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Digitized Content MS 1320 Truman Michelson notes on anthropometric measurements of Beothuk skulls
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Dates:
1923
Size:
6 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1320
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

According to Explorations and Field Work of the Smithsonian Institution in 1923 (Pub. 2752), Truman Michelson travelled to St. John's in Newfoundland and Labrador in June 1923 where he made cranial measurements of four Beothuk skulls. These undated notes, most likely from that work, consist of Michelson's measurements of the skulls of a Beothuk chi...

Digitized Content MS 1324 Miscellaneous notes on the Condolence Council
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Creators:
Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937
Newhouse, Seth
Dates:
1917
Size:
28 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1324
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
Digitized Content MS 1329 Kickapoo linguistic notes from Joseph Murdock
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Murdock, Joseph
Dates:
1929
Size:
1 Item (6 pages)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1329
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Truman Michelson conducted research among the Kickapoo in 1929 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. During this time, he worked with Joseph Murdock, a Mexican Kickapoo and former student at Carlisle Indian Industrial School. These notes contain information from Murdock and include phonetic transcriptions of vocabulary, a list of gentes, and some personal names.

Digitized Content MS 1331 New designs for Powersʹ Report; sketches of hieroglyphs and figures
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Creators:
Powers, Stephen, 1840-1904
Dates:
undated
Size:
3 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1331
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

One caption reads "Lagoon ? tribe. Two men, one woman," and the other, "Hieroglyphs at Cunninghamʹs Ranch Miles Creek Mirced County, California". Two of the sketches are of the letter . SJB/1970

Digitized Content Sand paintings
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Creators:
Klah-Tso
Dates:
undated
Size:
31 Paintings
Collection ID:
NAA.MS138501
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Reproductions of sand paintings by a Navajo medicine man. Twenty-eight of them are traditional sand paintings; four are secular paintings. They are described individually in the NAA art work inventory.

Digitized Content Virgil Ellsworth Poling papers
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Creators:
Poling, Virgil Ellsworth, 1908-2001
Dates:
1939-1974
Size:
1.6 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.polivirg
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of educator and administrator Virgil Ellsworth Poling measure 1.6 linear feet and date from 1939 to 1974. The collection comprises Poling's files from his work in Korea, Nigeria, and other countries evaluating and developing industry programs for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and professional files containing correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and other material relating to Poling's position as Director of Student Workshops at Dartmouth College, and his work with the American Industrial Arts Association.

Digitized Content Panel discussion
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Creators:
National Academy of Design (U.S.)
Wilmerding, John
Ferber, Linda S.
Novak, Barbara
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Dates:
1980 Nov. 18
Size:
1 Item (sound cassette (1 hr., 2 min.))
Collection ID:
AAA.nation80
Repository:
Archives of American Art

A panel discussion held 1980 Nov. 18, at the National Academy of Design, New York, N.Y.

Digitized Content Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears papers
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Creators:
Blackshear, Kathleen, 1897-1988
Spears, Ethel, 1903-1974
Dates:
1920-1991
Size:
9.2 Linear feet
Collection ID:
AAA.blackath
Repository:
Archives of American Art

The papers of educators and painters Kathleen Blackshear and Ethel Spears measure 9.2 linear feet and date from 1920 to 1991. The papers focus primarily on Blackshear's career but also document the career of Blackshear's partner Ethel Spears, and the involvement of both women in the Chicago, Illinois art scene. Papers include biographical material, correspondence, handmade holiday and greeting cards, artist files, research and subject files, and printed material.

Digitized Content Josephine Sloan Armstrong family photographs
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Creators:
Armstrong, Josephine Sloan
Dates:
circa 1908-1920
Size:
4 Photographic prints
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.278
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection contains 4 photographs that depict Josephine Sloan Armstrong (Minnesota Chippewa [White Earth, Minnesota]) and her family circa 1908-1920.

Digitized Content James Schoolcraft Sherman's photograph of Chief Red Cloud
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Creators:
Bell, Charles Milton, 1848-1893
Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
Dates:
1880
Size:
1 Photograph (Opalotype, 24 1/4 x 35 in.)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.280
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection contains an Opalotype photograph of Red Cloud photographed by Charles Milton Bell in 1880. The photograph was in the collection of the 27th Vice President of the United States, James Schoolcraft Sherman.

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