National Anthropological Archives

Miscellaneous views, groups, and portraits

Summary
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4601
Creators:
ANONYMOUS
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
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
Keywords table of terms and types.
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
Repository Contact
National Anthropological Archives
Museum Support Center
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Suitland, Maryland 20746
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