Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS7264
- Creators:
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Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997
- Dates:
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1969-1972
- Languages:
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- Repository:
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Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and other types of documents. They largely concern the arrangements for shipping the body to and from the Smithsonian. Several are from Leslie G. Freeman.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
In 1969, Joaquin Gonzalez Echegaray, of the Museo de Prehistoria of Santander, and Leslie G. Freeman, of the University of Chicago, carried on excavations at a cave in Cueva. There was found a burial of around 30,000 B.C. which included a clay mold formed by the skeleton and outer part of the person's body together with funerary offerings. Sol Tax, of the University of Chicago and the Smithsonian and the father-in-law of Freeman, offered the cooperation of the Smithsonian in preserving the interment for exhibition. Steps were taken to stabilize it and to allow its shipment to Washington by the United States Air Force. The remain stayed in Washington, part of the time on exhibit, until 1972 when they were returned to Spain.
Administration
Custodial History
The documents were brought to the archives by Thomas Dale Stewart on October 26, 1978.
Using the Collection
Citation
Manuscript 7264, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Keywords
National Anthropological Archives
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