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National Anthropological Archives
Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park, circa 1919-1921
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.30
- Creators:
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Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
- Dates:
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circa 1919-1921
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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45 Printssilver gelatin and photostat3 sketches on graph paper
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs, drawings, and maps relating to Jesse Walter Fewkes' excavations in Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado. Photographs depict the ruins and paths through the park before and after excavation and repair. There are also original photographs by George L. Beam made for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Some of the drawings are original illustrations for Fewkes' publications.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850‐1930) was a naturalist, anthropologist, and archeologist who served as chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to 1928. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology until 1887. Some of his research focuses on the culture and history of the Pueblo Indians, an interest he developed while on a collecting trip in the western United States. In 1891, Fewkes became director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition and editor of the Journal of American Archeology and Ethnology. Embarking on various archeological explorations for the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1895, he conducted excavations in the Southwest, the West Indies, and Florida. During the summers of 1908‐1909, 1915‐1916, and 1918-1922, Fewkes worked almost exclusively on excavations and repairs of ruins in Mesa Verde National Park.
Administration
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Sarah Ganderup
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 30, Jesse Walter Fewkes photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde National Park, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional Fewkes photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 4321, Photo Lot 1, and Photo Lot 86 (negatives).
Location of Other Archival Materials
The National Anthropological Archives also holds Fewkesʹs field notes and papers (MS 4408).
Location of Other Archival Materials
Correspondence from Fewkes held in the National Anthropological Archives in the George L. Beam papers (MS 4517), the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers, the Anthropological Society of Washington records (MS 4821), the Herbert William Krieger papers, the J.C. Pilling papers, the Walter Hough Papers (in the records of the Department of Anthropology), and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 30
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Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Excavations (Archaeology) | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.) | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Colorado -- Antiquities | Geographic | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Maps | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Drawings | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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