Wenner-Gren Foundation films
Research footage and prints of various films. Prints include: HOWLER MONKEYS OF BARRO COLORADO ISLAND, BABOON BEHAVIOR; MIAO YEAR; DEAD BIRDS; THE HUNTERS; SERI FILM' KEREPE'S HOUSE: A HOUSE BUILDING IN NEW GUINEA; BOW DANCE, EAGLE DANCE, CORN DANCE ET AL; BUFFALO DANCE; SUN BLANKET; PUY'E CEREMONIAL ROLLS 8-11; ROYAL WEDDING …
William Wrather films of the Southwestern United States
William Wrather's amateur footage of the "Indian Fair" at Gallup, New Mexico and other footage of New Mexio and Arizona from the 20s through the early 1940s. Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation …
Oregon Historical Society's Robert McCoy films
Collection consists of 17 nitrate titles: AUSTRALIA'S WILD NOR-WEST, [COCONUT HARVEST], IN QUAINT HOLLAND, [IN SIAMESE SOCIETY], IN THE SWISS ALPS (discarded), [INTERNATIONAL NEWS NEWS-REEL: GREATEST CHURCH GATHERING IN ANCIENT COLISEUM], [KINETO REVIEW: EASTERN EUROPEAN TRAVELOGUE], LAND O'LEE, MOROCCO THE MYSTERIOUS, NO COMA IN ACOMA, A POLYNESIAN ODYSSEY, RAINBOW, SOME MORE …
Exhibition Records
This accession consists of records that document the planning, development, and installation of American Encounters, a permanent exhibition at the National Museum of American History (NMAH) commemorating the Columbus Quincentenary. The exhibition opened in 1992. The records primarily include the correspondence, memoranda, and research files of NMAH staff involved in the …
Bureau of American Ethnology negatives
John Peabody Harrington papers
Harrington was a Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist involved in the study of over one hundred American tribes. His speciality was linguistics. Most of the material concerns California, southwestern, northwestern tribes and includes ethnological, archeological, historical notes; writings, correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, biological specimens, and other types of documents. Also of concern are general linguistics, sign language, writing systems, writing machines, and sound recordings machines. There is also some material on New World Spanish, Old World languages. In addition, there are many manuscripts of writings that Harrington sketched, partially completed, or even completed but never published. The latter group includes not only writings about anthropological subjects but also histories, ranging from a biography of Geronimo to material on the history of the typewriter. The collection incorporates material of Richard Lynch Garner, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and others. In his field work, Harrington seems sometimes to have worked within fairly firm formats, this especially being true when he was "rehearing" material, that is in using an informant to verify and correct the work of other researchers. Often, however, the interviews with informants (and this seems to have been the case even with some "rehearings") seem to have been rather free form, for there is a considerable intertwining of subjects. Nevertheless, certain themes frequently appear in his work, including annotated vocabularies concerning flora and fauna and their use, topography, history and biography, kinship, cosmology (including tribal astronomy), religion and philosophy, names and observations concerning neighboring tribes, sex and age division, material culture, legends, and songs. The fullness of such materials seems to have been limited only by the time Harrington had to spend with a goup and the knowledge of his informants.
