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Digitized Content MS 3401 Albany Ojibwa notes and Weenusk Cree text collected by Truman Michelson
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Martin, John
Allan, William
Smallboy, Harvey, 1879-1947
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Dates:
1935 summer
Size:
16 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3401
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Notebook (labelled "1935 VI") containing Albany Ojibwa notes and Weenusk (Winusk) Cree text collected by Truman Michelson during his field research in the region of James Bay and Hudson Bay in 1935. Michelson obtained Albany Ojibwa vocabulary and ethnological notes from John Martin, with William Allan, a Cree speaker, serving as an interpreter. The...

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Digitized Content MS 3399 Fort George Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson
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Creators:
Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938
Lutet, Oliver, circa 1905
Dates:
1935-1936
Size:
163 Pages
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3399
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Fort George Cree notes and texts collected by Truman Michelson at Fort George on the shore of James Bay and at Great Whale River by Hudson Bay. The notes are mostly linguistic with some ethnological content. The texts are stories in Cree syllabary with English translations. John of Fort George provided most if not all of the Cree text while Oliver ...

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Digitized Content MS 3462 Cherokee drawings of plants
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Creators:
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
Dates:
1899
Size:
2 Sheets (8 x 12 1/2 inches)
1 Item (notebook (49 pages , 4 x 8 inches)
Collection ID:
NAA.MS3462
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

Two sheets with pencil drawings of 35 plants, each accompanied by a legend in the Cherokee syllabary. Also small black notebook containing miscellaneous notes on Cherokee, etc, and a list of Choctaw clans. Pages 1-4 are headed, "Hawanitaʹs Plant Pictures" with 35 plant names, probably corresponding to the drawings. The remainder of the notebook cov...

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Dane Penland photographs of Henry Bascom Collins Jr. and William W. Fitzhugh at exhibit on Eskimo hunting and fishing
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Creators:
Penland, Dane
Dates:
circa 1980
Size:
16 contact prints (Proof sheet :)
3 Prints (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.86-42
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection consists of photographs depicting Henry Bascom Collins and William W. Fitzhugh standing in front of an exhibit about Eskimo sea hunting and fishing, probably in the National Museum of Natural History.

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Richard B. Woodbury collection of drawings of human and animal figures
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Creators:
Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009
Dates:
undated
Size:
12 Drawings (mounted drawings)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.5
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection consists of ink drawings probably collected by Richard B. Woodbury, possibly for his 1956 articles on Zuni prehistory. The drawings depict human and animal figures, probably designs copied from petroglyphs and pottery, and are mounted on boards marked for publication.

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Digitized Content Exhibition Records
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Creators:
National Air and Space Museum. Assistant Director for Exhibits
Dates:
circa 1963-1986
Size:
17.5 cu. ft. (14 record storage boxes) (1 tall document box) (1 tube box) (15 oversize folders)
Collection ID:
Record Unit 352
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

These records provide documentation of the creation and preparation of exhibits for the most important period in the history of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) - the planning, fabrication, and installation of two dozen major galleries for the new museum building, which opened in 1976. Also included is material on exhibits in the ...

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Marcus S. Goldstein photograph collection from University of Texas and Louisiana State University
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Creators:
Goldstein, Marcus S. (Marcus Solomon), 1906-
Dates:
circa 1939-1940
Size:
9 Prints (silver gelatin)
Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.7B
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives

The collection consists of snapshots, including images of Alex Dony Krieger, Charles Kelley, William Benjamin Newell, and Marcus Goldstein. There are also views of the University of Texas Laboratory of Physical Anthropology, a site at Marshall Ford, and an Indian mound on the Louisiana State University campus.

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Melville Herskovits photographs
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Creators:
Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963
Dates:
1928-1934
Size:
736 negatives (photographic) (+contact prints (5 v.), black & white, 3 x 4 in.)
736 Photographic prints ((6 v.), black & white, 3 x 4 in.)
Collection ID:
EEPA.1986-029
Repository:
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Photographs taken by Melville J. Herskovits during his trips with his wife, Frances Shapiro Herskovits, to Surinam (1928-29); Dahomey, now Republic of Benin (1931); Haiti (1934); and Brazil (1941-42). From 1928 to 1943 Melville Herskovits and his wife, Frances Herskovits (nee Shapiro) traveled together throughout West Africa and the Americas to collect evidence of the legacy of African culture. The contributions of Frances Herskovits to her husband's research were fully recognized in an exhibition held by the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, from April 2-August 9, 1998. Entitled, "Living Tradition in Africa & the America: The Legacy of Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits," the brochure noted, "On each trip, Frances was a full partner in the research...Until Melville's death in 1963, they worked together on the analysis of their data and the writing of books and articles; and after he died, she edited a collection of his papers."

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Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation exhibition records
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Creators:
National Air and Space Museum (U.S.)
Dates:
c. 1983
Size:
2 sound recordings (audio cassette)
1 Linear foot ((1 box))
0.05 Linear feet
Collection ID:
ACMA.03-016
Repository:
Anacostia Community Museum Archives

In the 1980s, the National Air and Space Museum created an exhibit, with a correlating text called Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation. The exhibit and book were dedicated to the American Black Aviator, who has anonymously played a historic role in shaping the growth of modern aviation. Black Wings encompasses the men and women who had to o...

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Collection Records
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Creators:
National Museum of American Art. Office of Registration and Collections Management
Dates:
1965-1996
Size:
2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
Collection ID:
Accession 01-112
Repository:
Smithsonian Institution Archives

The bulk of these records document periodic "gallery checks" of the collections in each gallery space. The objects were examined in situ for evidence of deterioration, damage, or need for cleaning. Each worksheet records the condition of one object. There may be several checks over time recorded on one sheet. The sheets contain the following ...

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