Jane Richardson Hanks was born in 1908 in Berkeley, California. The daughter of a University of California Classics professor (Leon Josiah Richardson), Jane pursued a Ph.D. in Anthropology before beginning a lifetime of field work. With her husband Lucien Hanks, Jane first studied Blackfoot Indians in Canada; they then began a long term project focusing on the Bang Chan (Bang Cheng) village and other communities in Northern Thailand, which began in the early 1950s and extended through the 1970s.
Organized into 3 accessions.
The Jane Richardson Hanks collection consists of Jane and Lucien Hanks' original notes, transcripts, manuscript drafts and audiovisual materials from their field research, primarily focusing on work in Thailand spanning the 1950s-1970s. Some field notes, interviews and photographs originating with other anthropologists are also present, especially in the Bang Chan materials. The collection documents Thai rituals and ceremonies (marriage, ordination and cremation), agriculture, diet, family, gender and group dynamics, and other topics.
Films in the collection mainly document daily life, rituals, performances and festivals in Thai cities and villages where the Hanks researched. Audio recordings, some not produced by the Hanks, feature mostly Thai and Native American music.
Use of audio tapes requires production of listening copies.
Access to original films requires special equipment and is available by appointment only.
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Use of audio tapes requires production of listening copies.
Access to original films requires special equipment and is available by appointment only.
Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Note: copyrights for materials not created by Hanks have not been transferred; restrictions may exist on copying, quotation or duplication for these materials. Contact Special Collections for details.
There are also four German films in the collection, labeled "J. T. Band" or "J.T. Fassung". It appears that Jane and/or Lucien Hanks may have translated or narrated the English version of these films. Their scripts, along with English translations, are included, as well as an audio recording of the narrative soundtracks.
Other audio recordings mainly feature Thai and Native American music. Thai classical and folk music are represented, as well as radio play and readings of Thai literature. One Bang Chan-related tape is included, and two of the cassette tapes are commercially produced. American Indian recordings feature Comanche, Taos, San Carlos and Mescalero Apache, Mohave, Zuni, Navajo, Hopi, and Sioux, many of which are credited to Laura C. Boulton as the recorder. Audio from Burma and Bali is also present, along with two lectures, from Bennington College (1977) and SUNY Albany (1971).
From first seven reels Tribal, Mae Rim, Meo, Lahuno wedding, Meo dance, Yao wedding, Akha dance
Outtakes from New Year's Film. People off to fields to pick wheat? most in costume of dark blue with turban-like headdresses and red garland-like blouse fronts. People sitting under a tree. Boys having a water fight in the village street. Men making an object^pyramid about 1 ft high. Assorted village activity, men & women carrying poles to build a house
brittle, but not fragile/brittle, leader needed at end and more at head
Subject: Blackfoot Indians of Canada [crossed out in red ink, annotated above with Lahushi Lahushi]. Overview of village, people going off, some in very ornate costume, rifles going off, women filling kettles from water pipe, boys cleaning guns, firing guns, women going off with kettles, man arranging people in a line, man beating gong, totems with a mantle on which loaves of bread ? have been placed, a very high pole with streamers, people with baskets of bread?, piper playing, people gathered around totems and pole, pouring of water from kettles around totems and pole, placing bread? Upon mantle, man with a lit taper puts it into totem, he places bread?, places another lit paper in the totem, men squatting beating gongs, boys firing guns, people rise, man plays pipes, dancing around pole, some holding hands
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Subject: Southeast Asia- Thailand-Rural. Boats full of people going down canal, inside hut people presenting offerings before seated monks. Boat races; rice fields; mother & 3 children outside grass-roof hut; man in boat paddling off from hut, stops & waves to boy who fetches father, conversation, goes off; In a rice field a man lights a stick of incense, puts it into the ground, prays; begins to sickle rice and tie into bunches; row of workers in the rice fields; two women paddle off in a boat in an adjacent canal; workers go off in a line to a hut; 2 women & a child gather cut rice, put them on barges and pole away; bunches are removed from boats & thrown on piles; it’s fluffed up with rakes and poles; a team of water buffalo are led around in a circle, ? tromping on a pile of rice
Brittle, very bad condition, scratchy, yellow
Subject: Southeast Asia - Thailand - rural - rice milling - a funeral - Bang Chan water buffalo being led through ha pile of rice; men heaping mounds of unthrashed rice; hand operated mill; tall stacks of rice; old man carrying basket on end of pole into rice field, plants a flag, prays, cuts rice, wraps it into small bunches, cuts bunch, goes back out; filling barge with cut rice; paddling barge down canal. Procession through field with one flag, palm leave [sic], townspeople with wrapped up objects; man outside hut talking to gathering through mike; people standing around; [handwritten arrow pointing right] [typewritten, verso] two men drinking alcoho?[sic]; bowls & plates spread out on mats; 2 men dueling, one with bamboo pole, other with fists; people pour water on monks feet before they enter hut; inside hut, alter[sic] with flashing lights & photo of deceased; monks filing inside, stand before long table & remove individual packets; a man in black prays, touching forehead to long cord; everyone proceeds to cremation stand; the bier is placed; everyone passes before it; it’s set afire.
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Bangkok, kites, temple ruins. Bankok[sic] river boats-work, passenger, house, road to large home; Jaguar sedan drives up; Mrs. Hanks, son and a gentleman sitting on the porch; gardener with sythe[sic]; men erecting in the yard on a post a small (bird-house size) shrine?, incense, offerings put on shelf next to it, man prays, a man annoints[sic] it with water which he continues to throw out in handfuls across the lawn. Kite flying in a city field, boys & men; a parade of groups of men & women in uniform. Buddhist temple steps; ornate wooden building, roof, portal, fresco; approach to temple. (spires look like pinecones); Hanks boy climbing steps; spires; frieze, hallways, view from across pond; ancient statuary, portals, relief figures; tour group? in surrounding woods; Buddha, murals.
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Street dancing in a circle, men & women instreet [sic] clothes, all ages, pole-stepping dance, flute music, several drums. Exhibition field of dancers, mostly women in costume, some with switches, tapers on fingers, bunches of wheat?, three-barrelled [sic] flutes. Small group of young men dancing, followed by their musicians. Canopy surrounded by people watching 3 women and a young girl dance, very ornate brocade dress, and spire-type headpieces
Brittle and scratchy
Street dancing in a circle, men & women instreet [sic] clothes, all ages, pole-stepping dance, flute music, several drums. Exhibition field of dancers, mostly women in costume, some with switches, tapers on fingers, bunches of wheat?, three-barrelled [sic] flutes. Small group of young men dancing, followed by their musicians. Canopy surrounded by people watching 3 women and a young girl dance, very ornate brocade dress, and spire-type headpieces
Good
New Year's Festival. Preparation of shrine-like float, Procession of floats on boys [sic] backs through village, Burning of dragon float, Rows of women dancers, gold headdresses Double ferris wheel rigs with people riding, one man turning it, Villagers in procession, some beating drums, Women venders [sic], Red & White flag procession Spectators, Boys and men dueling in pairs in pens, using palm? leaves and shields, spectators, Elevated gallery of women, gold headdress, People being annointed [sic] on backs by man with a bowl of liquid
Good, could use more leader
Town, noys playing, temple steps, roof, river valley, young women up steps, bronze icons interior temple, bronze fresco relief, women, boats getting off, boys digging. Out of Focus.Village street, launching of bird kite, streetside activity, vender [sic] stands. Houseboat, produce market
English Translation. On reel (paper label): Moyu , Eine Liebesgschicte Aus Siam
English version . On reel (paper label): Phi Tong Luang
English Translation. On Reel: Hans Berthel. Inside box: 2 manuscripts, typewriten pages, photocopies, some with handwritten notes, translation courtesy of Mrs. June Barrows, loose, 78 pages
English Translation, Phi Tong Luang Bild
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Miscellany, Bang Chan. A funeral? Bang Chan 1. [typewritten, recto] Thai women giving wrapped up offerings? to men who place them inside a hut 2nd floor; a woman talking thru [sic] mike to gathering; people going into a reed-fenced enclosure; a man smoking a pipe, men smoking cigarettes; men moving a machine; monks entering a temple or shrine; alter [sic]; people sitting in prayer; monk reciting from an elevated chair; man lighting tapers on table of offerings?; monk reciting, gets off chair & goes up to alter [sic] platform; offerings? removed from table & placed before line of sitting monks on platform; people praying, approaching alter [sic]; they remove parts of it, including what appears to be a bier; procession outside around a shrine?; bier? placed inside; set afire; boats filled with people floating down a canal; people on docks as seen from a moving boat; women & children disembarking with wrapped, chalice-like objects; followed by Arabs?; young monks being anointed by people and carried off to steps; women standing with offerings?; group of men all ages with drums leading procession of women & men with offerings?, umbrellas; one man dancing; canoe on canal with bier?; monk in another canoe with miniature bier?; removal of large one to stand in front of a hut; small one placed next to it; monks enter temple; ceremony with long cord held by everyone; bier? carried off outside.
Color good, BW brittle
Color: Boat on canal with 2 women and a man, drinking tea; a family exits from hut, lines up before an official writing something on paper; people squatting in a circle, tagging small cloth bags which are put into a large container to soak; woman overturning straw? in a wooden trough; water buffalo pulling a field tool, in knee-deep flooded patty [sic]; workers cutting green rice; wrappin [sic] in sheaves, stacking on elevated shelves, putting sheaves to stand in patty [sic]; cutting off top of sheaves; line of workers with armloads of rice sheaves planting bunches in rows line of planters going off with shelves; ornate roof of a wooden municipal ? building with a flag out front; line of people dishing out a little cooked rice? into each in a long row of large bowls on a long table. Black and White: People disembarking from a boat and bringing food? into flag building; monks arrive; inside are people praying; children enter with trays of bowls of food; people going off in boats. Color: More people arriving in boats, enter building, putting food into line of large bowls; monks arrive; boys enter with food; monks leave; boats heavily laden with people, one with umbrella, palm leaves, decorated poles.
Samloci Eating
Procession, dance, personnel
Cornell Project. Topic feeding
Nai Hem ? last (Mr. Hem of Bang Chan 1953-55) (Pralunam?)
Sutin Dances, station in NE Mekong (river) area
rubberbanded as set (#30 -33) with paper label attached: [handwritten, blue pen] All Tribal, on North Border of Thailand 1963-979 Akha, Lahu, Lisu, Karen, Yao And Miao (=Hmong). On paper box (paper label): [handwritten, black pen] Meo Songs and Music. Recorded at Pha Phu Chom in 1963. Labeled tapes 2, 3, and 4.On paper box (paper label): [handwritten, black pen] Mae Char Expedition 1963. On paper box: [handwritten, blue pen] Thai radio (awful!), but In middle is some kind of Khaen music as played over the radio very scratchy, lots of Elvis Presley
Pha Phu Chom sure, Tape 3
Tape 2
Tape 4
Recording at USIS, Bangkok June 15, 1954 with Phai Thun as singer. Her orchestra brought over by Khru Lek Kunjara from Prince Narai (?)'s Palace I, very fine.
Recording at USIS, Bangkok June 15, 1954 with Phai Thun as singer. Orchestra brought over by Khru Lek Kunjara, -from Prince Narai's Palace. His private orchestra, II, very fine
Chuy Chay Khru Leg & Kamon
Thai Classical Music 7-8} lam mae bod Thephanom (si na) (the dance "alphabet".) June 16, 1954. Lam mae bod the pha nom.
NO ID must listen, maybe a Thai classical tape
Taken from Laura Boulton recordings.
Recorded at some all night performance by man in music store when Jane and Lucien Hanks visited Bali the first time- either June 1974 or June 1968
Thai Music, I Invocation, II Song & Orch, III Mo Iam, ? Toby's Dance, auchter. Dan Boepple. Kham playing.
From Howard Kaufman to Jane Hanks.
Mr. Tranh An Dinh. A tape of a lecture on village and general Vietnamese life, given as Anthro 345 (a course at SUNY Albany)
I have no memory of who Auchter was (Auchter done)
No ID. Lucien Hanks worked for a while in Bennington VT with some mentally retarded persons- this may have been a talk. Russian reccords, Bone. Bach
J. T. Fassung Moyu, Tape Moyu, JT Band
Opium, Tape, J. T. Fassung, JT Band
J. T. Fassung, Kopic. JT Band
J. T. Misdeims?, JT Band
A Burmese prince who lives in the USA (or Canada?). Chao Tzeng Yanghwe: Burma AAS- 4-3-92
Invocation 1-6. 7-8, Rama 1-2. Thai Music tape 1
Two tapes of Thai music to go to the Pacific Rim Group/Seattle- one is sung by the Princess Royal of Thailand. Side A: Jane R Hanks lecture with slides, sacret architecture and art of Southeast Asia (countries mentioned: Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, and Laos) 27 Nov 1972. Side B: P. Trudeau 4/20/72
San Ildefonso- corn dance, Comanche Song. Taos-Horse stealing song. Side 1: Taos- Taos, New Mexico. Drum with male chorus. Recorded by Laura C Boulton. Side 2: San Ildefonso, New Mexico. Band 1- corn dance, drum with male solo. Band 2- Comanche song. Drum with male chorus.
Side 1: Papago-Sells Agency Arizona. Medicine song, Rattle- male solo. Girl's puberty ceremony. Rattle- two men. Recorded b y Laura C. Boutlong. Side 2: Pima-Gila Crossing, Arizona. Social Dance, drume- two men. Recorded by Laura C. Boulton.
Side 1: Sun greeting ceremony. Sung by a group of San Carlos Apache Indians. A Candelario recording. Side 2: Apache mountain spritis dance. Sung by a grou of Mescalero Aparche Indians. A Candelario.
Side 1: Santa Ana, New Mexico, Band 1: drum dance, bells and drum with male chorus. Band 2: Midnight dance, drum and bells with male chorus. Side 2: Mohave-Parker, Arizona. Band 1: Bird song, gourd rattle, 2 men, one woman. Band 2: Ailsha, gourd rattle, male solo.
Side 1: A Squaw Dance- Navajo. Drum with male chorus. Lukachukai, Arizona. Recorded by Laura C Boulton. Side 2: Night chant- Navajo. Gourd rattles with male chorus. Lukachukai Arizona. Recorded by Laura C. Boulton.
Side 1: Zuni, New Mexico. Harvest Dance. Gourd rattle, bells and drum with male chorus. Recorded by Laura C Boulton. Side 2: Hopi- Hotevilla, Arizona. Mudhead Kachina. Rattle and drum with male chorus. Recorded by Laura C Boulton
Side 1: Sioux peyote cult song and love song. Male voice, water-drum, gourd rattle. Side 2: Sioux love song, solo flute. Sioux honoring song, mixed chorus, drum.
Side 1: Riding song, mixed chorus. Song of happiness, children chorus, drum, harmonica. Side 2: Spinning dance, female voice. Cord grinding song, female voice, basket drum.
Side 1: Sioux rabbit dance, male chorus, female voice, drum. Side 2: Sioux sun dance and Sioux-Omaha dance, male chorus, eagle bone, whistle, drum.
Side 1: Apache San Carlos, Arizona. "Horse" dance, drum with male chorus. Recorded by Laura C Boulton. Side 2: Apache, Mescalero, Arizona. Crown dance, drum with male chorus. Recorded by Laura C. Boulton.
Side 1: Navajo Squaw dance, male chorus and drum. Silversmiths dance, male chorus and anvil. Side 2: Navajo night chant, male chorus and gourd rattles. Ethnic Folkways record. Recorded at Pine Springs, Arizona and Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado
Side 1: Squaw dance song, sung by a chorus of Navajo Indians. A Calendario recording. Side 2: Yeibichai, sung by a chorus of Navajo Indians. A Calendario recording
Side 1: Hopi Butterfly song, sung by a Hopi Indian chorus. A Calendario recording. Side 2: Hopi War song, sung by a Hopi chorus. A Calendario recording.