Query: Indians of South America -- Colombia
G. Gage Skinner collection
Creators:
Skinner, G. Gage
Dates:
1964-1966
1972
Size:
0.25 Linear feet
265 Slides (photographs)
1 Sound cassette
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.116
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

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.

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in NMAI.AC.116 for Indians of South America -- Colombia
Frederick Starr negatives and lantern slides
Creators:
Starr, Frederick, 1859-1933
Lang, Charles B.
Grabic, Louis
Dates:
1894-1910
Size:
152 Lantern slides
3344 Negatives (photographic)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.052
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

The collection includes materials from cultures in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guiana: Acoma Pueblo, Apache, Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Caddo, Cahuilla, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chibcha, Chinantec, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Choco, Chol, Chontal, Cochiti Pueblo, Crow, Cuicatec, Eskimo, Flathead, Haida, Hopi, Huastec, Huave, Iowa, Iroquois, Isleta, Karaja, Kwakiutl, Laguna Pueblo, Macusi, Mandan, Maya, Mazahua, Mazatec, Mehinaku, Menomini, Mixe, Mixtec, Navajo, Nez Perce, Osage, Otomi, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pima, Ponca, Potawatomi, Salish, San Blas, San Felipe Pueblo, Sauk & Fox, Shuar, Sioux, Taos Pueblo, Tarasco, Teotihuacan, Tepehua, Tlaxcala, Tlingit, Tonkawa, Totonac, Triqui, Tzental, Tzotzil, Ute, Wampanoag, Zapotec, Zoque, Zuni.

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Andrew Meyer photographs from Colombia
Creators:
Meyer, Andrew
Dates:
1929
Size:
49 Photographic prints
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.259
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection consists of 49 black and white photographic prints of images of village life as well as pre-Columbian stone carvings and statues photographed by Andrew Meyer in Colombia in 1929.

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in NMAI.AC.259 for Indians of South America -- Colombia
Kathryn Hansen photographs of Colombia
Creators:
Hansen, Kathryn
Dates:
1976
Size:
22 Color slides (35mm.)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.411
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection contains 22 color slides photographed in 1976 by Kathryn Hansen depicting Yagua and Ticuna peoples near Leticia, Colombia.

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in NMAI.AC.411 for Indians of South America -- Colombia
Felix DiGiovanni and Paul Beer photographs of the Guahibo and other indigenous tribes of eastern Colombia
Creators:
Beer, Paul
DiGiovanni, Felix V.
Bellis, Tom
Dates:
Circa 1938
Size:
102 Photographic prints (Black and white, silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.1995-41
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Paul Beer and Felix DiGiovanni depicting indigenous people, primarily the Guahibo, as well as the natural and cultural features of the Vaupés region of Eastern Colombia.

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in NAA.PhotoLot.1995-41 for Indians of South America -- Colombia
Felix V. DiGiovanni collection from Colombia
Creators:
DiGiovanni, Felix V.
Beer, Paul
Dates:
1935-1941
Size:
2 Film reels (16mm)
100 Photographic prints (13.5 x 10.5)
0.1 Linear feet
7 Videocassettes (VHS)
3 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.300
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

This collection includes the original documentary film "Guahiboland: Indian Life in the Orinoco Plains of Colombia," produced and directed by Felix V. DiGiovanni in 1941. Also included are 100 photographic prints, shot by DiGiovanni and his cameraman Paul Beer, that document the daily life of Guahibo community members in the Vichada and Orinoco regions of Colombia between 1935-1941. Other indigenous communities photographed include the Piapoco (Piapoko), Baniwa, and Tukano (Tucano).

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in NMAI.AC.300 for Indians of South America -- Colombia
Photographs of Indians of the Rio Uaupes
Creators:
Allen, Paul H.
Dates:
1946-1947
Size:
10 Photographs
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4626
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Contents: Indians of the Rio Uaupes (Vaupes) and its tributaries in Southeast Colombia and adjacent Brazil, taken by Paul H. Allen, ca. 1946, while employed by a rubber company. Includes 2 duplicate photos.

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MS 4440 Results of Preliminary Survey of the Archeology and Ethnology of the Atrato Valley of Colombia, South America
Creators:
Verrill, John, 1904-1933
Dates:
undated
Size:
27 Pages
5 Maps
Collection ID:
NAA.MS4440
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Includes: "Cuna Glossary," 8 pages; "[Choco] Glossary [and ethnographic notes]," 11 pages; "Snapshots [captions and background information]," 8 pages; 57 snapshots of Cuna and Choco Indians. Notes on John Verrill, recorded by C. Evans from telephone conversation with M. W. Stirling, 2/62. 1 page typed. (Added 2/62)

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Marshall Saville photograph collection
Creators:
Saville, Marshall H. (Marshall Howard), 1867-1935
Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924
Saville, Foster H. (Foster Harmon), 1874-1942
Dates:
1901-1922
bulk 1907-1918
Size:
526 Negatives (photographic) (526 glass plate negatives, black and white)
51 Photographic prints (black and white)
2 Lantern slides (black and white, color)
Collection ID:
NMAI.AC.001.037
Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian

Photographs and glass plate negatives documenting the various archaeological expeditions of all three Savilles. The bulk of the images concern the activities headed by Marshall Saville (and assisted by Foster and Randolph) in both South and Central America. Included to a lesser degree are the explorations of Foster in North America and Randolph in the Caribbean, South and Central America. Images document archaeological digs, their settings, the peoples encountered, as well as the objects found. The dates of the images found in this collection and taken by the various Savilles during their numerous expeditions are as follows (the photographer(s) attributed to photographs taken during a specific expedition is/are listed in parentheses following the country of the specific expedition) : 1891: Honduras (Marshall), 1900-1902: Mexico (Marshall), 1907: Cuba (Marshall), 1907: Ecuador (Marshall, Foster, Randolph), 1915: Honduras (Marshall), 1915: Cuba, Jamaica, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala (Randolph), 1914-1916: Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica (Marshall, Foster, Randolph), 1918: Pantigo site, Easthampton, Long Island, New York (Foster), 1922: Photographic portrait of Marshall

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MS 1998-17 John Verrill papers
Creators:
Verrill, John, 1904-1933
Dates:
circa 1931
Size:
25 Items (2.5 linear inches.)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS1998-17
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

This collection consists of the papers of John Verrill and is comprised of ethnographic notes on the Jivaro (23 leaves), a report entitled "Results of Preliminary Survey of the Archeology and Ethnology of the Atrato Valley of Colombia, South America" (28 leaves), 5 maps of grave fields, 47 black-and-white photographs (apparently Cuna Indians, plus …

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