Cyrus Thomas photograph collection relating to Mayan and Aztec carvings
The bulk of the photographs document Mayan reliefs and hieroglyphics at ancient sites, including Chichen Itza, Palenque, and Yaxchilan. Additional photographs depict items in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico, including a necklace, the Stone of Tizoc, and a stone altar disk to Tlaltecuhtli. The collection includes photographs made …
MS 1811 M.E. Zimmerman Papers entitled "The Ground House Indians" and "Stone Cist Grave Builders of Nebraska and Kansas"
Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956
Fowke, Gerard, 1855-1933
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Also correspondence regarding the manuscripts "Cist Graves of Kansas" (Park and Zimmerman); "The Allegwi-Pani, the cist grave Builders of Kansas and what they teach." Correspondence between Professor W.H. Holmes, F.W. Hodge, Gerard Fowke, Mark Zimmerman (White Cloud, Kansas), and Harry L. Keefe, (Walthill, Nebraska), Subject matter: mounds; morman plates found …
William S. Webb photographs of excavations in Norris basin
Photographs depicting temple and mound excavations in Norris basin, Tennessee.
MS 1380 Drafts and notes for a manuscript on metal implements and ornaments of the American Indian, at and before contact
The file includes the following parts: 1. Draft of an article on metal ornaments and implements, 129 pages, partly typed and partly handwritten; typed copy of same, 101 pages. 2. "Introduction and General Remarks," different from an identically named section in the above, 12 pages, handwritten. 3. Introductory statement dealing with the types and origins of …
Photograph of Southeastern Archaeological Conference
Group portrait of attendees at the Fourth Southeastern Archaeological Conference outside the entrance to a burial mound at Ocmulgee National Monument in Macon, Georgia.
MS 4673 Material related to archaeological sites in Alabama and Missouri
Alabama Cross-section drawings and notes, apparently all relating to Fort Deposit Cave, Guntersville, Marshall County, Alabama. 14 small slips.
James E. Payne photographs
Photographs taken by James E. Payne while on vacation in East Africa of Coptic Christians in Ethiopia and the daily life of the Nuba and people in the Sudan. Images of Christians, mostly taken in the village of Lalibel, show various activities such as celebrations during the Timkat festival, cooking, Bible study and washing. Also depicted are art objects to include crucifixes and illuminated manuscripts. Images of the Nuba in Sudan, many from the Kordofan region, illustrate activities such as boat building in Omdurman, celebrating an Islamic festival in Omdurman, buying and selling in markets, and wrestling. Portraits depict body art and costumes. Also included are structures such as burial mounds and decorated houses.
MS 1976 Correspondence with Warren K. Moorehead and Carl E. Guthe concerning earthworks near Neodesha, Kansas
Moorehead, Warren King, 1866-1939
Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen), 1893-1974
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Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology
The records in this collection embody the administrative functions of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1879 to 1965. The collection consists of correspondence, card files, registers, official notices, annual and monthly work reports, research statements, research proposals, grant applications, personnel action requests, notices of personnel action, meeting minutes, purchase orders and requisitions, property records, biographical sketches, resolutions, newspaper clippings, reviews of publications, drafts of publications, circulars, programs, pamphlets, announcements, illustrations, cartographic materials, photographic prints, photographic negatives, bibliographies, and reprinted publications.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Negatives
The photographic images in this collection are largely of railway bridge construction and other properties owned by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company at the turn of the twentieth century. Images are of two distinct projects (mostly construction) taken in and around the St. Louis, Missouri area (1890-1900): of a bridge project (name and location unknown) spanning 1902-1903; and of the construction of the Metropolis Bridge (that crosses the Ohio River at Metropolis, Illinois, about 12 miles south of Paducah, Kentucky) between 1914-1915. For the latter project Ralph Modjeski originally served as consultant engineer and then as chief civil engineer of construction. There are also negatives of unidentified bridge construction.
