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2 photographs from Collier album, State Historical Society of Colorado

Photographer:
Collier  Search this
Culture:
Ute  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
(1) Original Number N26- Ute Bride and Groom (2) Original Number N20- National Mining Exposition building, Denver Exposition (opened August 1, 1882). Latter submitted to identify locale for Bureau of American Ethnology Negatives 1501-b and 42 967.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4411
Local Note:
Filed in original photos series: Ute.
Topic:
Photographs  Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 4411, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS4411
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31eb96581-5b10-46b6-a073-329d73d44c1e
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4411

A. Harvey Schreter papers

Creator:
Schreter, A. Harvey  Search this
Names:
Explorers Club  Search this
Extent:
10.25 Linear feet
3,943 Slides (35mm color)
5 Scrapbooks
19 Sound cassettes
9 Videocassettes (VHS)
1 DVD
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Slides
Scrapbooks
Sound cassettes
Videocassettes (vhs)
Dvd
Place:
Africa, East
Africa, North
Africa, West
Africa, Southern
Caribbean Area
East Asia
Europe
Middle East
North America
Oceania
South America
Southeast Asia
Date:
1916-2015
bulk 1960-2008
Summary:
A. Harvey Schreter (1916-2008) was a world traveler and collector of pre-Columbian, African, and Pacific art. The collection contains materials related to trips taken by Harvey and his wife Phyllis between 1960 and 2000, slide lectures based on these trips,and personal and professional papers.
Scope and Contents:
The A. Harvey Schreter papers consist of correspondence, lecture notes, promotional materials, clippings, photographs (color 35mm slides and prints), scrapbooks, and audio and video recordings documenting his world travels, lecture series, and personal and professional life. The bulk of the collection contains material related to trips taken by Harvey and his wife Phyllis to North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania between 1960 and 2000. These trips becasme the basis for lectures delivered by the Schreters monthly from the 1980s through the early 2000s. Also included are personal and biographical papers of Harvey Schreter, his wife Phyllis, their children and extended family; materials related to Harvey's membership in the Explorers Club; materials related to the Schreter Neckwear Company; and materials related to the "Schreter System," an exercise program for the pelvic floor muscles.

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. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into two series: (1) World travels, lectures, and related documentation and (2) Personal and professional papers.
Biographical Note:
A. Harvey Schreter (1916-2008) was the President of Schreter Neckware, a necktie manufacturer, as well as a world traveler and collector of pre-Columbian, African and Pacific art. Schreter became a member of the Explorers Club in 1982, frequently lecturing to the Washington Chapter about his travels with his wife, Phyllis Schreter.
Related Materials:
The Baltimore Museum of Industry holds the records of the Schreter Neckwear Company.

The Mid-Atlantic Regional Moving Image Archive Repository holds the A. Harvey Schreter Home Movies collection.
Separated Materials:
Video recordings in this collection have been transferred to the Human Studies Film Archives.
Provenance:
Received from Harvey Schreter in 1985 and Carol Schreter in 2016.
Restrictions:
Access to the A. Harvey Schreter papers requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Topic:
Tourism  Search this
Voyages and travels  Search this
Citation:
A. Harvey Schreter papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.2016-37
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw387f6bc0b-e893-44b8-94dc-f03517d8ddba
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2016-37

A. LaVerne Zell photographs of Kukukuku people

Creator:
Zell, A. LaVerne  Search this
Extent:
6 Prints (silver gelatin)
Culture:
Hamtai (Papua New Guinean people)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Photographs
Place:
New Guinea
Date:
circa 1963
Scope and Contents note:
Images of Kukukuku (Anga) men, women, and children in the Watut Valley of Papua New Guinea.
Biographical/Historical note:
A. LaVerne Zell (d. 2012) was the Mayor of Terre Hill, Pennsylvania, for 14 years. She served as a missionary teacher in the Watut Valley, Papua New Guinea, from 1959-1964.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2004-02, USNM ACC 357199
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Artifacts collected by Zell held in the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History, in accession 357199.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 2004-02, A. LaVerne Zell photographs of Kukukuku people, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.2004-02
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw353a20a39-9c11-4fe9-a130-fb879c42320b
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-2004-02

A.W. Elson & Co. photogravure of George de Forest Brush's "Indian and the Lily"

Printer:
A.W. Elson & Co.  Search this
Artist:
Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941  Search this
Extent:
1 Print (photogravure)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Photogravures
Date:
circa 1900
Scope and Contents note:
Image of George de Forest Brush's painting, "The Indian and the Lily," depicting Native American man with a white bird hanging on his back reaching toward a pond lily.
Biographical/Historical note:
A.W. Elson & Co. was a Boston-based firm that made photogravure plates and carbon prints around 1900.

George de Forest Brush was an American painter most known for his romanticized images of NAtive American life and his Renaissance-style portraits. He painted "The Indian and the Lily" in 1887.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 89-26
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Smithsonian Institution Libraries holds trade catalogs from A.W. Elson & Co.
The Archives of American Art holds the George de Forest Brush and Brush family papers, circa 1909-1993.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery hold Brush's paintings and drawings.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum Archives and Special Collections holds photographs of Brush and his paintings.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Genre/Form:
Photogravures
Citation:
Photo Lot 89-26, A.W. Elson & Co. photogravure of George de Forest Brush's "Indian and the Lily", National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.89-26
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37981bd5f-eb84-47fc-951f-b8f73e2ff868
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-89-26

Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel papers

Creator:
Rosman, Abraham  Search this
Rubel, Paula  Search this
Extent:
10.5 Linear feet (24 boxes, 1 folder)
Culture:
Northwest Coast  Search this
Kalmyks  Search this
Kanuri (African people)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
Papua New Guinea
Oceania
New Ireland Island (Papua New Guinea)
Middle East
Iran
Afghanistan
North America
Nigeria
Africa, West
Date:
1956-2004
Summary:
Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel were professors of anthropology at Barnard College, Columbia University. The collection consists of materials documenting their research, writing, and teaching, and reflects their interests in ritualized exchange systems, kinship, social organization, and material culture.
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of materials documenting Rosman and Rubel's research, writing, and teaching, and reflects their interests in ritualized exchange systems, kinship, social organization, and material culture. The bulk of the collection documents their fieldwork and research among the Kanuri of Nigeria, Kalmyk Mongols in New Jersey, Northwest Coast and Athabaskan societies, pastoral nomads of Iran and Afghanistan, peoples of New Guinea and New Ireland, as well as research on art, ethnographic objects, museums, and collecting. The collection includes field notes, historical and archival research and notes, bibliographies, correspondence, writings, maps, photographs, and sound recordings.

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. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into three series: (1) Fieldwork and research, 1952-2004; (2) Conference papers, 1970-1995; and (3) Teaching, circa 1980-circa 1990.
Biographical Note:
Abraham Rosman was born in New York City in 1930. He earned his BA in anthropology from City College (1959) and PhD in anthropology from Yale (1962). His dissertation "Social Structure and Acculturation among the Kanuri of Northern Nigeria" was based on fieldwork conducted in 1956-1957. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1962. He was a full professor at Barnard College from 1972 until his retirement in 1998.

Paula G. Rubel was born in The Bronx, New York in 1933. She earned her BA in psychology from Hunter College (1953) and her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University (1963). Her dissertation was based on fieldwork among an immigrant community of Russian Kalmyk Mongols in New Jersey. She was part of the faculty of Barnard College from 1965 until her retirement in 1989, becoming a full professor in 1974.

Rosman and Rubel were married 1971. They worked together throughout their careers, focusing their research on comparative studies and structural analysis of ritual exchange, kinship relations, power, social hierarchies, religion, and material culture. They studied kinship and exchange along the Pacific Northwest Coast, among pastoral groups in Iran and Afghanistan, and in New Guinea and New Ireland. They also studied ethnographic objects, tribal art, and the social world of museums, collectors, and dealers. Their partnership was collaborative, alternating first authorship with each publication. They were the authors of numerous monographs including Feasting with Mine Enemy: Rank and Exchange among Northwest Coast Societies (1971), Your Own Pigs You May Not Eat: A Comparative Study of New Guinea Societies (1978), The Tapestry of Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (1981), and Collecting Tribal Art: How Northwest Coast Masks and Eastern Island Lizard Men Became Art (2012).

Rubel died in 2018 and Rosman died in 2020. Their final book, Aliens on Our Shores: An Anthropological History of New Ireland Papua New Guinea 1616-1914, was published posthumously in 2021.

Sources Consulted

Sharp, Lesley A. "Paula G. Rubel (1922-2018)." American Anthropologist. 121.2 (2019): 540-542.

Sharp, Lesley A. and Maxine Weisgrau. "Abraham Rosman (1930-2020)." American Anthropologist. 123.1 (2020): 205-207.

Abraham Rosman

1930 -- Born in New York City

1951 -- Marries Bernice Lieberman

1952 -- BA in anthropology from City College

1962 -- PhD in anthropology from Yale University Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

1966 -- Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard college, Columbia University

1971 -- Divorces Bernice Rosman Marries Paula G. Rubel

1972 -- Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University

1998 -- Retires

2020 -- Dies

Paula G. Rubel

1933 -- Born Paula Glicksman in The Bronx, New York

1953 -- BA in pyschology from Hunter College

1954 -- Marries Hewitt Rubel

1963 -- PhD in anthropology from Columbia University

1965 -- Lecturer, Barnard College, Columbia University

1966 -- Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University

1971 -- Divorces Hewitt Rubel Marries Abraham Rosman

1974 -- Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University

1998 -- Retires

2012-2014 -- President, Association of Senior Anthropologists

2018 -- Dies
Provenance:
Donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Abraham Rosman in 2019.
Restrictions:
The Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel papers are open for research.

Use of archival audiovisual recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings.

Digital media in the collection is restricted for preservation reasons.

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Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Art -- Collectors and collecting  Search this
Kinship  Search this
Citation:
Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.2018-02
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32cf89e95-12ec-4441-97d2-efc859b687e0
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2018-02

Acee Blue Eagle papers

Creator:
Blue Eagle, Acee, 1907-1959  Search this
Names:
Abbott, Mae  Search this
Beaver, Fred  Search this
Bosin, Blackbear, 1921-1980  Search this
Campbell, Walter S.  Search this
Dale, Edward E.  Search this
Debo, Angie, 1890-1988  Search this
Dja, Devi  Search this
Echohawk, Brummett T., 1922-2006  Search this
Fairbanks, Charles H. (Charles Herron), 1913-1985  Search this
Feder, Norman  Search this
Field, Dorothy  Search this
Gilcrease, Thomas, 1890-1962  Search this
Houser, Allan, 1914-1994  Search this
Howe, Oscar, 1915-1983  Search this
Jackson, Oscar B.  Search this
Lemos, Pedro de  Search this
Marriott, Alice  Search this
Martinez, Julian, -1943  Search this
Martínez, María Montoya  Search this
McCombs, Solomon, 1913-1980  Search this
Medicine Crow, Joseph, 1913-2016  Search this
Mirabel, Eva  Search this
Momaday, Al  Search this
Pond, Charles E.  Search this
Rowan, Edward B.  Search this
Shears, Glen E.  Search this
Sheets, Nan  Search this
Steinke, Bettina, 1913-1999  Search this
Sunrise, Riley  Search this
Te Ata  Search this
Whitehorse, Roland Noah, 1920-1998  Search this
Extent:
673 Paintings (visual works) (approximate)
30 Linear feet (55 document boxes and 8 oversize boxes)
Culture:
Muskogee (Creek)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southeast  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Paintings (visual works)
Date:
1907 - 1975
Summary:
Acee Blue Eagle was a Pawnee-Creek artist, poet, dancer, teacher, and celebrity. The papers relate to both Blue Eagle's personal and professional life. Also included are some materials of Blue Eagle's friend Mae Abbott and a collection of art by other Indians.
Scope and Contents:
This collection reflects the life and work of Acee Blue Eagle, internationally famed Indian artist of Oklahoma. Identified for his brilliant paintings of tribal ceremonies, legend and dance, Blue Eagle's work is represented in numerous private collections and museums both in this country and abroad.

A portion of the papers contains correspondence. Fan mail written by school children to Chief Blue Eagle of the Chief Blue Eagle television program is included. Letters regarding Blue Eagle's participation in Indian festivals and events, art shows and exhibitions, speaking engagements on Indian life and culture are found in the collection. Personal correspondence is included; most frequent correspondents are Devi Dja, Mae Abbott, and Charles E. Pond. There are approximately 100 letters from Devi Dja, approximately 90 to or from Mae Abbott, and approximately 36 from Charles E. Pond. Some letters addressed to these individuals from other friends and acquaintances are also within this collection.

Photographs comprise a large portion of the Blue Eagle collection. Included are not only portraits of the artist himself and photographs of his art work, but a large number of prints of Blue Eagle in full costume and other Indians engaged in tribal ceremonies, identified by tribe, whenever possible. Photographs of Mae Abbott, Devi Dja and the latter's Balinese dance troupe are identified. A file of negatives is arranged in the same subject order as the prints. Newspaper and magazine clippings regarding Blue Eagle's work and activities are also included in the collection. These clippings have not been arranged. In addition, Mae Abbott's recipes and notes for her cookbook, wood blocks, greeting cards and other miscellaneous publications can be found in the collection. These items have been sorted but not arranged.

Within the collection are also over 600 pieces of artwork. A good number are by Blue Eagle while most are by other Native artists. Artists whose are work are represented in the collection include Fred Beaver, Harrison Begay, Archie Blackowl, Woodrow Crumbo, Allan Houser, Ruthe Blalock Jones, Quicy Tahoma, Pablita Verde, and members of the Kiowa Five (Spencer Asah, James Auchiah, Stephen Mopope, Monroe Tsatoke).
Arrangement note:
The collection is arranged into six series: 1) Personal; 2) Collections; 3) Artwork; 4) Television; 5) Correspondence; 6) Photographs.
Biographical / Historical:
Acee Blue Eagle was an artist, poet, dancer, teacher, and celebrity. Born Alex C. McIntosh in 1907, Blue Eagle attended Indian schools in Anadarko, Nuyaka, and Euchee, Oklahoma, and the Haskell and Chilocco Indian schools. Advanced study came at Bacone Indian College and the University of Oklahoma. At the latter, he studied with Oscar B. Jacobson. Privately he studied with Winold Reiss. Discrepancies exist in the records regarding his early life: born in either Anadarko or Hitchita, Oklahoma; he's cited as both Pawnee-Creek and 5/8 Creek without any Pawnee blood; his mother is either Mattie Odom, the first wife of Solomon McIntosh or Ella Starr, McIntosh's second wife.

A prolific painter who, for the sake of authenticity, carried out research in libraries and museums, Blue Eagle was an outstanding American Indian artist of the 1930s-1950s. His paintings hung in many exhibits, including the Exposition of Indian Tribal Arts, 1932-1933; International Art Exhibition of Sport Subjects at Los Angeles, 1932; Chicago Century of Progress Exposition, 1934; a one-man show at the Young Galleries in Chicago; National Exhibition of Art at the Rockefeller Center in New York, 1936; a one-man show at the Washington, D.C., Arts Club, 1936; Museum of Modern Art, 1941; Northwest Art Exhibition at Spokane, Washington, 1944; a one-man show at the Gilcrease Institute in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1953; An Exposition of American Indian Painters in New York, 1955; and a one-man show at the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, 1957. Between 1946 and 1965, over fifty galleries hung his paintings. Some pieces are among the permanent holdings of many institutions.

In 1934, Blue Eagle joined the Work Projects Administration (WPA) Public Works of Art Project, painting murals in public buildings. In 1935 at Oxford University, he participated in a program of the International Federation of Education and lectured on Indian art. A tour of Europe followed. He taught at Bacone Indian College from 1935-1938 where he founded the art program and became Director of Art. He also taught at the University of Kansas extension division in 1949 and Oklahoma State Technical College beginning in 1956. During World War II, he served in the United States Army Air Force; and, following the war, he spent a few years attempting to get into the movies. During 1946-1952, he was married to his second wife, a famous Balinese dancer, Devi Dja, and became involved in her career, an involvement that was briefly reflected in his art. However, Dja and Blue Eagle divorced and Blue Eagle lived with Mae Wadley Abbott for the last years of his life. During the 1950s, he had a television show for children on a Tulsa-Muskogee station. Acee Blue Eagle died on June 18, 1959 of a liver infection.

Sources Consulted

Martindale, Rob. Muskogee Paying Tribute to Blue Eagle. Biographical/Genealogical data, Box 1, Acee Blue Eagle Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

West, Juanita W. 1967. Acee Blue Eagle: A.C. McIntosh. Biographical/Genealogical data, Box 1, Acee Blue Eagle Collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

1907 -- Born August 17, 1907 on the Wichita Reservation, north of Anadarko, Oklahoma

1928 -- Graduated Chilocco High School

1929-1934 -- Attended Bacone College, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State Tech

1935 -- Toured United States and Europe giving lecture-exhibition program, "Life and Character of the American Indian"

1935-1938 -- Established and headed art department at Bacone College at Muskogee

1936 -- Exhibited at the National Exhibition of Art, Rockefeller Center, New York

1942-1945 -- World War II, U.S. Air Force (Army)

1947-49 -- Free-lance work in New York and Chicago

1951-52 -- Artist-in-residence at Oklahoma Tech

1950-54 -- Conducted TV program, Muskogee, OklahomaToured U.S. West Coast exhibiting and lecturing about ways to improve TV programs for children

1958 -- Named Indian-of-the-Year by the American Indian Expostion at Anadarko, Oklahoma

1959 -- Died June 18, 1959
Related Materials:
Other materials relating to Acee Blue Eagle at the National Anthropological Archives include correspondence in the Solomon McCombs papers, 1914-1972, and correspondence with Betty Meilink under Manuscript 2011-20.
Provenance:
Acee Blue Eagle's private papers and collection of paintings were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Mrs. Mae Abbott of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Restrictions:
There are no restrictions on access.
Rights:
Literary property rights to unpublished material in the collection in the National Anthropological Archives has been given to the public.
Topic:
Indian art -- North America  Search this
Works of art  Search this
Citation:
Acee Blue Eagle Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.1973-51
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw30f5eef50-cb31-4d85-87ef-5ae9fedac6f7
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-1973-51
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Adam Clark Vroman photographic postcards of California missions and Camulos Ranch

Creator:
Vroman, A. C. (Adam Clark), 1856-1916  Search this
Names:
Mission La Purísima Concepción (Calif.)  Search this
Mission San Antonio de Pala  Search this
Mission San Gabriel Arcangel (San Gabriel, Calif.)  Search this
Mission San Juan Capistrano  Search this
Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)  Search this
Mission San Miguel Arcangel (San Miguel, Calif.)  Search this
Nuestra Señora de la Soledad (Mission : Calif.)  Search this
San Antonio de Pádua (Mission)  Search this
San Buenaventura Mission  Search this
San Carlos Borromeo Basilica (Carmel, Calif.)  Search this
San Francisco de Asís Mission (San Francisco, Calif.)  Search this
San Juan Bautista (Mission : San Juan Bautista, Calif.)  Search this
San Luis Rey Mission (Calif.)  Search this
Santa Barbara Mission  Search this
Santa Clara Mission  Search this
Santa Inés Mission (Solvang, Calif.)  Search this
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. Ramona  Search this
Extent:
48 Postcards (collotype)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Postcards
Photographs
Place:
Camulos (Calif.)
Date:
circa 1900
Scope and Contents note:
Photographic postcards made by Adam Clark Vroman of California Missions and Camulos Ranch, part of "Vroman's Series of Postcards." The depicted mission include San Juan Bautista, Santa Clara, San Luis Rey de Francia, San Juan Capistrano, San Gabriel Arcangel, San Antonio de Pala, San Diego de Alcala, San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez, La Purisima Conception, San Luis Obispo de Toloso, San Miguel, San Antonio de Padua, Our Lady of Solitude, Soledad, San Fernando Rey, San Francisco de Asis, Carmel (Monterey), and San Francisco Solano. The photographs of Camulos Ranch relate to Helen Hunt Jackson's book Ramona and have the subtitle "Ramona Haunts" with a notation of related book pages.
Biographical/Historical note:
Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1916) was a bookstore owner and photographer of Southwest Native Americans and culture. He and his wife moved to Pasadena, California, in 1892, where he took up photography, mostly documenting pueblos in New Mexico. After his wife's death in 1894, Vroman opened a bookstore in Pasadena, though he continued to make photography excursions to southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. He also made photographs for the Bureau of American Ethnology during two expeditions in 1897 and 1899. Vroman's photographs illustrated the 1913 edition of Helen Hunt Jackson's novel Ramona.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 89-58
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs by Vroman can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 92-3, the records of the Department of Anthropology, and the BAE historical negatives.
Correspondence from Vroman can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the Otis Tufton Mason papers.
The Smithsonian American Art Musem, University of California-Riverside's Museum of Photography, Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona Libraries hold Vroman photographs.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Topic:
Missions -- California  Search this
Genre/Form:
Postcards
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 89-58, Adam Clark Vroman photographic postcards of California missions and Camulos Ranch, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.89-58
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d2ab16ee-6a46-4524-8b4d-18e2bcf90084
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-89-58

Adolphe Braun photographs of art in European museums

Creator:
Braun, Adolphe, 1811-1877  Search this
Names:
British Museum  Search this
Musée du Louvre  Search this
Collector:
Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887  Search this
Van Beek, Gus W. (Gus Willard), 1922-  Search this
Extent:
68 Albumen prints (mounted)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Photographs
Date:
circa 1866-1877
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs depicting Roman, Greek, Assyrian, and Egyptian sculpture in European museums. Most of the images were made in the British Museum, but others were made at the Vatican, the Louvre, and in Florence.
Biographical/Historical note:
Adolphe Braun (1811-1877) was a French photographer and pioneer of photographic reproduction techniques at his studios in Paris and Dornach. Mostly created after 1866, his photographs of famous works of art helped advance the field of art history; this was his most successful photographic project.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 79-34, USNM ACC 57117
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs and drawings of paleolithic sites, previously filed in 79-34, have been relocated to National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 157.
Material found in Gus Van Beek's office can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 79-38.
Additional photographs donated by Lucy Hunter Baird as part of accession 57117 can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and Photo Lot 97.
Lucy Hunter Baird also donated artifacts to the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accession 57117.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Rights:
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Topic:
Sculpture, Greek  Search this
Sculpture, Roman  Search this
Sculpture, Egyptian  Search this
Sculpture, Assyro-Babylonian  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 79-34, Adolphe Braun photographs of art in European museums, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.79-34
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3889d484b-54df-4f2d-9b44-aea99cc4fd44
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-79-34

Adrian John Ebell photograph of women and children guarding corn

Creator:
Ebell, Adrian J. (Adrian John), 1840-1877  Search this
Publisher:
Zimmerman, Charles A., 1844-1909  Search this
Extent:
1 Stereograph (albumen)
Culture:
Sioux  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Stereographs
Photographs
Date:
1862
Scope and Contents note:
Stereoview of Dakota women and children with a canopy in corn fields, guarding corn from birds. The photograph was made by Adrian John Ebell, shortly before the Sioux uprising in Minnesota, 1862.
Biographical/Historical note:
Adrian John Ebell (1840-1877) immigrated to the United States from Ceylon as a youth and entered Yale University in 1859. In 1862, he hired University of Chicago student Edwin R. Lawton as his assistant on a trip to photograph Native Americans in Minnesota. They rented camera equipment from St. Paul photographer and gallery operator Joel E. Whitney, who would later publish many of Ebell's photographs. On August 17, Ebell and Lawton stayed at Dr. Thomas S. Williamson's mission near the Upper Sioux Agency and fled with the other refugees when news of the revolt reached the mission the next day. Ebell created his most widely published photograph of the refugees resting on the prairie during this flight. After the group stopped in Henderson, Ebell and Lawton continued on to St. Paul, where Ebell gave his exposed glass plates to Whitney for publication and wrote articles about the experience for the St. Paul Daily Press. Ebell then briefly joined Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley's expedition, photographing the Dakota captives at Camp Release, before returning to his studies at Yale. In June 1863, his account of the uprising, entitled "The Indian Massacres and War of 1862," was published in Harpers New Monthly Magazine.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 2000-15
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional Ebell photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 90-1.
The Minnesota Historical Society also holds Ebell photographs from 1862.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Stereographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 2000-15, Adrian John Ebell photograph of women and children guarding corn, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.2000-15
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw384bb399d-7ad9-4005-8ab5-9207e7eda446
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-2000-15

Adrienne DeArmas photographs of Tlingit village in Klukwan, Alaska

Creator:
DeArmas, Adrienne  Search this
Names:
National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology  Search this
Extent:
111 Color slides
Culture:
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Tlingit  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Color slides
Place:
Klukwan (Alaska)
Date:
1993
Scope and Contents note:
Images of streets, houses, and other buildings in Klukwan, a Tlingit village in Alaska, made on August 6, 1993. According to a description by photographer Adrienne DeArmas, the images form "a panoramic view of the Tlingit Village in Klukwan, Alaska, U.S.A. . . .The slides begin on the left-hand side of the road which divides the community into the riverside and the mountain side, and progress to the end of the community and back up the road on the right-hand side. The river is to the left and the mountains to the right."
Biographical/Historical note:
In 1993, National Museum of Natural History staff traveled to Juneau and Klukwan, Alaska, to present their plan for the museum's renovated North American Hall to the board members of the Sealaska Corporation and to the community of Klukwan. During the trip, permission was obtained to photograph the community for the archives, the village, and the Sealaska Corporation.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 94-19
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.

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Citation:
Photo Lot 94-19, Adrienne DeArmas photographs of Tlingit village in Klukwan, Alaska, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.94-19
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw35b07af1d-c07f-4250-b047-1e76c37457ae
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-94-19

Aerial photographs of Hohokam canals in Salt River and Gila River valleys, Arizona

Creator:
Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this
Names:
Halseth, Odd Sigurd  Search this
Hayden, Carl  Search this
Extent:
7 Items (uncut rolls)
139 Items (prints)
68 Items (maps)
Culture:
Hohokam -- Canals  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
Arizona -- Archeology
Date:
ca. 1930
Arrangement:
The negatives are on the rolls in the order in which they were taken; otherwise the material is unarranged.
Biographical / Historical:
In January 1930, at the urging of Senator Carl Hayden, the Smithsonian arranged with the Department of War for air reconnaissance of ancient canals in Arizona. Because the canals were being destroyed by the extension of agriculture and other developments, oblique and vertical aerial photographic records were made of them. Neil Merton Judd represented the Smithsonian on the project.
General:
The digitization of this collection was supported by the Pueblo Grande Museum.
Topic:
Canals -- Hohokam  Search this
Archeology -- Arizona -- Canals  Search this
Citation:
Photo Lot 3, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.3
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw349a1f2d6-c279-4133-a79a-affb38ef9a70
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-3
Online Media:

African-American site report collection

Extent:
11 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
North America
Date:
1972-1994
Scope and Contents:
This is a collection of reports of archaeological excavations of African- American Sites from the 1970s through the 1990s. Some of the states represented are Arkansas, Delaware, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

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. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
Reports are in alphabetical order by author's last name.
Restrictions:
Access to the African-American site reports collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Topic:
Archaeology  Search this
African American history  Search this
Citation:
African-American site reports collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.XXXX.0303
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b0804de5-c03e-4bb6-b803-caac4b934a2a
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-xxxx-0303

Aidan Southall and Marshall Clinard material relating to nutrition and crime in Kampala, Uganda, 1950s-1960s

Creator:
Southall, Aidan, 1920-2009  Search this
Clinard, Marshall B., 1911-2010  Search this
Extent:
18.8 Linear feet ((45 document boxes))
13 Sound recordings
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Questionnaires
Date:
1950s-1960s
Summary:
Aidan Southall (1920-2009) was a social anthropologist whose research focused on rural and urban settings in East Africa. Marshall Barron Clinard (1911-2010) was a sociological criminologist who conducted research in a number of countries, including Sweden, India, Switzerland, and Uganda. This collection, consisting mostly of questionnaires, represents Southall and Clinard's research on nutrition and crime in Kampala, Uganda.
Scope and Contents note:
This collection, consisting mostly of questionnaires, represents Aidan Southall and Marshall Clinard's research on nutrition and crime in Kampala, Uganda. Southall conducted his research during the 1950s in dense low income areas in Kampala. His surveys also include a small sample of urban chiefs, Asian and European households, and domestic servants. Clinard used Southall's work as a foundation for his own research in Kampala in 1968-1969 on urban crime. Surveys from Clinard's research are present in the collection, as well as crime statistics that he collected.
Arrangement note:
The collection is unarranged.
Biographical/Historical note:
Aidan Southall (1920-2009) was a social anthropologist whose research focused on rural and urban settings in East Africa. He received his B.A. (1942) and M.A. (1957) from Cambridge University and earned his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics (1952). In 1957, he became the first professor of social anthropology and sociology at Makerere University College in Uganda, where he stayed until 1964. He was later a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1969-1990).

Marshall Barron Clinard (1911-2010) was a sociological criminologist, educated at Stanford University (B.A., 1932; M.A., 1934) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D., 1941). He conducted research in a number of countries, including Sweden, India, Switzerland, and Uganda. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison from 1946 to 1979.
Related Archival Materials note:
Aidan Southall's correspondence can be found in the papers of Harold Schneider and Marvin Harris.
Provenance:
These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Aidan Southall in 1992.
Restrictions:
This collection is restricted to on site access only. Contact Reference staff for more information.
Rights:
Contact repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Urban anthropology  Search this
Kampala (Uganda)  Search this
Crime  Search this
Nutrition  Search this
Genre/Form:
Questionnaires
Identifier:
NAA.2013-25
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw303d09298-8fad-4ac5-a94c-82e9123e0edb
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2013-25

Alan Harwood Papers

Correspondent:
Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016  Search this
Greenberg, Joseph H. (Joseph Harold), 1915-2001  Search this
Creator:
Harwood, Alan  Search this
Extent:
27 Linear feet (60 boxes, 2 manuscript folders), 8 sound recordings, 35 computer disks, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder, 1 map drawer)
Culture:
Chinese Americans  Search this
Irish Americans  Search this
Jamaican Americans  Search this
Puerto Ricans  Search this
Safwa (African people)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Microfilms
Sound recordings
Photographic prints
Field notes
Place:
Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Boston (Mass.)
Mbeya Region (Tanzania)
Date:
circa 1940s-2001
bulk 1953-2001
Summary:
Alan Harwood is a Professor Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Boston in the Anthropology Department. Trained in social anthropology he has studied illness and healing in Tanzania and communities in New York City and Boston. Harwood was the founding editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (new series, 1986-1991) and series editor of Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (1999-2004) The bulk of this collection is composed of Alan Harwood's 1962-1964 ethnographic research among the Safwa in Tanzania (then known as Tanganyika); his research on health beliefs and medical practices of residents in a low-income area of the Bronx, New York (1967-1970); and his research in Boston, Massachusetts on different ethnic groups' conceptions of health (1994-1995). Also among his papers are materials from his involvement in the Centers for Disease Control and American Anthropological Association (AAA) Workgroup on "The Use of Race & Ethnicity as Scientific Categories" at the 1994 AAA meeting.
Scope and Contents:
The bulk of the collection is composed of Alan Harwood's ethnographic research among the Safwa in Tanzania (then known as Tanganyika); his research on health beliefs and medical practices of residents in a low-income area of the Bronx, New York; and his research in Boston, Massachusetts on different ethnic groups' conceptions of health. The few photographs in the collection are aerial views of Isyesye, where he conducted his Safwa research, and images from Utengule taken by White Fathers and dating from the 1940s. The collection also contains Harwood's linguistic recordings of Kimalila and of Kisafwa and Kinyiha spoken in various dialects. In addition, the collection contains sound recordings of Safwa ceremonies and an audio letter from Harold Conklin, Mario Bick, Georgeda Buchbinder Bick, and Michiko Takaki. Also among his papers are his correspondence as the editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly and of Ethnicity and Medical Care; materials from his involvement in the Centers for Disease Control and American Anthropological Association (AAA) Workgroup on "The Use of Race & Ethnicity as Scientific Categories" at the 1994 AAA meeting; and letters of recommendation (restricted until 2056) that Harwood wrote for students and colleagues. In addition, the collection contains Harwood's course notes as an undergraduate student at Harvard and as a graduate student at University of Michigan and Columbia University. The collection also contains Harwood's research notes on North Luzon as Conklin's student research assistant at Columbia University. Harwood's correspondence is spread throughout the collection and filed by project. Among his notable correspondents are Harold Conklin and Joseph Greenberg. Their letters can be found with the Safwa materials.
Arrangement:
Arranged into 8 series: (1) Safwa Research, 1961-1970; (2) Bronx Research, 1957-1986; (3) Boston Research, 1993-1996; (4) Professional Activities, 1975-2001; (5) Student Files, 1953-1962; (6) Microfilm; (7) Photographs, circa 1940s & 1963; (8) Sound Recordings, 1962-1964
Biographical/Historical note:
Alan Harwood was born on March 20, 1935 in Tarrytown, New York. He earned his undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, in Social Relations from Harvard University in 1957 and attended the London School of Economics on a one year fellowship the following year. When he returned to the United States, he began his graduate studies in anthropology at the University of Michigan, earning his M.A. in 1960. He went on to Columbia University for his doctorate, which he was awarded in 1967.

Under a pre-doctoral fellowship funded by the Social Science Research Council, Harwood conducted ethnographic research on the Safwa of the southwestern region of Tanganyika (now known as Tanzania). From September 1962 to 1964, Harwood carried out his research mainly in the village of Isyesye, near Mbeya, Southern Highlands Region. At the time, witchcraft accusations were common, and it thus became the subject of his dissertation, Witchcraft, Sorcery, and Social Categories among the Safwa, later published in 1970.

In 1967, Harwood was hired by the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Center (formerly called the Neighborhood Medical Care Demonstration) in Bronx, New York. From 1967 to 1970, he directed a study on the health, illness, and medical beliefs and practices of residents in a low-income area of the south Bronx. One of the articles produced from this research was Harwood's "The Hot-Cold Theory of Disease: Implications for Treatment of Puerto Rican Patients" (1971). Harwood also looked at spiritism among the Puerto Rican community, which led to his publication, Rx: Spiritist as Needed: A Study of a Puerto Rican Community Mental Health Resource (1977).

From 1994 to 1995, Harwood was the co-principal investigator of a study conducted under the Tufts New England Medical Center on conceptions of health and well-being among 4 ethnic groups in Boston: African Americans, Mandarin-speaking Chinese Americans, Irish Americans, and Puerto Ricans. Harwood led the group studying Irish Americans.

In addition to his research, Harwood was the founding editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly (new series, 1986-1991) and series editor of Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology (1999-2004) and of Studies in Medical Anthropology (2004-2006). He also edited Ethnicity and Medical Care (1981), a book geared towards health professionals.

In 1971, Harwood spent a year in New Zealand as a visiting senior lecturer at the University of Auckland. From 1972 to 2002, he was a professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. During his tenure, he also served as adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology (1993-2002) and as associate dean for Undergraduate Education, College of Arts and Sciences (1998-2001). In addition, he was a lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (1992-present).

In 1982, Harwood was honored with the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland for Research in Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems. He is also a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association and of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Restrictions:
Materials that identify the participants in Harwood's Bronx and Boston studies are restricted until 2056.
Rights:
Contact repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Medical anthropology  Search this
Genre/Form:
Microfilms
Sound recordings
Photographic prints
Field notes
Citation:
Alan Harwood Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.2006-25
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw39b5f5a44-d962-4a39-bef9-c0d96eca37af
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2006-25
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Alan Sandstrom papers

Creator:
Sandstrom, Alan R.  Search this
Extent:
10.75 Linear feet
Culture:
Nahua  Search this
Aztec (archaeological culture)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
Veracruz-Llave (Mexico : State)
North America
Date:
1968-2014
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of Alan Sandstrom's correspondence, files relating to publications, newsletter editing (Nahua Newsletter),and biographical materials.

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. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged into 4 series: (1) Correspondence, (2) Publishing projects, (3) Nahua Newsletter, (4) Biographical files.
Biographical Note:
Alan R. Sandstrom is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in cultural ecology, cultural materialism, economic anthropology, history and theory of anthropology, Native peoples of Mesoamerica and North America, and religion, ritual, and symbolism. He has conducted ethnographic field research among Tibetans in exile in the Himalaya region of Himachal Pradesh, northern India, and worked for more than 40 years among Nahuatl speakers of northern Veracruz, Mexico.

Sandstrom began fieldwork among the Nahua in Mexico in the summer of 1970, returning for a 16-month stay in 1972-1973 to collect data for a dissertation in anthropology at Indiana University. From 1974 until the present, the research has been a joint venture with his wife, Pamela Effrein Sandstrom, who earned master's and doctoral degrees in library and information science at Indiana University. Together, the Sandstroms have visited a small community of 600 Nahuatl speakers regularly over the intervening years. In 1985, they returned to the field accompanied by their three-year-old son, Michael Anthony Sandstrom. In addition to numerous shorter visits ranging from a few days to a few weeks, the Sandstroms have been in residence in the village for long periods during 1985-1986, 1990, and 1997-1998. The last extended stay was during joint sabbatical research leaves granted by Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in 2006-2007.

Sandstrom's long-term ethnographic fieldwork based on participant observation has been conducted in a single community he calls Amatlán (a pseudonym used to protect the privacy of research consultants and community members). The village is located in the municipio of Ixhuatlán de Madero, Veracruz, Mexico, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains; the community should not be confused with other locales in Veracruz named Amatlán. Research methodologies have included formal and informal interviewing, observation and photography of daily life and rituals, questionnaire research, elicitation of kinship data, compilation of census data, mapping for GIS analysis, and archival research in state and regional archives in Mexico. The Sandstroms' eight-month stay during 1980 among the Tibetans in exile in northern India provided a valuable cross-cultural perspective that has served to clarify the Mesoamerican data on religious ideology.
Provenance:
Received from Alan R. Sandstrom and Pamela Effrein Sandstrom in 2014.
Restrictions:
The Alan Sandstrom papers are open for research.

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Rights:
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Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this
Citation:
Alan Sandstrom papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.2014-17
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3dd61fe4a-44f0-40a6-afaf-525a6c435b08
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2014-17

Alan Schneider papers regarding Bonnichsen v. United States

Creator:
Schneider, Alan  Search this
Names:
Chatters, James C. (1949-03-20)  Search this
Owsley, Douglas W.  Search this
Stanford, Dennis J.  Search this
Extent:
28.5 Linear feet
Note:
The collection is stored off-site. Advanced notice must be given to view the collection.
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
North America
Date:
circa 1995 - circa 2005
Summary:
The Alan Schneider papers regarding Bonnichsen v. United States document the legal proceedings of the "Kennewick Man" court case and comprise the case files of Alan Schneider, attorney for the plaintiffs. Included are correspondence, research data and analysis, transcriptions, and administrative records. Additionally, there are materials pertaining to Spirit Cave, On Your Knees Cave, and the Leonard Ranch site.
Scope and Contents:
The collection contains the files of Alan Schneider, attorney for the plaintiffs in the "Kennewick Man" court case (Bonnichsen v. United States). The documents presented here include the plaintiffs' correspondence, background and scientific research, transcriptions, and administrative records from the court case. Also included are some audio and video recordings. The collection also includes files relating to Spirit Cave, On Your Knees Cave, and the Leonard Ranch site.

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. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged into four series: 1. Legal proceedings, 2. Administrative record, 3. Spirit Cave man and related cases, and 4. Research and media. The files in this collection were kept in their original order. Each series is divided into several subseries which correlate to groupings of the original file organization.
Historical Note:
This collection consists of the case files of attorney Alan Schneider regarding the Bonnichsen v. United States, or "Kennewick Man" court case. The court case, in which Schneider was attorney for the plaintiffs, determined whether a set of male human remains found near Kennewick, Washington, would be accessible for study by a group of biological anthropologists prior to potential repatriation by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Discovered along the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington on July 28, 1996, the remains (later dubbed "Kennewick Man" and also known as Ancient One) were initially sent by the coroner to archaeologist James Chatters for examination. Chatters sent a sample for radiocarbon dating, which revealed that the skeleton was between 8,000 and 9,000 years old. This placed the remains among the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found. Because the remains were discovered on federal land managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), after the age was determined, the Corps retrieved them from Chatters and transferred them to an evidence locker with the goal of repatriating them in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) to local Tribes in the fall of 1996.

Meanwhile, other scientists' requests to study the remains were denied by the Corps. In October 1996, a group of eight scientists sued to stop the transfer of the skeleton to local Tribes and allow them to study the remains. The plaintiffs included Robson Bonnichsen, C. Loring Brace, George W. Gill, C. Vance Haynes, Richard Jantz, Douglas Owsley, Dennis Stanford, and D. Gentry Steele. The defendants in the case were the United States, the Corps, the Department of Defense, and later the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service. The Tribal Claimants that participated in the trial as amici were a coalition that included the Umatilla, Colville, Yakama, Wanapum, and Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Tribes. The court case stretched over a nine-year period in which the plaintiffs made arguments concerning the jurisdiction of NAGPRA, cultural affiliation, the meaning of the term "Native American", and other related topics. Ultimately, the plaintiffs were awarded access to study the remains in 2005.

With advancements in DNA technology, testing was conducted in 2013 and later confirmed that the individual showed affiliation with the Tribes located in the region where he was found. He was then finally repatriated to a coalition of Columbia Basin tribes in 2016. He was reinterred in 2017.
Related Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives also holds the files of Douglas Owsley relating to Bonnichsen v. United States.
Provenance:
Received from Alan Schneider in 2015.
Restrictions:
Access to the Alan Schneider papers regarding Bonnichsen v. United States requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Topic:
Biological anthropology  Search this
Kennewick Man  Search this
Repatriation  Search this
Citation:
Alan Schneider papers regarding Bonnichsen v. United States, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.2015-13
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Alan Schneider papers regarding Bonnichsen v. United States
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3a776b86f-96d2-4e6b-9d86-664fbd28aa77
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2015-13

Albert Clanton Spaulding papers

Creator:
Adams, William  Search this
Spaulding, Albert C. (Albert Clanton), 1914-1990  Search this
Correspondent:
Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004  Search this
Ackerman, Robert  Search this
Adams, Richard N. (Richard Newbold), 1924-  Search this
Aginsky, Bernard W. (Bernard Willard), 1905-  Search this
Baby, Raymond S.  Search this
Baerreis, David A., 1916-1989  Search this
Baker, George W.  Search this
Bartlett, Katherine  Search this
Bascom, William  Search this
Baumhoff, Martin A.  Search this
Beardsley, Richard K. (Richard King), 1918-1978  Search this
Beaubien, Paul L.  Search this
Bell, Robert E. (Robert Eugene), 1914-2006  Search this
Bennett, Wendell Clark, 1905-1953  Search this
Binford, Lewis R. (Lewis Roberts), 1931-2011  Search this
Black, Glenn A. (Glenn Albert), 1900-1964  Search this
Boggs, Stephen Taylor  Search this
Bozeman, Tandy  Search this
Braidwood, Robert J. (Robert John), 1907-2003  Search this
Brew, J. O. (John Otis), 1906-1988  Search this
Buettner-Janusch, John, 1924-1992  Search this
Byers, Douglas S., 1903-1978  Search this
Campbell, John M.  Search this
Carneiro, Robert  Search this
Carr, John F.  Search this
Champe, John L. (John Leland), 1895-  Search this
Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002  Search this
Coe, Joffre Lanning  Search this
Collier, Donald, 1911-1995  Search this
Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987  Search this
Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016  Search this
Conner, Stuart W.  Search this
Coon, Carleton S. (Carleton Stevens), 1904-1981  Search this
Corbett, John M.  Search this
Cotter, John Lambert  Search this
Cressman, Luther S., 1897-1994  Search this
Culbert, T. Patrick  Search this
De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004  Search this
Deuel, Thorne, 1890-  Search this
Dickinson, J.C.  Search this
Dillingham, Beth  Search this
Dockstader, Frederick J.  Search this
Dole, Gertrude Evelyn, 1915-2001  Search this
Ehrich, Robert W.  Search this
Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977  Search this
Erasmus, Charles  Search this
Euler, Robert  Search this
Evans, Clifford, Jr.  Search this
Fagan, Brian  Search this
Fejos, Paul, 1897-1963  Search this
Fenenga, Franklin  Search this
Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-2005  Search this
Fitting, James E.  Search this
Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-  Search this
Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968  Search this
Ford, Richard I.  Search this
Gabel, Creighton  Search this
Giddings, Louis  Search this
Greengo, Robert E.  Search this
Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997  Search this
Gunnerson, James A.  Search this
Gurland, John  Search this
Hamilton, Henry W.  Search this
Harp, Elmer  Search this
Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979  Search this
Henry, Ardell A.  Search this
Hewes, Gordon Winant, 1917-  Search this
Hodson, F.R.  Search this
Horne, Stephen  Search this
Howard, James H., 1925-1982 (James Henri)  Search this
Hruska, Robert J.  Search this
Hughes, Jack T.  Search this
Hull, W.C.  Search this
Hurt, Wesley R.  Search this
Huscher, Harold A., 1908-1992  Search this
Jelinek, Arthur J. (Arthur Julius), 1928-  Search this
Jennings, Jesse D. (Jesse David), 1909-1997  Search this
Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994  Search this
Kaemlein, Wilma  Search this
Kaplan, Bernice  Search this
Kennard, Edward A. (Edward Allan), 1907-1989  Search this
Kerr, Clark  Search this
Kivett, Marvin F.  Search this
Krieger, Alex D. (Alex Dony), 1911-1991  Search this
Krogman, Wilton Marion, 1903-1987  Search this
Kunstadter, Peter  Search this
Lasker, Gabriel Ward  Search this
Laughlin, William S.  Search this
Leech, Florence  Search this
Lilban, Richard W.  Search this
Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953  Search this
Lister, Robert H. (Robert Hill), 1915-1990  Search this
Malouf, Carling I. (Carling Isaac), 1916-2007  Search this
Martin, Paul S. (Paul Sidney), 1899-1974  Search this
Mayer-Oakes, William J., 1923-2005  Search this
McGregor, John  Search this
McKern, W. C. (Will Carleton), 1892-  Search this
Meggers, Betty Jane  Search this
Miller, George (Omaha)  Search this
Muirhead, George  Search this
Neumann, Georg K. (Georg Karl), 1907-1971  Search this
Newman, Marshall T. (Marshall Thornton), 1911-1994  Search this
Norbeck, Edward, 1915-1991  Search this
Oakley, Kenneth Page, 1911-  Search this
Omwake, Henri Geiger, 1907-1967  Search this
Osborne, Douglas  Search this
Pilling, Arnold R.  Search this
Quilter, Jeffrey, 1949-  Search this
Reed, Charles A.  Search this
Reed, Erik Kellerman, 1914-1990  Search this
Ritchie, William A. (William Augustus), 1903-1995  Search this
Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this
Rouse, Irving, 1913-2006  Search this
Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004  Search this
Ruppé, Reynold J., 1917-1993  Search this
Schumacher, Paul J. F.  Search this
Schwartz, Douglas W., 1929-  Search this
Sears, William H.  Search this
Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001  Search this
Smith, Allen H.  Search this
Smith, Carlyle S. (Carlyle Shreeve), 1915-1993  Search this
Smith, Hale G.  Search this
Smith, Marion W.  Search this
Solecki, Ralph S.  Search this
Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961  Search this
Spuhler, J.N.  Search this
Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-  Search this
Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962  Search this
Struever, Stuart  Search this
Sturtevant, William C.  Search this
Swanson, Earl H., Jr. (Earl Herbert), 1927-1975  Search this
Tax, Sol, 1907-1995  Search this
Taylor, Walter W., Jr.  Search this
Thomas, David Hurst  Search this
Tolstoy, Paul  Search this
Tong, Marvin E. (Marvin Enoch), 1922-1981  Search this
Ward, Lauriston  Search this
Washburn, S. L. (Sherwood Larned), 1911-2000  Search this
Waterman, Alan T.  Search this
Watson, Patty Jo, 1932-  Search this
Wauchope, Robert  Search this
Webb, William S. (William Snyder), 1882-1964  Search this
Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996  Search this
Wenner-Gren, Axel, 1881-1961  Search this
Wheeler, Richard  Search this
White, Leslie A., 1900-1975  Search this
Will, George W.  Search this
Williams, Stephen  Search this
Wolfe, Alvin W. (Alvin William), 1928-  Search this
Wood, W. Raymond  Search this
Woodbury, Natalie Ferris Sampson  Search this
Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009  Search this
Yellen, John E., 1942-  Search this
Extent:
4.5 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
North America
South Dakota
Alaska
Date:
1940s-1980s
Summary:
The Albert Clanton Spaulding Papers consist of correspondence, field project data, manuscripts, and teaching notes documenting his work at the University of Michigan, University of California Santa Barbara, the National Science Foundation, and field work at the Arzberger Site and Agattu.
Scope and Contents:
The Albert Clanton Spaulding Papers consist of correspondence, field project data, manuscripts, and teaching notes documenting his work at the University of Michigan, University of California Santa Barbara, the National Science Foundation, and field work at the Arzberger Site and Agattu. Although it has been noted that there are significant and inexplicable lucunae in Spaulding's papers, they nevertheless touch on most phases of his professional life. There is, however, relatively little field material.

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. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
1. Correspondence, 1948-1982; 2. manuscript of Spaulding writings; 3. material concerning students; 4. site reports and field project data; 4. material regarding conferences and committees; 6. material related to work as National Science Foundation archeology program director; 7. student notebooks and dissertation; 8. material regarding the Arzberger site; 9. administrative material regarding the University of Michigan; 10. academic papers collected by Spaulding, teaching aids, and lecture notes; 11. Philip C. Phillips and Gordon R. Willey file; 12. James A. Ford file; 13. correspondence regarding publications; 14. miscellany; 15. photographs
Biographical note:
Albert C. Spaulding was trained at Montana State University (B.A. in economics, 1935), the University of Michigan (M.A. in ahthropology, 1937), and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1946). In 1946-1947, he taught at the University of Kansas and was an assistant curator at the university's Museum of Anthropology. From 1947-1961, he taught at the University of Michigan and was curator of that university's Museum of Anthropology. In 1959-1961, Spaulding was first program director for the History and Philosophy of Science Program of the National Science Foundation and the NAS program director for anthropology. In 1963-1966, he was professor and chairman of the anthropology department at the University of Oregon. In 1967-1971, he became dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara and continued at that institution as professor of anthropology until 1983. Spaulding served the Society for Amercian Archeology as associate editor, secretary, vice president, and president. In 1964, he was vice president for Section H of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Although Spaulding carried out several significant field projects, he is best rememberd for his theoretical and methodological concerns. In relating his first archeological field work, he declared: "My fundamental interest at the time (and now) was clarification of the basic concepts of archeology, which led me into explicit definitions of archaeological problems in terms of relationship between or among well-defined variables." Spaulding produced many articles and book reviews in which he dealt with such problems. Some of the best-known appeared in the pages of American Antiquity in 1953 and 1954 when be debated James A. Ford in general terms concerning teh most productive methods of archeology in general and the nature of archeological types and methods of defining them in particular. Because of his espousal of rigor in method, Spaulding is considered on of the main forerunners of the "new archeology" of the 1960s. For his work, he received the SAA distinguished Service Award in 1981.
Restrictions:
The Albert Clanton Spaulding papers are open for research.

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Rights:
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Topic:
Archaeology  Search this
Citation:
Albert Clanton Spaulding papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.1997-12
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3808d85f3-876e-4f0d-99a4-a84e673bfcee
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-1997-12

Albert J. Redder papers

Creator:
Redder, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1922-  Search this
Watt, Frank H. (Frank Hedden), 1889-1981  Search this
Extent:
6 Linear feet (6 document boxes, 1 map folder, and 2 slide boxes)
Culture:
Early Man -- Paleo-Indian  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
1957-2008
Summary:
The papers of Albert J. Redder (1957-2008) primarily document his and Frank H. Watt's archaeological excavations of the Horn Shelter sites Horn Shelter #1 and Horn Shelter #2, but also includes Redder's field notes and research materials relating to other central Texas archaeological sites and correspondence he recieved during his time with the Central Texas Archaeological Society. The collection contains both Redder's and Watt's field notes, data and analyses, manuscript drafts, correspondence, photographs, and illustrations.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of Albert J. Redder document his archaeological excavations and subsequent analysis of various sites across central Texas including the Horn Shelter sites (Horn Shelter #1 and Horn Shelter #2), the Warner Site, and smaller sites in Knox County. The papers reflect his work as an avocational archaeologist and active member of the Central Texas Archaeological Society. Also included are the papers of Frank H. Watt, who excavated and analyzed the Horn Shelter sites alongside Redder. These papers relate to his excavation of and research on the Horn Shelter sites and were given to Redder following Watt's death in 1981.

The collection contains Redder's extensive field notes, photographs, artifact and section illustrations, and research files relating to Horn Shelter #1 and Horn Shelter #2. Additionally there are field notes and surveys from various sites in Knox County, Texas and the Warner Site (41ML46). The papers contain logs of visitors that Redder hosted at the Horn Shelter sites and other central Texas archaeological sites, and correspondence directed to Redder and the Central Texas Archaeological Society, for which Redder was president, field coordinator, and outreach speaker.

Watt's materials consist of field notes, photographs, artifact and site illustrations, and research files relating to Horn Shelter #1 and Horn Shelter #2, and drafts he wrote for the Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society. He conducted pollen analysis and radiocarbon dating for the sites, and researched their artifacts which include beamers and the Brazos Fishtail point he would later propose as a type point in 1978.

Please note that the collection contains images of human remains.

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. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
The Albert J. Redder papers are divided into 4 series:

Series 1: Horn Shelter #1, 1961-1981 (bulk: 1962-1964)

Series 2: Horn Shelter #2, 1957-1989

Series 3: Texas Archaeology Field Notes, 1970-2002, undated

Series 4: Visitor Logs and Correspondence, 1975-2008
Biographical Note:
Albert J. Redder (b. 1922) is an avocational archaeologist who conducted archaeological field work in central Texas. His friend and colleague Frank H. Watt (1889-1981) was a lithographic artist and avocational archaeologist who also conducted archaeological field work in central Texas. The two worked closely together on multiple projects, including excavating Horn Shelter #1 (41BQ47) from 1960 to 1964 and Horn Shelter #2 (41BQ46) from 1966 to 1990, although Watt ceased excavating circa 1975.

Albert Joseph Redder was born on August 21, 1922 in Munday, Texas. As a child and young adult, Redder was interested in archaeology and collecting arrowpoints but it wasn't until the 1950s when he joined the Texas Archaeological Society. With his membership, he attended meetings and fieldschools, learning excavation techniques and how to document his findings. Redder would later join and actively participate in the Central Texas Archaeological Society, founded by Frank H. Watt and friends. During his time in the Central Texas Archaeological Society, Redder held the positions of president, field coordinator, and outreach speaker. In 1988, the Texas Archaeological Society awarded Redder with a Fellow membership to the organization, a lifetime honor "for meritorious contribution to Texas archeology and the Society," due to his contribution to the field with his work at Horn Shelter.

Frank Hedden Watt was born on January 15, 1889 near Lynnville, Indiana, though he lived in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Kansas throughout the 1910s working as a lithographic artist. Following his service in World War I, Watt moved to Waco in 1920 where he continued his professional career as a lithographic artist. In 1934 he developed an interest in archaeology and formed the Central Texas Archaeological Society with some of his friends and fellow avocational archaeologists. Watt was passionate about preserving artifacts' context and provenience in his effort to outline Texas's prehistory. In addition to excavation, Watt also published and edited volumes of the Bulletin of the Central Texas Archaeological Society and wrote for and published the Society's Newsletter. Watt's final excavation was Horn Shelter #2 when he was in his mid-80's, although he continued to publish writings after. In 1976 he was awarded a Fellow membership to the Texas Archaeological Society. Watt passed away in 1981 at the age of 92.

In the 1960s and 1970s Albert J. Redder and Frank H. Watt surveyed several archaeological sites on the Herman Horn property in Bosque County along the Brazos River. In 1960 they began excavating Horn Shelter #1, a rock shelter that showed evidence of paleo, archaic, and neo-American occupation. At Horn Shelter #1, Redder and Watt uncovered pottery, bone artifacts, lithic tools, faunal remains, and several burials. In 1967 the pair began excavating Horn Shelter #2, another rock shelter a mere 75 steps north of Horn Shelter #1. Horn Shelter #2 showed evidence of occupation from paleo through the Prohibition era. The site was excavated primarily by Redder, Watt, and Robert E. Forrester who found and documented lithics, bone tools, and faunal remains. The site was split along a balcony ledge that had created a natural divide in the rock shelter: the south-end was excavated by Redder and Watt while the north-end was later excavated by Robert E. Forrester starting in 1968. Redder and Watt meticulously documented and excavated the south-end's 27 stratified layers reaching bedrock at points as deep as 20 feet. In 1970, Redder and Watt uncovered a double burial with a cache of artifacts in a paleo level. Due to the Horn property being a long commute for both Redder and Watt, the two would take over 20 years to excavate this complex site. It was the last site that Watt would participate in excavating before stopping around 1975; Redder excavated the site until 1990.

Chronology of the Life of Albert J. Redder

21 August 1922 -- Born in Munday, Texas, USA

circa 1942-1945 -- Served in the Army in World War II

circa 1950 -- Joined the Texas Archaeological Society

1961-1964 -- Excavated Horn Shelter #1 with Frank H. Watt

1966-1990 -- Excavated the south-end of Horn Shelter #2 with Frank H. Watt

August 1970 -- Uncovered the paleo-level double burial at Horn Shelter #2

1985 -- Authored Horn Shelter Number 2: The South End, A Preliminary Report

1988 -- Recognized as a Fellow of the Texas Archaeological Society Coauthored Excavation and Positioning of the Horn Shelter's Burial and Grave Goods with John W. Fox

Chronology of the Life of Frank H. Watt

15 January 1889 -- Born near Lynnville, Indiana

circa 1917 -- Served in World War I as an aircraft mechanic at Ellington Field

1920 -- Moved to Waco, Texas

1934 -- Founded the Central Texas Archaeological Society

1937-1969 -- Edited and published the Bulletin of the Central Texas Archaeological Society

1938 -- Joined the Texas Archaeological Society

1966-circa 1975 -- Excavated the south-end of Horn Shelter #2 with Albert J. Redder

1967 -- Became President Emeritus of the Central Texas Archaeological Society

1976 -- Recognized as a Fellow of the Texas Archaeological Society

1978 -- Authored Radiocarbon Chronology of Sites in the Central Brazos Valley

9 October 1981 -- Died at the age of 92

Sources Consulted

Bischof, Robin E. "Boxes and Boxes, Missing Context and an Avocational Archaeologist: Making Sense of the Frank Watt Collection at the Mayborn Museum Complex." Master's thesis, Baylor University, 2011.

Lawrence, T. G. Jr. and Albert J. Redder. "Frank H. Watt, The Central Texas Archaeologist." Central Texas Archaeologist, Journal of the Central Texas Archaeological Society 10 (1985): 7-11.

Mott Davis, E. "Watt, Frank Hedden." Handbook of Texas Online, accessed June 14, 2023, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/watt-frank-hedden.

Smith, Heather. "Horn Shelter." Texas Beyond History, December 2010. https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/horn/index.html.

Redder, Albert J. "Horn Shelter Number 2: The South End, A Preliminary Report." Central Texas Archeologist, Journal of the Central Texas Archeological Society 10 (1985): 37-65.
Related Materials:
Artifacts and other archaeological materials from Albert J. Redder's and Frank H. Watt's excavation of Horn Shelter #1 and the south-end of Horn Shelter #2 are held in the Anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accessions 2055811 and 2084039. Artifacts from Redder's excavations of the Warner Site (41ML46) and various Knox County (41KX) sites are in accession 2055811 but are not yet processed.

Artifacts and other archaeological materials from Robert E. Forrester's excavation of the north-end of Horn Shelter #2 can be found in accession 2092737.

A selection of artifacts and soil samples from the south-end of Horn Shelter #2 are located at Baylor University's Mayborn Museum Complex.

Baylor University holds more of Frank Watt's papers in the Frank Heddon Watt collection.
Provenance:
These papers were donated with associated artifacts to NMNH's Department of Anthropology by Albert J. Redder in 2009. The papers were transfered to the National Anthropological Archives in 2023.
Restrictions:
The Albert J. Redder papers is open for research.
Rights:
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Topic:
Archaeology -- Texas  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Archaeology  Search this
Archaeology -- United States  Search this
Lithics -- American Indian  Search this
Citation:
Albert J. Redder papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.2023-09
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Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3cfacf544-bdd3-4302-96e3-f56930db770a
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2023-09

Albert Samuel Gatschet papers

Creator:
Gatschet, Albert S. (Albert Samuel), 1832-1907  Search this
Extent:
11 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Place:
North America
Date:
1828-1906
Scope and Contents:
The collection is composed mainly of corrected proofs of the dictionary and texts including in Gatschet's The Klamath Indians of Southwestern Oregon, 1890, and correct proof and copy of Ortsetymologische Forschungen als Beitrage zu einer Topopnomastik der Schweiz. Few of the corrections were incorporated in the final printing of these works. In addition, there is a copy of Powell's Introduction to the Study of Indian Lanaguages with the schedule partially completed with Tuscarora, Wyandot, Seneca, and Caughnawaga and a tapa-cloth-bound dictionary of Samoan, not in Gatschet's hand.

In addition there are several certificates and other such formal documents from Bern, visiting cards, and two letters. Most of these documents seem to pertain to members of Gatschet's family in Switzerland. Most are in German script.

A small photographic collection includes a portrait of Gatschet dated 1906. Most of the other images are of Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Dakota, Kiowa, and Navaho Indians by J.N. Choate and C.C. Stotz. There are also prints from negatives in the archives' glass negative collection that includ Mandan, Miami, Osage, and Shoshoni. Some of the photographs are annotated by Gatschet and James Mooney.
Biographical / Historical:
Educated in his native Switzerland and in Germany (University of Bern; University of Berlin, Ph.D., 1892), early in his career Albert S. Gatschet pursued antiquarian research in European museums and wrote scientific articles. Among his projects was the study of the etymology of place names in Switzerland. After coming to the United States in 1869, he worked on the American Indian vocabularies collected by Oscar Loew of the United States Geographical Survey West of the 100th Meridian (Wheeler Survey). Eventually he was employed as an ethnologist with the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Regions (Powell Survey). He joined the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology when it was founded in 1879 and continued there until he retired in 1905.

For the Powell Survey, Gatschet carried out research among the Klamath in Oregon and the Modoc in Oklahoma. He came to be used to collect material and investigate special problems for the classification of Indian languages of North America north of Mexico, working on languages of the Southeast, including groups settled in the southern Plains. In connection with this, he not only visited well known tribes but also searched out and studied small groups like, for example, the Biloxi and Tunica. He also worked with the Natchez, Tonkawa, Chitimacha, and Atakapa in the United States and the Comecrudo and several other small groups in northern Mexico. Through library research, he studied the Timucua, Karankara, and Beothuk. Duing the last part of his career, Gatschet was assigned the task of preparing a comparative work on all the Algonquian lanaguages. Although the project was never completed, he did collect considerable material in the field on many of the languages, including especially Peoria, Miami, and Shawnee. In addition, he worked with members of diverse tribes of the eastern United States.
Related Materials:
Most of Gatschet's scientific papers are among the collection of numbered manuscripts in the National Anthropological Archives.
Restrictions:
Access to the Albert S. Gatschet papers requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Topic:
Language and languages  Search this
Citation:
Albert S. Gatschet papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.2006-15
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3ecd84914-5869-41cc-92d7-c43d6cbf8bb1
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-2006-15

Albertype Company photograph collection relating to Native Americans

Collector:
Albertype Co.  Search this
Witteman, Hermann L., -1952  Search this
Photographer:
Fred Harvey (Firm)  Search this
Kiser Photo Co. (Portland, Or.)  Search this
N.W. Halsey & Co.  Search this
Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893  Search this
Clarke, H. H.  Search this
Cornish, Geo. B. (George Bancroft)  Search this
Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952  Search this
Flood, H. Lee  Search this
Hazeltine, H. R.  Search this
Martin, W. H. (William H.), 1865-1940  Search this
Mathers, C. W.  Search this
Matsura, Frank, 1873-1913  Search this
Reed, Roland, 1864-1934  Search this
Stimson, Joseph Elam, 1870-1952  Search this
Watkins, H. H.  Search this
Names:
Wittemann, A. (Adolph), 1845-1938 (collector and photographer)  Search this
Extent:
318 Negatives (photographic) (circa, nitrate (includes copy negatives))
Culture:
Pueblo  Search this
Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this
Niuam (Comanche)  Search this
Cree  Search this
Coast Salish  Search this
Colville  Search this
Eskimos  Search this
Fox  Search this
Sioux  Search this
Tli Cho (Dogrib/Thlingchadinne)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this
Catawba Indians  Search this
Caddo  Search this
Nuxalk (Bellacoola)  Search this
Acoma Pueblo  Search this
Apache  Search this
Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this
Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this
Laguna Indians  Search this
Kiowa  Search this
Isleta Pueblo  Search this
Piipaash (Maricopa)  Search this
Havasupai (Coconino)  Search this
Haida  Search this
A'aninin (Gros Ventre)  Search this
Ponca  Search this
Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this
Osage  Search this
Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)  Search this
Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)  Search this
Diné (Navajo)  Search this
Mojave (Mohave)  Search this
Tewa Pueblos  Search this
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Shoshone  Search this
Taos Indians  Search this
Seminole  Search this
Shawnee  Search this
Northwest Coast  Search this
Sarsi Indians  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this
Hopi Pueblo  Search this
Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this
Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this
Hawaiians  Search this
Arctic peoples  Search this
Japanese  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Photographs
Place:
Maine
Kansas City (Mo.)
British Columbia
Virgin Islands
Vancouver (British Columbia)
Date:
circa 1890-1910
Scope and Contents note:
The collection consists of photographs collected by the Albertype Company for their postcards and viewbooks, including portraits, scenery, camps, Native Americans schools, and some paintings and composites for postcard printing. Additional subjects include rock drawings in Maine; a statue in Kansas City, Missouri; Standing Rock Monument in North Dakota; people in Atlin, British Columbia; Carib rock drawings in the Virgin Islands; and totem poles in Vancouver.

Included are works of Charles Milton Bell, E. A. Benson, C. R. Bourne, H. E. Brown, William Bull, H. H. Clarke, George B. Cornish, Frank Bennett Fiske, H. Lee Flood, N. W. Halsey, Fred Harvey, H. R. Hazeltine, Kiser Photograph Company, W. H. Martin, C. W. Mathers, Frank Matsura, W. H. Matthewson, Charles E. Morris, Ernest Moses, J. S. Myers, M. OʹConnor, G. W. Parsons, Roland W. Reed, C. B. Robinson , J. E. Stimson, W. M. Stoltz, and H. H. Watkins. Clarke and Fiske, however, are the only photographers with more than a few images.
Biographical/Historical note:
The Albertype Company, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, published viewbooks and postcards for national distribution. Founded by Adolph and Herman Witteman, the company began publishing souvenier photographic albums as early as 1867. The Wittemans established Witteman Brothers in 1885, and then the Albertype Company in 1890. From 1890 to 1950, the firm published collotypes made from the photographs of its agents (including Adolph Witteman), other companies, and independent photographers. The firm was purchased in 1952 by Art Vue Post Card Company.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 25
Reproduction Note:
Modern copy negatives and prints made by Smithsonian Institution, circa 1972.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society, and Historical Society of Pennsylvania also hold original Albertype Company prints and negatives.
Albertype Company views are also held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 88-37, Photo Lot 92-37, and Photo Lot 92-3.
Restrictions:
Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing. Modern copy prints and copy negatives for nearly all images are available.
Rights:
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Topic:
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Rock paintings  Search this
Totem poles  Search this
Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 25, Albertype Company photograph collection relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.25
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Archival Repository:
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GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3bed1cd4a-0334-43a5-b145-f66931efedc8
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-25
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