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National Anthropological Archives
Illustrations used in Bureau of American Ethnology and United States National Museum publications, circa 1879-1929
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.133
- Dates:
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circa 1879-1929
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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2,000 Itemscirca 2000 paintings, drawings, and photographs
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Artwork and some photographs used to illustrate articles published in the annual reports and bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States National Museum. The material includes artwork by Mary Beth Chapman, Mary Wright Gill, Mary M. Hildebrant, Spencer Baird Nichols, and Antonio Zeno Shindler. Also included are unidentified illustrations of Near Eastern costumes, prayer positions and Mexican funerary vessels, perhaps sketched by Walter Hough, and a drawing, signed "J. T. G.", of a memorial to the daughter of Chief Spotted Tail.
Administration
Author
Sarah Ganderup
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 133, Illustrations used in Bureau of American Ethnology and United States National Museum publications, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional illustrations are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 78-51, the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Manuscript and Pamphlet File in the Department of Anthropology records.
More Information
Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 133
Bibliography
Bibliography
Photographs published in John G. Bourke, "The Medicine Men of the Apache," Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1892; Stewart Culin, "Games of North American Indians," Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1903; Culin, "Mancala: The National Game of Africa," United States National Museum Bulletin 139, 1926; Jesse Walter Fewkes, "The Tusayan Flute and Snake Ceremonies," Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896; Fewkes; "Two Summerʹs Work in Pueblo Ruins," Twenty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1904; W. J. Hoffman, "The Monominee Indians," Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896; Otis T. Mason, "Aboriginal American Basketry," Annual Report of the United States National Museum, 1902; W. J. McGee, "The Seri Indians," Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1898; James Mooney, "The Ghost Dance Religion," Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, part 2, 1896; Edward W. Nelson, "The Eskimo about Bering Straits," Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1899; and other BAE and USNM annual reports. Also Clarence B. Moore, "Antiquities of the Oachita Valley," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume XIV.
Other Finding Aids note
Other Finding Aids note
Preliminary finding aid available in repository.
Keywords
National Anthropological Archives
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