Lot 4: Guatuso Indians, Costa Rica
- Level:
- file
- Dates:
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undated
- Collection ID:
- NAA.1974-31
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Robert Thomas Hill photograph collection relating to the Indigenous peoples of Central America
29 Mounted prints (albumen)
The bulk of the collection consists of photographs documenting Indigenous peoples of Central America, including Cheripo, Guatuso, Talamanca, and Guatemala people. Additional photographs document stone artifacts found at grave sites, Panamanian women, people in Bogata, and a museum in San Jose, Costa Rica. The photographs may have been collected by …
Henri F. Pittier photographs of Costa Rican people and artifacts
128 Prints (silver gelatin)
Photographs of Guatuso people and activities including pottery making, as well as images of artifacts, mainly whistles from the collections of the National Museum in San Jose. ALso included is a sheet of music.
Portrait of Group in Costume
- Level:
- item
- Dates:
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1887
- Size:
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1 Photographic print (009 in x 008 in mounted on 010 in x 008 in)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.97
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
Portrait of Woman Wearing Arrow Made from Bark of Caoutchouc Tree
- Level:
- item
- Dates:
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1887
- Size:
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1 Photographic print (006 in x 008 in mounted on 007 in x 009 in)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.97
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
Portrait of Woman in Costume
- Level:
- item
- Creators:
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Pittier, Henri
- Dates:
-
undated
- Size:
-
1 Photographic print (006 in x 008 in mounted on 008 in x 010 in)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.97
- Repository:
-
National Anthropological Archives
MS 2028 Notebook containing North American Indian and other vocabularies collected by A.S. Gatschet and others, and miscellaneous notes and bibliographic references
Loew, O. (Oscar), 1844-
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899
Antonia, Marie
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The material is in the handwriting of A.S. Gatschet, in a composition book. In the same volume are numerous miscellaneous notes, many in German script; brief bibliographic notes, and notes of an apparently personal nature. There are also extracts from the Codex Wangianus, from Charles Lyell, and from others. In …
Aleš Hrdlička papers
bulk 1903-1943
The papers of Aleš Hrdlička, curator in the Division of Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, offer considerable insight into the development of physical anthropology in the first half of this century. The papers include honors bestowed on Hrdlička, autobiographical notes, correspondence with many of the leading anthropologists of the day, anthropometric and osteometric measurements and observations (forming most of the collection), extensive photographs of Hrdlička's field work, manuscripts, research materials, and "My Journeys" (essentially a diary Hrdlička kept of his field work). In addition, there is material of a personal nature. The papers date from 1875 to 1966, but the bulk of the materials date from 1903 to 1943, the time of Hrdlička's career at the USNM.
Division of Ethnology photograph collection 1
Consists of photographs collected by the United States National Museum (USNM) Division of Ethnology and later by the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology (SOA). Coverage is worldwide outside North America. Most of the items are photographic prints, some in albums. There are also negatives, photomechanical prints, artwork, and newsclippings. For the …
