The Department of Anthropology records contain correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, memoranda, invoices, meeting minutes, fiscal records, annual reports, grant applications, personnel records, receipts, and forms. The topics covered in the materials include collections, exhibits, staff, conservation, acquisitions, loans, storage and office space, administration, operations, research, budgets, security, office procedures, and funding. The materials were created by members of the Section of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, the Division of Anthropology of the United States National Museum, the Office of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History, and the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History and range in date from before the founding of the Smithsonian Institution to today. The Department of Anthropology records also contain some materials related to the Bureau of American Ethnology, such as documents from the River Basin Surveys.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
This collection is arranged in 28 series: (1) Correspondence, 1902-1908, 1961-1992; (2) Alpha-Subject File, 1828-1963; (3) Alpha-Subject File, 1961-1975; (4) Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Subject Files, 1967-1968; (5) River Basin Survey Files, 1965-1969; (6) Research Statements, Proposals, and Awards, 1961-1977 (bulk 1966-1973); (7) Publication File, 1960-1975; (8) Memoranda and Lists Concerning Condemnations, 1910-1965; (9) Notebook on Special Exhibits, 1951-1952 (10) Section on Animal Industry; (11) Administrative Records, 1891-1974; (12) Administrative Records, 1965-1994 (bulk 1975-1988); (13) Fiscal Records, 1904-1986; (14) Annual Reports, 1920-1983; (15) Chairman's Office Files, 1987-1993; (16) Division of Archaeology, 1828-1965; (17) Division of Ethnology, 1840s, 1860-1972, 1997; (18) Division of Physical Anthropology; (19) Division of Cultural Anthropology, 1920-1968; (20) Records of the Anthropological Laboratory/Anthropology Conservation and Restoration Laboratory, 1939-1973; (21) Collections Management, 1965-1985; (22) Photographs of Specimens and Other Subjects (Processing Laboratory Photographs), 1880s-1950s; (23) Exhibit Labels, Specimen Labels, Catalog Cards, and Miscellaneous Documents, circa 1870-1950; (24) Antiquities Act Permits, 1904-1986; (25) Ancient Technology Program, circa 1966-1981; (26) Urgent Anthropology; (27) Records of the Handbook of North American Indians; (28) Personnel; (29) Repatriation Office, 1991-1994
The Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1846. Although there was no department of anthropology until the creation of the Section of Ethnology in 1879, anthropological materials were part of the Smithsonian's collection from its foundation. The Section of Ethnology was created to care for the rapidly growing collection. In 1881, the United States National Museum was established. Soon thereafter, in 1883, it was broken up into divisions, including the Division of Anthropology. In 1904, Physical Anthropology was added to the Division.
The Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) was created in 1879 as a research unit of the Smithsonian, separating research from collections care. However, during the 1950s, research became a higher priority for the Department of Anthropology and, in 1965, the BAE was merged with the Department of Anthropology to create the Office of Anthropology, and the BAE's archives became the National Anthropological Archives (NAA).
In 1967, the United States National Museum was broken up into three separate museums: the Musuem of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History), the National Museum of American Art, and the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). The Office of Anthropology was included in NMNH and was renamed the Department of Anthropology in 1968.
New divisions were added to the Department, including the Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA) in 1981, the Research Institute on Immigration and Ethnic Studies (RIIES) in 1982, and the Repatriation Office in 1993. In 1983, the Smithsonian opened the Museum Support Center (MSC) in Suitland, Maryland, as offsite housing for collections with specialized storage facilities and conservation labs.
The Department of Anthropology is currently the largest department within NMNH. It has three curatorial divisions (Ethnology, Archaeology, and Biological Anthropology) and its staff includes curators, research assistants, program staff, collections specialists, archivists, repatriation tribal liaisons, and administrative specialists. It has a number of outreach and research arms, including the Repatriation Office, Recovering Voices, Human Origins, and the Arctic Studies Center.
The Museum is home to one of the world's largest anthropology collections, with over three million specimens in archaeology, ethnology, and human skeletal biology. The NAA is the Smithsonian's oldest archival repository, with materials that reflect over 150 years of anthropological collecting and fieldwork. The HSFA is the only North American archive devoted exclusively to the collection and preservation of anthropological film and video.
National Museum of Natural History. "Department of Anthropology: About" Accessed April 13, 2020. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/research/anthropology/about
National Museum of Natural History. "History of Anthropology at the Smithsonian." Accessed April 13, 2020. https://naturalhistory.si.edu/sites/default/files/media/file/history-anthropology-si.pdf
National Museum of Natural History. "History of the Smithsonian Combined Catalog." Accessed April 13, 2020 https://sirismm.si.edu/siris/sihistory.htm
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This collection is ongoing and more recent accruals have not been processed.
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Encoded by Katherine Christensen, March 2020
Department of Anthropology Records, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
This collection was transferred to the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) by the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Anthropology in multiple accessions.
The NAA holds collections of former head curators and department chairs, including the papers of Otis Tufton Mason, Walter Hough, T. Dale Stewart, Waldo Rudolph and Mildred Mott Wedel, Saul H. Riesenberg, Clifford Evans, and Donald J. Ortner; the photographs of Frank Maryl Setzler; and the Richard B. Woodbury collection of drawings of human and animal figures.
Other related collections at the NAA include the papers of Gordon D. Gibson, Eugene I. Knez, and Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans; and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Center for the Study of Man, and the River Basin Surveys.
This series is arranged in 20 sub-series: (1.1) Press Books of Outgoing Correspondence, 1902-1908, 1961-1992; (1.2) T. Dale Stewart Papers, 1961-1962; (1.3) Saul H. Risenberg Papers, 1962-1967; (1.4) Richard B. Woodbury Papers, 1965-1970; (1.5) Correspondence, 1965-1970; (1.6) Outgoing Correspondence, 1968-1969; (1.7) Reading File Maintained by Secretary, 1965-1966; (1.8) Gordon D. Gibson Papers, 1958-1982; (1.9) Clifford Evans, 1952-1975; (1.10) Correspondence Files, 1956-1968; (1.11) Correspondence Files, 1966-1972; (1.12) Secretary's Reading Files, 1966-1972; (1.13) Memoranda of the Anthropology Staff, 1963-1972; (1.14) Memoranda from Smithsonian Administrators, 1964-1971; (1.15) Memoranda and Other Material Circulated to the Staff, 1965-1973; (1.16) Memoranda Concerning Cooperation and Services of Other Smithsonian Units, 1965-1972; (1.17) Chairman's Office Reading Files, 1975-1979; (1.18) Correspondence Files, 1975-1985; (1.19) Chairman's Memos and Letters, 1980-1983; (1.20) Chairman's Memos and Letters, Reading File, 1982-1992
Arranged chronologically.
In script to page 25; Balance Blank.
The folders in this sub-series were maintained by T. Dale Stewart while he served as Head Curator, Department of Anthropology, U.S. National Museum. They include letters with a few telegrams, announcements, programs, grant applications, manuscripts, receipts, photographs, and miscellaneous other material.
Although the file was maintained when Stewart was head curator, a relatively small amount relates directly to functions peculiar to that office. In general, most concerns Stewart's activities as a physical anthropologist. During this period he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Science, was engaged in scientific work on skeletal material from Shanidar, was involved in programs for anthropology in Latin America, was physical anthropological editor for the
Selected correspondents include the American Anthropological Association, Taha Baquir, William M. Bass, Charles Loring Brace, Carleton S. Coon, Karl P. Curtis, Clifford Evans, F. Clark Howell, W. W. Howells, A. V. Kidder, Juan Munizaga, M. Prokopec, Erik K. Reed, Charles Snow, Ralph Solecki, James V. Taylor, Gus Van Beek, and John Witthoft (interfiled with the latter are letters of H. Geiger Omwake). Material requiring special mention include an article prepared for the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Science in America entitled "Aleš Hrdlička: Pioneer American Physical Anthropologist"; photographs of Stewart and other taken in Czechoslovakia (filed Prokopec); a photograph of James H. Skinner (filed Solecki); and Kidder's brief remembrances of Hrdlička.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent, institution, or subject.
See also: T. Dale Stewart papers.
This sub-series includes mostly outgoing material with a few incoming items. Most material dates from Riesenberg's tenure as curator-in-charge of the Division of Cultural History, but some material dates from his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Anthropology. Topics covered include exhibits, personnel, loans, conservation, storage and office space, editorial work, and miscellaneous administrative business. There is also some material reflecting Riesenberg's research activities and relations with colleagues. Selected correspondents include William Alkire, Frederick J. Dockstader, Roland Force, John L Fischer, Ian W. Keyes, William A. Lessa, and Donald S. Marshall.
The memoranda are arranged chronologically and the letters are arranged alphabetically.
See also: Saul H. Riesenberg papers.
Office Files include letters, memoranda, reports, research proposals, contracts, accounting records, and notes. They contain information on the organization of special programs in Anthropology, relations with other units of the Institution and with federal units outside the Institution, general policies of the Smithsonian, personnel matters, problems in funding research, and research activities by the staff.
Office files are arranged alphabetically and correspondence is arranged by copies of letters, memoranda, drafts, and letters to Woodbury's secretary.
The material in this sub-series consists of copies of outgoing letters, memoranda, and minutes with a few in-coming letters.
This file was maintained by Woodbury's secretary. The majority is composed of documents accumulated immediately after he left the position as director of the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology. In addition to his normal curatorial duties and other professional interests, during this period Woodbury was the Smithsonian representative on the Committee for the Recovery of Archeological Remains, the Smithsonian representative on the Board of Directors of the Human Relations Area Files, advisor on applications made under the Antiquities Act, the chairman of a departmenal committee on the publication of research by Frank H. H. Roberts Jr., the chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the River Basin Surveys, a member of the Smithsonian Editorial Policy Committee, and a member of the Smithsonian Steering Committee for Anthropology that was involved with educational activities and training. There are also small amounts of material concerning the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Historical Archeology, and Woodbury's relationship with anthropologists and amateurs outside the Institution. There is some reference correspondence amd material relating to accessions of specimens.
There is not a great amount of material sent to any one person. Correspondents include such people as David F. Aberle, John Adair, J. O. Brew, Stephen F. Borgheyi, Wesley Breedlove Jr., Warren W. Caldwell, E. Mott Davis, Frederick J. Dockstader, Robert F. Heizer, Robert H. Lister, Robert L. Stephenson, and Gwinn Vivian.
The memoranda include a report on the first annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archeology, reports of meetings of the directors of the Human Relation Area Files, and minutes of the River Basin Surveys Advisory Committee meetings on October 18 and November 2, 1967. Two drafts of letters (March 14, 1969, and July 10, 1969) are to Governor Robert E. Lewis of Zuni, and concern plans for a visitors center and museum at the pueblo. Letters to and from Wesley Breedlove (in 1968) largely concern the effort for salvage archeology in South Carolina.
This sub-series includes miscellaneous staff memoranda and correspondence.
Arranged chronologically.
Not yet included are Gibson's Himba fieldnotes and his research for the Hall of African Cultures (circa 1960-1965).
See also: Gordon D. Gibson papers.
This sub-series is largely administrative in nature. Material consists of staff memos concerning office procedures, housekeeping matters, staffing, and reports of meetings attended.
Arranged alphabetically.
See also: Clifford Evans papers.
This sub-series includes incoming and outgoing letters, memoranda, and telegrams. It also includes some manuscript articles for publication, research proposals, administrative forms, and printed and processed material. There are many outgoing letters for which there are no related incoming letters included.
The materials broadly concern the operations of the department, including staffing and personnel matters, review of manuscripts to be published by staff members, services and personnel matters, services to the general public, arrangements for visiting research, professional activities of the staff, and facilitation of staff research. Some of the material concerns efforts to reorganize anthropology at the Smithsonian and special programs of the department. Other material concerns the chairman's professional relations with colleagues.
Most of the outgoing correspondence is that of Waldo R. Wedel, Saul H. Riesenberg, and Richard B. Woodbury. Selected correspondents include Lawrence Angel, William M. Bass, John H. Brandt, J. O. Brew, John L. Cotter, Warren W. Caldwell, Marian Cavendish, Henri G. Coutais (restoration of the Catlin paintings), William O. Douglas, Robert C. Euler, Kent V. Flannery, Don D. Fowler, Melvin L. Fowler, Henry W. Hamilton, Robert F. Heizer, Eva Horner, Aleš Hrdlička (concerning the Hrdlička Fund), Robert B. Johnson, Marvin F. Kivett, Herbert W. Krieger, Alex D. Krieger, Robert M. Laughlin, Donald J. Lehmer, Alejandro Mendez, Thomas H. Koehler, Richard K. Meyer (donation of Spiro Mound material), Harold McCracken, Charles A. Reed, Charles M. Schwarz (regarding drawings by John Webber), Ralph S. Solecki, Robert L. Stephenson, Frank M. Setzler, and Sol Tax.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.
This sub-series consists mostly of correspondence to and from Chairmen Saul H. Risenberg and Clifford Evans. There are also copies of correspondence of staff members that were routed through the chairman or sent for his information. Matters of concern cover a broad range of subjects, but many focus on acquisitions and loans of specimens; arrangements for visiting researchers; research plans and proposals; inquiries about employment; and requests for information, assistance, and support from anthropologists and the general public. There is a small amount of material about the Base collection of Tibetan artifacts (filed Bose and Carmichael) and the Von der Heydt collection.
There are generally only a few items of correspondence with any one individual except for Sol Tax and Marvin E. Tong. There are many outgoing letters for which there are no related incoming ones.
Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or subject.
This sub-series consists of correspondence and memoranda to and from Chairmen Richard B. Woodbury and Saul H. Riesenberg. There are also copies of correspondence of staff members that were routed through the chairman or sent for his information. The subjects cover a broad range and include information on the daily operations of the department; the River Basin Survey; acquisitions and loans of specimens; staff publications; personnel; arrangements for visiting researchers; research plans and proposals; security issues concerning the collections; and requests for information, assistance, and support from anthropologists and the general public.
There are many outgoing letters for which there are no related incoming letters included.
Arranged chronologically.
Appropo to Chairman's office - minus Africa.
In addition to memoranda, this sub-series includes a few letters, manuscripts of articles, bibliographies, vitae forms, and administrative forms.
There are small amounts of material concerned with such matters as special assignments to committee and supervisory work, problems relating to the curation of collections, field work, review of papers for publication, research proposals, recommendations for department policies and procedures, leave requests, delegations of authority, educational activities, and the administration of special funds. There is a very small amount of material relating to the River Basin Surveys and the development of the Anthropology Conservation Laboratory. A significant amount of the material consists of communications of the chairman in order to keep the staff informed of general developments within the department, museum, and Institution.
Arranged alphabetically by the staff members' names.
Most of the memoranda in this sub-series are from the Director and Assistant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, or the Assistant Secretary for Science. There are also memoranda from the Office of Academic Studies, CAL, and other units. The subject matter includes general administrative policies and procedures, special events, special projects, work of individual staff members, exhibits, collections, storage, appointments of research associates, educational activities, and the Museum of Man.
Arranged alphabetically by writer.
This sub-series includes memoranda, correspondence, minutes, announcements, and research proposals circulated to the entire staff or to the scientific staff. Some items, however, had much more limited concern and circulation. Also included are reports of the chairman intended to keep the staff informed of developments in the department, museum, and institution; similar memoranda of Anthropology representatives on committees, unit supervisors, museum directors, the Secretary, and the Board of Regents; minutes of SOA staff meetings; and letters of Sol Tax.
Arranged chronologically.
The majority of the material in this sub-series is administrative in nature and concerns such matters as loans of specimens, alterations in exhibits, items sold in the museum shops, the Smithsonian publications program in anthropology, and the Smithsonian Foreign Currency Program.
Arranged alphabetically by organizational unit.
This sub-series is mainly comprised of memoranda (1975-1980) and correspondence (1976-1979) of Chairmen William Fitzhugh and Douglas H. Ubelaker and acting Chairman Herman J. Viola. There are also copies of correspondence of staff members that were routed through the chairman or sent for his information. Matters of concern cover a broad range of subjects and include information on the daily operations of the department; acquisitions and loans of specimens; staff publications; personnel; arrangements for visiting researchers; research plans and proposals; security issues concerning the collections; and requests for information, assistance, and support from anthropologists and the general public.
The memoranda files for 1980 are incomplete; there is one folder for March/April/May and nothing else.
Arranged chronologically.
This sub-series includes letters, memoranda, newspaper clippings, and other material.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject.
This sub-series is primarily comprised of the correspondence and memoranda of Chairmen Gus W. Van Beek and Douglas H. Ubelaker and acting Chairman William B. Trousdale. The files are incomplete. The records are largely administrative with information on personnel, accessions, visiting scholars, care and maintance of the collections, etc. and include statistical data for the department's annual report in 1978, 1979, and 1984 from William Crocker [1978 only] and the NAA. Additionally, there is a folder on a proposed exhibit by the Baltimore Zoological Society, Inc., and Dr. Ubelaker's role participating on the NEH panel that reviewed the proposal.
Arranged chronologically.
This sub-series includes miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda concerning administrative details.
This series includes letters, memoranda, lists, reports, forms, statements, printed material and photographs. It is composed of two different types of material. Part of it is administrative in nature and concerns policies and procedures, instructions, special activities, World War II, and housekeeping matters. Other material largely concerns accessions, loans, exhibits, and special projects and programs.
Many of the outgoing letters are those of William Henry Holmes, Walter Hough, and Frank M. Setzler. Other writers include John Leonard Baer (regarding the Marsh Darien Expedition), Howard W. Bible, James H. Breasted, Harry S. Bryan, Henry B. Collins, Leonard Carmichael, John C. Ewers (filed Catlin paintings and Museum of the Plains Indian), C. E. Cummings, Chauncey J. Hamlin, Herbert Maier (Buffalo Museum of Science), Ephraim Deinard, Frances Densmore, J. E. Graf, Ella F. Hubby, Mrs. R. G. Hoes, Mrs. R. R. Hoes, Mrs. Julian James, Mary Lois Kissell, Remington Kellogg, Edward S. Morse, A. P. Rice, W. de C. Ravenal (some regarding Holmes), Ellen P. Richardson, A. C. Smith, and Gertrude B. Warren.
The rare correspondence includes material of Matthew Stirling (regarding his 1926 work on the middle Rouffaer River, New Guinea), William Henry Holmes, Thomas Wilson (concerning difficulties with the catalog of anthropological collections), Walter Hough, S. K. Lothrop, Gerard Fowke, Aleš Hrdlička, Joseph K. Dixon, William Gates (regarding the 1926 meeting of the International Congress of Americanists), H. C. Shetrone, F. S. Dellenbaugh, Thomas S. Dawson (regarding information about John Moss), John Merriam, Warren K. Moorehead (concerning Cahokia Mound), Nels C. Nelson, and Max Uhle. There are also letters dating from 1920 between W. H. Holmes and F. W. Doge concerning problems with the AAA.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or subject.
This series includes correspondence and memoranda, announcements, administrative forms, research proposals, and printed and processed material. It is a hodgepodge of material with no focus. Information includes material concerning research proposals, exhibits, personnel, interns, acquisitions, property, services, conservation, and organization of the department. Much of it concerns relations with organizations and persons outside the Smithsonian. There is generally little material on any one subject.
Photographic material includes departmental personnel in groups, circa 1904, the 1930's, and 1960's. Some of the photographs were taken at ceremonies for presenting awards to the staff and to visiting scholars.
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent or by subject.
Arranged roughly by type of document or activity.
See also the River Basin Survey records.
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Generally arranged by project or researcher's name.
Portions of this series are restricted.
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This series is mainly comprised of the correspondence, memoranda and administrative records of department chairs William Fitzhugh (1975-80), Douglas Ubelaker (1980-1984), and, to a lesser extent, Adrienne Kaeppler (1985-1988).
This series is arranged in 7 sub-series: (12.1) Chairman's Office Files, 1971-1988; (12.2) Subject Files, 1971-1993; (12.3) Museums, 1978-1984; (12.4) Collections, 1966-1979; (12.5) Publications, 1965-1983; (12.6) Archives, 1971-1987; (12.7) Personnel, 1966-1987
See also the National Anthropological Archives records and the Human Studies Film Archives records.
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This series consists of invoices, budget estimates, budget justifications for the Smithsonian Institution with hadwritten annotations, computer read-outs, correspondence, funding requests, miscellaneous administrative documents concerning temporary personnel appointments as collaborators to the Department, etc.
Arranged chronologically.
This series include a narrative report of the head curator, later the Chairman of the Department, to the chief officer of the United States National Museum and reports of curators in charge of divisions to the head curator. Generally, the information contains reports for each scientific curator, covering their research, collecting activities, exhibits, education, publications, etc.; notable accessions and development plans for the department; report for integral units of the department; and visiting researchers. From 1920 to 1965, the annual reports are addressed to the Chief Officer of the United States National Museum. After 1965, they are addressed from the chairman of the Department to the director of the National Museum and, then, to the National Museum of Natural History. In several years, there are copies of the reports addressed to the Secretary of the Institution for Smithsonian Year.
Authors of the reports include Walter Hough, Frank M. Setzler, Waldo R. Wedel, Richard Woodbury, Gordon D. Gibson, Saul H. Riesenberg, Clifford Evans, Jr., Neil M. Judd, Herbert W. Kreiger, Ales Hrdlicka, T. Dale Stewart, Willaim H. Egberts, I.M. Casanowicz, Robert Evans, A. Joseph Andrews, J. Lawrence Angel, William H. Crocker, John C. Ewers, Willaim Fitzhugh, Eugene I Knez, Robert M. Laughlin, Donald J. Ortner, Dennis Stanford, Lucile St. Hoyme, William C. Sturtevant, R. H. Ives Goddard, Willaim Trousdale, Douglas H. Ubelaker, Gus Van Beek, Herman J. Viola, Davis W. Von Endt, Bethane M. Gibson, George E. Phebus, Edward G. Schumacher, Warren W. Caldwell, and Ruth Selig.
Arranged chronologically by fiscal year.
This series is mainly comprised of memoranda, correspondence and reports written and received during Donmald Ortner's tenure as department chair. It also includes memoranda and correspondence of Chair Adrienne L. Kaeppler (1985-1988), Deputy Chair Melinda A. Zeder (1988-1992), and acting Chairs Ives Goddard, Ivan Karp, Daniel Rogers and Gus Van Beek.
This series is arranged in 3 sub-series: (15.1) Memoranda and Correspondence, 1987-1993; (15.2) Subject Files, 1989-1990, undated; (15.3) Unarranged Material
This series includes the department's Office of Repatriation and the National Museum of the American Indian.
This series is arranged in 7 sub-series: (16.1) Annual Reports, 1886, 1898-1964; (16.2) Correspondence, 1931-1965; (16.3) Office Files, 1899-1951; (16.4) Reference Files, 1861-1916; (16.5) Reference Files, 1828-1962; (16.6) Subject Files, 1935-1964; (16.7) Miscellany
Mr. E. P. Upham
Includes illustrations, some by Mary Wright Gill, photographs, lists of California collections purchased, and annotated maps of California.
Archeological Material to be evaluated, 50 boxes, 3 ¼ unit cases (398+ cu. ft.) Mr. Judd
This series is arranged in 2 sub-series: (17.1) Manuscript and Pamphlet File; (17.2) Administrative Files, 1919-1965
For those who are searching for anthropologically substantive materials, special note should be made of the Manuscript and Pamphlet File. A potpourri of documents, the file includes correspondence, notes, drawings, maps, photographs, printed and processed materials, paper specimens, reports, writings, catalogs, motion picture film (now in the Smithsonian's Human Studies Film Archives), bibliographies, and other types of documents. Of concern is a wide variety of subjects such as anthropological specimens, museology and museums, Smithsonian history, archaeological and ethnological methods, exhibits, expeditions, history of anthropology, and so forth.
The file seems to have been maintained in the Division of Ethnology — in one document it was referred to as Herbert W. Krieger's morgue — and the subject matter is largely ethnological. Nevertheless, some documents relate to archeology and physical anthropology. The file also contains administrative materials, such as records relating to the Department of Anthropology's use of Work Projects Administration workers during the 1930s. In addition, the file is the main location of materials not generally accepted as being strictly anthropological in the modern sense. It includes, for example, material on period costumes, fish and fisheries, whaling, religions, armor, biblical studies, modern appliances, the seal industry, European music and musical instruments, lace, aeronautics, and other similar subjects. In addition, the file includes sets of papers of Edwin H. Hawley ,Walter Hough, Otis T. Mason, Talcott Williams and Thomas Wilson. Some documents, both primary and secondary research materials, concern the following cultural groups and geographic areas: Arabs, Bannock, Baubi, Blackfoot, British Columbia, Caddo, Carib, Chinook, Cochiti, Comanche, Cossacks, Cuna, Delaware, Diegueño, District of Columbia, Dyak, Eskimo, Europe, Fox, Goajira, Haida, Hawaii, Hittites, Hupa, India, Innuit, Iran, Ireland, Jamomadi, Japan, Jivaro, Kabyles, Kiowa, Kirghese, Klamath, Korea, Luiseño, Madagascar, Madiera, Maidu, Makah, Maori, Mataco, Maya, Micmac, Micronesia, Mission, Modoc, Mohave, Mongolia, Moro, Morocco, Naltunnetunne, Nanticoke, Narragansett, Navaho, New Guinea, Nez Perce, Nubia, Omaha, Onandaga, Osage, Oto, Papua, Parsee, Pawnee, Peru, Philippines, Pomo, Pueblo, Puerto Rico, Pygmies, Quichua, Quinaielt, Samoa, Sauk, Seminole, Seri, Shoshoni, Spain, Tahiti, Tesuque, Thailand, Texas, Tolowa, Tonga, Tulalip, Utah, Virginia, Washo, Wichita, Wintun, Yavapai, and Zuni.
The manuscript and pamphlet file is virtually a potpourri of documents, including correspondence, notes, drawings, maps, photographs, printed and processed materials, paper specimens, reports, writings, catalogs, motion picture film, bibliographies, and other types of documents. Of concern is a wide variety of subjects such as anthropological specimens, museology and museums, Smithsonian history, archeological and ethnological methods, exhibits, expeditions, history of anthropology, and so forth. The file seems to have been maintained in the Division of Ethnology--in one document it was referred to as being Herbert W. Krieger's morgue--and the subject matter is largely ethnological.
Some documents, however, concern archeology and physical anthropology. The file also contains some administrative materials--records relating to the Department of Anthropology's use of Work Projects Administration workers, for example. In addition, it is the main location of materials not generally accepted as being strictly anthropological in the modern sense. It includes, for example, material on the First Ladies' Gown exhibit now in the National Museum of American History, fish and fisheries, whaling, religions, armour, biblical studies, modern appliances, the seal industry, European music and musical instruments, lace, aeronautics, and other similar subjects.
The file includes the papers of many different persons. The file also includes sets of papers of Otis Tufton Mason, Walter Hough, Talcott Williams, Edwin H. Hawley, and Thomas Wilson. It includes documents, sometimes of a secondary nature, about the following cultural groups and geographic areas; Arabs, Bannock, Baubi, Blackfoot, British Columbia, Caddo, Chinook, Cochiti, Comanche, Cossacks, Cuna, Delaware, Diegueno, District of Columbia, Dyak, Eskimo, Europe, Fox, Goajira, Haida, Hawaii, Hittites, Hupa, India, Innuit, Iran, Ireland, Jamomadi, Japan, Jivaro, Kabyles, Kiowa, Kirghese, Klamath, Korea, Luiseno, Madagascar, Madeira, Maidu, Makah, Maori, Mataco, Maya, Micmac, Micronesia, Mission, Modoc, Mohave, Mongolia, Moro, Morocco, Naltunnetunne, Nanticoke, Narragansett, Navaho,
New Guinea, Nez Perce, Nubia, Omaha, Onandaga, Osage, Oto, Papua, Parsee, Pawnee, Peru, Philippines, Pomo, Pueblo, Puerto Rico, Pygmies, Quichua, Quinaielt, Samoa, Sauk, Seminole, Seri, Shoshoni, Spain, Tahiti, Tesuque, Thailand, Texas, Tolowa, Tonga, Tulalip, Utah, Virginia, Washo, Wichita, Wintun, Yavapai, and Zuni.
Includes correspondence with and about Charles Church Roberts' collection of African art and its exhibit.
Includes notes by Richard Lynch Garner on dance and divination among the Nkomi tribe and notes on miscellaneous other matters.
Includes printed material: "Exhibition of the Herbert Ward African Collection," 1922; "Belgian Congo at War as Seen by Andre Cauvin," exhibit, n.d.; and
Printed document
The exhibit was in the Natural History Building foyer and was presented under the auspices of the Belgian Information Center.
Includes a bibliography, mostly 19th century publications with sections on agriculture.
Clippings from newspapers and journals, including article and illustration of the Aspinwall potato planter, an illustration of an elephant drawing a plow, and other similar items.
Includes a partial inventory of USNM totem poles and a copy of letter of Thomas E. Winecoff re. discovery at Ft. Yukon in 1916 or 17 of burials using hollowed out logs as coffins.
Clippings, including illustrations of soldiers and of Prince Prinkdodee, President of the Provisional Albanian Government.
Includes illustrations of soldiers and of Prince Prinkdodee, President of the Provisional Albanian government.
Includes samples in Arabic and Roman alphabets.
Includes typed lists of G. P. Gaudet, B. R. Ross, R. McFarlane, and R. Kennicott collections.
Includes a photograph of Belestoma grandis by H. D. McGovern, ca. 1878; a note on Rhinoceros horn and use by "Hottentots," with sketches of tools made from the horn; a list of animals with their uses; a list of specimens purchased or to be purchased for USNM collection; a list of specimens of Fishery Section, with photograph; and W. H. Abbott notes on location of storage for specimens.
Includes notes on animal products and fish and fisheries, drawings and notes on specimens, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, exhibit labels, and so forth.
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Includes correspondence, 1880-93, of R. E. Earll, Charles W. Smiley, W. A. Wilcox, F. J. Kaldenberg. In part, on fisheries and fish; in part on collecting specimens for the museum.
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Includes letters of R. Edward Earll, Charles W. Smiley, H. D. McGovern, W. A. Wilcox, F. R. Kaldenberg, and others. Some of the letters are addressed to Spencer F. Baird, others to R. Edward Earll. Includes reports of research, acquisition of specimens, activities of the section of fisheries.
Includes M. Aug. Dumerill, "Animals Useful to Man: Program of a Course in Zootechny, or Applied Zoology."
Includes a catalog of cooper's tools collected in 1882 by James T. Brown from New Bedford whaling vessels, with copy of letter.
Includes "Products of the Animal Kingdom at the World's Fair"; "Description of Exhibit" of S. Oppenheimer and company, New York, at World's Fair; and exhibit labels.
Includes notes and clippings on architecture by E. H. Hawley.
Includes a newsletter, November 1972.
Includes a list of publications of various learned societies, with one note in hand of O. T. Mason.
Includes notes, around 1906, on need for systematic collecting, support for care of ethnological specimens by Walter Hough; review of BAE Annual Reports 5 and 6 that appeared in The Scottish Highlander, signed H. R. M., ca. 1890; and a photo of exhibit(?) map showing by illustrations the peopling and diverse native cultures of the Americas (#8137).
Includes Jesse Walter Fewkes to Otis T. Mason, June 18, 1891, on general activities of the Boston Society of Natural History; James C. Pilling to Mason, June 2, 1891, with list of Americans eminent in American linguistics; Charles C. Jones, Jr., to Mason, January 4, 1892, re Mason's wish to reconstruct Creek dwellings; Washington Matthews to Mason, June 28, 1891, re explorers, army officers, etc. who had contributed to ethnological studies; and Horatio Hale to Mason, July 30, 1891, resources of information on ethnological work.
Concerns the contribution of army officers to the study of American Indians.
See Mason's draft, GRSN 5855.
Autograph letter signed
United States -- New Mexico -- Fort Wingate
Concerns men eminent in American linguistics.
See Mason's draft, GRSN 5855.
Concerns the Boston Society of Natural History and anthropological work.
United States -- Arizona -- Hopi Pueblos
Concerns Mason's wish to build a model of a Creek village.
United States -- Georgia -- Augusta
Concerns sources on ethnological work.
See Mason's draft, GRSN 5855.
Canada -- Ontario -- Clinton
Includes a draft by Mason of part of a manuscript apparently prepared for the World's Columbian Exposition on the development of anthropology in the United States.
Draft of portion of work only. Prepared as introduction to catalog of exhibition at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Apparently relates to Mason's letters described in GRSN 5850, 5851, 5854.
Includes Richard Rathbun to Otis T. Mason, June 9, 1906, calling for a history of the divisions in the Department of Anthropology, with attached partial manuscript and notes.
Attached to letter, Richard Rathbun to Otis Tufton Mason, June 9, 1906, calling for a history of the divisions of the Department of Anthroplogy.
Includes a printed copy of Gen. George Crook to Herbert Welsh, Indian Rights Association, 7/16/84, re conditions and prospects of Apaches, with introduction by IRA.
Concerns the conditions and prospects of the Apaches. Includes introduction prepared by the Indian Rights Association.
Letter was originally published in Harper's Weekly, August 30, 1884
Includes printed material and a typed statement re appearance and dress of the Arab, perhaps for popular distribution.
Typed statement regarding the appearance and dress of the Arab. It was probably prepared for popular distribution.
Includes bibliographies for distribution to the public by the Smithsonian.
Consists of a set of mimeographed bibliographies apparently prepared for popular distribution.
Consists of a set of mimeographed bibliographies apparently prepared for popular distribution.
Includes A. E. Douglass to Otis T. Mason, June 3, 1890, on shell heap sites on the coast of Florida; J. D. McGuire to Mason, October 18, 1890, on shell heap habitations; and R. E. C. Stearns to Mason, October 28, 1890, on shell heaps on the west coast of the United States, species included.
Concerns shell heap sites on the coast of Florida.
Concerns McGuire's thoughts on shellheap habitation.
Concerns shell heaps on the west coast of the United States and names of species involved.
Includes a list of specimens in shell heaps on American coasts; notes on shell tools; notes on earthworks and mounds by Otis T. Mason; and processed material: Eugen Alexander's "Jenissei," "Karagussen," "Mongolen," "Samojeden," "Wogulen," "Soyoten".
Consists of notes from publications, lists, some printed material
The item appears to be an exhibit and sales catalog. Included is a brief sketch of the Yenesei Ostyak and a list of artifacts.
The artifacts were on exhibit in Leipzig in 1908-1909.
Dittograph document
The item appears to be an exhibit and sales catalog. Included is a brief sketch of the Karagas and a list of artifacts.
The items were exhibited in Leipzig in 1908-1909.
Dittograph document
The item appears to be an exhibit and sales catalog. It includes a brief sketch of the Mongolians and a list of artifacts.
The artifacts were on exhibit in Liepzig in 1908-1909.
Dittograph document
The item appears to be an exhibit and sales catalog. It includes a brief sketch of the Samoyeds and a list of artifacts
The items were on exhibit in Leipzig in 1908-1909.
Dittograph document
The item appears to be an exhibit and sales catalog. It includes a brief sketch of the Vogul and a list of artifacts.
The artifacts were on exhibit in Leipzig in 1908-1909.
Dittograph document
The item appears to be an exhibit and sales catalog. It includes a brief sketch of the Soyot and a list of artifacts.
The artifacts were on exhibit in Leipzig in 1908-1909.
Dittograph document
Includes photographs and illustrations. The article was published in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34.
ncluded is The Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments, the Beatitudes, and the 23rd Psalm. The document was printed for the Brookly Bible Society.
Mimeograph document
Includes a typescript copy and a manuscript copy.
Includes miscellany, mostly printed and processed material.
Includes an outline for "Field Archaeology: A Manual for Use in Eastern North America" by Committee on State Archeological Surveys, National Research Council, and Steven M. Spencer, "They're Exposing America's Oldest Secrets" Sat. Eve. Post, May 8, 1954 re RBS.
Concerns the River Basin Surveys.
Includes charts and illustrations of European prehistoric cultures.
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Includes catalogs and magazines.
Includes clippings.
Includes George Cameron Stone, "Classified Index to Arms and Armor."
Carbon copy of typescript document
Includes Walter Hough, "Armor of the North American Aborigines"; notes by Hough and others, worldwide; sketches; labels; H. W. Henshaw to Hough, n.d., offering use of his material; photographs, including Ossetes, Ginwani, Caucasus, #178,328; and vocabulary of terms.
Includes notes, lists, vocabulary, photographs, sketches, letters, manuscript, exhibit labels, printed materials. Most is by Walter Hough.
Henshaw offers Hough his material collected on armour
Concerns Eskimo armour
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Includes printed material.
Includes a list of USNM specimens of bows and arrows and tools for arrow makers, with accession numbers, tribe, and collector.
Includes R. S. Geuve to W. H. Holmes, 1/5/99, transmitting letters and photos; E. Gughelmini to S. P. Langley, 12/4/98, offering collection for sale; a description of items in collection; and 15 photographs with descriptions on back.
The letter (an English translation) involves an offer to sell Gughelmini's collection of arms. Enclosures include a statement about the collection and photographs of objects in it.
Includes a clipping.
Includes a copy of John Mathew's article, "The Cave Paintings of Australia; their authorship and significance."
Includes Walter Hough's article clipped from BAE Bulletin 30.
Includes photographs by Albert Ernest Jenks: "Winnowing the Grain"; "Mococks, birch-bark baskets"; photographs of houses and canoes, without captions; and drawings illustrating Franz Boas' "Kwakiutl Indians," USNM Report, 1895, and W. J. Hoffman's article in BAE 7th Annual Report.
One image shows a woman winnowing grain; the other shows birchbark baskets.
The images show a birch bark canoe and a birch bark lodge.
Illustrations of the use of bark from Franz Boas's "Kwakiutl Indians," United States National Museum Repoort, 1895, and W. J. Hoffman's "The Midewiwin," Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Includes letters, mostly to Otis T. Mason from C. E. Rumsey, October 5, 1902; Annie B. Picher, November 30, 1901, and February 10, 1902; C. P. Wilcomb, Dec. 14, 1901, and January 9, 1902; C. Hart Merriam, December 29, 1901; Grace Nicholson June 24, July 26, and August 8, 1902; Lilian O'Hara, July 3, 1902; Brousse Brizard, July 17, 1902; Anne M. Long, May 19, 1903; Charles F. Newcombe, January 28, 1904, with photograph of British Columbian basket; Marcus Benjamin, 8/5/07; Dr. F. Lehmann, August 23, 1907; and Fidella G. Woodcock, October 20, 1908, and January 7, 1909 (to Walter Hough), with some replies.
The letters, mostly addressed to Otis Tufton Mason, are from C. E. Rumsey, Annie B. Picher, C. P. Wilcomb, Clinton Hart Merriam, Gracer Nicholson, Lilian O'Hara, Brousse Brizard, Anne M. Long, Charles F. Newcombe, Marcus Benajamin, and Fidella G. Woodcock. Newcombe's letter is accompanied by a photographs of a British Columbia basket.
Includes a catalog: "Indian Basket Collection of the Late Professor and Mrs. T. S. G. Lowe, of Pasadena, California.
Generally included is the type of basket, a number, measurements, tribe, and state.
Includes "George Wharton James' Model Indian Basket Designs," Supplements to
The sheets are supplements to several issues of the periodical "The Basket"
Includes manuscripts and a letter. E. L. McLeod to Otis T. Mason, September 14, 1902, with notes on Paiute of Kern County, California, mainly terms for different types of baskets; draft: Walter Hough, "A Cache of Basket Maker Baskets from New Mexico (published in the
Includes notes on the Paiute of Kern County, California and many Paiute terms for baskets.
Includes notes, newspaper clippings, vocabularies, etc. re baskets, mostly those of the American Indian, some on Malaysia, collected by O. T. Mason.
The article was published in the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 81, number 10, 1932.
Includes two uncaptioned photographs and map of Shasta-Hupa area of California.
Includes a photograph of Indian basket and other artifacts at the Emporium, a portrait of and note about Dat So La Lee, pictures of two baskets, and a Washo word list. The last page is a form that has been completed with information about a Klamath basket.
Includes printed material.
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Sally McLendon has provided the following: Photo #7563 by G. R. W. Notman is one of a series of photos sent Mason in 1899 by the Misses Eaton of Boston. The baskets were collected in Calfironia by William Alden Gale, who died in Bason April 15, 1841. He saled as clerk of the Albatross from Boston to Californian in 1810 and remained on the California coast as an agent for a Bason firm until 1835. The other photos [in the series are filed in the BAE/USNM collection of Indian photographs, California, Unidentified or composite basketry.] The baskets were given to the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, in 1913.
Includes copies of colored plates from USNM Report for 1902—mostly baskets.
Includes a notebook on vocabulary of basketry, with notes and printed material; a photograph of specimen 239,086; and letters, William Baillie to Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason, 1907-8, re P. A. Talbot collection of Okoi artifacts, basketmaker terms.
Concern baskets, basketry terms, work of the Ekoi in Africa.
Includes "The Ethnic Position of the Basque Nations,"
Includes copies of published articles.
Includes a bibliography of his works.
Includes an exhibit label.
Includes a letter to Otis T. Mason, November 18, 1904, in reply to questionnaire about Bell's publications re the science of man, with extract from reply.
Reply to an inquiry from Mason about Bell's publications relating to the science of man.
Includes a newspaper clipping.
Includes a bibliography of anthropological works.
Includes misc. notes, clippings, and photographs, apparently by Walter Hough; two photographs collected by Edward Palmer and illustrations labeled Colima, Mexico; a sketch of Native still at Ambodiasy, Madagascar, by W. L. Abbott, acc 29960 (ca. 1895); a catalog of specimens collected by Edward Palmer around 1890-91 among the Cocopa Indians; Hough's notes on Mexican and Bhutanese drinks; an extract from letter of W. L. Abbott to Mason, April 14, 1907, on fermentation of arrenga palm wine; copies of labels from World's Columbian Exposition of Ceylonese products; and miscellaneous notes and clippings.
Includes notes, illustrations, photographs, clippings, and articles. A few items are by William Louis Abbott and Edward Palmer.
Largely concerns palm wine.
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Typescript copy
The image shows a man with two gourd vessels hanging from a yoke
Includes "The Palm and Agave as Culture Plants" and related notes, printed material; Edward Palmer notes on Agave; and a photograph of a Pulque shop in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Show is a man with gourd and animal skin collecting agave sap. A note states that the method of indicating "on the leaf of maguey that plan is ready to bloom."
Concerns the gathering of sap.
Includes clippings.
Includes exhibit labels.
Includes exhibit labels, clippings, notes, and manuscripts for publication.
Includes Egypt and Bible—clippings.
Includes Esther and Purim—clippings.
Includes Genesis—notes on Erech and Accad; clippings.
Includes Greek translation of Bible—I. M. Casanowicz notes in German script and Greek.
Includes Hebrew exhibit labels.
Includes miscellaneous notes and clippings and a few bible verses in Mohawk.
Papers of I. M. Casanowicz: includes "Antiquities of the Bible" (slide lecture); "A Sketch of the Geography of the Holy Land"; "A Rapid Sketch of the History of Archeological Exploration in the Holy Land"; "Fishers of the Bible"; "The Sacrifices (Korban)"; "Personnel of the Service of the Tabernacle"; and "The Mosaic Tabernacle".
Includes two copies: typescript and manuscript
Includes a typescript copy and a manuscript copy.
Papers re loan of specimens to USNM, 191, 1940.
Includes brief sketches with bibliographies of men in physical and biological sciences and one newsclipping on Arthur Caswell Parker.
Includes a brief note on the Phoenix by I. M. Casanowicz.
Includes a note in Chippewa by A. A. Sinclair, June 26, 1901, with translation, on birchbark and exhibit labels.
An English translation and key is provided.
Includes notes on specimens; exhibit labels; "Blanket" by Walter Hough (probably encyclopedia entry); and a printed article on Navajo blanket by Geo. H. Pepper,
Includes notes on exhibit labels and Ms. Howard I. Chappelle, "Arctic Skin Boats," 1950 (perhaps published by Arctic Institute of America).
Includes photographs and drawings, largely unidentified, two of birchbark canoe used in rice harvest, by A. E. Jenks; notes and Miscellaneous materials; letters and notes of Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason; Gifford Pinchot, October 14, 1898, to Mason, on distribution of the Canoe birch; and Frank Russell to Mason, April 30, 1900, re photographs.
Pinchot was apparently asked about trees in the far western United States and replied that the canoe birch did not extend to the Kootenai River and he identified a pine that grew in the Northwest.
The letter includes a list of captions of photographs.
Note: "This manuscript includes detailed studies of all the boats of this type in the collections of the U. S. National Museum."
Two of the photographs are labeled "Schrenk's designs" and have D. Anutchin's name on them. Three are top, bottom and side views of bark boats in the Ethnographic Museum in Moscow.
Includes "Karamoja Safari," December 1, 1956.
Part of the document concerns items in the artifactual collection of the National Museum of Natural History.
Includes a brief note (encyclopedia article?).
Includes clippings.
Includes H. Eggers to Otis T. Mason, August 9, 1888, on construction and use by Australia aborigines; notes and sketches; and clippings.
Concerns the construction and use of the boomerang by Australian Aborigines.
Includes printed material.
Includes a letter to Otis T. Mason, November 14, 1904, with a list of published pamphlets.
Provides a list of publications in anthropology.
Includes notes of William H. Holmes, largely on arrowheads, and clippings.
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Includes a translation of a few pages of D. N. Anuchin's "Bow and Arrows," with copy of the article in Russian, with review.
Includes Walter Hough to Richard Rathbun, August 9, 1909, re Weiss and Schmidt collection from Rio Negro region of Brazil with list of specimens.
Reports on inspection of Weiss and Schidt collection from the Rio Negro region of Brazil. Includes a list of specimens.
Includes illustrations, original (Aha of Arsani) and printed.
Includes printed material.
Includes photographs showing Alaska seal industry.
Folders
Most of the photographs are unlabeled. The images show settlements, land formations, ships, groups hunting seal. Locations include St. George and St. Paul Islands. One photograph is labeled as being of E. R. Scidmore.
Includes clippings.
Includes printed material and notes by I. M. Casanowicz.
Includes the title page from Wm. T. Hornaday's, "The Extermination of the American Bison", with frontispiece and map.
Includes printed material.
Includes illustrations from magazines and exhibit label.
Includes a letter to Otis T. Mason, November 12, 1904, re publications.
Concerns Butler's publications in anthropology written in response to an inquiry from Mason.
Includes a memorandum, Herbert W. Krieger to John R. Swanton, July 9, 1940, re Caddo accessions in ethnology.
Includes printed material.
Includes an article on the Zuni calendar, apparently Frank Cushing, The Millstone, Indianapolis, Ind., April, 1884, p. 58; extracts of letters of Jesse W. Fewkes, 1891, on the Hopi; printed material; notes by I. M. Casanowicz and Walter Hough; J. W. Powell to S. P. Langley, January 7, 1891, re BAE obtaining information on time reckoning with notes from BAE manuscripts and from publications; a letter from Ole Solberg, November 21, 1904, with photograph of Primestaves in Christiana Museum; and a word list, "Santee Sioux Division of the Day: from Dr. Z. T. Daniel.
Letter of transmittal for material concerning the reckoning of time about the American Indians. The attachment includes notes and word lists concerning time for the Atfalati, Cherokee, Chippewa, Creek, Hidatsa, Klamath, Menominee, Modoc, Ottawa, Powhatan, Siouan, Tuscarora, and Wintu. There are also a few notes on Chippewa and Ottawa astronomy.
Forwards photographs of primestaves in the Christiania Museum in Norway.
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Most of the material is not on California Indians but on Indians of the Southwest. Includes clippings; notes of Walter Hough; a receipt for the purchase of a Hopi blanket of Pavatia, Keams Canyon, August 27, 1901; and a newsclipping on work of Jesse Walter Fewkes.
The receipt is for the purchase of a blanket at Keams Canyon for 7.50 dollars by Walter Hough. A drawing of a deer accompanies Pavatia's name.
Includes a printed item.
Includes a printed item.
Includes notes from publications made by Otis T. Mason and drawings and unidentified photographs.
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Includes printed material.
Includes reprints and clippings.
Includes photographs of maps and a report from Charles W. Whitaker to the Secretary of State, July 31, 1944, "Present status of Carib Indians of Dominica."
Reports a trip to the Carib reservation on Dominica with Douglas Taylor.
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The map shows the routes of the first and second voyages of Columbus and names of and notes about the Indians along the routes.
Includes a bibliography, illustrations of a collection printed in
Folder
Includes clipping about Casanowicz, a bibliography in his hand, illustrations, and photographs, the last two types having to do with Casanowicz's studies rather than Casanowicz himself.
Includes views of an entrance to the temple at Mendoet, statuary before the temple at Brambauam, and views of the temple of Borobode.
Plan for the display of carved ivories in a manner suggested by Samuel Pierpont Langley.
The item belonged to Walter Hough. There is no author or date provide.
The type script history is accompanied by a letter from Smith to Joseph E. Weckler (2 pages), illustrations of dioramas (6 pages), and photographs of diorams (2 photoprints).
Includes notes, clippings, illustrations, photographs, manuscripts. Contains data on the cow, buffalo, elephant, horse, ass, reindeer, yak, bee, bird, camel, dog, pig, ox sheep.
Shows the Misses Ely seated in a carrier mounted on the back of a horse. Three men (one labeled as a Kurd) stand nearby.
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The item is plate LXI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonial objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXIII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonial objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXV from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonial objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
OPPS NEG.11,385
The item is plate LXVI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonial objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXVII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonial objects in the United States National Museum, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXIX from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXX from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXIII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXIV from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXV from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXVI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXVII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXIX from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXX from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXXII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXXIII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXXIV from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXXVI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXXVII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXXVIII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate LXXXIX from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
OPPS NEG.11,406
The item is plate XCI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
OPPS NEG.19,759
The item is plate XCV from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
OPPS NEG.11,397
The item is plate XCVI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate XCVII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate C from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate CI from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonial objects in the United States National Museum, Proceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate CIII from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate CIV from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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The item is plate from Cyrus Adler and Immanuel Moses Casanowicz, The collection of Jewish ceremonia objects in the United States National Museum, Porceedings of the United States National Museum, volume 34, 109, pages 701-746.
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Concerns botanical exploration for the United States Department of Agriculture.
Includes an article from the
Includes printed material; a copy of "Events of 1879 leading to the Conservation of the George Catlin Indian Gallery, Thereafter in Possession of the Smithsonian Institution—National Museum in Washington, D.C.", by Thomas B. Donaldson; a list of the George Catlin ethnological collection; and a copy of a letter, Mason to Holmes, May 27, 1904, showing paintings of Catlin not in the USNM.
Catalog published in London.
Printed document
Concerns number in the Catlin series for which there were no painintgs in the exhibits of the United States National Museum or in storage in the Northwest Court [of the Arts and Industries Building]. A note by Robert Elder relates to the difficulty of interpreting the list. The list itself has been edited by Elder.
Includes a note about the collection and a list of items with catalog numbers
Includes letters, Pablo Bush Romero to Carl F. Miller, May 9, 1959, with attachments to describe club.
Includes letters, clippings, announcements, forms.
Includes printed material.
Folders
The material concerns materials in the United States National Museum from China, Japan, India, Morocco, Turkey, Cochin China, Korea, Brzil, and Burma. Some relates to the Foreign Exhibition in Boston.Much but not all the notes are by Hawley.
Forwards a map of the kilns of Japan (attached) and offers to loan or sell Sadajiro Yamanaka's collection of sake bottles, tea bowls, and so forth (illustration of sample attached).
Includes printed material; notes, some by E. H. Hawley, mostly on Japanese ceramics, with a glossary of terms; a letter, K. Tanaka to USNM, with map of kilns in Japan and photographs of pieces of ceramics; and a copy of an address of Counselor Dooman of American Embassy in Tokyo, "On Collecting Chinese Porcelains," Tokyo Women's Club, March 4, 1940.
The item (an enclosure to Joseph C. Grew to the Secretary of States in Washington, March 15, 1940) is a address given before the Tokyo Women's Club, March 4, 1940.
Includes notes and labels, prepared in part by E. H. Hawley, for various accessions of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Moroccan, and Turkish pieces, mostly ceramics, some bronze and other material. Much of the material relates to the Foreign Exhibition, Boston.
Includes a description of collection of Chinese, Japanese, Cochin Chinese, Korean, Brazilian, and Burmese material (much done by E. H. Hawley and much relating to the Foreign Exhibition, Boston); E. H. Hawley to G. Brown Goode, November 12, 1888; and a list of pottery of the G. Brown Goode estate.
Includes descriptions of ceramic pieces from India and Japan and tools for making pottery and labels for exhibition in Indianapolis.
Includes notes and illustrations of items; G. K. Gilbert to W. H. Holmes, December 8, 1891, re pottery from Coon Mountain, Arizona; Major Timothy E. Wilcox to Goode, March 25, 1893, re pottery specimen from around Ft. Huachuca, Arizona; Otis T. Mason to Ravenal, March 16, 1906, and Walter Hough to Mason, May 15, 1906, re hiring a Hopi to help with specimens. Reference to Henry Voth; and a draft of letter by Hough re prehistoric Pueblo pottery available at Holbrook, Arizona.
The letter forwards and describes pottery and stone utensils from Coon Mountain, Arizona.
Requests information on a piece of pottery found in a cave near Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Sends photographs showing pot, baskets, and a Yuma doll.
Concerns the wish of Walter Hough to seek the help of Henry Voth in bringing a Hopi Indian to the United States National Museum to identify Hopi specimens.
Concerns a collection of pottery on exhibit in Lecture Hall of the United States NationalMuseum and consideration of uses as museum exhibits.
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Includes a copy of letter, W. H. Holmes to Rathbun, January 15, 1906, re use of pottery products on view in lecture hall of USNM, with notes by E. H. Hawley; notes on vases of Limoges, France; notes by Holmes and Hawley; clippings; Dinwiddie photograph of Papago potter; mounted printed illustrations and drawings of pottery examples from around the world, put together, at least in part, by Mason; a notebook by Mason; a photograph of Mexican pottery sherds, Oaxaca (?); illustrations and notes; printed material; and a letter of Karl von den Sheinen, October 22, 1895, re shell tools among the Borors and Tayagua and on the Shingoo and near Asuncion, with drawings.
Concerns the use of shells as scrapers. Attached are three drawings of shell tools from the Paraguay and the Mato Grosso in Brazil (Xingu, Bororo, and Payagua.
Includes a letter Lucy Gracey(?), August 11, 1934, re miscellaneous matters and transmitting article on Doublehead, and printed and processed material.
Includes Child Life: two cryptic notes and newspaper clippings and Children's Museum, Washington, D.C.: a clipping.
Includes "Agricultural Technology—Chinese—Keng Chih t'u, vol. 1. Ch'ing Dynasty (K'ang Hsi reign, 1662-1722)" and "Textile Manufacture—Chinese—Keng Chih t'u vol.2. Ch'ing Dynasty—1644-1912 (K'ang Hsi reign—end of 17th century 1662-1722)." Both volumes consist largely of printed drawings.
One volume is annotated "Agricultural technology, Chinese--Kêng chih t'u, Vol. 1, Ch'ing Dynasty* (K'ang Hsi [1662-1722] reign)--*1644-1912 A. D." The other volume is similarly annotated except that it is volume 2 and concerns textile manufacture. Each volume is made up largely of woodblock prints.
Includes "Chinese Monthly Scientific Magazine: Shanghai Science Institute, 1876, a translation by John Fryer, A British scholar of the English Book: Science for Youth" and "Chinese Monthly Scientific Magazine, Shanghai Science Institute, 1876, a Chinese Account of Western Technology based on an oral translation by John Fryer and written down in Chinese characters." Both used at Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
The volume is described as being "based on an oral tanslation by John Fryer and written down in Chinese characters. Used at Philadelphia Centennial Expostion. Useful to show effect of Western Technology on China." A label indicates that the volume was shown at the Centennial Exhibition by the China Protestant Mission and that it was No. 601aI.The volume is illustrated with pictures of machines and machine parts.
The volume is described as a translation by John Fryer of the English book "Science for Youth. Used at Philadelphia Centennial Exposition." A label indicated that it was shown at the exposition by the China Protestant Mission and was number 676b.
Includes sample of writing, #400,312.
Includes newspaper clippings and other printed material.
Includes clippings and illustrations re enamels, marble, horn, and porcelain.
Includes clippings regarding frescoes.
Includes printed material re jade.
Includes printed material re paintings.
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Includes printed material re statuary, pottery, furniture.
Includes sales and exhibit catalogs.
Correspondence. Includes State Department despatch: Samuel Sokobin "Art Museum for Tsingtao," February 12, 1935; State Department despatch, E. F. Drumright "Preliminary Exhibition of Chinese Art," May 9, 1935; and a letter seeking to sell an item.
Notes and manuscripts. Includes Walter Hough, "Chinese Punishment" and notes on Chinese art.
Miscellany inlcuding printed material, a bibliography, and descriptions of specimens.
Typed document signed
The notes are for a reel of film that has been transferred to the Smithsonian Institution Human Studies Film Archives.
Includes a motion picture: "Chi'an Miao people, West China." 1936. Donated by David C. Graham. Includes notes. Film transferred to Human Studies Film Archives.
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Includes mounted prints showing dress.
The catalog is for a collection that was in the building of the Philadelphia Museum Company.
Includes museum catalogs, bulletins, and announcements.
Includes a prayer wheel.
Includes Schuyler Cammann to J. E. Weckler, 9/26/41 and 10/9/41 with replies re Mandarin squares, and notes by Cammann.
Concerns Mandarin squares, insignia used by Chinese officials. A two-page note is included.
Includes a temple plan and examples of Chinese writing. Oversize material
Includes exhibit labels.
Includes an extract of a letter, E. H. Richards to A. A. Wright, October 15, 1886, re practice among the Zulu. In Hough's hand.
Concerns male and female circumcision among the Thonga.
Mozambique -- Inhambane
Includes clippings. Most seem to concern the Southwest, some re Hayden Survey.
Printed document
Includes note and key to map.
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Includes M. C. Long to Wm. H. Holmes, February 25, 1901, re lava covered ruins in New Mexico; a paper, Elmer Ellsworth Higley, "Inaccessible House"; Hough's notes on the exploration of the Southwest; a chronology of exploration and settlement of America; Mason's material, including notes for a book on Pueblos; photographs and illustrations by Holmes of cliff dwellings; and a processed mat.
Concerns archeological matters.
Includes "Outline of Scheme of Museum Classifications" and printed material, including a circular, Aug. 1889, of the Canadian Institute as guide to collecting info. re Am. Indians.
Includes Ellsworth Huntington to Mason, October 29, 1913, re request for help with map to show human characteristics "considered to be the highest" with reply by Mason.
Concerns Huntington's request for assistance in preparing map to show human characteristics "considered to be the highest."
Includes clippings.
Includes clippings and a manuscript, "Running Rabbit."
Includes "Memorandum for use in obtaining information concerning Indian tribes"; Yella Pessl to Herbert W. Krieger, January 5, 1946, re access to USNM harpsichord collection for survey, with reply; Charles Lee to Krieger, January 18, 1946, re markings on Chinese vases; Janette A. Black to Krieger, May 25, 1946, re photographs of Kate Cory; and other Kreiger letters.
Concerns purchase of Kate Cory's painting of a Hopi Feather Planting Ceremony, other paintings by Cory, and photographs by her.
Includes a photograph of a map of area around boundary with Panama.
Includes printed material.
Includes lists of reports received from commercial attachés and consuls.
Includes printed material.
Includes a copy of a table from American Naturalist on shell money.
Includes a clipping.
Includes a reprint of Otis T. Mason's "Similarities of Culture"; a partial Ms., "Diffusion versus Independent Origins" (1 p.); and notes by Walter Hough.
Includes a clipping.
Includes correspondence of Walter Hough, 1911-13, re exhibit of period costumes worn at presidential inaugurations and other periods of American History, along with notes and other related material; drawings of "Alee Deeb Adwant," his daughter, an actress, and Feddah (a poetess-historian); and clippings and illustrations re dress of various cultures.
Correspondents include Richard Rathbun.
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Includes clippings; descriptions of specimens; notes; and photographs of Apache cradles and an unidentified cradle with floral design.
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Includes clippings and notes by Mason.
Includes clippings.
Includes letters received by Thomas Wilson on forms of crosses from G. T. Emmons, Benjamin R. Smith, F. Max Muller, and Charles Seiden, 1895-1900. With drawings and photographs.
The letters were written by Benjamin R. Smith, George T. Emmons, and Charles Seiden. The photographs include the Russian Church at Sitka (with a view of the Sitka Photo Company building), an unidentified Russian church in Alaska, and a view of the Russian cemetery at Sitka. Also included is a photograph of stone clubs found in British Columbia.
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Includes a clipping.
Includes a printed item.
Includes a clipping.
Includes clippings on classical ballet, Hopi snake dance, Egg dance of India, Dakota dances, and Cochiti sun dance.
Includes a Mason note that requests addition to an ethnological questionnaire to include inquiries re primitive art; printed material; and illustrations of designs.
Includes a printed item on the Delaware Indians.
Includes obituaries.
Includes copies of newsletters of Clearing House for Southwestern.
Includes Material Culture Notes, numbers 1-4 and 6.
Includes printed comparative vocabularies of Ponape with Malay, Strongs Island, Ebon, Polynesian, and Vitian by E. T. Doane.
Printed document
Includes Ms. Corinne J. White (compiler) and Harriet M. Smith (editor), "The Development of the Miniature Diorama as a Museum Exhibit," Illinois WPA Museum Extension Project, Illinois State Museum, and a letter, Dwight Smith to Joseph E. Wheeler, April 22, 1941, enclosing photographs of diorama showing Eskimos and Crows in Illinois State Museum.
Includes printed material.
Includes a clipping.
Includes published articles and notes by Hough.
Includes notes, publications, clippings, sketches, exhibit labels, and illustrations.
Includes Gustine C. Weaver to Hough, November 28, 1931, requesting copy of article; notes by Hough; and clippings and sketches.
Includes Hough, "The Story of Dolls Tells the Story of Mankind,"
Printed and processed material, including a copy of Katharine Calvert Goodwin, "American Dolls in the National Museum,"
Includes printed material, clippings, exhibit labels, and illustrations.
Includes printed material, with clippings.
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Includes Walter Hough notes: general, cow and buffalo, and elephant.
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Includes Hough's notes: Horse and ass, with illustrations and photographs.
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Includes Hough's notes: reindeer and yak.
Includes Hough's notes: bees, birds, camel, dog, horse, pig, ox, sheep, and grazing animals.
Includes Berthold Laufer to Hough, August 17, 1933, clarifying his interest in the study of domestication; "Zootechny for Buffalo Exposition"; and notes.
Defines Laufer's interest in the domestication of animals.
Includes photographs of maps of area around Santo Domingo and around Constanza.
Includes printed material.
Includes Otis T. Mason's notes, including bibliographic notes (1 folder and 2 notebooks).
Includes exhibit labels, notes, clippings. Most appears to have belonged to Mason.
Includes Walter Hough's notes and illustrations.
Includes a clipping from
Includes clippings.
Includes notecards by E. H. Hawley on Argentina, Japan, and China and Annatto and Alizarine.
Includes clippings on Easter Eggs.
Includes "The Native Name of Easter Island," by A. Métraux; a bibliography prepared by Saul Riesenberg; and a clipping.
Includes material by Walter Hough: "Cunning Traps for Birds, Beasts, and Fishes"; "Domestication of Man"; an article on Pueblo pottery decoration; "Ancient Inventors"; a table comparing existence of certain cultural features among tribes of the Southwest; "Excursions in Indian Art"; "Powhatan Chief's House on York River"; "Time"; "The Uphill Road of Progress"; "The Origin and Unity of Living Matter"; and "Has Civilization Justified Itself."
Includes "Exhibition of the Plant Products the German Colonies" (gives general categories of use and Latin names).
Includes specimen labels; a note on goggles, by Otis T. Mason; illustrations; a note on children, by Walter Hough (?); "Little Children in Eskimoland," by Walter Hough; and clippings and printed material.
Includes a geographical index by culture area and tribe, with collector, catalog number, and number of specimens, probably compiled in 1920, and an auction catalog for Arthur C. King collection.
Includes printed illustrations showing jewelry and architectural columns.
Includes
Includes letters to S. P. Langley and Otis T. Mason offering for sale instruments of execution and punishment, 1/18/98.
Includes clippings.
Includes a note on sources of information and an illustration.
Includes clippings.
Includes a letter, R. C. Pastor to William H. Holmes, 5/29/07, re stone fetish, with photograph and reply; brief notes by Otis T. Mason; a photograph of "Indian Directions Post, Old Indian Burial Ground, Lowell, Michigan," ca. 1907; and illustrations.
Encloses photograph of an artifact and inquires about it. In reply (attached), Holmes identifies objects as Pueblo fetish.
Includes reference to letter of April 18, 1907 (not checked).
Includes notes by E. H. Hawley on Burmese fire sticks and fire syringe.
Includes "The Fish in Cult, Myth, and Symbol," by I. M. Casanowicz (two versions); a note on wooden fish hooks of Penrhyn Island, by Herbert W. Krieger; and a review of Charles Rau's "Prehistoric Fishing in Europe and North America."
Includes "The American Flag of Mystery," by Howard Wiswall Bible (re the twelve-star flag of John Paul Jones). Copyrighted.
Concerns a very early American flag with a fleur de lys surmouting the field of stars.
Includes a letter, W. W. Newell to Otis T. Mason, 1/28/91, re folklore societies in America and Europe; a bibliography of references to folklore of lumberjacks; classification of folklore material by Newell; and printed material.
Concerns folklore societies, journals, and museums of the world.
Includes miscellaneous notes; E. Lewis Sturtevant to Otis T. Mason, 10/95, re vernacular names for maize in languages of the world; printed material; and notes, mostly on Indian foods by Walter Hough.
Attachment is "Vernacular names for maize" in many American Indian languages and in other languages of the world.
Includes notes by E. H. Hawley on foods of various cultures; Walter Hough notes; printed material; and a list of specimens in USNM (notebook).
Concerns pieaggies (caterpillers of the moth Coloradia pandora) as a food of the Paiutes of Inyo National Forest. Includes a "photographic report."
Includes W. E. Safford to Walter Hough, 11/6/25 forwarding copy of paper on the potato (not included); Guy S. Way to T. J. Jones forwarding sample of cured pieaggies of Inyo Indians and other letters identifying pieaggies as a type of moth together with notes on their collection and preparation, with photographs; and printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes St. Depart Despatch, "Savage Affairs in Formosa" 6/1/08 by Julean H. Arnold, with map trans. of Formosan Gov. report "The Management of Savage Affairs during the 1907 Fiscal Year" and exhibit labels.
Reports trip to native areas of Formosa and encloses translation of Japanese report "The management of savage affairs during 1907 fiscal year." Also includes map, translation of Ino's "Investigations of the customs and practices of the savages of Formosa," and list of photographs (photographs are United States National Museum accession 49,932, catalog 253,770, filed in the Division of Ethnology photograph collection).
Includes a memo to Mr. Bryant, 12/4/44 re Camp Cady.
Includes a copy, W. E. Safford to Spencer Baird, 4/3/87.
Concerns meeting with Fuegian or Canoe Indians during passage of the Straits of Magellan in the U. S. S. Vandalia. Safford describes the Indians and their houses, boats, and so forth. The letter is illustrated with small sketches.
Includes drawings of Iroquois and Abuaki (Abenaki?) La Crosse sticks.
Includes a note on a Seneca dice game, probably by or taken from Andrew John (Acc 40840, Cat. 219,265) and miscellaneous notes, clippings, and drawings, some by E. H. Hawley, most probably collected by Otis T. Mason.
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Includes illustrations, two by Mary Wright Gill. M. I. W.
Includes clippings.
Includes clippings and other printed material (obituaries) and photographs.
Includes a clipping wilth biographical information prepared around 1894.
Correspondents include James Owen Dorsey, William Henry Holmes, John Wesley Powell, and H. C. Rizer. Most of the material has to do with administrative matters.
Mostly periodic reports to Director, BAE, 1893-1900 (incomplete).
Letters received. Includes letters from J. O. Dorsey, 7/12/78, re misc. matter; W. H. Holmes 5/22/03 urging completion of papers on Algon. texts and Peoria diet; W. H. Holmes 5/22/03, on working hours in BAE offices; W. H. Holmes 11/12/03 re parts of Peoria texts; W. H. Holmes 7/7/04 re place name cat. of USGS; and others re ad. matters.
Includes Douglas (AZ) Daily Dispatch, 9/14/1930 re Geronimo Saddle in USNM.
Includes William Churchill to Otis T. Mason 4/15/91 forwarding newsclipping on ceremony in CA of burning of Indas and printed material.
Includes drafts of catalog cards describing African specimens collected by Gordon Gibson; a description of Bechuanaland prot. (cat 397,994) (Botswana); and a form for collections in the Rhodes-Livingston Museum.
Includes a list of Fang specimens with catalog numbers.
Includes a list of Chinese photographs.
Typescript list of Chinese photographs taken in 1923-1930. Negatives are in the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Prints of many, if not all, the negatives are in the Division of Ethnology photograph collection.
Includes clippings from Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30 (Hodge Handbook).
Includes notes on Mrs. J. W. Grace Collection of Guatemala Handwoven Indian Textiles with photograph and copies of Lilly de Jough Osborne, "Making a Textile Collection."
Reprint from the Bulletin of the Pan American Union, December 1933
Printed document
Includes a copy, F. Gardner, Jr., to G. Brown Goode, 5/2/95, re game of wa-wee; letters, F. W. Hodge to Walter E. Roth, 1915, re his collection bought by the United States National Museum, with list of specimens; State Department despatch, "Indian Menace in the Maracaibo Oil Fields, 5/19/26; descriptions of specimens; notes by Otis T. Mason, Walter Hough, Herbert W. Krieger, and others, including material on Jivaro, Patagonia, and other subjects; and exhibit labels.
Consists of typescript copies of letters, memoranda, and telegrams concerning the purchase of a British Guiana Indian collection.
Includes clippings and printed material.
Includes notes by Walter Hough and a letter, Louise Polk Huger to Walter Hough, 12/12/32, returning Hough's notes.
Returns Hough's material concerning Gypsies with apologies for having kept it so long.
Includes a letter, H. W. Greeley to General Hazen, 5/14/84, witnessing to skills of Dr. Octave Pavy; a testimonial by members of Pavy Franklin Bay Polar Expedition, 5/19/84, stating Pavy's skills in medicine; a testimonial, Kvariys Smith, Godhavn, Greenland, 6/13/81, on behalf of Pavy; a watercolor sketch of Eskimo Village, by Pavy; a photograph of the ship "Gulmare" with Pavy aboard, 1880; a map, "Nugsuaks Halvo"; and printed material re Pavy.
Printed document
Except for notes generated in the Bureau of American Ethnology, the materials consists of typescript copies apparently sent to William Henry Holmes for consideration.
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The material includes several Department of Anthropology catalog numbers, including 247,152 (a copy of Pavy, An Arctic journal, North American Review, April 1886) and 247,154 (a sheet providing an account of the Pavy and Arctic exploration, 1872-1880).
The letter is signed by members of the expedition.
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Octave Pavy, George Rico, and other are shown on deck.
Includes "Architecture of the Aborigines of Northern America," by William H. Holmes; a note on motifs in architecture; miscellaneous notes; and "Iroquois Lodges," from Lafitau's
Typescript document signed
Printed material, including clippings.
Includes 251 Letters and memoranda by J. Walter Fewkes, Frederick Hodge, Richard Rathbun, and Thomas Ryan (re restoration); photographs and illustrations; plans; and clippings.
Includes letters, clippings, illustrations, and photographs.
Includes 252 "The Buried Ruins of Ojo Caliente"; a letter, James A. Jones to John Wesley Powell, 1/29/90, requesting information; a letter, Scott N. Morris to S. P. Langley, 1/21/90, requesting information; William H. Holmes to Richard Wetherill, 1/31/90, re planned exploration of Mancos area, with letters, Wetherill to Holmes, 2/90 and 3/90; a letter, Cosmos Mindeleff to Holmes, 3/17/91, reporting field work; and printed material, including clippings.
A popular article.
Concerns Richard Wetherill's exploration of Mesa Verde.
Consists of a report of work at Casa Grande and on Mesa Verde.
Maps have been drawn in pencil and are identified by a figure number and page number. They are not the same, however, as maps published in Hough's Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt River Valleys in Arizona and New Mexico, Bureau of American Bulletin 35, 1907.
Acknowledges and comments on a letter and drawing Holmes had sent. They apparently had to do with the "symbolic relationship between plants and their ultimate appearance in designs."
Attempt to make arrangements to have Holmes view Bruce's collection.
Relates methods of strengthening mud walls.
The photograph has a stamp of the C. C. Pierce and Company on the reverse.
Includes printed material.
Includes notes by an unidentified author.
Includes Hayden Survey Tenth Annual Report, Part II, Archaeology and Ethnology, annotated by William H. Holmes.
Includes sketches by Walter Hough to illustrate Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 35. Antiquities of the Upper Gila and Salt River Valleys in Arizona and New Mexico.
Includes miscellaneous printed material.
Includes illustrations and drawings.
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Includes a letter, Miner W. Bruce to William H. Holmes, 2/3/96, re invitation to view collection, with reply; a letter, Richard F. Back to Holmes, 4/17/19, re sketch of Zuni bowl; an extract from letter, Arthur P. Silver to Holmes, 11/24/1900, with comment by Mason; a letter, Orator Fullerton Cook to Mason, 4/5/01, re grass used for thatching; notes, some by Holmes; and a drawing of Apache watch station, with note by W. P. Jenney (?).
Includes drawings and notes concerning the provinance of the materials.524::
Photographs, including a cave dwelling in Thessaly by an unidentified photographer and Wall of defense at Acoma by G. W. James. Most of the photographs are unidentified.
Miscellaneous printed material, including clippings.
Includes printed material.
Includes "Origins of Pueblo Architecture," by Victor Mindeleff; a letter, Frederick Hodge to William H. Holmes, 2/16/04; a photograph of ruins of old Spanish church at Gran Quivira; and miscellaneous other material.
Transmits photograph (attached) of the ruined church at "Gran Quivira," New Mexico, submitted by A. H. Harvey, of Carrizozo, New Mexico.
List of negatives made at or near Taos.
Transmits a Haida bark beater purchased for the United States National Museum. There is no information except that it is Skidegate and was obtained from a dealer in Victoria.
Includes "A Study of the Arch in Prehistoric Architecture, " by Thomas Wilson and a letter, William M. Beauchamp to Wilson, 8/10/96, re New York Indian Houses, with notes taken from Jesuit Relations.
Concerns New York Indian dwellings and transmits notes taken from Jesuit Relations.
Includes "Prehistoric Architecture," by Thomas Wilson (drafts).
Consists of rought drafts and manuscript.
Includes a notebook of Otis T. Mason, largely bibliography.
Includes a notebook of Otis T. Mason with notes; a letter, A. K. Fisher to Mason, 5/13/98, re pre-Columbian logs; and W. A. McIlhenny to Mason, 9/22/96, re Attakapa house of Grand Lake Lousiana.
The letter describes house building among the Atakapa of Grand Lake, Louisiana. Attached are notes concerning the construction of a model based by C. R. Luscombe on McIlhenny's information.
Concerns pre-Columbian dogs.
Includes a notebook by Otis T. Mason with notes, two photographs by E. A. Bonine, and a photo of Teton Dakota tipi by F. W. Pettigrew.
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The drawings apparently relate to Jesse Walter Fewkes's work.
Includes notes in notebook.
Includes notes.
Includes a bibliography, 12/20/04.
Apparently submitted in response to an inquiry by Otis Tufton Mason and Ales Hrdlicka.
Includes a bibliography, 4/3/07, in response to a circular sent by Aleš Hrdlička.
Transmits bibliography requested by Otis Tufton Mason and Ales Hrdlicka.
Includes a letter, 4/19/01, re Hawaiian feather cloak of Mrs. George M. Robeson, with William H. Holmes to Richard Rathbun re problems with Mrs. Robeson; a letter, 1/22/48, re feather cape collected by W. C. Olton, with National Gallery label; a letter, W. T. Brigham to Wm. H. Holmes, 1/27/06, objecting to Holmes efforts to obtain money for exploration in Hawaii and Samoa; a note by Walter Hough on Sandwich Island Fireworks (fire sticks); a bibliography; a description of N. B. Emerson collection; labels; and printed and miscellaneous material.
Describes an incident involving Mrs. George M. Robeson, the owner of a Hawaiian cape exhibited in the museum and requests the return of the object to the owner.
Protests an announcement that the Bureau of American Ethnology planned to seek funds for an ethnographic survey of Hawaii and Samoa.
Each page is headed "Arts of the Hawaiians" and includes the type of specimen and observations about them. Object numbers (Emerson's?) are included.
Includes a letter, H. C. Bolton to his sister Elizabeth Bolton, April 22, 1848, describing the cape, and a label from the time the cape was on exhibit in the National Gallery.
The label states that the history is presented in the handwriting of Commodore J. H. Aulick, the collector.
Includes correspondence of William H. Holmes and other papers re Mrs. H. K. Porter's embroidery, brocade, velvet, and silk collection, 1914-15; and correspondence of Herbert W. Krieger about Hegerman lace collection, ca. 1936.
Includes labels for both Hegerman and Porter collections.
Includes correspondence, labels, notes, clippings, and lists. Correspondents are William Henry Holmes, Mrs. H. K. Porter, Anne-May Hegemann, Helene N. Fouche, and Herbert William Krieger. Concerns the loan, donation, exhibit, and preservation of the collection.
Mrs. Porter originally loaned her collection to the Smithsonian. Her daughter, Mrs. Hegeman made a gift of her improved collection.
Includes a stereographic photograph of Henry and family.
Includes "The Herndon and Gibbon Ethnological Collection from the Amazon in the U.S. National Museum," with related papers.
Includes part of a slide lecture by Walter Hough, a list, label for "hymeneal bracelets," notes, and a typescript copy of Lardner Gibbon's Population of South America.
Includes extracts from Bureau of American Ethnology annual reports re his work.
Includes a letter, H. Howard Biggs to Walter Hough, 1/26/17, sending photographs of Dakota Indians (no ref. to Hidatsa).
Concerns artwork for a publication. States he is sending photographs of Dakota Indians and one of a Dr. M. R. Gilmore looking into an old cache on the Ft. Berthold Reservation.
Includes notes from publications.
Includes a list of specimens donated by Rajah Sourindro Nahun Tagore, prepared by E. H. Hawley.
Includes a list of specimens donated by Rev. C. H. A. Dall.
Includes exhibit labels.
Includes notes by Walter Hough and I. M. Casanowicz; a list of specimens; and printed material, including clippings.
Includes a letter, Catherine E. Cook to Holmes, 12/16/07, asking for support in making
Asks support in making The Sketch Book a national art publication.
Includes "Plants Collected by J. G. Owens, identified by Sereno Watson," including notes on their uses; notes and/or letters by J. Walter Fewkes, Walter Hough, Alexander McGregor Stephen, and other (most of the material concerns food gathering, agriculture, and food preparation, also a very small amount of material on other subjects, including ceremonies, trade and pottery; much of the material is word lists); and printed and illustrated material.
Concerns avoidance of the term Hopi.
There are several separate word lists: two have names of plants in Hopi and notes that include a brief description, uses, and places of growth; two have names of plants together with Latin names from identifications by Sereno Watson; one list relates to milling and other preparation; and the others are rather general lists.
Concerns Hopi agricultural statistics.
Includes description of clay, with Hopi words, and very brief notes.
The view shows a corn field and dwellings on a ridge above. There is both a sepia gelatin print and a cyanotype.
Includes a brief introductory note, a few additional notes, and lists of types of corn meal dishes.
Includes a note on Dev. of Bridle and Saddle.
Includes a letter, 11/16/04, re her works.
Note apparently written in response to the circular by Otis Tufton Mason and Ales Hrdlicka requesting bibliographic information about anthropological works. Refers them to Who's Who in America.
Includes notes on Apache symbolism and rough sketches of designs, with a few explanatory notes.
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Includes notes on Bear Creek Cave, photographs, and "Explorations in a Great Sacred Cave in Eastern Arizona."
Includes photograph and sketch of pattern woven into the fabric.
Includes notes on Cooking Appliances and Methods, clippings, illustrations and sketches, notes, and folders on the following: Appliances: Europe, modern and ancient; Stone, boiling, stone-boiling; brazier; roasting; frying; parching; appliances—pots, etc.; inventions; and electric cooking.
Includes letters of H. W. Henshaw, 7/3/89, re origin of Kiowa drill; T. C. Battey, 6/22/89, re plan of interior of Kiowa lodge (drawing) and the origin of the Kiowa; T. C. Battey, 5/30/89, re fire-making among the Kiowa; Q. H. Bean, 1/30/90, re bark beater purchased for the United States National Museum; Henry Balfour to Thomas Wilson (copy), 10/9/89, sending saucer-like lamp to the museum; Henry Balfour to Hough, 1/19/90, re a lamp sent the museum; Henry Balfour, 3/31/90, re Hindu fire drill; Henry Balfour, 4/28/90, re Hindu fire drill; Henry Balfour, 12/13/90, re fire making and lamps; Henry Balfour, 10/10/90, concerning same matters; Henry Balfour, 1891, concerning same matters (3 letters); Henry Balfour to G. Brown Goode (copy); John F. Hobbs, 7/5/90, re Australian aborigines, especially fire-making apparatus; Charles E. Woodruff, 5/27/91, re Hupa drill; J. Walter Fewkes, 6/21/07, re work around Casa Grande area; Jesse W. Fewkes, 5/15/18, re correspondence between A. R. Graham and William H. Holmes concerning objects found at Hudson Hot Springs (Faywood), New Mexico, with copies of Graham's letters; "Notes up Firesticks Used by the Australian Aborigines in North Queensland," by James W. Culten; and James Shepard, 12/30/16, re candelabra and source.
Concerns desire to exchange Carib specimens for materials purported to be of the paleolithic Also offers to exchange Carib specimens for lamps (North American stone lamps) or Zuni pottery.
Typescript copy
Offers lamp from Cyprus in exchange for Eskimo stone lamp or fire drill.
Typescript copy
The letters concern the Kiowa--firemaking and lodges among them and their origins.
Comments on T. C. Batty's letter of June 22, 1889, regarding the origin of the Kiowa.
Concerns an exchange of a Cyprian lamp at the museum for which Balfour wanted an Eskimo stone lamp. Discusses the place of the Cyrprian lamp in a comparative series. Offers an exchange of Carib axes or reproductions of a Indian fire drill. Discusses preservatives and cleaners for specimens. The letter includes sketches of the axes and fire drill.
Discusses a French lamp ("crusie") that he wishes to exchange. Provides sketch of it. Offers additional Carib stone axes in exchange for lamps. States he is having Indian fire drill made and would be glad to have American Indian drills. Provides sketch of a shell drill from Savage Island.
Says is sending model of Indian fire drill. Talks of its construction. Discusses cost and exchange possibilities.
Discusses Hough's paper on fire making and his own experiments. Offers items in exchange for an offered Chitimacha blow gun and an Anderson River fire drill. Thanks Hough for a sketch of a primitive lamp from West Virginia and provides a sketch of a primitive lamp found in Oxford. Also provides sketch of a "primitive" cast iron baker's lamp.
Identify lamp for which Hough provided a sketch as being French and discusses such lamps. Speaks of possible exchanges.
Discusses success in making fire with models and pieces of wood Hough had sent. Discusses possible exchanges, publications.
Discusses exchanges of lamps and blow guns. Briefly mentioned a fire saw from the Nicobars. Asks for information about musical instruments blown from the nose. Speaks of the possibility of visiting America.
Speaks of his plan to visit the United States and the possibility that Hough will be in Europe at the time. Discusses possibilities for exchanges.
Explains uses of terms "Aborigines" and "native" and the legal position of each. Mentions way of referring to groups of Aborigines by districts or rivers and briefly touches upon having witnessed a battle between two groups in 1883. Refers to plans for his future travel to the New Hebrides and New Guinea. Describes "fire sticks" for making fire and provides rough sketches and descriptions of the way they work. Briefly discusses boomerangs.
Provides information about the material from which a Hupa fire drill is made.
Discusses his work and findings at Casa Grande including excavations and preservation work. Mentions the planning that had been involved in originally constructing the buildings; attributes the work to the Pima; and its relation to a medicine man named Morning Green. Talks about future plans.
Transmits photographs and description of a sconce and chandelier from St. Matthews Church East Plymouth, Connecticut. There are also two additional photographs of candle holders.
Concerns letter of A. R. Graham concerning Hudson (Faywood) Hot Springs and the need for further exploration of springs in the area.
Concerns firemaking anong the Aborigines of New South Wales.
Includes letters to Mr. and Mrs. Jacques, 11/11/19; Emry Kopta, 3/26/20; and J. Walter Fewkes, 1/5/20.
Promises to have cast of knife made. Wants to know more about rooms at Grasshopper. There is no money for exploration. Provides some news of his family.
Thanks him for sending the "Thinker." Cataloged dolls Kopta send to Mr. Evans but list had been mislaid. States he may come to Hopi in June and wants Kopta to discreetly inquire around about getting Snake Dance costume. May try to carry out investigations among the Hopi.
Includes illustrations and photos showing pottery and/or designs.
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Folders includes notes, illustration, bibliographic data, clippings, and drafts.
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Includes warming; American warming pans, hotstones, footstones; American ovens; American warming and ventilation of buildings; Asian warming; and European warming.
Includes notes, illustration, bibliographic data, clippings, and drafts on fire making and illustrations of fire as an agent in human culture.
Includes agriculture, gleaning, altars, and ancient firemaking.
Includes bamboo and porcelain, bellows, and biological factor.
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Includes chimneys and cremation.
Includes drills, Australia, Malaya, India, East Asian, European, and external fire.
Includes fire in cults, fire handling, fire healing, fire hunting, and fire myths in art.
Includes fire myths—India, fireplaces, fireplaces—range, fire preservation, fire saw, fire syringe, fire thong, and fire walking.
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Includes flint and steel, folklore, and fuel.
Includes gods, healing—superstition, holy fire, ignition in nature, ignition point, incense, and juggling.
Includes North America, Europe, the East, the Northwest Coast (with Letter, P. B. Randolph to Hough, 2/27/99), the Southwest, the Plains (letters of J. O. Dorsey, 3/6/91 and 6/1/91, re use of a certain grass among the Omahas), the South, and the Range in America.
Report of Omaha fire making using the stalk of a plant.
Concerns observations of fire making among North Athapascans below Holy Cross Mission in the Yukon.
Includes a photograph of Hawaiians using a fire plow.
Platinum print
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Includes drawings of artifacts.
Includes notes.
Includes Hopi; printed material; drawings of paraphernalia of "Zuni War God Ahainta, Case in Pueblo Court;" drawings of shields by A. Zeno Shindler; designs drawn by G. K. Gilbert; Zuni by J. G. Bourke; and drawings of kachina heads.
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Includes a letter, John Dagget to Otis T. Mason, 5/9/02, re photographs (not included), and 6/1/02 (2 letters) re deer snare.
One letter forwards photographs concerning basket making and describes materials used. The other two letters concern a deer snare.
Includes designs "made by -? Daniel Wilson for my children," #277,578; copies of pictures, interior of cave, Salt Creek, Arizona, received from L. S. Kelley, acc. 49,640; a sketch, "Decoration on wall of ceremonial chamber-Zuni"; a drawing "Pueblo Kiva Hatchway"; a drawing, "Pueblo Oven and Kiva Hatchway"; misc. other illustrations, some Zuni or other Pueblo; a sketch map of ruins near Salt Lake, New Mexico, Walter Hough; a cross sections of valley Ruin, D. Spur Ranch and "at ruins where very ancient remains were found, 1904"; drawings by Hopi boy, #213,243; and published Maps and fragment of note.
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Woman Seated at Piano
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Includes a note and sketches of specimens "Northwest Coast Spliced Harpoon Shafts."
Folders include clippings, notes, bibliographic references, illustrations, drafts of manuscripts, notes re illustrations, and notes on the locations of specimens.
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Includes E. H. Hawley notes and a Japanese chart on candle making.
Includes illustrations and text on a single sheet. There is also a cover with text and four pages of English notes.
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About use of candles for lighting in Richmond, Virginia
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Includes a letter, Edward L. Nichols, 6/16/91, re magnesium lamp.
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Includes notes; clippings; W. W. Rockhill to Walter Hough, 4/19/93, re auction by candle; and Charles H. Read to Hough, 6/16/93, re auction by inch of candle.
Concerns the use of candles to time auctions.
Concerns timing an auction by the burning of a candle.
Includes a note on Tusayan province and occurrence of "Coconuts on St. Lawrence Island." Mostly unorganized notes.
Largely information aobut family and desire for correspondence and visits.
Mostly printed plans, illustrations, and maps.
Article that concerns the lake, its origins and significance to the Pueblo Indians. The photograph (BAE negative 2378-A; plate 89 in Matilda Coxe Stevenson's The Zuni Indians, Twenty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology) shows figures of Matilda Coxe Stevenson and an Indian guide at the edge of the lake.
Many only partial.
Expresses a very general notion of awareness of increasingly small periods of time and the concomitant rule of time.
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Included are sketches entitled "2nd Town on 2nd Mesa"; "House in 1st town on 2d mesa which was measured"; and "House next to schoolhouse in middle town 1st mesa." Two drawings are untitled.
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Includes exhibit labels, photographs, and notes by Otis T. Mason.
Includes photographs and sketches; notes; J. N. B. Hewitt to Walter Hough, 3/31/10 re tobacco as incense; notes by Walter Hough; illustrations; printed material; and "Production of Dragon's Blood and Frankincense."
Concerns large Nahuatl-Aztec vases used as braziers and as urns for the ashes of caciques.
Silver gelatin print on cabinet card
Includes a plan of a tower of silence, clippings, and exhibit labels.
Includes clippings.
Includes a letter, Viola E. Garfield to F.M. Setzler, 1/17/51, to Herbert W. Krieger, 1/6/49, re photographic order and sketches of patterns (designs) by Walter Hough.
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Includes lists of Hopi foods, by Walter Hough, and clippings.
Includes clippings and notes, some by I. M. Casanowicz on clans and tribes.
Includes notes by Walter Hough and clippings.
Includes a clipping and notes: "A Dictionary of Indian Technology" with initials of authorities by Herbert W. Krieger.
Includes a State Department despatch "French Indochina: An Economic Handbook" by Quincy F. Roberts, 8/3/37 and printed material.
Includes drawings of Mary Owen, 1901, re Guatemala Indians (Caribs) with letters of William Owen, 1901.
Concernthe Carib, collecting and photogrphs among the Cajabon.
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Includes clippings; notes, some by Thomas Wilson; W. L. Baldwin to Thomas Wilson, 1/31/94, on accidental discoveries and inventions; photographs labeled "June 11th inventions, gift of R. Barbe"; and drawings of a stone tool discovered by Alfred E. Glascock.
Concern graphic art print techniques.
Concerns accident and invention.
Includes State Department despatch, "Sartorial Changes in Persia" by Augustus W. Ferrin, 11/30/28 (on introduction of the fez) and two Persian newspapers.
Includes a blueprint map of area from Baghdad to Ur and "The Garden of Eden" (processed).
Includes clippings and printed items.
Includes printed material and a letter, G. E. S. Turner to William N. Fenton, 6/20/43, re his work on and condition of the Indian collection in the Pitt Rivers museum.
Includes a clipping.
Includes correspondence with Neil M. Judd, 1928-41; a photograph; a biographical sketch for Who's Who; and a copy of an address at Wilenagmote Club in Detroit, 11/2/17, recounting his start as a photographer and work with the Hayden Survey.
Typescript
The talk was about Jackson's life as a young man.
Includes a clipping.
Includes notes by I. M. Casanowicz.
Includes a letter to Otis T. Mason, 12/23/04, with bibliographic information and comments on Mason's publication on baskets (or women?).
Includes a catalog of material sent to the Smithsonian from Japan (in Japanese with some English notations), acc. 16,311.
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Godlike and Animal Images
Rubbing
Includes descriptions of specimens in various accessions (Jouey, Allen, Hitchcock, Japanese Dept. of Education, etc.). Printed material and clippings.
Includes printed material and clippings (mostly disorganized, much on Japanese art).
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Includes mss. Ezo Shui (Supplement to History of the Ainus) in English.
Includes Ezo Kiko (An Account of a Journey through the Island of Ezo [among the Ainu]) in English. 18th-century Japanese journey.
Includes an index to Japanese catalog, International Health Society, London, 1884.
Includes miscellaneous notes by E. H. Hawley.
Includes miscellaneous notes by Walter Hough (most on oriental countries other than Japan).
Includes a certificate of visit to Ise Shrine.
Agriculture. Includes photographs.
Architecture. Includes photographs.
Art. Includes photographs.
Crafts. Includes photographs.
Waterways. Includes photographs.
Includes miscellany.
Includes unidentified rubbings, cat 222,654-5.
Printed material, including clippings.
Includes sales and auction catalogs.
Includes notes from Athenaeum, 1840s, and clippings, largely on Jews in China and Africa.
Includes clippings and text of exhibit label.
Includes a description of specimens made under direction of Andrew John, a Senaca; a note on Wampum beads; notes by John, 1898; suggestions for exhibit; "How the North American Indians make the Bread gă-gain-dĕn-dou' Q-ä'-gw-a'=; a note on John and the Seneca; and a note on Snow snake of Ga-wa-s.
Includes a clipping.
Includes a clipping.
Includes bibliographical data on article "The Pueblo of Pecos."
Includes drawings of knots and string figures.
Includes notes on illustrations and other notes for "Aspects of Aboriginal Decorative Art in Oceania and America" and notes on dugout canoes of SE Alaska and British Columbia (from H. B. Collins).
Includes transcriptions, texts, with interlineal translations, some in Franz Boas's hand, some printed.
Includes origin of Kamab'a (?) and an explanation of the two Nak'oatok (?) masks collected in 1894. In Boas's hand.
Includes a note of Mrs. Talbot Smith to Neil M. Judd, May 30, 1935, re material to go with census, with a brief note, Judd to Krieger.
Includes a form from University of Michigan Ethnobotanical Laboratory, June 25, 1941, re lac covered specimens collected at Pima Agency and other resin covered specimens. Specimens from United States National Museum.
Includes printed material.
Includes photographs of collection of swords, knives, and other weapons (one drum included). National Geographic Society photographs.
Includes copies of address by Walter Hough, "Doctor Langley's Contribution to Aerial Navigation," delivered on Aviation Day, July 15, 1915, at Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, at foot of column of progress, with photograph of Hough delivering talk, and clippings regarding the event.
Includes a brief bibliography.
Includes a list of books apparently sold by Laudermilk's and distributed to Department of Anthropology staff.
Includes a photograph of a map of their route.
Includes memoranda re needs, by Herbert W. Krieger, 1933-41 and a list of books assigned to Division of Ethnology Library.
Includes a sample of the Russian alphabet; a provisional list of Languages of Oceania up to May 1887, from
Includes letters, C. R. Lanman to Cyrus Adler, 1/29/95 and 2/1/05, re relationship of climate (environment?) and language, with reference to Houns Oertel; proof pages of list of tribes and stocks in Report on Indians Taxed and Not Taxed; and printed material, including "Linguistic Families of the Indian Tribes North of Mexico, with provisional List of the Principal Tribal Names and Synonyms."
Includes a note, probably by Herbert W. Krieger, April 21, 1942.
Includes illustrations and photographs, including baskets; notes by Walter Hough; descriptions of specimens; Emry Kopler to Hough, 4/9/17, re Hopi weaving implement called see-pel-ko-che, used for making tassels for fringe of wedding garb; Alphons Stuebel, "Old Peruvian Weaving Patterns and Their Analogical Decoration of the Old Classical Art"; and printed material.
Includes "The Stone Hammer and Its Various Uses," expanded form.
Includes a review of publication from Science.
Includes a manuscript on racial types by Mason Shufeldt, early 1880s, with photographs.
Includes an article from Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30 (Handbook).
Includes a note on a house called Balai, by William L. Abbott; a shorthand note, dated, 10/8/30; sketches of artifacts; notes on Dyak of Kendawangan River; notes; and a blueprint map of Trong.
Includes printed material.
Includes a clipping, 9/29/90.
Includes printed material.
Includes a clipping and note from The Athenaeum.
Includes "Native Traditions" and "Native Customs and Etiquette," lectures given by Mr. Hammond in 9/1884, at St. Sepulchre's School, Aukland, New Zealand.
All printed.
All printed.
All printed. Includes R. O. Marsh, map of eastern Panama showing Darien and San Blas coast.
Includes plates by Walter Hough showing the locations of ruins and William H. Holmes' map of Colorado showing trails.
All printed.
Includes a map of E. W. Brandes, 7/10/1929, showing villages of eastern New Guinea where certain specimens in the United States National Museum were acquired.
Printed.
Printed.
Printed.
Includes a list of Marionettes and puppets in the collection of the United States National Museum.
Includes clippings.
Includes clippings and illustrations of antique chilcat mask with Chinese coins set in as eyes, USNM Proceedings, XV, 221.
Includes clippings; illustrations; notes; and letters, G. T. Emmons to William H. Holmes, 6/10/02 re description of masks from British Columbia.
Includes "An Account of Progress in Anthropology," 1879, 1880, 1881, (1882), and 1882.
Includes "An Account of Progress in Anthropology," 1885, 1886, 1887, 1888, 1890.
Includes letters from Jesse Walter Fewkes 1891-92.
Includes an address before the Section of Anthropology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, "The Scope and Value of Anthropological Studies."
Re mounds, shellheaps, stone tools. Includes H. R. Patrick to Otis T. Mason, 1/11/97, re map of Salt River ruins; Warren King Moorehead to Mason, 12/15/96, re archeological map of Ohio, with notes and synopsis; William H. Holmes to Mason, 12/29/96, re McElmo triple-walled tower; and printed material, clippings, notes.
Includes William Saunders to Otis T. Mason, 7/6/94, re terms in breeding plants; manuscript re anthropobiology, 11/8/01; notes; and printed material.
Includes printed material: poetry, inspirational literature, essays, etc. and similar notes by Mason.
Includes manuscript, "Anthropology: General Review" and printed material.
Includes a draft of a letter to Wm. H. Holmes, n.d., re need for studies in anthropobiology, and printed material, unidentified list.
Includes notes and a clipping.
Includes notes on culture areas.
Includes J. W. Hudson to Mason, 7/25/95, on types of cradles; F. W. Putnam to Mason, 3/25/96, reporting no Peruvian cradles to Peabody Museum; M. Duchner to Mason, 4/27/96, re cradles from 'Ega and Olevenca (?); clippings, printed illustrations; and notes.
Includes Mason's published article.
Includes a manuscript and printed material.
Includes notes.
Includes clippings and notes.
Includes "Directions for Collecting Specimens of Aboriginal Art," Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 1885; "On a Proposed New Name for Homo Americanus"; "Man, Science of" (Encyclopedia article proof sheets); and "Child Life among Savage and Uncivilized People," Saturday Lecture delivered at the National Museum, 1/12/84.
Includes notes.
Includes W. T. Thiselton-Dyer to Mason, 11/22/01, re interest in bows and arrows with list of specimens in the Museum of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kiev; Karl Sapper, 6/08/01, 2/18/01, re his work on bows and arrows of Central America; vocabulary; and notes.
Includes a description of figures, specimens and printed material.
Includes E. W. Nelson, cross section of Innuit House and floor plan, with notes, and notes on mounds, buildings.
Includes notes; printed material; and William J. Cleveland to Mason, 4/14/92, re Dakota dress.
Includes D. Much to Mason, Vienna, ca. 1890, re use of Department of Foreign Affairs or Navy in furthering ethnological museum and "Ethnography of Northern Alaska," questions prepared by Franz Boas, 1883.
Includes miscellaneous short articles by Mason.
Envelope includes published letter to editor of Science re Meyer's work on Central Brazilian bows and arrows, 1896. Notebook includes note re milling corn and other food; E. Lewis Sturtevant to Mason, 10/16/95, re corn; a photograph of woman with pestle and mortar, Onandaga Reservation 1896; illustrations; and a copy of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, XV, 1867, "Collections in Archaeology and Ethnology."
Includes a manuscript.
Includes notes and a manuscript.
Includes "Headings" under Encyclopaedic Anthropology and an outline, groups and classes of Colonial and export Trade, Exposition, Amsterdam, 1883.
Includes outline notes and printed material.
Includes notes and outlines.
Includes a reprint of Mason articles.
Includes notes, a manuscript, and printed material.
Includes a list of subjects.
Includes a manuscript.
Includes a lecture.
Includes a lecture, "The Natural History of Emotions" and notes.
Includes an outline and part of manuscript.
Includes drafts of an article of the same title; "The Border-land between the Historian and the Archaeologist"; and a letter, Edward Woome to Mason, 12/27/90, with translation from Horhof's Polyhistor.
Includes notes and printed material.
Includes a letter, J. D. McGuire to Mason, 9/2/00, on opening clams, oysters, and so forth, and notes and clippings (seems much on Spain and Portugal).
Includes a list of tribes.
Includes notes and illustrations.
Includes notes, clippings, and a lecture manuscript.
Includes notes and lists of specimens.
Includes James Mooney, reading notes on use of sunflower among Indians and notes by Mason.
Includes Lucien Carr's "The Food of Certain American Indians and their Methods of Preparing It," Proceedings, American Antiquarian Society, 1895.
Includes a letter, W. D. Alexander to Mason, 6/1/94, re archeological discoveries at Necker Island and enclosing photographs, and notes on sources of food and their preparation.
Includes notes on races.
Includes notes and a letter, Cyrus Thomas to Mason, 11/9/99 and 1/4/00, re Indian houses and the relation of their shape to mounds and on directions of migrations of North American Indians.
Includes a letter, J. O. Dorsey to Mason, 12/14/89, re an Omaha measure of length; a letter, Franz Boas to Mason, 1/1/93, re measures of value among the Chinook of Shoalwater Bay; a letter, J. O. Dorsey, 12/20/89, re corrections of names of measures among the Naltunne tunne (?); J. O. Dorsey to Mason, 12/2/89 (?), re measures of length among the Naltunne tunne; and notes, printed material.
Includes manuscripts, "Comparison of Written Language with One that is Spoken Only."
Includes notes.
Includes notes.
Includes a letter, H. Emerson to Mason, 2/8/00, deploring his use of Mercator projection map; a printed article; a letter, John G. Bourke, 7/20/92, re force and problem of commensariat at Little Bighorn; and notes.
Includes J. H. Porter, "Notes on Race Distribution from South-Eastern Asia"; "A Comparison of a Written Language with One That is Spoken Only"; a photograph of stone images found on Necker Island; and a manuscript, with illustrations.
Includes a manuscript on the development of religion.
Includes a copy of letter of Otis Bigelow to Mason, 3/27/99, re Mexican dyeing, and notes.
Includes a letter, F. W. Putnam to Mason, 3/7/00, re state of study of skulls found in Trenton area and printed material.
Includes proceedings of AAAS.
Includes a manuscript.
Includes a letter, T. J. Morgan to Mason, 2/14/93, re summary of relationship of Indians to the government; printed material; and notes.
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Ceramic Vessel
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Includes a letter, J. D. McGuire to Mason, 5/14/94, re his relationship with the Smithsonian Institution and explaining a "bad break of the previous night"; notes; and a manuscript.
Includes a manuscript.
Includes notes and a manuscript.
Includes printed material.
Includes a manuscript.
Includes a letter Edward S. Morse, 3/10/04, re Ainu shell beads and pottery; a letter, Alexander F. Chamberlain, 2/26/04, with notes on Far Eastern races; a manuscript; a bibliography; and printed material.
Includes a manuscript and a clipping.
Includes a manuscript and notes.
Includes a manuscript, "Chapter III Archeological Districts of the Mound Area."
Includes notes.
Includes drawing of boat with terms for parts; exhibit labels; Frederick Starr, Aztec Place Names, University of Chicago Press, 1895; and a vocabulary list, miscellaneous subjects.
Includes printed articles by Mason.
Includes printed material and a manuscript or notes.
Includes a manuscript or notes.
Includes photographs and other illustrations and notes.
Includes notes.
Includes a letter, Ike Allen, 1/10/94, re Indian removal of sinew and its use; notes; and a drawing by J. G. Swan, "Makah towing a whale ashore at landing at Tatiosh Island," 1861.
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OPPS NEG.86-3621
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Includes notes; printed material; and an outline of an article by Walter Hough.
Includes a manuscript or notes.
Includes note, printed material, and an outline of article by Walter Hough.
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Includes lists of tribal names with linguistic stock given for each.
Includes material copied from published sources and a table, "Scheme of Languages according to Abel Hovelacque."
Includes illustrations from Stephens and Catherwood; other illustrations; a sample of paper from plantain fiber from Honduras; a draft of announcements of lectures by Catherwood; "Notes from Waldick's Work"; Cyrus Thomas, "Maya Hieroglyphics"; and magazine articles.
Includes a biographical sketch with bibliography and photograph.
Includes a brief article, probably by Herbert Krieger.
Includes illustrations of dwellings made with mats.
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painting over photograph
Includes notes with specimen catalog numbers and references to pages of an unknown publication.
Includes a narrative re the Hemenway Expedition.
Includes processed announcement re Admiltry Island Expedition.
Includes correspondence with Herbert Krieger, 1942 and 1955, re gifts to the USNM.
Includes Walter Hough, "The Burial of Supela" (Hopi), with note by J.W. Fewkes, 8/3/17; Hough, "Sharpening a Metate," 7/13/16; notes on art objects of various types and people and objects in the Heinz collection; and letters, H. L. Scott to Hough, 2/25/18, asking to be present at Hodge farewell.
Includes notes, "Topinaid's Essential Measures"
Includes clippings and museum labels.
Includes letters to Otis T. Mason, 11/12/04, with a bibliography of his works.
Includes E. H. Hawley to Jacob T. Child, 12/23/86, asking for identification of Siamese specimens; draft descriptions of Siamese specimens; and printed material.
Includes notes by Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason.
Includes tintypes.
Includes printed material.
Includes Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason, notes on linguistic families of Mexico; reading notes by Hough; Hough, "The Totnac Indians," 1889; other notes and illustrations; and letters, William C. Farabee to Hrdlička, 2/13/18, re his? publications in physical anthropology.
Includes a newspaper article re Byron Cummings' work at Chuicuilco.
Includes Christian Kauder, Das Kabehismus, Das Betrachtungsbueh, und das Gesaugbuck(?), Vienna, 1866 (in Hieroglyphics; part missing).
Includes letters of Kucaic school girls during the 1890s and early 1900s donated by Katharine Marvin; a photograph of native teacher; postcards; bible verses in Gilbertese; diary of Katherine Marvin, with notes on Micronesians; and printed material.
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Includes a scrapbook from Katherine Marvin including photographs and illustrations and clippings, American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions forms.
Includes clipping re origins of American Indians, with references to Hrdlička; proof sheets of Immigration Commission's "Dictionary of European and Other Immigrant Races or Peoples," 1910; and printed material.
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Includes Fred Eggleston to Otis T. Mason, 11/15/94, re cookery and drive of Europeans for spices; Fritz Noetting to Mason, 12/8/94, re flint flakes found in Burma; E. D. Cope to Mason, 6/25/94, re origin of camels and migration; Frank Baker, 8/27/94, re origin of syphilis; notes by Mason; and newsclipping re Mason's idea of migration of American Indians from Asia.
Includes a letter to Mason, 11/22/04, with a list of his publications.
Includes a note by Walter Hough and clippings and illustrations.
Includes Maori vocabularies; Quichua, Hawaiian, and Samoan word lists; and letters of H. L. Jammis and T. Wilson, 1890-1898, re collection of stone tools and purchase of specimens.
Consists of folders with several items in each. Includes notes, clippings, other printed material including Walter Hough, "Remarks on Antarctic Exploration" before the Washington Academy of Sciences, 1910; illustrations of British Guiana weapons by Ph. Schmid; letter, J.O. Dorsey to Otis T. Mason, 1/171(?)/93, re Hiawatha; letter, Jessie E. Thomas, 1/20/02, and Albert Gatschet, 12/22/01 and 12/19/01, re name for hemlock in different Indian languages and other names suitable for estates; Karl Moon, "Photographic Studies of Indians"; notes on magic mirrors of China and Japan by D. B. McCartee; letters of George A. Allen (see also, registrar's/Proc Lab's records for Acc# 24160, cat #'s 135927-931 and 152485-492) to Mason, 1/19/97 and 11/28/90 and Allen's "The Colorado River Indian Reservation and the Mohave Indians" (BOX 44); letter, J. B. Thatcher to William H. Holmes, 9/24/00 re having never seen Tehelche on foot using bolo and related letter, 10/15/00; Walter Hough to Mason, 2/6/00, re recommendations for collecting activities of Jesse Walter Fewkes in Hopi.
Includes agriculture; anthropologenesis; Alaska; alphabet; Aleuts; altars; Amazon; America—peopling; Antarctic; ancestry of man; Apache; Argentine; arrows; Bassa alphabet; Aryans; astronomy, primitive; British Guiana—weapons; Congo poison; Easter Indians—Cumberland; and Eliot, John.
Includes epics, ethnobotany, Fiji, finger Rings, fire making, flagellants, fly traps, folk songs, galleys, Goajira peninsula, Guam, Gypsy, Greenland, habitations, handicraft, harpoon—Eskimo, Hawaii, heads, Hiawatha, Himalaya, holiday, Holland, hops, Hupa, Igorot, Indian medicines, Indian names, and Indian names for estates.
Includes Indians, painting of; Indians: California Maidu, Chinook, civilization of, Kansas, mythology, Mohave, Navaho, Paiute, Oregon-Washington, population, bannocks, Eastern Washington, Quinaielt, Wintun, photographs, San Luis Rey, and tribes settled in Cherokee Nation; industrial areas; insects—folklore; Irish folk ballads; Iron age in America; ivory; jargon; Java; Israel; and Kabyles.
Includes Keokuk, Kiowa, Kirgheses, knife, knots, lacquer, Land of the Reindeer, Lapps, lasso, lariat, Law Review, legends of Passamoquoddy, legend—Missiaga, libations, loom—Carolinas, Madeira, Madstones, magic, marionettes and shadows, marriage, Makah, medicine, mescal, metallurgy—Sihkin, metric, Mexican Indians, and mills.
Includes mirrors—Japanese, Mission Indians, Mohave Indians, Mongols, names, Nanticoke, Nez Perce, New Zealand, nomenclature, numerals, Osages, Otoe and Omaha, Pamunkey, Panama, Parsees, Patagonia, and Pawnees.
Includes penance, pipes, pioneers—southeast, pit dwellings, pen pits, Papuan art, Paiutes, Paint names, Pleiades, poles, Pomo Indian Basketry, Portuguese in New England, Potlatch, powder horns, puberty, Pueblo, punishment, and Pygmies.
Includes quiver—Humpa ceremonial, rattan, razor, Russia—Cossack fishermen, Sacs and Foxes, Sahe, Sacred Tree, salutations, Santa Claus, savage ornaments, Senegambia, scalping, sedan chairs, Seri Indians, serpent symbolism, shadow pictures, shoes, Shoshonis, signals, sign language, Siletz, Siouan myths, and Sioux.
Includes Otis T. Mason to Augusta Post, 9/19/08 and Post to Mason, 9/12/08; on aeronautical history; printed material; and notes by Mason and Walter Hough.
Includes clippings and notes by Walter Hough.
Includes Romyn Hitchcock notes on exhibits and printed material and clippings.
Includes notes by Otis T. Mason and printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes Gertrude B. Darwin to Otis T. Mason, 4/30/89, re egg rolling; clippings; and notes.
Includes printed material.
Includes a copy of July 1897 Eskimo Bulletin and other printed material.
Largely lists specimens in William L. Abbott collection.
Includes printed material.
Includes notes on wedding superstitions by Walter Hough and printed material.
Includes a note on specimen of cactus bud used as food by the Papago and printed material.
Includes notes by Walter Hough and printed material.
Includes clippings.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material, including clippings.
Includes a note on a specimen by Lucien M. Turner and printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes notes on specimens at Albany University and photographs of George W. Kellogg.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes notes, some by Walter Hough and D. B. McCartee; clippings and other printed material; and illustrations.
Includes a copy of Bureau of American Ethnology's "Alphabet to Accompany the Second Edition of the Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages" and other printed material.
Includes clippings and other printed material.
Includes printed material and a note by Walter Hough.
Includes a note by Walter Hough and printed material.
Includes notes, some by Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason and printed material.
Includes printed material and clippings.
Includes clippings.
Includes printed material.
Includes notes by Walter Hough, notes on specimens by Edward Palmer, photographs, and printed material.
Includes notes by I. M. Casanowicz on the origin of religion, other notes, and clippings.
Includes drafts of catalog cards for specimens and clippings.
Includes a letter, C. B. Cary, 5/1/97; printed material; and clippings.
Includes clippings.
Includes photographs of buildings, some by A. C. Vroman; lists of specimens; and clippings.
Includes printed material and notes, some by I. M. Casanowicz.
Includes printed material.
Includes newsclippings re Modoc War.
Includes a typed note.
Includes illustrations, clippings, and a note, Dec. 1954, re Biblical coins.
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Fulgur Carica
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Includes tags for model shields.
Includes a letter to Otis T. Mason, 11/15/05, with a bibliography of his work.
Includes a bibliography.
Includes a letter, 11/21/04 with a bibliography.
Includes a typescript note.
Includes clippings and a list and description of pottery specimens.
Includes letters and references to artifacts and specimens, some with reference to transmittal to the Smithsonian, 1868-88, and printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes notes by Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason and printed material.
Includes clippings.
Includes printed material.
Includes forms distributed by the American Association of Museums.
Includes O. T. Mason "Ethnological Direction relative to Indian Tribes of the United Sates," 1875, and other printed material.
Includes printed material.
Includes cursory notes by Hough and Mason for exhibits apparently both in the United States National Museum and at Expositions; a copy of a sketch by (?) F. W. Putnam; sketches, many by William H. Holmes; a letter, G. T. Emmons to Holmes, January 8, 1902, re blanket frame of unnamed tribe; notes by Holmes; and printed illustrations.
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NAA MS.Records of Dept of Anthro, Div of Ethno, Ms & Pamphlet File
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Includes Thomas Wilson, "Archeological Museums. Modes of Lighting—Effect of Glass upon lighting," paper read before Mid-Winter meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 1898; notes by Wilson; and portions of a manuscript on lighting and another on museums, apparently by Wilson.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material and Theodore T. Belott to Holmes, 1/7/10 re case for exhibiting large furniture.
Includes printed material.
Includes "Museums", printed material, clippings, and a note on the ideal museum building.
The letters until 1898 concern Hawley's work as preparator for anthropology, including some material on musical instruments but much on many other subjects. Some of it is administrative in nature; much consists of inquiries concerning the description and preservation of artifacts. The letters from 1900 on largely concern musical instruments.
Correspondents include S. A. Barrett, L. E. Dodd, Link Fuller, M. S. Gatuellas, Hiram M. Hiller, Walter Lehman, and H. Liggert. Some reference inquiries; some concern description of specimens and the classification of musical instruments.
Correspondents include Victor Mahillon, Otis T. Mason, Fannie Morris, A. P. Oppe, and W. W. Rockhill.
Correspondents include Philip L. Schenk, A. T. Sinclair, Walter F. Smith, Albert A. Stanley, Hugo Worch, and United States National Museum personnel (S. R. Koehler, R. I. Geare, and Frederick W. Hodge).
Includes letters of Carl Sapper, William T. Brigham, A. T. Sinclair, Dean C. Worcester, M. S. Gatuellas, and Frances Densmore. Densmore item concerns the Dakota elk whistle.
Includes opies of publications by E.H. Hawley and letters of James Croggon re song "My Blackbird"
Includes a list of instruments in the United States National Museum collection and exhibits, catalog descriptions of specimens, and a list of violin and other instrument makers, with location of birth, date, source of information, and remarks.
Includes a catalog descriptions of specimens, a list of donors to United States National Museum collection, and a list of piano makers.
Includes catalog descriptions of specimens and notes.
Includes a list showing storage locations of specimens, notes, atalog descriptions of specimens, and Fred P. Downing to W. de C. Ravenal re cymbals.
Includes a catalog descriptions of specimens many re Foreign Exhibition, Boston, 1883/84, and notes (many to do with graphic arts)
E. H. Hawley, notes and manuscript re classification of musical instruments; "Theory of the Manner in Which the Sounds of the Organ Pipes and all Classes of Reed Wind Musical Instruments are Produced"; and "Theory of Sound Production in Wind Instruments".
Includes notes and lists of instruments.
Includes a classification of Musical Instruments in the United States National Museum by E. H. Hawley.
Includes a description of specimens within framework of Hawley's classification.
Disorganized
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Includes printed patent office specifications, 1870s-early 20th century.
Includes a stereograph of Murrary organ; an apparatus for photographing sound waves, Case School of Applied Science; and street Musicians in Puerto Rico collected by Paul Beckwith.
Includes illustrations; notes by Walter Hough; drawings for 9th Ethnological Annual article by John Murdock; clippings; letters, Charles C. Willoughly to Otis T. Mason, 4/18/04, re tooth blackening in Mala; a letter, J. F. Llewelyn to Mason, re tooth blackening; photographs of shrunken heads and tattooed man; and bibliographic references.
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Includes an outline of mutilations; notes; illustrations; clippings; Walter Hough, "Ceremonial and Other Practices on the Human Body Among the Indians"; photographs of tattooed man; abstract of Hough's paper on Savage Mutilation for Decoration, 3/16/14; and notes for a slide presentation.
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Includes a clipping and printed article; an abstract of paper on "Savage mutilations for Decoration"; Walter Hough, "The Story of Personal Adornment" (slide lecture); and notes by Hough.
Includes clippings.
Includes clippings.
Includes copies and clippings, 1922-35.
Includes John J. K. Patrick to Charles Rau, 11/7/1870, re warriors cap taken in May 1848, from "Huerro", with drawings; newsclippings; a note, James Mooney to William H. Holmes, re evaluation of article and letter; and a letter, A. J. Newcomb to Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, re manufacture and gift of Yabachai blanket to United States National Museum and description of Yabachai sandpaintings and related materials for exhibit of sandpaintings.
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Includes printed material.
Includes "List of Ethnological Specimens Obtained in Alaska, with notes" (copy of original) –Moved to Ms 7107.
Includes printed material.
Includes printed material and clippings.
On miscellaneous subjects.
Includes a photograph of basketry and other specimens.
Includes printed material.
Includes a letter, from Paul Haupt, 1/30 and 31/95 and 12/3/97 re model for United States National Museum, with notes, sketch, and illustrations. Also includes printed material.
Includes a copy, letter, Ernest P. Walker to Arthur Koehler, 11/3/43, re Chilkat blanket and Ethel Perkins to Ed L. Kethahn re same subject; William L. Paul to Herbert Krieger, 9/8/26, re photograph of totem pole that disappeared in 1926; and A. R. Kelley to Krieger, 12/8/39, re preparations for statements for United States National Museum and National Park Service.
Includes a tintype of three Tulalip boys and their aunt; notes on houses by Herbert Krieger; a painting of a totem pole; a photograph of a boat, specimen 175613; and a drawing.
Oversize. Includes a newspaper from Port Townsend, Washington Territory, 1877.
Includes printed and processed material.
Includes exhibit labels.
Includes a notebook by Otis T. Mason and a notebook, with printed material, largely illustrations from Niblack's The Coast Indians of Southern Alaska and Northern British Columbia.
Includes Krieger to Wetmore, 1/12/49 and 1/6/49 re collection.
Includes printed material.
Includes notes by Walter Hough.
Includes memorandum, Frank Setzler to T. Dale Stewart, 2/24/58, re location of death bust, and a typed excerpt from Thomas Donaldson's "George Catlin's Indian Gallery".
Includes correspondence with Herbert Krieger, 1935, re photographs of specimens furnished him.
Includes letters, memoranda re dealing with Gustav Helmich, 1924-38, and clippings.
Includes a typescript copy of G. E. L. Carter, "A Short History of the Province of Sind," Karachi, 1916, with notes by G. Bunting, 1962.
Includes a typed list of Accession 17,111 and Accession 26,426, catalog #178,976. Also includes a sample of paper made from Yucca filaments and straw at Golden, Colorado.
Includes an extract from a letter, H. Pittier to Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 9/18/11, re Santa Isabela and voyage along San Blas coast and San Blas Indians; notes on accession from Pittier; R. O. Marsh, "The Marsh-Darien Expedition of 1924"; notes on San Blas Indians in Herbert Krieger's hand; printed material; a list, "Ethnological Collection of the Marsh-Darien Expedition, San Blas, Chocoi, and Cuna Indians; a processed item, "Scientific Aspects and Matters of Interest of the Tule People Concerning Which Further Investigation is Desired and Contemplated" by R. O. Marsh; R. O. Marsh, "British Influence in and Control of the Future Industrial Development of Panama, with Special Reference to Rubber," May 1926; a map of Panama Coast, annotated by R. O. Marsh.; photostatic copies of Tule writing, R. O. marsh, December, 1925; a letter, Frances Densmore to Walter Hough, probably 1924 or 1925, re a Tule Flute; notes; J. E. Graf to Matthew J. Connelly, 31/50, re a bell bought in St. Andres; G. M. Wrigley to Herbert Krieger, 2/2/27, re "Culture of the People of Southeastern Panama Based on Specimens in the United States National Museum"; a despatch, Francis L. Spalding, Vice Consul, Panama, "The Province of Cocle, Panama," March 22, 1933; and R. O. Marsh, map of racial types in parts of Panama.
Includes a statement on papermaking in China, probably for popular distribution.
Includes a copy of an article, 1884 from Athenaeum, and a translation of the ethnographic part of the catalog for the 1889 exposition and a clipping from Athenaeum.
Includes a memorandum on status, 3/25/35, by Friends of Payne Stone Age Collection.
Includes processed bibliographies of holdings.
Material from Mrs. A. H. Vincent, including drawings by an Eskimo woman who had never seen a pencil, notes and vocabulary by A. H. Vincent, and copies of documents re Peary-Cook controversy and newsclippings.
Includes a letter to Mason, 1/23/05, enclosing printed biography and bibliography.
Includes a despatch from Vice Consul, Bushire, Persia, George Greeg Fuller, 8/6/24 "Christian Rock Tombs Discovered" and printed material, including clippings.
Includes printed materials.
Includes letters to Otis T. Mason, 1/19/05 and 2/09/05, re bibliography of his publications.
Includes printed material.
Includes Moros "book" (in manuscript), #257,705.
Includes Dean C. Worcester "Notes on the Philippines: Memoranda Relating to Negatives of Photographs Taken In the Islands." Photos not included.
Daniel Folkmar, "Some Philippine Physical Types," #367,904. Includes the paper, an abstract of the paper for Proceedings of the Anthropological Society of Washington, and related notes and charts.
Photographs and Drawings. Includes photographs, mostly of prisoners Bilibid prison, making physical anthropological measurements, casts for Folkmar's study; mug shots for several tribes; drawings of noses for comparative purposes; and other photographs, not identified.
Includes correspondence: a copy, S. S. Metcalf to Governor, Davao District, 4/2/10, re order for Bagobos to bring bamboo, with reply from governor denying the order, and a letter, Leonard Wood to Governor W. Cameron Forbes, introducing E. H. and S. S. Metcalf.
Clippings from published notes on Philippine tribes on notecards. Includes F. Blumentritt, "List of the Native Tribes of the Philippines and the Languages Spoken by them." SI Ann. Rep. 1899. p. 527-47.)
Exhibit labels, including original catalog of Frank Hilders' Pan American Exposition collection, 1901 (accession 39,609; cat. 216,476 ff).
Includes Daniel Folkmar manuscript on his experiences on the Islands, ca. 1909-13 (several different drafts).
Includes Folkmar manuscript (last part) and Frederick L. Linton to Richard Rathbun, 10/13/04, reporting on Louisiana Purchase Exposition exhibits, with attachments concerning Philippines exhibit.
Includes a list of photographs by F. F. Hilder and list of Hilder collection as boxed up at Charleston, South Carolina, 1902.
Includes photographs showing Filipino writing (238,528); exhibit labels (313,993); Jacob Kline, rules of maniala game; and a small book of Tagelog writing (cat. 377, 914).
Notebook, Otis T. Mason, "Materials for a Guide to Collections in the Philippine Islands, including notes, illustrations, J. McK. Cattell to Mason, 6/7/00, stating he would try to help him while he (Woodruff) was in the Philippines, and W. J. McGee to Mason, 7/3/00 re Philippine photographs and problems in ethnology and linguistics.
Includes a notebook containing clippings and printed materials.
Notebook, including Charles E. Woodruff to Mason, 11/12/01, stating he would try to help him while he (Woodruff) was in the Phillippines; A. D. Meyer to Mason, 7/7/00 re illustrations and publications concerning the Philippines; Cyrus Adler, 87/00 and D.G. Brinton, 9/30/98, re publications on the Philippines; C. W. Shoemaker to Mason, 2/14/05 re committee of National Academy of Science on scientific research in the Philippines; Edgar H. Mearns to Mason, 3/6/07 re forwarding notebooks on Philippine material; J. B. Sture to William H. Holmes, 4/2/02, re his work in the Philippines; Dean C. Worcester, 6/18/02, with list of photographs; a vocabulary of Lake Lanao Moro, with notes; and other correspondence and notes.
Notebook, includes "Blumentritt Philippine Tribes" (notes).
Notebook including a note on specimens from Potomac Valley, Samoa, Tahiti, Mexico; a note on mat R.L. Stevenson was laid out on after he died; and notes on "Details of Contents of Box from Tahiti, written by Tati Salmon, Chief of Papara, Tahiti.
Includes letters, script, notes, for exhibit ca. 1886, by E. H. Hawley.
Includes a letter, A. Wetmore to Frank M. Setzler 10/27/39 re photos of "Barbados" (Barbudo?) Indians sent by Alexander Daveron, with prints; a photo of Goajira Lake Dwelling of Senamaica (?), Maraccito, Venezuela, 1891, by R. M. Barthemark #153,021; a photo, tracing of basketry specimens offered by Karl von den Striner (?); a photo of Parinlinkin Muro-Praha, Rio Negro, British Guiana specimens; an illustration canoe of the Jamamde Indians; 2 photos, Carib exhibit, USNM (?); a drawing of an ax, from valley of Amazon, Gibbon, USN; and misc. other photos, largely appear Latin American.
Incldes a copy of a letter, A. Wetmore to Miss Ruth L. Shutt, re Indian dyes.
Includes John Witthoft "Cherokee Pipes"; a note and label, re specimens from Army Medical Museum; notes; and printed material.
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Includes letters to W.H. Holmes, 5/7/96 and 6/30/96, and a draft of Holmes to Pleyte, 8/16/96; photos of specimens; and a list of specimens.
Includes L. W. Moxson to Thomas Wilson, 1/4/94, re cause of revolution of arrows; George Williams on to Wilson, 7/25/92, re arrows he collected; Thomas Wilson, "A History of Arrow Poison in Various Parts of the World," 1901; M. B. Yuston to Smithsonian Institution, 11/18/15, re use of frogs for poison on headwaters of Atrato River; W. J. Hoffman, "Poisoned Weapons Used by the Indians of North and South America"; notes, illustrations, and printed material; and letters to Thomas Wilson re poisons from Edgar A. Mearns, 12/12/01, re Apache (negative reply to inquiry); _____Saville (American Museum of Natural History) 12/31/01 on Herrera; James M. Flint, 11/11/01, negative reply to inquiry; William J. McGee, 10/25/01 re Peru and Seri; Albert S. Gatschet, 10/7/01 re Baja California; George A. Dorsey, 10/12/01, re North American Indians (negative reply to inquiry) and visit by McCurdy; Franz Boas, 10/9/01, negative reply to inquiry; Washington Mathews, n.d., re Navaho and Zuni, negative reply to inquiry; Harlan I. Smith, 10/16/01, re Thompson Indians and news of American Museum of Natural History.
Includes Louis W. Maxson to Thomas Wilson, 1/4/94 re experiments with arrow feathers; Goe. Williamson to Wilson 7/25/92 describing specimens of arrow heads and other flint implements from De Soto Co. La.; Mrs. Wilson, "A History of Arrow Poison in Various Parts of the World"; M. B. Huston to SI, 11/18/15, re use of poisons from frogs near Atrato River headwaters; and printed material.
Includes clippings; "Details of Content of Box from Tahiti Written By Tati Salmon, Chief of Parpara, Tahiti"; Craig Maginnis, "The Ceremony of the Fai-Kava as Practised in the Tongan Island"; and Craig Maginnis, "The Manufacture of Bark Cloth as Carried on in the Tongan Islands".
Includes letters to Walter Hough, 1895-1903. Many were written by Fewkes when he was doing fieldwork in the Southwest and include references to his work there.
Mostly to Walter Hough from Cornelio Aragon, William Borrowdale, Eleanor Brodie Chester, P. G. Gates (1902-05, with references to Hoopes, Vroman, and Gates expeditions), N. S. Delgar, G. E. Gelm, DeLashmitt, J. J. Hale, E. L. Hewett (to Commissioner, General Land Office, on antiquities act, shipment of specimens, ruins), E. A. Hitchcock, Walter Hough (including "Plan for the Organization of a Survey of the Peoples and Antiquities of the Pueblo Region" 1907), Temple Houston, W. H. Jackson, C. F. Larrabee, Harold McL. Cobb, Sgt. Ed. S. Miller, Victor Mindeleff to William H. Holmes, C. R. Olberg, R. Perry, Richard Rathbun, William deC. Ravenal, J. L. Steaver, Charles Walcott, Mary C. B. Watkins, Stephen B. Weeks, Wetzler Brothers, and Isaac T. Whittemore to J. W. Powell.
Includes notebooks of Walter Hough, 1901, 1896, 1899-1903, one undated; loose miscellaneous notes of Walter Hough; a list of Hopi Artifacts with Hopi names for them; and a partial list of artifacts, by Edward Palmer.
Includes "Heavenly Women" and "Social Organization of the Tusayan Indians".
Includes printed illustrations, some from BAE reports; miscellaneous drawings; and sketches of pottery designs in the United States National Museum Collection.
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Includes a photo, interior of cliff dwelling eight miles west of Espanola, New Mexico, 1886; a photograph of stone lions near Cochiti; photographs of pottery; a photograph of ancient cloth from Grahm County, Arizona, by Katherine Tuttle; Kate Cory's painting of Hopi Ceremony sayaluna; and the Mastop mask in the Field Museum.
Includes printed material, including newsclippings.
Includes "Some Field Notes on the Cliff Dwellings and Petroglyphs of Colorado and Utah," 1907, and photographs.
Includes a sketch map by Walter Hough, area southeast of Holbrook, Arizona, showing ruins; a sketch map by Walter Hough, area east of Hay Hollow, Mickey Hollow near Little Colorado River; Aleš Hrdlička, "Arbeters used by the Zuni Women in Making Pottery" with Zuni words; a sketch map by W. E. Guest, "Ancient Work in Augusta, C. W., 8/1/2 miles No. W. Prescott"; and a map annotated to show ruins, Ochiltree County, Texas.
Includes answers to reference inquiries; transmittal letters; L. Maulliers, 6/9/99, re Congress of the History of Relgions, Paris; a letter, General Benjamin S. Roberts to his wife, 4/17/1868, re Navaho religion; and other letters of a rather general nature.
Includes pages from the Koran in Cufic, Egyptian Fatimid, 11th century; in Nasky, by Muhmud, son of Kasim-e; -Jani of Kerman, 1018 A. H.; in black Thuluth script, Egypt, 11-12th century; parchment, 8-9th century, Egypt; and Turkish Neskhi, 17th century.
Includes an unidentified manuscript.
Includes Moro-Arabic manuscript fragment.
Includes "Objects of Religious Ceremonial of Shinto" (part of larger manuscript not here) by I. M. Casanowicz; "Sacrifice as a Means of Communion and Atonement with the Deity in Non-Christian Religions," by Casanowicz; "Coins of the Bible" with a list of specimens; and "Voodoo Religion", a bibliography.
Includes a drawing of a cross excavated January, 1849, purportedly found in ruins of Ninevah and dated 670 B. C., and photography of red sandstone Indian idol from the Mopani, Central Provinces, acc 5012.
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Includes "On Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, and Shinto," by I. M. Casanowicz, Walter Hough, and a list of photographs and illustrations.
Includes printed material—rubbings of inscriptions Acc 49.501.
Includes special folders on the races of man, the history of religions, agnoticism and atheism, rare bibles and books, theosophical society. Other concern miscellaneous subjects.
Includes exhibit labels and drafts.
Includes letters, affidavit, clippings, and notes re Hoop snake.
Includes a clipping of an obituary.
Includes notes of Casanowicz and clippings.
Includes a letter, 1933, re San Blas baby's dress and a list of specimens given to the museum.
Includes printed material.
Includes a list of Peruvian objects purchased from him.
Includes "History of Tanoa", a list of specimens, notes, and printed material.
Miscellaneous sources.
The original finding aid entry read "Notes on Assiniboine scalplock from C. A. Wooden." Also included was Sitting Bull's scalplock, which was loaned to the museum in 1896. It was repatriated to Sitting Bull's lineal descendents in 2008. This folder now includes 1) Memo from archivist Paula Fleming to Dennis Stanford on 10/28/1997 regarding the scalplock, with a later typewritten entry indicating that it has been transferred to the Processing Lab; 2) Two photographic negatives and black-and-white prints depicting front and back images of the scalplock.
Includes bibliographies.
Includes notes by William H. Holmes, including "The Water Symbol and its Place in Art"; photographs of vessels; Women stripping devils' claws; and a printed article.
Includes Anthony Breath to "Jim", 10/29/1849, re a meeting with Billy Bowlegs and other Seminoles and Mikasukis (concerns cat. 380,668) and a bibliography on Seminole Indians for popular distribution.
Includes printed material.
Includes a printed article.
Includes John A. Pope to Waldo Schmitt, 8/12/1943 re Japanese sharkskin scabbards and sword hilts, with accompanying material re cat. 283,960.
Includes a catalog description of artifacts with introductory notes on Coccus lacca.
Includes George Hunt to Herbert W. Krieger, 1/6/41 re his information to Krieger on Kiowa shields and references to demonstrations of sign language for J. P. Harrington.
Includes notes on artifacts, some in Casanowicz's hand.
From Map 11, Peoples of eastern Siberia in Johann Eberhard Fischer's Sibirskaia istoriia, 1774. Negative 41, 895.
Includes a bibliography and notes for popular distribution and clippings.
Includes Thomas W. Keams to Spencer Baird, 9/13/84; to Holmes, 11/17/84; to Holmes, 11/28/84; and to Holmes, 12/3/84, re donation to museum and use of collection in New Orleans Exposition. Nothing on silverwork. Also includes Cosmos Mindelff to Otis T. Mason, 10/16/86, re information on articles he sent museum and printed material.
Includes G. M. Finotti to N. Appleton, 10/4/83; 10/8/87; 2/2/84; and 1/18/84, one enclosing autograph of Sitting Bull, with statement in Lakota.
Includes "Explanation of illustration on Black Steer Robe, as related by 'Sharp,' a Piegan Indian who painted it in the Spring of 1892," by Z. T. Daniel. #165,449.
Includes two small drawings.
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Includes O. T. Mason to Mrs. Abbott, 12/10/02; Alexander Wetmore to Krieger, 11/13/43, re acceptance of Graham Kerr's donation of Spanish chert; and life article on Smithsonian, September, 1953.
Includes a statement on the Institution by Walter Hough.
Includes copies of Smithsonian Local News (inhouse papers) 1924-33.
Includes memoranda, recommendations, sketches, etc. Material of Herbert W. Krieger and Julian Stewart.
Includes photographs and drawings.
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Includes a photograph of Jamomadi Indians (retouched); drawings; notes; "Quichua maize words" probably by Orator Fullerton Cook; and newsclippings.
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Includes Mexican and Central American artifacts (including series of Carnegie Institution negatives) and cataloging notes.
Includes Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Cosgrove, "Preliminary Survey of the El Paso Pueblo District," El Paso Archeological Society, April 1925, and a plan of article on food supply by Walter Hough.
Mostly letters to Hough. Includes W. J. Andrews, 4/8/08, re a collection; W. M. Borrowdale, 10/16/06, re a shipment; Kate T. Cory, 8/22/09, re Hopi "decharming" of a house struck by lightning, and 6/3/09, re request for a publication; Frederick W. Coville to L. H. Dewey, 4/9/04, transmitting prehistoric cotton seed and acknowledgement to Walter Hough for sending seed; Barkford Dean, 1/30/14, advising where to obtain a certain cloth; George A. Dorsey to Otis T. Mason, 2/4/01, re Peruvian engineering [Missing 12/14/2011]; P. G. Gates, 7/9/07 and 10/24/05, re affairs connected with his expeditions; A. J. Connell to Neil M. Judd, 11/30/12, re mummy found in Gila Cliff dwelling; Walter Hough to Agent, AT&SF Railroad, n.d., re shipment; Walter Hough to M. C. Stevenson, 9/10/09, re analysis of cord and analysis of dyes; Walter Hough to Richard Rathbun, 11/21/05, giving report of Museum-Gates Expedition of 1905; Walter Hough to J. E. Thompson, 6/14/06, requesting loan of birdlike wooden object; Walter Hough to William H. Holmes, 7/4/01, reporting on Museum Gates Expedition; Walter Hough to Dr. Grand, 10/1/90, re Egyptian lamps; Clement Hightower, 7/13/03, re ruins in Tularoso County and Socorro County; Frederick W. Hodge to Hough, n.d., with bibliographic reference; Walter Hough, part of report to museum, n.d.; Charles F. Lummis, 3/6/05, asking him to join Southwest Society of Archaeological Institute of America; F. H. Manter, 12/21/05, re "Curious Etc.—Washington, C. to Ft. Bliss, Texas"; Ed. S. Miller, 6/7/06, re Apache ruins; N. H. Harbough 7/6/06, re ruins 35 miles north of Benson, Arizona; Richard Rathbun, 5/7/01, re permit to visit Arizona and New Mexico Indian reservations; J. Frank Raynes, 3/10/05, forwarding copy of letter of G. C. Robins, 2/7/05, re ruins around Gallina, New Mexico; M. C. Stevenson, 1/9/07, re work and problems in the Southwest; A. H. Ketchem, 12/26/08, acknowledging receipt of three photographs of Mesa Verde (attached); and W. M. Ferris, 1/5/09, acknowledging a photograph of ruins on Rio Chico near Madera, Chihuahua (attached).
Includes Victor Mindeleff, "Origin of Pueblo Architecture"; Walter Hough, "The Old Capital of the Southwest [Sante Fe]; Hough, plan for article on food supply of the ancient Hopi of Homolobi; "Bird Carvings of Effigies" (fragment); Walter Fewkes and Walter Hough, "Ruins in Gila Valley : Solomonsville", 1897; and Otis T. Mason, untitled article on pueblos.
Includes Walter Hough to Otis T. Mason, 7/6/97, on work at Kintiel and Walter Hough, article on the pueblos.
Includes a typed list of items in Stevenson collections.
Includes a list of artifacts in the collection of the United States National Museum; a list of Gates' share of artifacts collected on the Museum-Gates Expedition, 1901; a list of miscellaneous collections from the Pueblo region, Arizona, and New Mexico transferred from the Division of Prehistoric Archeology to the Division of Ethnology, September 1904; Cosmos Mindeleff, Collection from the Ruins of Casa Grande, Arizona; John Wesley Powell, Stone objects from Moqui Pueblo, Northwestern Arizona; Henry Hales, Collection from Ruined Pueblo, Tule Rosa Canon, New Mexico; Edgar A. Mearnes, "Stone Implements etc. found near Cave Dwellings near Carmel Mt. 26 miles west of El Paso, New Mexico on the Mexican Boundary Line"; John G. Bourke; Edward Palmer, Objects from Adobe Ruins, 2 1/2 miles northwest of Mesa City, Maricopa county, Arizona; E. W. Nelson, Objects from Ruined Pueblos on the headwaters of the San Francisco River, New Mexico (2 lists); J. H. Carlton; Edward Palmer, Objects from ruins of a stone Pueblo on the Rio Verde about 60 miles northwest of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona; E. W. Nelson, Objects from a cave 25 miles west of Sprinerville, Arizona; Henry and J. W. Metcalfe, Objects from a cave near Silver City, New Mexico south of Gila River; and H. H. Rushy, Objects from cave near Silver City, New Mexico.
Includes sketches of objects from Silver City, New Mexico; sketches of Demarest specimens, Spur Ranch specimens; sketches of rattle of Rain Priest of Nadir, Zuni; Victor Mindeleff, Zuni silversmith shop interior and burial custom of canon cliff dwellers (note by James Stevenson); and W. H. Jackson (?), interior of pueblo.
NAA INV.09052100
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NAA INV.09052400
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Woman Cooking, Man with Bow, Youth Painting Pottery, and Man Climbing Down Ladder
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NAA INV.09052600
drawing
Includes a ruined tower 10 miles west of Wingate, New Mexico, by A. L. Webster, 11/29/82.
NAA INV.09052700
drawing
NAA INV.09052800
drawing
NAA INV.09052900
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NAA INV.09053000
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NAA INV.09053100
drawing
Includes a sketch map of area north of Clifton; a sketch elevation of Hopi Mesas and painted desert; a sketch map of area near Rice School; a sketch map, Pima to Box Canyon and Olney Ranch; a sketch map, Tonto basin; a sketch map, Los Pinos; a sketch plan, ruins near Luna, New Mexico; a sketch plans, ruins near Rita Blanca; a sketch map, area south of Zuni; and a house and village plan at "4 mile" near Taylor, Arizona.
Includes unidentified specimens; specimen 246,53 from Tularosa Cove; Gates specimens, with Gates numbers; and a head of mummy from Peru collected by Hrdlička.
Includes accession 26917; mummies, received from Cushing; Jackson photography of Walpi; a photo of ruins; unidentified artifacts; and ancient pottery of Pueblos.
Mostly by Walter Hough.
Mostly by Walter Hough.
Includes a State Department Despatch, S. Evgenev, June 11, 1934, "New Alphabet of the Baubi (Tsova-Tushi) Tribe, and a State Department Despatch, S. Evgenev, 5/11/34, "New Udi Alphabet".
Includes a catalog of estate, January, 1917, with obituary.
Includes a letter, Eugen H. Blum to Frank Setzler, 11/1/58, and a bibliography.
Includes a note for public distribution.
Includes a biographical sketch and photograph of him as a young man.
Includes printed material.
Includes Janvier L. Mahell, "Ianeg and Kalinga Bark Cloth in the Collection of the University Museum" (paper for class, 4/90/60—Xerox copy); photographs of specimens; "The Tuna Blanket," note on specimen from Honduras; transmittal letters for manuscript of Craig Maginnis, rejected for publication, 1910; C. Maginnis manuscripts, "The Manufacture of Bark-Cloth as Carried on in the Tongan Island" and "The Cermony of the Fai-Kava as Practiced on the Tongan Islands"; and notes by Walter Hough, with samples of cloth.
Includes a bibliography for public distribution.
Includes classification of Tasmanian stone implements.
Includes printed material, notes by Otis T. Mason and Walter Hough, drawings, and photographs of Johnnie Kit Elswa (Haida) by Charles Niblack.
NAA INV.09053200
drawing
Includes a note for popular distribution.
Includes a printed item and T. Dale Stewart to Eva Louis Statler, 5/6/59, identifying specimens.
Includes printed material; lists of specimens of Salish, Han-Kutchin, Yukon and Mackinzie River Valley Athapascans; and Textile Museum workshop notes.
Includes Abbot Low Moffat to Herbert Krieger, 9/19/57, with attached list of Mangkut's Queens' and children and a note on 1867 gifts of king to the Smithsonian, acc. 5318, cat. 27205-20.
Includes printed material.
Includes drawings, a photograph, notes, and printed illustrations and map showing distribution.
Includes photographs of monks embroidering.
Includes printed material; a letter, Martha A. Quigg to Herbert Krieger, 12/24/41, re ancient "finds" etc. copied from an old geography; sketches of artifacts; notes by Krieger, Walter Hough; John A. Sachse to Hough, 2/5/32 re man working on old oyster bed; Christopher Wren to J. D. McGuire, 9/30/04 re an archeological site in Virginia; C. B. McVay, Jr. to Krieger, 11/20/31 re the name Wicomico; and E. B. Taylor to John Wesley Powell, 8/23/88 re Powhatan's mantle (with photograph acquired in 1934).
NAA INV.09053300
drawing
NAA INV.09053400
drawing
NAA INV.09053500
drawing
NAA INV.09053600
drawing
NAA INV.09053700
drawing
NAA INV.09053800
drawing
Includes letters of Hough, Ravena, William Henry Holmes, 1906, re Jamestown Exposition, with drawings and descriptions of costumes.
Includes a chart of D. C. population, 1880 and n. d.; printed material; and newspapers.
Includes a bibliography for popular distribution.
Includes a statement for popular distribution.
Includes an exhibit label.
Includes drawings, notes or draft by William H. Holmes, and photographs.
Includes a bibliography.
Includes printed material and Office of Indian Affairs, 8/11/33, "List of Licensed Indian Traders Shown by States" (processed).
Includes illustrations, clippings, and "Inscription over Pavillion, Union Station, Washington, D. C., Selected by President Eliot of Harvard University." (processed).
Includes a letter A. Cohn to Otis T. Mason, 6/9/02 re material used by Washo for nets and handles of water jugs and transmitting specimen of net; notes; clippings; and drawings of traps (some by W. L. Abbott of Dyak trap).
Includes printed material and Herbert Krieger to Miss Weiss, 6/26/53 re documents of Michael Zemany, Jr.
Includes notes, all with endorsements of Army Medical Museum, 1860s and 70s.
Includes a clipping.
Includes a clipping, notes, "The Land God Made Himself", and a printed item.
Includes photographs and a letter, Pepper to Otis T. Mason 9/12/03.
Includes State Department Despatch, H. M. Volcott, American Consul, 9/14/28, "German Colonization in Venezuela".
Includes a bibliography.
Includes a schedule of property.
Includes notes, probably by Walter Hough.
Includes a clipping.
Includes "Key to Autobiography of Chief Washakie".
Includes notes, sketches, and descriptions of specimens, including a notebook, of mixed material of Otis T. Mason and Walter Hough; printed material; photographs, largely of armor; and vocanulary.
Includes illustrations; a photograph of a Pomo basket in C. P. Wilcombe collection; notes; printed material; and a list, "Navajo Blankets Belonging to Dr. Matthews Collected in 1880-1884".
Includes a letter, Harriet M. Smith to Joseph E. Weckler, Assistant Curator, ethnology.
Includes copies of
Includes Saba—note for popular distribution.
Includes a bibliography for popular distribution.
Includes printed material.
Includes data for reply to an inquiry by Herbert W. Krieger, 2/1/40.
Includes "List of drugs and medicines taken from an exhibit of containers—for some—exhibited originally at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876."
Includes letters to the Secretary of Smithsonian, report, 7/7/90; S. P. Langley, 7/8/90 and 7/28/90, re his trip to Washington to unpack specimens; G. B. Goode, 7/25/90, transmitting artifacts; G. B. Goode, 7/3/91, re purchase of artifacts belonging to William Reed Lewis; and Otis T. Mason, 7/6/92 and 7/13/92, re shipment of material to him. As well as letters from E. Y. Hawley, 3/22/93, re photographs requested; F. W. True, 5/5/93, re botantical specimens requested; and William H. Holmes, 6/24/11, enclosing Walter Hough to Holmes re work Williams wanted to do on manuscripts and collections with related material. Also includes Elizabeth Dunbar to Hough, 6/30/34, re her work on Williams and distribution of Williams' papers and manuscripts.
Includes "Archeological Notes in Morocco."
Includes "Costumes in North Africa."
Includes "Embroideries."
Includes "Geographical and Geological Notes."
Includes "Introduction to Vocabularies," with word list.
Includes "Marriage, Birth, and Burial Customs in Morocco."
Includes "Mohammedaniam in Morocco" with notes and lists of specimens.
Includes "Fez Pottery"; "List of articles procured for the United States National Museum in North Morocco, April, May, and June, 1889"; "Musical instruments collected by Talcott Williams"; "Aoeesawa Snake-charmer's Kit"; "Costume of a Fez Woman of Quality, Indoor and Outdoor"; "Geballi Woman's Costume"; "Illustrating the Use of the Ground Palm"; "Carpenter's Lathe"; "Illustrating Artificial Light"; "Preparation of Food"; "Mill Stones"; "Utensils and Implements"; "Weights and Measurements"; "Pottery"; "Geballi Costume of North Morocco"; and "Costume of Coast Peasant Woman".
Includes musical transcriptions.
Includes miscellaneous notes.
Maps, including a printed item annotated to show Williams' travels in 1890 and photographs.
Includes a notebook to record photographs.
NAA INV.10000245
OPPS NEG.78-18545
Man cuffing lower figure with tube
Two men seated in foreground; one man walking with donkey in background
NAA INV.10000246
OPPS NEG.78-18546
Guards showing use of mithloth
NAA INV.10000247
OPPS NEG.78-18547
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OPPS NEG.78-18548
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OPPS NEG.78-18549
Woman and child carrying brush on backs
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OPPS NEG.78-18550
Woman and child carrying brush on backs
NAA INV.10000251
OPPS NEG.78-18551
Two cows plowing a field; low hills in background
NAA INV.10000252
OPPS NEG.78-18552
Two men in foreground, group of women and tent behind
NAA INV.10000253
OPPS NEG.78-18553
Two cows plowing field; two men on horseback in background
NAA INV.10000254
OPPS NEG.78-18554
Several jars next to him on ground; donkey behind
NAA INV.10000255
OPPS NEG.79-165
Serving woman standing in front of room with door open
NAA INV.10000256
OPPS NEG.79-166
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OPPS NEG.79-167
NAA INV.10000258
OPPS NEG.79-168
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OPPS NEG.79-169
Woman to the left has basket on her head
NAA INV.10000260
OPPS NEG.79-170
Small child in foreground
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OPPS NEG.79-171
Man standing behind in background
NAA INV.10000262
OPPS NEG.79-172
Arab man on the left, woman in western dress behind on the right
NAA INV.10000263
OPPS NEG.79-173
Arab woman behind on the left
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OPPS NEG.79-174
All but one with covered faces
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OPPS NEG.79-175
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OPPS NEG.79-176
Woman is holding a jar in each hand
NAA INV.10000267
OPPS NEG.79-177
One holding bundle on head, one holding large bundle on back
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OPPS NEG.79-178
Wearing cap with beads and shells, clothing appears tattered
Cup filled with coffee ? in foreground
NAA INV.10000269
OPPS NEG.79-179
Woman lying on pillows, resting cheek on one hand, holding cigarette with other
Includes a list of Specimens Presented by Gen. T. E. Wilcox, U. S. Army Medical Museum.
Includes clippings, printed material, etc. re Moroccan industries and a report on Moroccan crafts, April 8, 1957.
Includes a bibliography of work between 1869 and 1904.
Includes letters from James Mooney, 6/28/96, forwarding material on Indian agriculture; from R. Steiner, 3/2/96, re prehistoric agriculture in South mentioned in Bartam's Travels; from A. J. Standing, 3/21/96, re agriculture on the Plains, especially mentioning the Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches, Kiowas, and Apaches; from A. J. Standing, 4/7/96, following up the above letter; from E. Lewis Sturtevant, 9/24/96 and 11/1/95, re prehistoric corn; from William Hayes Ward, 11/8/98, re Middle Eastern plows; and from James Wilson, 11/16/99 and 11/23/99 re publication of Wilson material.
Includes notes and manuscript re poisoned arrow points.
NAA INV.09053900
tracing
NAA INV.09054000
tracing
Includes notes re early man in America, with illustration.
Includes notes and manuscript re prehistoric agriculture.
Includes "The Calaveras Skull."
Includes "The Antiquity of Man in Its Relation to the Peopling of America."
Includes a copy, letter, A. F. White to Wilson, May 17, 1892, and Wilson to White, February 2-, 1893, re attached manuscript, White, "Calaveras Skull"
Includes "Amulets, Charms, Talesmans, and Divinities."
Includes Casanowicz notes on amulets, with manuscript "Jewish Amulets in the National Museum."
Includes "Art in Prehistoric Times," with drawings of bracelets and Rings, Musee prehistorique Art" etc. etc. etc. and list of slides of Wilson lectrue on prehistoric art.
Includes Zelia Nuttall, biographical sketch, printed material, letters from W. H. Holmes to Nuttal and Nuttal to Holmes, 1917-20; and a photograph of bust of Marco Tullio Cicerone, R. Galleria Uffizi, Florence.
Includes Walter Hough, "The Distribution of Gray Pottery in the Pueblo Region."
Includes "Similarity of thought Not Necessarily Evidence of Similarity in Culture," Meeting of Section H, AAAS, New Haven, Conn, Dec. 27, 1899.
Includes Bibliography of Smithsonian anthropologists, 1892(?).
Includes manuscript on "some of the curisoties of the animal instinct of perpetuation of species, which is the foundation of marriage."
Includes notes and clippings on marriage customs.
Includes E. Schmidt, "The Mound Builders and their Relation to Indians."
Includes "Man and His Wanderings."
Includes "Memorandum for an address on 'Prehistoric Farming and Farming Implements' to be delivered before the club at Manassas in August, 1885."
Includes miscellaneous notes re prehistoric agriculture.
Includes photographs and illustrations.
NAA INV.09055400
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09055500
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09055600
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09055700
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09055800
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09055900
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09056000
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09056100
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09056200
painting over photograph
NAA INV.09056300
painting over photograph
Includes letters to Otis T. Mason from Roland B. Dixon, 11/23/07, re Maidu netted caps; from George A. Dorsey, 6/14/07, re religious practices of Indian women and prints of women engaged in various occupations; from Constance Goddard DuBois, 11/9/?, re work among the Liusenos and Dieguenos; from Pliny E. Goddard, 12/21/06, Hupa skin dressing and women; from G. B. Gordon, 11/1/07, 2/10/08, and 3/13/08 seeking permission to use photographs of Eskimo women; from Walter Hough, ca. 5/07 and 7/22/07 re work on manuscript on women; from A. L. Kroeber, 10/15/06, re differences between men's and women's languages; from T. Landsbert, ca. 3/07, re photographs sent; from E. W. Nelson, 9/28/06, re lack of material on Eskimo women; from N. W. Thomas, several letters and card 1906-07, re work on portion of volume on women; from Richard Rathbun, 9/20/06, re work on volume in connection with N. W. Thomas from R. S. Shckelford, 1907, letters re photographs; and from C. B. Waite, 7/15/07 and 12/2/9/07, re use of photographs. Also includes letters of O. T. Mason, 1907-08, to William H. Holmes, Walter Hough, Richard Rathbun, and Northcote W. Thomas.
Includes notes on Walter Hough and Otis T. Mason; a letter, W. E. DeRiemer to Hough, 7/15/07, re Jamestown Ter-Centenniel Exposition; a subject list of photographs sold by C. C. Perce and Company; a photograph and drawing; and a copy of Minnie F. Reynolds, "Women as Inventors," Interurban Woman Suffrage Series No. 6, 1908.
NAA INV.09054900
drawing
NAA INV.09055000
drawing
NAA INV.09055100
Woman Assisting in Pulling Cart
drawing
NAA INV.09055300
drawing
NAA INV.09055200
drawing
Includes clippings; notes by Otis T. Mason; J. F. Snyder to Mason, 9/13/92, re work of Indian women, especially their part in Shoshoni canoe making; Bertha Honore Malmer to Mason, 3/29/93, offering help with his work; and J. W. Fewkes to Mason, 11/11/94, re criticisms of "Woman's Share in Primitive Cultures."
Includes blank forms: time sheets and form for Index of American Design.
Includes completed time sheets and administrative memoranda and letters.
Includes a bibliography.
Includes a clipping.
Includes "Future of the YMCA".
Includes a typed note for popular distribution.
Includes notes by I. M. Casanowicz and printed material.
Includes a note for distribution.
Includes draft labels by Frank H. Cushing; notes by Walter Hough; printed material; and "Articles Used by Zuni Women in Making Pottery," Aleš Hrdlička, with Zuni word and English notes.
Transmits Brief Biographicalsketch for Who's Who.
This series is arranged in 2 sub-series: (18.1) Correspondence; (18.2) Unarranged
Arranged by subject.
This series is arranged in 2 sub-series: (19.1) Correspondence; (19.2) Accession List, 1920-1968
Please contact NAA staff for more information.
This sub-series includes Ethnology Division Accessions, 1920-1965
Includes annual reports, correspondence, and instructions concerning conservation techniques.
This series is comprised of correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to the Museum Support Center and the department's policies regarding collections acquisition, accessions, collections management, and loans.
This series consists of several groups of photographs of artifacts, exhibits, and ethnological images collected by the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum/National Museum of Natural History. There are no records concerning their provenance, or documenting their accumulation. They were transferred to the National Anthropological Archives from the Department's Processing Laboratory, the section responsible for artifacts.
It cannot be ascertained if the original intent of the collection was to document only items in the museum's collection, or to document material culture regardless of the location of the original artifact. In either case, the images include artifacts from around the world that are in the museum's collections as well as in other repositories.
The collection also contains a large number of photographs relating to exhibits with images ranging from curators posing for models to finished exhibits. It also contains a goodly number of ethnological scenes and physical anthropological poses from anthropologists such as Mason Shufeldt in Madagascar, Romyn Hitchcock in Japan, and William Louis Abbott in Asia. Some of the photographers represented include T. W. Smillie, O. C. Hastings, and Axel Lindahl. Paintings by George Catlin and illustrations from McKenney and Hall are also included. The photographs date from the 1880s to the 1950s.
There are also some unusual miscellaneous items. Of special note are portraits taken at the 1916 meeting of the Archeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association; an 1893 program from the World's Congress of Representative Women; portraits of individuals such as Auguste and Pierre Chouteau, G. Brown Goode, W. deC. Ravenel, Queen Victoria, Mrs. Herbert Ward, and Orville and Wilbur Wright (several autographed); and a copy of a letter to the Governor of Michigan requesting the removal of Chippewa Indians.
Aside from documenting material culture, the collection can be used to ascertain what artifacts were once in the museum's collections, their condition at the time of the photograph, and which items were originally part of a larger unit. The images can be useful to conservators seeking images of how a now damaged item once appeared or curators seeking to reassemble as a unit sets of items which were separated over time.
Many of the artifact photographs are marked with accession and catalog numbers. In general, these numbers are United States National Museum numbers, but this does not always hold true. The numbers may relate to the object(s) shown in the photograph, to the photograph itself, or to both. Accession information can be searched by checking records in the Processing Laboratory and in the Registrar's office.
Negative numbers are frequently shown in the plate, on the front of the images. Some of these negative numbers are still valid; many others are not. In addition, valid numbers may now require a prefix such as "MNH", "SI," or possibly both. Before negative numbers are used to order copies, the availability of a matching negative and its full negative number should be checked.
See also Photo Lot 97, Anthropology Collections, and the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
When the Collection was transferred to the NAA, there were albums of photographs arranged roughly by subject and loose folders of photographs, also arranged by subject. The album photographs have been preserved in their original order with their original titles. Unfortunately many of the loose photographs were not longer in folders, or folder labels had become detached. Additionally, folders were reused and had titles which bore no relationship to the images they contained.
As many of the loose photographs were used in museum publications, they have been reorganized by publication. Those that could not be located in a publication have been arranged by subject; vintage images and clippings have been arranged by physical type.
An initial attempt was made to arrange the collection by culture or geographic region, but this proved impossible as most images are not sufficiently identified, to do so would have required many hours searching records, and required long-term, direct interaction with most of the curators. Once done, the problems of composite photographs, would have remained an archival problem.
There are two appendices to this series (a list of publications and biographies); please consult an archivist to see them.
This series is arranged in w sub-series: (22.1) Albums; (22.2) Photographs arranged by publication; (22.3) Photographs arranged by subject; (22.4) Original photographs/works of art/clippings
These albums were compiled in the Photo Lab & the Dept. of Anthropology. The photographs are cyanotypes probably produced as reference prints by the photograph lab. Many of the images have negative numbers marked in the plate. Some of these numbers are still valid; many are not. Negative numbers and any relative prefixes should be checked before placing a print order.
Similar albums appear in other NAA collections, such as photo lots 82, 83, & 77-38. These were probably part of the same series, or simply produced in the same manner.
The albums were originally arranged by subject, which was marked on the spine. Non-related photos were also included. The albums have been disassembled for conservation purposes, but the original image order has been maintained by numbering the photographs (e.g., 2:100 refers to album 2, image 100). They are arranged in alphabetical order by title.
196 cyanotypes. "Sculpture" has been applied in a broad sense ranging from free-standing works to plaster models of pueblos. The objects depicted are probably in the Smithsonian collections.
Culture areas include North, South and Central America (Indians and Mound cultures), and Easter Island.
Mediums include stone (including argillite), plaster, ceramic, shell, and wood.
Items shown include free-standing sculpture (original?/copy?), models of habitation sites, tools (?), exhibits (containing sculpture), mummy head, ceramics (frequently sculpted), shells (undecorated), figurines, boxes, pipes (?), and bowls.
231 cyanotypes. Many photographs are of artifacts, probably in the Smithsonian collections. A few images were taken from publications.
Culture areas: World-wide.
Images include miscellaneous artifacts (basketry, embroidery, sculpture, clothing, baby carriers, jewelry, etc.); ethnological and physical anthropological portraits; scenic views in N. W. Coast of U. S. & poss. tropics (many in 4700s and 400s neg. series); paintings by Catlin and others; Tuscarora drawing; a letter to Gov. of Michigan requesting removal of Chippewa Indians from Hamtramck (2:44, :100, :101); and monkeys.
Photographers include O. C. Hastings (significant number), Axel Lindahl (2:31), Russell Bros., and Handy. Some images probably relate to W. L. Abbott collection (negatives numbered in 20,000 and 21,000 series).
298 cyanotypes. "Basketry" has been broadly defined to include woven items, cord, looms, weft beaters, pottery shards with woven impressions/ decorations, and macrame. Many of the baskets have been published in Mason, "Aboriginal American Basketry: Studies in a Textile Art without Machines," USNM-AR 1902. Ceremonial items include religious objects, masks, etc.
Culture areas include North America (Indian & Eskimo), Europe (?), and Asia (including Tibet and Japan?).
Items shown include baskets; pottery; furniture; looms & weaving and spinning implements; kites; coverlets & rugs; decorated items (beadwork, quillwork, etc.); tools and weapons; game pieces (?); models & drawing of buildings; sculpture; jewelry; small containers; religious objects; game pieces; corn; and miscellaneous other items.
197 cyanotypes.
Culture areas include Europe, Asia, and North America.
Mediums include ceramics, pottery, metal, glass, and wood.
Items shown include ceramic/pottery (vases, urns, serving ware, decorative mortuary pieces), metalwork (serving pieces, decorative items), glass (vases, lamps, bottles), furniture, spinning wheel (walking wheel) & spindle whorls, cloisonné, and moulds.
258 cyanotypes. Most are portraits of North American Indians that are also included in NAA's file print collection. There are also a goodly number of Catlin paintings and one McKenney & Hall litho.
314 cyanotypes. Artifacts shown are both ethnological and archeological from around the world, most of which are in the Department's collections. There are a few photographs of We-wha (Zuni) weaving.
151 cyanotypes. Artifacts are mostly from the Department's ethnology collections.
Culture areas include North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East (Abyssinia).
Items shown include artifacts (ethnological & archeological), exhibits/dioramas & models, paintings by Catlin and others, ethnological artifacts, spinning wheel (walking), miscellaneous pages from published works, ceramics, medicine bundle? (7:177 & others?), tuscarora drawing (7:124), ethno. photo of family spinning & weaving in Alabama (7:125).
227 cyanotypes (many with four images on each sheet). Includes photographs of Japan taken by Romyn Hitchcock (for more information on Hitchcock, request the appendices from the archivist) These are numbered from 28,325 to 28,724 (with gaps).
Culture areas include Asia (esp. Japan), North America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and South America.
Images shown include ethnological field shots (local industry & scenic), exhibits, dioramas and figures, artifacts (ethnological & archeological), calligraphy, and a letter to Gov. of Michigan requesting removal of Chippewa Indians from Hamtramck (8:223-225).
242 cyanotypes (many with four images per page). Some of the photographs were taken by Romyn Hitchcock (for more information on Hitchcock, request the appendices from the archivist) in Japan. The images are numbered in the plate and range from 28,351 through 28, 836 (with gaps); many number in the 28,600s and 28,700s, and are of objects such as screens.
There are other photographs probably taken on a trip to Asia (most, if not all, in Japan), by an unknown photographer. These views show buildings, scenic views, ethnographic shots, plus views of the travelers themselves. It is possible that the photographer was a woman (see photo 9:11). It is thus possible that the photographer was Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (for more information on Scidmore, request the appendices from the archivist) whose travels and photographs are similar. A search of known Scidmore photographs in other NAA collections and in publications, however, has not yet revealed any duplicates. They are typical tourist photographs.
There are a few images taken by what appears to be an early "spy" camera of the 1890s. These images consist of six small, circular prints, themselves arranged in a circle, suggesting the early disk film used by such "detective cameras."
Culture areas include the Orient, especially Japan.
Images include scenic and field views (many Japan), artworks (especially screens), and Anglo travelers in the Orient.
198 cyanotypes. Many of the photographs show people (curators, and others) posing with clothing from around the world. Many of the items of clothing are probably in the Department's collections. There are also photographs of exhibit figures wearing ethnographic costumes.
Culture areas: World-wide.
Images include people posing with clothing from around the world (including uniforms); exhibits: figures with clothing; Smillie photograph of headdress retouched onto Gardner photograph and used on U. S. 1899 $5 certificate (10:43-:50); illustrations (DeBry/John White & others, 10:193-:194 military uniforms by years); artifacts (especially, hats, military insignias, footware and other articles of clothing); body tattoos (10:183-:186).
125 cyanotypes. In addition to the many exhibit images, this album includes a large number of photographs obviously taken during a trip to the Far East. The plates are numbered in the 22,000s. There are images taken by an early "detective" camera of the 1890s. These prints consist of several small, circular images, themselves arranged in a circle. The photographer has not been identified. It is possible that they were taken by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (for more information on Scidmore, request the appendices from the archivist).
Culture areas include South America, Africa?, Oceania, and Asia.
Images inlcude exhibits (ethnology & non-ethnology including dinosaurs, mammals, mineral science) and field views (Orient).
78 cyanotypes. Many of the ivory artifacts were published in Walter J. Hoffman, "The Graphic Art of the Eskimos," WSNM-AR 1895.
Culture areas include North America (esp. Eskimo), South America, Asia, and Africa.
Items shown include game equipment, illustrations showing games, ivory articles (mostly Eskimo artifacts), and non-ivory artifacts (mostly Eskimo).
171 cyanotypes
Culture areas include Asia and some Middle East.
Items shown include screens & wall hangings (painted, woven, embroidered); drawings & paintings; illustrations from publications (misc. subjects); a photograph of Moorish women (13:8); and photos of people weaving.
50 cyanotypes.
Culture area: Worldwide
Items shown include lamps, pipes, knives/weapons, and tools (hunting & fishing).
67 cyanotypes.
Culture areas include Asia, North America, Oceania, Egypt?, and Africa.
Items shown include masks, rattles, statues/kachinas/dolls?, skulls, exhibit figures, armor & protective objects, heddles (weaving), Moros posing in battle scene (15:59), illustrations of armor exhibit in Turin (15:60), and illustrations by Shindler of Chukchis w/armor (15:62).
430 cyanotypes, many with several images on one sheet. Numbers 1-200 are in box 22-6 and numbers 201-430 are in box 22-7. Ethno. Portraits from around the world, many in Department of Ethnology: Photographs. It is possible that some images exist here and not in other collections. There are many photographs relating to William Louis Abbott and relating to Madagascar by Mason Shufeldt. There are also anthropologists, such as Cushing, Boas, and Hough, posing as exhibit models. Most neg. numbers are probably in the "MNH" series, but the existence of a negative and its correct number should be checked before placing orders.
Culture area: Worldwide
Images incldue San Ildefonso dances by Stevenson (16:1, :12, :16, :17), North American Indians, South American Indians, many from a German publication (esp. 16:2 - :11, :13, :14), Hawaiians (16:26,:27), Orientals (:28, :29), Madagascar, by Shufeldt (:31, :339-ca.:364 & others), painting of Pocahontas? (:44), Belle Mackenzie (:45), Gen. Santa Anna (:46), Cushing posing for exhibits (:50-ca.:57, :70-:75), W. Hoffman posing (:58-63), Walter Hough posing (:65-68, :86, :87), W. W. Rockhill posing in Tibetan costume (:55), Franz Boas posing (:76, :77, :95-:105), a group of people on expedition to collect botanical specimens (:88), William Louis Abbott photographs (:106-ca. :318), African (Angolan) man posing (:319-:323 & others), Australian aborigines (studio), and Bororo photos (:4419-:425).
229 cyanotypes.
Culture areas include North, South, and Central America; Greece; and Thailand.
Images include pottery & sherds; non-pottery containers; illustrations and exhibits of pottery; ceramic artifacts, including figurines, moulds, pestles, dolls, etc.; and miscellaneous artifacts such as: mask (17:216), beads (17:226), and shield (17:228).
305 cyanotypes
Culture areas inlcude North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Images include models of religious buildings; religious/ceremonial objects (crucifixes, rosaries, statues, etc.); photos, illustrations, elevations, ground plans of religious structures (several photos by Josef Wlha (18:54, 18:69); illustration of bible scene (18:80); illustrations (photographs, drawings, sculpture, & embroidery of religious activities & people (esp. Jewish); religious texts; and metalwork (poss. not related to religion).
138 cyanotypes.
Culture area: World-wide with exception of Middle East.
Images include religious objects (rosaries, models of structures); jewelry; musical instruments and music; stone sculpture; ceramics; furniture; people walking on hot stones (19:36-39); metalwork; illuminated manuscripts; icons; written texts; miscellaneous ethnological and archeological artifacts; animal skins; a view of unidentified building (19:91); Orville & Wilbur Wright outside of the Smithsonian after receiving Langly Medal, Feb. 10, 1910, (also shows Walcott & Alexander Graham Bell), neg. from SI Archives 82-3350 (photo also in their RU 95, Photographs)(19:92 & :93); illustrations of trilobites & other fossils?; a letter of intro. for Walcott & Burling, 4/25/1907 (19:109 & :110); a resolution of SI Regents meeting 12/8/1910 in regard to death of Melville W. Fuller (19:114-:116); and a letter from Robert Fulton to Messrs. Boulton & Watt, 9/15/1810 (19:118 -:120).
88 cyanotypes
Culture areas inlcude North and Central America, Asia, Oceania, and other unidentified areas.
Images include mortars & pestles; weapons/tools (photos & illustrations), both ethnological and archeological; furniture (esp. stools); and a tablet with cuneiform writing (20:75).
Many of the photographs included in this collection appear in Smithsonian and United States National Museum publications. As far as research time would allow, all non-album images have been arranged by publication reference. The plates and figures listed may have been the original images used for production with retouching and cropping marks, they may be other copies of the same image, or they may be copies made from the publication itself. In composite photographs, images may show the entire plate, or only sections. Photographs that are very close to the published version have also been included. Photographs may show images from several plates. Cross references have been added when possible.
Frequently many plates were used in numerous publications. Although an attempt has been made to be as thorough as possible, references to all publication locations is not feasible. When several copies of the same image existed, they have been arranged under as many different publications as possible.
The publication references are arranged as follows: United States National Museum Annual Reports (USNM-AR); United States National Museum Bulletins (USNM-B); United States National Museum Proceedings (USNM-P); Smithsonian Institution Annual Reports (SI-AR); Smithsonian Institution Explorations and Fieldwork (SI-Ex.F); Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collections (SI-MC); Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports (BAE-AR); and Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletins (BAE-B).
Includes fig. 17.
Includes plate 1.
Includes fig. 51.
Includes plates 13, 15, and 17.
Includes plates 21-23, 26, 28, 33, 38, 41, 43, 44, 46, 48-50, 58, 61, and 62.
Includes plates 49-57, 59, and 60.
Includes a composite of knives shown in plates 53, 55, 56 and 57.
Includes plates 78 and 97-102.
Includes plates 13, 15, 20 [also pl. 3, USNM-AR 1894], 24-26, and 28.
Includes plates 98 and 100.
Includes plate 2.
Includes fig. 13 and plates 2-4.
Includes plates 1, 2 [also USNM-AR 1894, Mason, pl. 2], 4-7, 9-11, 13, 14, 16-31, and 33-49.
Includes fig. 1 and plates 2-6 and 10.
Includes plates 2 and 5.
Includes plates 2, 3 [same as USNM-AR 1891, pl. 20], 5-9, and 11-21.
Includes plates 15 and 17.
Includes a composite of items from Plates 13, 18 & 19, and plate 32.
Includes plates 7-9, 14, 17-19, 20 (includes ivories from plates 63 & 71), 21-24, 26, 29, 30, 32, 34-39, 41, 42, 49-52, 54, 57, 59, 61 (combined w/plate 62), 62 (combined w/ plate 61), 63-65, 71 (combined w/ items from Plates 63 & 20), 72, and 80.
Includes plates 1, 3, 6, 11, 12, 19, 26, 39, and 40.
Includes plates 3, 35, and 36.
Includes plates 3, 8, and 14.
Includes plates 1, 5, and 7-9.
Includes plates 1, 2a (& Plate 19), 2b, 3 (& plate 20), 4-6, 7 (& plate 21), 8 (& plate 17), 9-11, 12 (& plate 15), 13-21, and 25.
Includes plates 2, 5, 9, 31, and 36-40.
Includes plate 1.
Includes plates 1 and 9.
Includes fig. 15 and plates 1 and 4-7.
Includes fig. 126 [also BAE-AR 12, fig. 12] and 200 and plates 1, 22, 14, 15, 20, 21, 26-28, 30-32, 34, 36, 41, 42, 47, 51, 55-58, 65, 67, 73-79, 81, 82, 84, 85, 90, 91, 93, 95, 98, 103, 104, 108, 112 [same as SI-AR 1930, Krieger, pl. 23], 115-117, 119, 127, 132-135, 137-142, 149, 152, 156, 160, 161, 163, and 164.
Includes plates 166-168, 173-175, 179, 183, 185, 188, 192, and 203-210.
Includes plates 212-214, 216, 218, 224, 226, 228-230, 234, 236, 239, 241, 242, and 248.
Includes plates 1-17.
Includes fig. 84 and plates 2, 5-10, and 12-26.
Includes plates 1, 4, 8, 9, 13-15, 19, 20, 22-26, 29, and 37.
Includes plates 1-25, 27-30, and 32-47.
Includes plates 1-15.
Includes plates 1, 3-23, 25-31, and 33-35.
Includes plates 1-66, 68-76, [for 77 see plate 16, USNM-B 139, Hough], 78-83, [for 79(2) see plate 22, USNM-B 139, Hough], 85-86, 88-93, 95, and 97-99.
Includes plates 7, 10, 11, 23-25, and 27.
Includes plates 1-5, 8-11, 13, 15-19, 21-30, 32, 34-42, 44-64, and 66-75.
Includes plates 4, 8, 13-17, 19-25, 7-33, 35-39, and 55.
Includes plate 1.
Includes fig. 1.
Includes plates 34, 41, 64, 68, 100, 102, and 103.
Includes plates 1-17.
Includes plates 6 and 22-26.
Includes plates 12-32.
Includes plates 19, 21, 23, 25-29, 31, 32, 42, 43, 46, and 49-51.
Includes plates 61, 62, 68, 77, 79, 80, 85, and 89-97.
Includes plates 22-27.
Includes plates 22, 23, 25, 27, 28, 31, 34-37, 40, 42-45, 48, 49, 55, and 5
Includes plates 1-8 and 10.
Includes plates 1-9.
Includes plates 2-4, 11, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, and 27-33.
Includes plate 9.
Includes plate 7.
Includes plate 1.
Includes plates 1-3.
Includes plates 5-8.
Includes plates 1, 2, 8, 10, 11, 14, 18, 21, 32, 33, 35, 40, 44, 48, 53, 55, 56, 58, 60, 69, 73-76, 78, 80, and 85.
Includes plates 14, 33-35, and 46.
Includes plates 1, 7, 9, 11, and 33.
Includes plates 10, 12-14, 16, and 25.
Includes plates 1-5, 7-10, 12-20, and 22.
Includes plates 1-13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28-31, 33, and 35-37.
Includes plates 4 and 8-12.
Includes fig. 124.
Includes plate 52.
For plate 6, see BAE-AR 10, plate 20.
Includes plates 20 and 35.
For fig. 12, see USNM-AR 1902, fig. 126.
Includes plate 137.
Includes figs. 22-24, 28, 39, and 43 and plates 16-22, 25, 27-45, 46-52, 54, 55, 57, 59-61, 63-70, 72-74, 76-78, 80, 86-90, 97, 98, and 106. For fig. 16, see plate 48; for fig. 21, see plate 33; for fig. 25, see plate 36; for fig. 26, see plate 40; for fig. 42, see plate 57; for fig. 45, see fig. 23; for fig. 66, see fig. 28; for fig. 69, see plate 89; for fig. 151, see fig. 28; and for plate 56, see plate 33 or plate 66.
Includes plate 127.
Includes fig. 24 and plate 62.
Includes fig. 651.
Includes figs. 3, 7, 20, 39, 67, 68, 71, 74, 75, 78, and 86 and plates 6, 14, 22, 23, 25-28, and 30.
Includes plate 21a.
Includes plate 16.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
See also "Writing" in this series.
See also "Religious Artifacts" in this series.
Included in this sub-series are miscellaneous vintage photographs (one hand-colored), glass negatives, original illustrations, clippings, etc. Many of these represent famous personalities.
The images have been arranged by physical type, and thereunder by subject.
Objects collected by W. W. Rockhill. There are 54 photographs of a stringed musical instrument showing one overall view and details of the carving. Caption by Mr. Elder on original envelope identifies these as Tibetan and collected by Rockhill; a photograph caption suggests that the carvings at least are Japanese. There are also 2 images of a Tibetan Bronze figurine of Chos bjin jamba, USNM cat. # 167,269.
View of section of an Indian (unidentified tribe) house, and wood used during a Brush Dance. Image identified by E. G. Johnson, who may also have been photographer.
Includes a jungle landscape in Brazil (per acc. Records) donated by Miss M. L. Garland, in 1938, notation on back of photo, "Peru?" (USNM Acc. 150,197; Cat. 379,283); and an old olive tree in Garden Gethsemane, Jerusalem, by the American Colony Jerusalem, donated by Miss Louise S. Codwise, Elijah Meyers started the photographic endeavors of the American Colony in 1898, the company's first name was "American Colony Jerusalem," the image thus dates between then and 1925 when it was donated to the USNM (USNM Acc. 58,920; Cat. 228,985).
Includes England: uses of horses; Europe: 16th-century furniture; Europe: 17th-century chairs; Europe: 17th-century life-style scenes; and Italy: 16th-century transportation.
Please contact NAA staff for more information.
This series is arranged in 4 series: (24.1) Permits – Prior to 1960, 1904-1960; (24.2) Antiquities Act Permits – National Monument Ruins, 1906-1928, undated; Antiquities Act Permits – Post 1960, 1959-1974; Antiquities Act Permits – Series 4, 1977-1986
The Ancient Technology Program was created by Clifford Evans and Gus Van Beek in 1965 to study the technology of rapidly disappearing traditional crafts and small industries worldwide, specifically metal working, pottery, leather, textiles, and woodworking. The first project was a study of the technology of pre-Columbian metal from Ecuador and old bronzes from Arabia, sponsored by the Battelle Memorial Institute of Ohio. The program subsequently sponsored fieldwork in Ceylon, Pakistan, and Iran.
This series includes records documenting the program's administration, budget, grant proposals, correspondence, reports, manuscripts, catalogs of artifacts collected and of photographs, and film (both black and white prints and negatives).
This series is arranged in 5 sub-series: (25.1) Administration, Correspondence, Budget, and Reports, 1968-1981; (25.2) Wulff, Projects, circa 1966-1971; (25.3) Foreign Currency, circa 1968-1969; (25.4) Administration and Reports, circa 1968-1970; (25.5) Wulff, Iranian Black and White Photographic Prints, 1966-1967
Please contact NAA staff for more information.
Please contact NAA staff for more information.
This series is stored off-site and is restricted for privacy reasons. Files of deceased individuals, however, may be accessed by researchers. Contains correspondence, memoranda, photographs, general administrative forms, cost of allowance forms, job descriptions, resumes, of Smithsonian personnel. Personnel files in accretion 2011-16 are not interfiled and are listed at the end of the series.
This series is arranged in 5 sub-series: (28.1) Staff Files, 1911-1980; (28.2) Staff Files, after 1980; (28.3) Position Descriptions and Job Applications, 1946-1972; (28.4) SI Fellows, Research Associates, Student Trainees, and Visiting Scientists; (28.5) 2011-16 Accretion
RESTRICTED
This sub-series is composed of two sections. The first consists of position descriptions for the jobs within the different sections of the Department of Anthropology, U.S. National Museum/National Museum of Natural History, and includes curators, supervisory archivist, secretarial and clerical, conservators, museum technicians, etc.; the second contains correspondence and memoranda concerning candidates for specific vacancies, resumes, SF 171s, etc., and folders for individuals.
Arranged first by S.I. Fellow, thereunder by Research Associates, Visiting Scientist, and Student Trainee.
This series was created from the "Office of Anthropology Insert" document in 2014.