New Holdings at the Indiana University Folklore Archives
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Abstract
The major work of classifying and assorting the collections was done by Aili Kolehmainen Johnson, formerly of Flint, Michigan and now of Piedmont, California. At present Mrs. Johnson is arranging thousands of superstitions in the Archives according to the Thompson Motif-Index. A description of the history and contents of this archive, in which most countries of the world are represented, can be found in my article, "The Michigan State University Folklore Archives," in Midwest Folklore, V (Spring, 1955), 51-59. This archive has now been transferred to Indiana University, in consequence of my appointment there in the fal of 1957 as Professor of History and Folklore. In time it will be integrated with other holdings already at Bloomington, holdings which also include material collected by students in Folklore classes at Indiana University. These student collections and other holdings in the Archives will be decribed in a later bulletin.