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National Anthropological Archives
Miscellaneous views, groups, and portraits
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS4601
- Creators:
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ANONYMOUS
- Dates:
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undated
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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15 Prints
- Repository:
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Incompletely identified, relating to various Mexican tribes. No date. (20th Century).
Scope and Contents
Catalog 4601: (1) Tribe: Tarahumare Description: "Altamano." Two men, standing. (2) Tarahumare ? "Altamano." White woman showing chart to Indian boy. (3) Tarahumare "Tarahumara ploughman." Two men and two oxen. (4) Men and boys sitting in circle. "Tseltal." (5) Zoque "Zoque village." (6) "Adobe making. Ta ta angel." (7) Woman making tortillas ? (8) Man reaping wheat. (9) Men along street, with sheaves of wheat. (10) Mexico ? Men selling woven mats at side of street. (11) Boy in classroom. (12) "Lacandon." Man in front of straw thatched shelter. (13) Two men working in printer's office. (14) Men, some in fishing boat, holding net. (15) "Jungle camp." White woman cooking.
Administration
Custodial History
Source unknown. "Found loose in mails, Washington, D. C.," and forwarded to Bureau of American Ethnology. Some prints have stamps of Wycliffe Bible Translators, Glendale, California, and Summer Institute of Linguistics, Mexico City, and have brief captions in pencil.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 4601, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
More Information
Local Numbers
Local Numbers
NAA MS 4601
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Photographs | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Zoque | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Towns, villages and other settlements | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Food preparation -- tortilla making ? -- Mexico | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Fishing -- Mexico | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Mexico | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Rarámuri (Tarahumara) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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