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 …
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.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 1994 Festival of American Folklife
The Smithsonian Institution Festival of American Folklife, held annually since 1967 on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was renamed the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 1998. The materials collected here document the planning, production, and execution of the annual Festival, produced by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (1999-present) and its predecessor offices (1967-1999). An overview of the entire Festival records group is available here: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records.
Program Files
This accession consists of records created and maintained by the Executive Planning Office which document collections, acquisitions, development, exhibitions, training, public relations, community services, repatriation, and other National Museum of the American Indian programs. Materials include correspondence, memoranda, reports, organizational charts, exhibition records, images, floor plans, workshop records, repatriation records …
Video Dialogues in Anthropology
Bernard, H. Russell (Harvey Russell), 1940-
Wagley, Charles, 1913-1991
Collection consists of VHS videos from the Visual History of Anthropology Project. In 1984 Allan F. Burns, Russell Bernard and Charles Wagley, anthropologists in the Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, initiated a history of anthropology project consisting of 28 video oral histories of retired or soon to be retired anthropologists …
Exhibition Records
This accession consists of exhibition records which document the planning and fabrication of the exhibition, Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World. The materials document the work of the Office of Exhibitions and Public Spaces and the firms: Design & Production, Inc.; Howard + Revis Design Services; and Clark Construction. Materials include …
Event Files
This accession consists of materials created by the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies and its predecessor, the Office of Folklife Programs, 1978-1991, for the Smithsonian Institution's Columbus Quincentenary program, which marked the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's first landfall in what would become the Americas on October 12, 1492. The unit facilitated …
Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records which document the activities of the curatorial staff of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Subjects covered include the exhibition master plan, workshops, repatriation, exhibitions, councils, collections management, collection research, conservation treatment, budgetary matters, and research. Staff represented include Kathleen E. Ash-Milby, Assistant …
Jorge Prelorán films
22 Linear feet (Papers and photographs)
Documentary filmmaker Jorge Prelorán was best known for his intimate approach to ethnographic film, a style known as "ethnobiography." The majority of Prelorán's films were shot in rural areas of Argentina, particularly the Andean highlands and the Pampas (plains), often in communities of mixed Indian and Spanish heritage. Prelorán documented a wide range of subjects, including art, folk crafts, agriculture, ranching, markets, religious rituals and festivals, and social and cultural change. This collection contains edited films and videos, film outtakes, audio tapes, photographic prints and transparencies, digital books, correspondence, production files, scripts, project files, and press clippings spanning 1954-2008.
Monitor Records business records
Rubin, Rose N.
Monitor Records
6.8 Cubic feet (Phonograph records)
57.5 Cubic feet (Paper records)
108 Cubic feet
This collection contains the original master tapes, commercial recordings, and paper business records of the label Monitor Records. Materials include audiotapes, phonograph records, contracts, correspondence, photographs and other items.
