Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.73-21
- Creators:
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- Dates:
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1928
- Languages:
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- Physical Description:
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- Repository:
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Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting a Javanese dance group performing Serimpi dance.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Tassilo Adam (1878-1948?) was born in Munich and moved to Sumatra to work in the Dutch planting business. He moved to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where he first worked as an ethnologist for the Dutch government. He then spent five years filming and making photographs in the court of the Sultan of Java. In 1929, he was appointed associate curator of Ethnology and assistant curator of Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Administration
Custodial History note
The collection was transferred from the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab in 1973.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 73-21, Tassilo Adam photographs of Serimpi dance, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional photographs of Javanese dance by Adam can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97.
Keywords
National Anthropological Archives
Museum Support Center
4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, Maryland 20746
naa@si.edu
