National Anthropological Archives

MS 7278 Marjorie Merriweather Post Papers

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.MS7278
Creators:
Post, Marjorie Merriweather
Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967
Alberti, Juan
Leighton, Kathryn W.
Dates:
undated
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
174 Items
ca. 174 pages
1 Photographic print
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Includes a photostat of a catalog of baskets, pots, and other artifacts by Herbert Spinden; Xerox copies of letters in a notebook regarding the collection of artifacts for the Post collection; two newclippings about Marjorie Merriweather Post, and a typescript of Fr. Juan Alberti's "How the Ona Squaws of Tierra del Fuego Made Little Baskets." The photograph is of a painting by Kathryn W. Leighton of Iron-eyes Cody entitled "Cherokee Dancer."

Administration

Custodial History
Sent to the archives from the Processing Lab, December 5, 1978.

Using the Collection

Citation
Manuscript 7278, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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Local Numbers

Local Numbers
NAA MS 7278


Keywords

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Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Articles Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Catalogs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Letters Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Clippings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Selk'nam (Ona) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cherokee Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Cody, Iron Eyes, 1904-1999 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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