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Query: Smithsonian Institution. Institute of Social Anthropology

Institute of Social Anthropology photographs collection relating to Latin America

Creators:: Smithsonian Institution. Institute of Social Anthropology
Dates:: circa 1945-1950
Size:: 8 color prints
39 Prints (silver gelatin)
7 Posters (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:: NAA.PhotoLot.4623
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made as part of the work of the Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA), some of which have been mounted on posters for a Smithsonian Institution Regents Exhibit. The photographs document people, the built and natural environments, agricultural work, and events (including dances and a Catholic procession) in Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and...

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Isabel T. Kelly photograph collection of Totonac Indians and archeological sites in Mexico

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Creators:: Kelly, Isabel T. (Isabel Truesdell), 1906-
Kelly, Isabel T. (Isabel Truesdell), 1906-
Dates:: circa 1947-1948
Size:: 75 mounted prints (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:: NAA.PhotoLot.80-32
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Photographs made by Isabel T. Kelly in Tajin, Papantla, and elsewhere in Mexico. There are images of dances and dancers (including Volador "Flying" dance, Guagua, and Negrito dances), Totonac Indians, a Totonac wedding, and pyramids and relief sculpture at El Tajin Site. The photographs are enlarged prints, mounted and signed, that were made for an...

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Ozzie G. Simmons papers

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Creators:: Simmons, Ozzie G.
Dates:: 1949-1966
1980
bulk 1950-1953
Size:: 5.25 Linear feet (Six document boxes (including one box of restricted materials), four card file boxes, and one oversize folder)
Collection ID:: NAA.1997-10
Repository:: National Anthropological Archives

Ozzie G. Simmons (1919--988) served as field director in Peru for the Bureau of American Ethnology's Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA) from 1949 to 1952 and as Consulting Anthropologist for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs, Chile. The papers in this collection mainly concern his field research on the role of alcohol in the community of Lunahuaná, Peru. The collection also contains draft manuscripts on the activities of the public health service in Lima and Chimbote, Peru, and his study of medical centers in Chile.

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Website Records

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Creators:: National Museum of Natural History
Dates:: 2015
Collection ID:: Accession 17-211
Repository:: Smithsonian Institution Archives

This accession consists of Twitter posts, known as tweets, using the hashtag #SIForensic between July 28 and September 2, 2015. This hashtag was promoted by the National Museum of Natural History for tweets related to forensic anthropological research performed on graves found at the site of the Jamestown, Virginia colony. The tweets were ...