A. Hyatt Verrill negatives, photographs and other materials
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
170 Photographic prints (albumen)
392 Negatives (photographic) (acetate)
These images depict the indigenous people of Peru, Bolivia, Suriname and Chile; the largest percentage of the images are of Panama and Guyana (British Guiana).
G. Gage Skinner collection
1972
265 Slides (photographs)
1 Sound cassette
This collection consists of 265 photographic slides and 1 audio cassette recording made by former Peace Corps volunteer G. Gage Skinner while living and traveling in Chile and Colombia in the 1960s-1970s. Images include portraits, landscapes, ceremonies, and daily village life. Audio recording includes songs, chants, and musical instruments.
Gertrude Litto collection
bulk 1970-1972
The Gertrude Litto Collection, located in the Cultural Resource Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, contains the manuscript, notes and images for her book South American Folk Pottery. Her manuscript, notes and photos record the methods and products of Native potters in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
S. K. Lothrop negatives, photographs and lantern slides
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
3 Photographic prints
18 Lantern slides
The S.K. Lothrop collection primarily contains negatives, photographic prints, and lantern slides made by Lothrop while employed by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Lothrop traveled on behalf of the Museum to New Mexico, Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru. The four New Mexico negatives in this …
Photographs copied by George Peter Murdock's Strategic Index of Latin America
Photographs assembled circa 1942-1948, probably as part of the Strategic Index of Latin America, and relating to people and scenery in Latin America. They depict transportation, irrigation, agriculture and industry (including rubber production), cities and villages, and archeological finds. The prints are arranged geographically into the following locations: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil …
MS 887 Mapuche ethnographic notes and vocabulary
Davis, Hugh
Sherman, Charles E.
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
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Notes and vocabulary contained in letter dated February 28, 1899, signed by P. J. Walker. Also includes two articles copied from the South American Missionary Magazine, for July 1, 1896, entitled "A Patagonian Imposter-An Indian Prophet," and "An Indian Hunting Thanksgiving of the Araucanians." Four letters from Charles Sherman (1898-1899) to Professor Otis Mason, containing …
Dale Jenkins postcard and photograph collection
11 Photographic prints
0.5 Linear feet
This collection consists of 145 postcards and 11 photographs depicting indigenous peoples of the Americas, with dates ranging 1890 – 1930s. The bulk of the collection consists of postcards of Native communities throughout the United States, and includes portrait images, dwellings, basket-making, weaving, and crafts.
E. Lucas Bridges photographs from Tierra del Fuego
This collection includes 10 copy negatives of E. Lucas Bridges photographs from Tierra del Fuego in Argentina made between 1900 and 1910. Bridges was the son of an Anglican missionary and grew up among the Selk'nam (Ona) indigenous people at the southernmost tip of South America. Bridges published The Uttermost Part of the Earth in 1949 documenting his family's experiences in Tierra del Fuego.
MS 4110 The Agricultural Conditions and Needs of the Araucanian Indians; A thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Agriculture
Contains ethnographic and ethnohistorical material concerning the Araucanians, as well as lengthy descriptions of the Agricultural practices, produce and livestock. Appendix (page 65) contains a short discussion of the Agricultural and Industrial Mission School for Araucanian boys and girls. There are 32 mounted photographs on 16 pages.
Clement Meighan films
Edited and unedited film and outtakes documenting the archeological work of Clement Meighan in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Egypt and Sudan, shot primarily by Joan Meighan. Includes edited films, ROCK ART OF BAJA CALIFORNIA, MOCHICA: MASTERS OF PREHISTORIC CERAMIC ART, and LITTLE HORSES OF THE SEA. Please note that the contents …
