Northern
Virginia Folklife Archive
George
Mason University
Accession Form
File # 2010-
Title of Project:
Date material was collected: (as specific as possible)
Date project was finished:
Summary of Project's Text and Context: ( Please begin with "Fieldworker collects . . .")
Name of Fieldworker:
Gender of fieldworker:
Age of fieldworker:
Ethnicities of fieldworker (Don't use "Asian," "Causasian," "Latino," etc; list specific ethnicities):
Nationality of fieldworker (if not born a citizen of USA):
Birthplace of fieldworker (town / state [spelled out] / nation):
Religious background of fieldworker:
Occupations of fieldworker:
Name of Informant:
Informant's relationship to collector:
Gender of informant:
Age of informant:
Ethnicities of informant (Don't use "Asian," "Causasian," "Latino," etc; list specific ethnicities):
Nationality of informant (if not born a citizen of USA):
Birthplace of informant (town / state [spelled out] / nation):
Birthdate of informant:
Religious background of informant:
Occupations of informant:
Places where material was collected (town, state [spelled out], country if outside USA):
Places mentioned in material collected (town, state [spelled out], country if outside USA):
List terms that will help researchers find your fieldwork; include terms that are narrow and increasingly broad in scope.
Era related Keywords: (List prominent historical epochs or earliest decade referred to in this collection. Examples are WWI, WWII, Depression, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 2000s, etc. If decade is unknown, use century: 1700s, 1800s, 1900s).
Folk Genre Keywords: (examples: Narrative: personal, family, legend; Song; Belief; Proverb; Festival: Halloween, birthday; Foodways; Art: quilting, carving; Others)
Folk Group Keywords: (examples: Family; Ethnic: Greek American, African American; Occupation: firefighter; Sports: baseball; Gender; Sexualities; Others)
Motif, Issue, and Cultural Practice Keywords: (examples: apples, bear, car, water, death, murder, changes in tradition, hybridity)
Additional: ______Audio tapes _______Photographs (hard copy) _______ Digital copy of paper ______Photographs (jpg, etc) _______Website _______Video tapes
Restrictions, if any, placed on the use of this collection:
Archive Use only:
Date that this accession sheet information was keyed into computer:
Person who keyed in this collection:
--updated 17 January 2009
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