The Papers of H. Otley Beyer comprise correspondence, programs, photographs, maps, notebooks, articles, drafts of books, printed materials, theses, undergraduate students' work, conference papers, newspaper cuttings, charts, genealogies and other papers. The collection 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. The bound volumes in the collection contain 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. The volumes include some theses written in the early 1950s on Philippine ethnography (100 boxes, 185 v., 4 elephant folios).
Henry Otley Beyer was Professor of Anthropology, and the founder and first chairman of the Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines. He was also a collector of original source material on the ethnography of the Philippines, Chinese ceramics, local pottery and rare Filipiniana.
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