The Charles Hughes Collection consists of his field notes and files from his anthropological research on St. Lawrence Island as well as a personal narrative of William W. Field, M.D. describing his experiences on St. Lawrence Island. Observations of both include descriptions of local customs as well as linguistic, dietary, medical, subsistence, kinship, and climate information from the area. This collection also includes a copy of the Hotovitzsky translation of L.A. Zagoskin's travels in Russian America, letters, reprints, and a translation of Fainberg's "On the question of the Eskimo kinship system" by Charles Hughes. It also contains drawings by Florence Napaaq Malewotkuk, a transcription of the diaries (1904-1911) of Edgar O. Campbell, the U.S. Commissioner stationed at St. Lawrence Island, as well as transcripts of the diaries of others stationed on the island in the early 1900's. The collection also includes photocopies of Hughes's filed books held at the University of Utah.