front cover of Dutton's Dirty Diggers
Dutton's Dirty Diggers
Bertha P. Dutton and the Senior Girl Scout Archaeological Camps in the American Southwest, 1947–1957
Catherine S. Fowler
University of Utah Press, 2020

Catherine Fowler chronicles a significant yet little-known program for Girl Scouts in post–WWII America. At a time when women were just beginning to enter fields traditionally dominated by men, these two-week camping caravans and archaeological excavations introduced teenage girls not only to the rich cultural and scientific heritage of the American Southwest but to new career possibilities. Dr. Bertha Dutton, curator at the Museum of New Mexico, served as trip leader.

While on the road and in camp, Dutton and other experts in anthropology, archaeology, geology, natural history, and more helped the campers appreciate what they were seeing and learning. This book details the history of the program, sharing trip itineraries and selected memories from the nearly three hundred girls who attended the camps. It also serves as a mini-biography and tribute to Bertha Dutton, who, through her knowledge, teaching, and strong persona, provided a role model for these young women, many of whom later pursued careers in anthropology and related fields.

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Isabel T. Kelly's Southern Paiute Ethnographic Field Notes, 1932-1934
Compiled and Edited by Catherine S. Fowler and Darla Garey-Sage
University of Utah Press, 2016

University of Utah Anthropological Paper No. 130

This publication presents the first volume (Las Vegas) of the early ethnographic field work of anthropologist Isabel T. Kelly. From 1932 to 1934, Kelly interviewed thirty Southern Paiute people from southeastern California, southern Nevada, and southern Utah about “the old ways.” During this time, she filled thirty-one notebooks, made several maps, took roughly fifty photographs, collected nearly 300 ethnobotanical specimens, purchased and shipped over 400 ethnographic artifacts to museums, and traveled more than 7,000 miles. Her notes comprise the most extensive primary ethnographic documentation of Southern Paiute/Chemehuevi lifeways of the middle to late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries existing today.

Although Kelly intended to publish these notes, she was unable to before her death. Fowler and Garey-Sage have now synthesized the first set of these handwritten field notes and sketches, providing commentary and illustrations to put them in context for the modern reader. Kelly’s data, most of which could not be gathered anew today, are offered here for the use of generations to come. 

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Northern Paiute–Bannock Dictionary
Compiled by Sven Liljeblad, Catherine S. Fowler, and Glenda Powell
University of Utah Press, 2011
Based on extensive fieldwork that spanned more than 50 years, this comprehensive dictionary is a monumental achievement and will help to preserve this American Indian language that is nearing extinction.
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front cover of Willard Z. Park's Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada, 1933-1940
Willard Z. Park's Notes on the Northern Paiute of Western Nevada, 1933-1940
UUAP 114
Catherine S. Fowler
University of Utah Press, 1989
This paper is the first of two volumes presenting the ethnographic field notes of Willard Z. Parks, who studied the Northern Paiute from 1933 to 1940. 
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