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Non-MAI Expeditions to Central America and Puerto Rico

Collection Creator:
Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965  Search this
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this
Extent:
180 Negatives (photographic)
7 Lantern slides
Culture:
Central America  Search this
Island Caribbean  Search this
Taíno [Puerto Rico]  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Lantern slides
Date:
circa 1915-1918
Scope and Contents:
This series includes photographic negatives and lantern slides from Lothrop's time as Director of the Harvard Peabody Museum's Central American,1916-1917. Some of the photographs in this series are listed as 1918, though during that time Lothrop was working for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. It's also possible that the photographs from Puerto Rico, which are cataloged as 1918 were taken during a 1915 trip to the island. The photographs in this series include views from Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico.
Catalog Numbers:
Costa Rica: L00623-L00629, N19372-N19386; N19418-N19459, N19475-N19478. Panama: N19399-N19411. Honduras: N19412-N19417. El Salvador: N19484-N19487. Nicaragua: N19479-N19483. Guatemala: N19488-N19529. Puerto Rico: N19387-N19398; N19460-N19474.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

There are photographs in this collection that are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection, NMAI.AC.001.010. National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NMAI.AC.001.010, Series 2
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Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection
Archival Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv47b090492-5bd3-4973-bb60-ba1a2a670f0d
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-nmai-ac-001-010-ref511

Mortar and pestle

Culture/People:
possibly Taíno [Puerto Rico] (attributed)  Search this
Collector:
William David Hess, Non-Indian, 1916-1995  Search this
Previous owner:
William David Hess, Non-Indian, 1916-1995  Search this
Seller:
William David Hess, Non-Indian, 1916-1995  Search this
Object Name:
Mortar and pestle
Media/Materials:
Black ironwood/Leadwood
Techniques:
Carved
Object Type:
Food Gathering and Preparation
Place:
Isla de Culebra; Culebra Municipality; Puerto Rico
Archipelago:
Greater Antilles
Island Name:
Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico
Geographical Areas:
Caribbean Islands (West Indies)
Catalog Number:
20/4000
Barcode:
204000.000
See related items:
Taíno [Puerto Rico]
Food Gathering and Preparation
Data Source:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6aba4f85a-52a8-45fc-8fdf-abe80b73ccb3
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:NMAI_217612
Online Media:

Musical rasp

Culture/People:
Taíno [Puerto Rico]  Search this
Previous owner:
William B. Kirk, Non-Indian  Search this
Donor:
William B. Kirk, Non-Indian  Search this
Object Name:
Musical rasp
Media/Materials:
Gourd, cordage
Techniques:
Cut, incised, tied
Object Type:
Music and Sound
Native Term:
güiro
Place:
Puerto Rico
Archipelago:
Greater Antilles
Island Name:
Puerto Rico
Geographical Areas:
Caribbean Islands (West Indies)
Date created:
1950-1960
Catalog Number:
23/2323
Barcode:
232323.000
See related items:
Taíno [Puerto Rico]
Music and Sound
Data Source:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws66745757d-e42a-4826-b740-3457a1b1c019
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:NMAI_247562
Online Media:

Theodoor de Booy negatives and photographs collection

Creator:
Booy, Theodoor Hendrik Nikolaas de, 1882-1919  Search this
Former owner:
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this
Extent:
2 Photographic prints
793 Negatives (photographic)
Culture:
Indians of the West Indies  Search this
Island Caribbean  Search this
Taíno [Puerto Rico]  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Negatives (photographic)
Negatives
Date:
1912-1918
Scope and Contents note:
The Theodoor de Booy collection consists of photographic negatives and prints made by de Booy from 1912 to 1918. The materials largely relate to various archaeological expeditions undertaken by de Booy on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation to such places as the Bahamas, Jamaica, Dominican Republic's Island of Saona, Cuba, Venezuela's Island of Margarita, and Trinidad. The West Indies views represent excavation sites, archaeological activities, and antiquities presumably felt to be related to the Indians of the West Indies. In addition are city street scenes, landscapes, and seascapes; plantations; native peoples and their dwellings, social customs, and agricultural practices; and U.S. military activities in the region as well as a few negatives made in New York at the Museum of the American Indian.
Arrangement note:
Negatives Arranged by negative number (N04070-N04362, N04489-N05070, N06068-N06098). Prints Arranged by print number (P00286, P00287).
Biographical/Historical note:
Theodoor de Booy was born in 1882 in Hellevoetsluis, Netherlands. The son of a vice-admiral, he received his education from the Royal Naval Institute of Holland; in 1906, at the age of 24, he immigrated to the United States. During a 1911 trip to the Bahamas, he explored several caves and mounds and, based on his discoveries, published an article in the American Anthropologist entitled "Lucayan Remains on the Caicos Islands." This trip affirmed his interest in antiquities, and in 1912 he accepted one of the first positions on George Gustav Heye's "scientific staff," who were charged with collecting American Indian specimens throughout the Western Hemisphere for the Museum of the American Indian collections. De Booy's appointment was as field explorer for the West Indies. From 1912 to 1918, as an employee of the Museum, de Booy conducted archaeological expeditions to and excavations in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Santo Domingo, Cuba, Venezuela, and in Trinidad. After 1918, de Booy worked for a short time at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and then joined the State Department Inquiry as a specialist for South America. A casualty of the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, de Booy died in Yonkers, New York, at the age of 37.
Provenance:
Historically, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation managed all photographic and related manuscript collections separately. This collection description represents current management practices of organizing and contextualizing related archival materials.
Restrictions:
Access is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment.
Rights:
Some restrictions: Cultural Sensitivity
Topic:
Indians of the West Indies -- Social life and customs  Search this
Excavations (Aerchaeology) -- West Indies  Search this
Indians of the West Indies -- Antiquities  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographic prints
Negatives
Citation:
Theodoor de Booy negatives and photographs collection, 1912-1918, National Museum of the American Indian Archives, Smithsonian Institution (negative, slide or catalog number).
Identifier:
NMAI.AC.001.006
Archival Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv40d78d698-296e-40fa-a8e3-7fd27f8de54b
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-006
Online Media:

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