippines papers (File) - Box 20

General Tagalog papers (File) - Box 21

Tagalog of San Leonardo (File) - Box 22

Tagalog v.29 (File) - Box 23

Tagalog v.30-31 (File) - Box 24

Tagalog v.32 (File) - Box 25

Tagalog of San Miguel, Manila (File) - Box 26

Tagalog of San Miguel, Manila (File) - Box 27

Tagalog of Manila (File) - Box 28

Tagalog of Manila (File) - Box 29

Tagalog of Rizal (File) - Box 30

Tagalog of Rizal (File) - Box 31

Tagalog of Bulakan (File) - Box 32

Tagalog of Bulakan (File) - Box 33

Tagalog of Cabanatuan (File) - Box 34

Iloko papers (File) - Box 35

Iloko papers (File) - Box 36

Iloko papers (File) - Box 37

Iloko papers (File) - Box 38

Iloko papers (File) - Box 39

Iloko papers (File) - Box 40

Foreign reports (File) - Box 41

Foreign reports (File) - Box 42

Foreign reports (File) - Box 43

Foreign reports (File) - Box 43a

Community Assembly lectures (1930s) (File) - Box 44

Community Assembly lectures (1930s) (File) - Box 45

Community Assembly lectures (1930s) (File) - Box 46

Community Assembly lectures (1930s) (File) - Box 46a

Theses University of the Philippines (1922-51) (File) - Box 47

Theses University of the Philippines (1922-51) (File) - Box 48

Theses University of the Philippines (1922-51) (File) - Box 49

Theses University of the Philippines (1922-51) (File) - Box 50

Undergraduate students' work (File) - Box 51

Undergraduate students' work (File) - Box 52

Undergraduate students' work (File) - Box 53

Undergraduate students' work (File) - Box 54

Undergraduate students' work (File) - Box 55

Undergraduate students' work (File) - Box 56

University of the Philippines, records, administrative papers, 1926-52 (File) - Box 57

University of the Philippines, records, administrative papers, 1926-52 (File) - Box 58

University of the Philippines, records, administrative papers (1926-56) (File) - Box 59

Bureau of science, Government of the Philippines miscellaneous papers and certificates of the municipal treasurer (pre-war) (File) - Box 60

Bureau of science, Government of the Philippines miscellaneous papers and certificates of the municipal treasurer (pre-war) (File) - Box 61

Bureau of science, Government of the Philippines miscellaneous papers and certificates of the municipal treasurer (pre-war) (File) - Box 62

World War II (1941-45) (File) - Box 63

World War II (1941-45) (File) - Box 64

World War II (1941-45) (File) - Box 65

World War II (1941-45) (File) - Box 66

Eighth Pacific Science Congress Fourth Far East History Copngress (1953) incomplete (File) - Box 67

Ninth Pacific Science Congress (1957) incomplete (File) - Box 68

Fifth Pacific Science Congress (1933), Far East (1935), Fourth Philippine Science Congress (1940), Sixth Pacific Science Congress (1940), National Council of Education (1945), Conference of Asian Universities on Cultural Co-operation (1958), Nuclear Chemistry Conference (1963), Anglo-Philippine talka - London (1963) incomplete (File) - Box 69

National Research Council of the Philippines (1936-1964) (File) - Box 70

National Research Council of the Philippines (1936-1964) (File) - Box 71

Philippines Geological Society (1936-64) (File) - Box 72

Institute of Pacific Relations (1925-39), Philippines Anthropological Association - (articles on International Union of Orientalists - charter n.d. and 1952), American Historical Committee (1937-64) (File) - Box 73

Linguistics including abstracts of North Dakota Summer Institute of Linguistics (File) - Box 74

Handwriting cases (1925-33) (File) - Box 75

Miscellaneous papers (File) - Box 76

Papers of Harold Conklin (File) - Box 77

Papers of Harold Conklin (File) - Box 78

Papers of M. Balong, G. Nesijima, Camilo Osias (File) - Box 79

President Quironi, Jose Rizal and Otto Sheerer (File) - Box 79

Articles by others including G. Alba, P.S. Callenfelo, A. Craig, J. Domantay (File) - Box 80-81

Articles by others including F. Eggan, R.E. Elkins, I. Evans, C. Fenner, (File) - Box 82

Articles by others including R. Fox, E.V. Hester, C.L. Locsin, F. Lynch, (File) - Box 83

Articles by others including T. Miyoshu, T.S. Ovarion, C.A. Prosser, (File) - Box 84

Articles by others including R. Rahmann, P.L. Rusk, P. Strange, (File) - Box 85

Articles by others including J.S. Teves, M. Vanonerbergh, G. Wood, and L.Y. Yabes (File) - Box 86

Press cuttings (File) - Box 87

Press cuttings (File) - Box 88

Press cuttings (File) - Box 89

Monographs, periodicals and newspapers (File) - Box 90

Monographs, periodicals and newspapers (File) - Box 91

Monographs, periodicals and newspapers (File) - Box 92

Monographs, periodicals and newspapers (File) - Box 93

Newspapers (File) - Box 94

Newspapers (File) - Box 95

Correspondence (1901-1911) - articles on anthropology. Includes a 1922 manuscript petition signed by Muslims, against Zamboanga joining a Commonwealth of the Philippines; handwritten translations in Spanish and English; and a list of the signatories in western script (File) - Box 96

National Research Council papers (1940-61) (1962-), Miscellaneous maps and photographs, theses Pugad Babuy Catalog VI, Rizal Province Archaeological Survey (File) - Box 96

University of the Philippines: official correspondence (1923-41), Manuscript: The origin of Tektites, Miscellaneous articles and lectures on anthropology (File) - Box 97

Bureau of Health: morbidity reports (1943-44), University of the Philippines official correspondence. Various notes and letters (File) - Box 98

Newscuttings, printed ephemera and other papers (File) - Box 99-100

Series [unnumbered]. Bound Volumes - Short-Title List

Batangas archaeology, Otley Beyer (File Bey 1-1)

Philippine archaeology Series, Otley Beyer (File Bey 1-2)

Bikol ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 2-1)

Bikol ethnography vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 2-2)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-1)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-2)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-3)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-4)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-5)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-6)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 7, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-7)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 8, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-8)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 9, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-9)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 10, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-10)

Bisaya ethnography vol. 11, Otley Beyer (File Bey 3-11)

The Bontok people vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 4-4)

Bontok ethnography vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 4-5)

Formosan languages vol. 1, S. Ogawa (File Bey 5-1)

Formosan languages vol. 2, S. Ogawa (File Bey 5-2)

Gaddang vocabulary, Pedro Sierra (File Bey 6-1)

Manunoo-English vocabulary, Harold C. Conklin (File Bey 7-1)

Kalatong, T. Inglis Moore (File Bey 8)

History of Batman, Eulogio B. Rodriguez (File Bey 9)

Ibatan-Spanish dictionary, Dominican missionaries (File Bey 10)

Ibanag ethnography (File Bey 11)

Ifugao-ethno-botany, Harold C. Conklin (File Bey 12-1)

The religion of the Kiangan Ifugao, Roy Frankin Barton (File Bey 12-2)

The religious beliefs of the Kiangan Ifugao, Fr. Juan Fernandez Villa-verda, trans. by O. Beyer and John M. Garvan (File Bey 12-3)

The Ifugao people vol. 9, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-9)

The Ifugao people vol. 10, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-10)

The Ifugao people vol. 11, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-11)

The Ifugao people vol. 12, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-12)

The Ifugao people vol. 13, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-13)

The Ifugao people vol. 14, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-14)

The Ifugao people vol. 15, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-15)

The Ifugao people, Otley Beyer (File Bey 12-16)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 1b, Various (File Bey 13)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-1)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-2)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-3)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-4)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-5)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-6)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 7, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-7)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 8, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-8)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 9 P216-270, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-9)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 9 P244-270, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-9)

Ilokos ethnography vol. 10, Otley Beyer (File Bey 13-10)

The Igorot people vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 14-4)

The Igorot people vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 14-5)

The Igorot people vol. 6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 14-6)

The Isinai-Ilongot peoples, Otley Beyer (File Bey 15-1)

The Isinai-Ilongot peoples, Otley Beyer (File Bey 15-2)

The Itneg-Kalingo peoples vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 16-1)

The Itneg-Kalingo peoples vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 16-2)

The Itneg-Kalingo peoples vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 16-3)

The Itneg-Kalingo peoples vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 16-4)

The Itneg-Kalingo peoples vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 16-5)

The Mindoro-Palawan peoples, Otley Beyer (File Bey 17-1a)

The Mindoro-Palawan peoples, Otley Beyer (File Bey 17-1b)

Minor Christian groups, Otley Beyer (File Bey 18-3)

Moro ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 19-1)

Moro ethnography vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 19-2)

Moro ethnography vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 19-3)

Moro ethnography vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 19-4)

Moro ethnography vol. 7, Otley Beyer (File Bey 19-7)

Moro ethnography vol. 8, Otley Beyer (File Bey 19-8)

Moro ethnography vol. 9, Otley Beyer (File Bey 19-9)

The Negrito-Aeta peoples vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 20-1)

The Negrito-Aeta peoples vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 20-2)

The Negrito-Aeta peoples vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 20-3)

The Negrito-Aeta peoples vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 20-4)

The Negrito-Aeta peoples vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 20-5)

The Pagan peoples of Mindanao vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 21-1)

The Pagan peoples of Mindanao vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 21-2)

The Pagan peoples of Mindanao vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 21-3)

The Pagan peoples of Mindanao vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 21-4)

The Pagan peoples of Mindanao vol. 6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 21-6)

General Philippine papers, Otley Beyer (File Bey 22)

Pampangan ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 22-1)

Pampangan ethnography vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 22-2)

Pampangan ethnography vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 22-3)

Pangasinan ethnography, Otley Beyer (File Bey 23)

General philippine papers, Otley Beyer (File Bey 23)

Pangasinan vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 23-1)

Pangasinan vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 23-2)

Pugad-Bubuy catalogue vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 24-1)

Pugad-Bubuy catalogue vol. 2-4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 24-2-3)

Notes on Beyer's lectures i.e. Philippine archaeology etc., Otley Beyer (File Bey 25)

Philippine archaeology vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 25-1)

Philippine archaeology vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 25-2)

Philippine archaeology vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 25-3)

Philippine archaeology vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 25-4)

Philippine archaeology vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 25-5)

General Philippine papers, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26a)

General Philippine papers, Austin Craig (File Bey 26b)

Philippine ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26-1)

Philippine ethnography vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26-2)

Philippine ethnography vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26-3)

Philippine ethnography vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26-4)

Philippine ethnography vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26-5)

Philippine ethnography vol. 6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26-6)

General index, Philippine ethnography series vol. 7, Otley Beyer (File Bey 26-7)

General index, Philippine ethnography series vol. 12, Otley Beyer (File Bey 27-1-2)

General index, Philippine ethnography series vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 27-3)

Philippine customary law vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-1)

Philippine customary law vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-2)

Philippine customary law vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-3)

Philippine customary law vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-4)

Philippine customary law vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-5)

Philippine customary law vol. 6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-6)

Philippine customary law vol. 7, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-7)

Philippine customary law vol. 8, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-8)

Philippine customary law vol. 9, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-9)

Philippine customary law vol. 10, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-10)

Philippine customary law vol. 11, Otley Beyer (File Bey 28-11)

Philippine social conditions, Serafin Macaraig (File Bey 29)

The Philippines before Magellan, Otley Beyer (File Bey 30)

History of the province of Isabella, Rev. Fr. Julian MaLumbres (File Bey 31)

Rizal province: archaeological survey vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 32-1)

Rizal province: archaeological survey: Novaliches destrict vol. 1-2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 32-1-2)

Rizal province: archaeological survey: Lake district vol. 1-2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 32-1-2)

Rizal province: archaeological survey: Lake district vol's 3-5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 32-3-5)

Rizal province: archaeological survey: Novaliches district vol's 5-6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 32-5-6)

Rizal province: archaeological survey: Lake district vol's 6-7, Otley Beyer (File Bey 32-6-7)

Sambali ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 33-1)

Lectures in social anthropology, Otley Beyer (File Bey 34-1)

Philippine tektites vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 35-1)

Philippine tektites vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 35-1)

Philippine tektites vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 35-2)

Philippine tektites vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 35-3)

Les Leyendas de la Isla de Negros, Jose Pavon (File Bey 36-1)

Community assembly lectures Tagalog, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 1, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-1)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 2, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-2)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 3, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-3)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 4, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-4)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 5, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-5)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 6, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-6)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 7-10, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-7-10)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 11, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-11)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 12, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-12)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 13, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-13)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 14, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-14)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 15, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-15)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 16, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-16)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 17, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-17)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 18, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-18)

Tagalog ethnography vol. 19, Otley Beyer (File Bey 37-19)

A lexicographic study of Tayabas Tagalog, E. Arsenic Manuel (File Bey 38)

Notes on Beyer's lectures re. Philippine non-Christians, F.G. Roth (File Bey 39-1)

Study of references to the Philippines in Chinese sources from earliest times to the Ming dynasty, Wu Ching-Hong (File Bey 41)

Restudy of Balagtas, Alfredo T. Sevilla (File Bey 42)

An analysis of Filipino achievements in the fields of literature, arts and science with a view to evaluating their characteristic traits and innate faculties, Euligio B. Rodriguez (File Bey 43)

The rediscovery of the Philippines, Teofilo del Cantillo (File Bey 44)

Community assembly lectures: West Visayan, Otley Beyer (File Bey 45)

Community assembly lectures: Samar-leyte Visayan, Otley Beyer (File Bey 45)

Baguio during the Japanese occupation, Laurence Wilson (File Bey 114)

Revised estimate of the population of the Philippine Islands in 1916 (File Bey 127)

The prehistory of the Philippines, Otley Beyer (File Bey 711)

The Sri Vijayan and Majapahit empires, Walter K. Miles (File Bey 724)

Titles of books in Philippine Islands in the private library of William W.C. Brady, Elizabeth Hassell (File Bey 1068)

Historico-critical study of some early Chinese records and their relations to pre-Spanish Philippine culture, Wang Teg-Mingh (File Bey)


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