Published: 1931-1986. -- Indexes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository. -- Description: ca. 28 linear ft.; Papers and artifacts organized into eleven series. -- Subject: Contains correspondence and other materials relating to Wasson's career as an amateur mycologist and author. Also contains correspondence relating to etymological, literary, and political interests. With his wife, Valentina, and mycologist Roger Heim, Wasson researched the ceremonial use of mushrooms by the Mazatec Indians of Mexico in the 1950's. Wasson was a research fellow in Ethnopharmacology at the Harvard Botanical Museum. -- Notes: Persons noted or whose materials are included in this collection: Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) and George F. (George Frost) Kennan (1904-2005). Extensive Rumanian and Czechoslovakian mushroom stamp collection. Some material concerns mushrooms in Eastern Europe (Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, etc.). His wife Valentina (Tina; 1901-1959) wrote a book entitled Mushrooms, Russia and history (New York : Pantheon Books, 1957). -- Cite as: Tina and Gordon Wasson Ethnomycological Collection. Economic Botany Library, Harvard University. -- Online finding aid: http://www.huh.harvard.edu/libraries/wasson.htm
