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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs of Department of Anthropology conservation and ceramic studies, 1973
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-6
- Dates:
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1973
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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35 Negativesacetate: 35mm10 Printssilver gelatin
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs largely depicting Andreas Joseph Andrews, a conservator in the Department of Anthropology, working with pottery and other artifacts in his laboratory. There are also images of Dr. Owen Rye and William Potts conducting laboratory tests as part of an Ancient Technology Project study of ceramic firing. The photographs were made in May 1973, probably by a Smithsonian photographer.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Andreas Joseph Andrews (d. 1992) was a sculptor and creator of plaster casts for the Smithsonian Institution and an artifact restorer for the Department of Anthropology. Dr. Owen S. Rye was an Australian scholar of Pakistani ceramics and pottery who participated in the Pakistani Culture Studies-Foreign Currency Program with Department of Anthropology staff Clifford Evans and Gus Van Beek. William Potts was a graduate student of paleo-archeology during the 1970s; during the 1971 and 1972 seasons, he worked at Tell Jemmeh in Israel as a square supervisor and then as an assistant to Dr. William Melson for his geological study of the surrounding area.
Administration
Author
Sarah Ganderup
Using the Collection
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 91-6, Photographs of Department of Anthropology conservation and ceramic studies, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional photographs of Andrews can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Rye's report on the Smithsonian-New South Wales Expedition to Pakistan can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7376.
More Information
Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 91-6
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ceramics | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Museum conservation methods | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Andrews, Andreas Joseph, d. 1992 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Rye, Owen S. | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Potts, William | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
National Anthropological Archives
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4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, Maryland 20746
naa@si.edu
