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Creator:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Correspondent:

American Association of Physical Anthropologists  Search this

Names:

American Journal of Physical Anthropology  Search this

Army Medical Museum (U.S.)  Search this

Hyde Exploring Expedition (1902-1903)  Search this

Institute of Population  Search this

International Congress of Americanists  Search this

Panama-California Exposition (1915 : San Diego, Calif.)  Search this

Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology. Division of Physical Anthropology  Search this

Extent:

206.71 Linear feet (294 boxes, 138 folders, 9 rolled items, and 4 folios)

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

Saint Lawrence Island (Alaska) -- Archaeology

Australia

Alaska -- Archaeology

Mexico -- Anthropology

Florida -- Archaeology

Egypt -- Archaeology

Czechoslovakia

Peru -- Physical anthropology

Kodiak Island (Alaska)

Date:

1875-1966

bulk 1903-1943

Summary:

The papers of Aleš Hrdlička, curator in the Division of Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, offer considerable insight into the development of physical anthropology in the first half of this century. The papers include honors bestowed on Hrdlička, autobiographical notes, correspondence with many of the leading anthropologists of the day, anthropometric and osteometric measurements and observations (forming most of the collection), extensive photographs of Hrdlička's field work, manuscripts, research materials, and "My Journeys" (essentially a diary Hrdlička kept of his field work). In addition, there is material of a personal nature. The papers date from 1875 to 1966, but the bulk of the materials date from 1903 to 1943, the time of Hrdlička's career at the USNM.

Scope and Contents:

This collection is comprised of both professional and personal materials. The professional material includes honors bestowed on Hrdlička, autobiographical notes, correspondence with many of the leading anthropologists of the day, anthropometric and osteometric measurements and observations (forming most of the collection), extensive photographs of Hrdlička's field work, manuscripts, research materials, and "My Journeys" (essentially a diary Hrdlička kept of his field work). The personal material primarily consists of correspondence with his first wife (Marie Dieudonnée Strickler) and other family members, but there are also financial records. The papers date from 1875 to 1966, but the bulk of the materials date from 1903 to 1943, the time of Hrdlička's career at the United States National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Hrdlička investigated all major questions confronting physical anthropologists of his day (the fossil record of early humans, the arrival of humans in the Americas, human variation, evolution, and eugenics) and made valuable contributions in all these areas. Hrdlička's interests in the establishment of physical anthropology as a distinct and important field, the welfare of the Czech people, early hominids, and variation within the human species are all documented in the collection as are the services he performed for various United States government agencies. He pursued field studies in many different parts of the world, but there are relatively few field notes as such among his papers. There is instead the edited journal "My Journeys," photographs, and physical anthropological forms. There is also relatively little material on his administrative involvement in the USNM. There is no material from Hrdlička's time at the Pathological Institution of the New York State Hospitals; after he resigned, fire destroyed the anthropological records Hrdlička collected as a member of the staff. There are materials in the collection which contradict, or at least complicate, many long-held criticisms of Hrdlička, particularly claims that he was racist and opposed feminist ideas. The collection contains materials of interest to genetic research, including anthropometric measurements, hair clippings and fingerprints.

There are a few items in the collection which are dated earlier than the collection's date span. These are publication dates, and the folders containing the items have been dated accordingly, but they have not affected the dates of the series or collection. There are also a few items which are dated after Hrdlička's death. These dates reflect the fact that the collection was added to by the Department of Physical Anthropology after Hrdlička's death and have been taken into account when formulating dates for the series and collection.

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 in 37 series:

(1) Miscellaneous Personal Papers, 1875-1940

(2) Early Personal Correspondence, 1883-1919

(3) Correspondence, 1885-1953

(4) News Clippings and Printed Matter, 1893-1953

(5) Financial Papers, 1910-1943

(6) Journeys to the Southwestern United States and Mexican Indians, 1898-1919

(7) Journeys to the Dakota, Chippewa, Kickapoo, and Shawnee, 1916-1917

(8) Florida Survey, 1918, 1918-1927

(9) Alaska Archeological Expeditions, 1912-1938 (bulk 1926-1938)

(10) Panama-California Exposition Expeditions, 1912-1914

(11) Journey to Egypt, Europe, and Russia, 1908-1909

(12) Journey to South America, 1910, 1910-1912

(13) Journey to the Far East, 1920, 1900-1930

(14) Journey to Australia, Java, India, South Africa, and Europe, 1924-1925

(15) Anthropometric Measurements of Indians Taken at the United States National Museum, 1904-1905, most undated

(16) Bone Studies, 1893-1929, most undated

(17) Old Americans, 1914-1930

(18) Children Who Run on All Fours, 1928-1936

(19) Early Man Studies, 1906-1930

(20) European Ethnic History, 1908-1938

(21) Miscellaneous Research Notes, 1887-1930

(22) Manuscripts of Writings, 1901-1944, most undated

(23) Writings by Other Authors, 1877-1942

(24) Anthropometry, undated

(25) "From My Journeys", 1898-1938

(26) -- American Journal of Physical Anthropology -- , 1918-1931

(27) American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 1924-1931

(28) International Congress of Americanists, 1900-1928

(29) Institute of Population, 1942

(30) Department of Anthropology, 1914-1943

(31) Lecture Notes, 1920-1932

(32) Maps and Charts, 1900-1932

(33) Miscellany, 1895-1954

(34) Index Cards, 1899-1948

(35) Bibliographic Index, undated

(36) Physical Anthropology Folios, undated

(37) Photographs, 1887-1944

Biographical Note:

Aleš Hrdlička was born in Bohemia in 1869 and came to America when he was thirteen. As a young man, he was trained in medicine at New York's Eclectic Medical College and the New York Homeopathic Medical College, receiving degrees from each. His first professional work was as a private practitioner, but he gave that up in 1894 when he joined the staff of the New York State Hospital for the Insane at Middletown. There, in addition to other duties, he began studies of the physical characteristics of inmates. This set in motion developments that would eventually lead him to become one of the world's most prominent anthropologists who has sometimes been referred to as "the founder of physical anthropology in America."

In 1896, in preparation for a research appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals, Hrdlička went to Paris and studied with Leon Manouvrier. After his return to America, he worked for a short period with the Pathological Institute and came into contact with G.S. Huntington of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Hrdlička arranged and studied Huntington's large collection of skeletal material, thus gaining knowledge of a well-documented collection representing largely normal persons of European ancestry. He came to the attention of Frederic Ward Putnam, of the American Museum of Natural History, who arranged for his first anthropological field studies.

It was thus that Hrdlička became a member of the Hyde Expeditions to the American Southwest and northern Mexico. In 1898, he traveled to Mexico with Carl Lumholtz to study the Tarahumaras, Huichols, and neighboring tribes. In subsequent years, he returned to Mexico and the Southwest alone and studied physical characteristics and medical conditions of several American Indian tribes. With this experience and examinations of the Trenton and Lansing skeletal material for Putnam, Hrdlička came fully into the world of anthropology. In 1903, he was appointed head of the newly formed Division of Physical Anthropology in the United States National Museum.

While in his position at the Smithsonian, Hrdlička returned to the Southwest for studies of Pima and Apache children in 1905 and, in the following year, traveled to Florida to examine allegedly ancient remains of man. In 1908, he worked among a number of Indian tribes, including the Menominee, Oglala Dakota, Quinailt, Hupa, and Mohave, in a study of tuberculosis among them. In 1909, he traveled to Egypt with an expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in order to study living Egyptians and to examine remains of Egypt's past population. The following year took him to Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. In the first of these, he again examined allegedly ancient remains of man. In Peru, he made a large collection of skeletal material near Trujillo, at Pachamac, and in the Chicama Valley.

From 1912-1914, Hrdlicka undertook a physical anthropological exhibit for the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego and, for this, traveled to eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Peru, and Florida. He also examined fossil remains of man in Europe and directed field work of other anthropologists in South and East Africa, St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, the Philippines, eastern Siberia, and the Ukraine. In 1915, for the Department of Justice, he assessed the racial makeup of Chippewas on the Leech Lake and White Earth reservations in Minnesota and also studied Dakota Indians. In 1917, his field work was directed toward white American families with longtime residence in the United States. In 1918, he carried out a survey of ancient sites in eastern Florida for the Bureau of American Ethnology. In 1920, he traveled to Hawaii, Japan, Korea, and Manchuria in connection with an appointment to lecture at the Peking Union Medical College. As director of the American School for Prehistoric Studies in France, he again studied fossil remains of man in Europe in 1922 and 1923. In 1925, he carried out work in India, Ceylon, Java, Australia, South Africa, and Europe. In 1927, he was again in Europe to deliver the Huxley Memorial Lecture before the Royal Anthropological Society in Great Britain. Between 1929 and 1938, he traveled frequently to Alaska to carry on an anthropological survey. In 1939, he traveled to Russia and Siberia.

Beginning with much of the skeletal collection of the Army Medical Museum, which had been transferred to the Smithsonian in 1898 before he was appointed there, Hrdlička amassed a bone collection that included, among many other specimens, the Huntington collection, casts of fossil remains of man, and a large and diverse North American collection. He also gathered a large collection of human brains. Over three hundred publications resulted from his study of this material, his field work, and his study of specimens in other museums. In addition, he was involved in many other activities. For United States government agencies, he provided services ranging from examinations of human remains for law enforcement officials to providing information and opinions concerning national origins and traits that were needed to interpret laws and form foreign policy. During World War II, he also advised government officials on policies to be pursued with certain national groups following the war.

In 1918, Hrdlička founded the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and remained its editor until 1942. In 1928, he was the major force behind the organization of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and served as its president from 1928 to 1932. He was also president of the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1907, the American Anthroplogical Association from 1925 to 1927, and the Washington Academy of Sciences from 1928 to 1929. He was chairman of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1918 and secretary of the Committee on Anthropology of the National Research Council in 1917. From the 1920s to the 1940s Hrdlicka was a member of the American Eugenics Society and prepared exhibits for various eugenics congresses. In addition, Hrdlička was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences. He represented the Smithsonian at several international gatherings of scholars, including meetings of the International Congress of Americanists.

Chronology

1869 March 29 -- Alois Ferdinand Hrdlička (Aleš Hrdlička) born in Humpolec, Bohemia

1882 September -- Emigrated to New York City

1888 -- While stricken with typhoid, met M. Rosenbleuth, a physician who arranged for Hrdlička to enroll at the Eclectic Medical College of New York City

1892 -- Enrolled in the New York Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital Published first article, "Scheme of Examination (Medical)," Publications of the Eclectic Medical College Graduated first in his class from the Eclectic Medical College

1894 -- Graduated first from his class from the Homeopathic Medical College Became research intern at the State Homeopathic Hospital for the Insane in Middletown, New York, where he began his studies in physical anthropology Passed state board examination (allopathic)

1895 -- Joined staff of the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals as associate in anthropology

1896 -- Studied anthropology under Leon Manouvrier in Paris

1896 August 6 -- Married Marie Stickler (Dieudonnée)

1898 March-July(?) -- Accompanied Carl Lumholtz on his expedition to northern Mexico, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and visited the Tarahumara, Huichol, and Tepecan Indians

1899 Spring -- Resigned from the Pathological Institute to take charge of physical and medical anthropological research on the Hyde Expeditions of the AMNH to the southwestern United States

1899 August -- Hyde expedition for the AMNH to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, to excavate the site of Pueblo Bonito and to conduct somatological surveys among the Indians; visited Grand Gulch caves in southern Utah; included visits to the Navahos and southern Utes

1900 -- Hyde expedition for the AMNH to New Mexico, Arizona, and southern Colorado to conduct somatological surveys among the Indians; included visits to the Apaches, Yumas, and Pueblo Indians

1902 January-September -- Hyde expeditions for AMNH to southwestern Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico to conduct somatological surveys; included visits to the Tepecanos, Papagos, Opatas, Pimas, Yaquis, Mayos, Huichols, Otomis, Tepehuanes, Maricopas, Yumas, Yavapais, Paiutes, Walapais, and Havasupais

1902 October-December -- Hyde expedition for the AMNH to Mexico for Hrdlička to complete his somatological investigations; included visits to the Tepehuanes, Coras, Huichols, "Nahuas," "Aztecs," and Tarascans

1903 May 1 -- Became assistant curator in charge of the new Division of Physical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, at the United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution

1905 -- Expedition under the auspices of the Bureau of American Ethnology to Arizona and New Mexico to complete the observations on the tribes of this region; Hrdlička especially studied Apache and Pima Indian children

1906 February -- Expedition to western Florida to investigate remains of alleged ancient man

1907 -- President of the Anthropological Society of Washington

1908 -- Expedition to Indian schools and reservations in Wisconsin, Washington, California, Arizona, and South Dakota to study tuberculosis for a report to the International Congress of Tuberculosis

1908 December - 1909 May -- Traveled to Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Bohemia, Russia, Poland, and Germany to examine human skeletal remains from an excavation in Egypt by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and to study peoples of the Near East

1910 March 28 -- Promoted to curator in the Division of Physical Anthropology

1910 April-September -- Attended the 17th International Congress of Americanists in Buenos Aires and Mexico City Traveled to Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Panama

1912 -- Planned and directed seven expeditions for the physical anthropology exhibit at the Panama-California Exposition held at San Diego in 1915; expeditions included Hrdlička to Siberia and Mongolia and later to Peru; Riley D. Moore to St. Lawrence Island, Alaska; Philip Newton to the Philippine Islands; Vojtech Suk to Africa; Stanislaw Poniatowski to eastern Siberia; Kazimir Stolyhwo to the Birusa caves in Siberia and to the Ukraine; and Jindřich Matiegka to Bohemia

1912 May-Summer -- Traveled to London to attend 18th International Congress of Americanists Traveled to Siberia and Mongolia for the Panama-California Exposition

1912 September -- Traveled to Geneva for the 14th International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology

1913 January-April -- Expedition to Peru as part the effort for the Panama-California Exposition

1914 November 18 - 1915 January 18 -- Attended Panama-California Exposition

1915 May -- Research for the Department of Justice at the White Earth and Leech Lake reservations in Minnesota to determine non-Indian mixture among Chippewas

1915 December -- Served as General Secretary for the 19th International Congress of Americanists held in Washington

1916 Fall -- Traveled to Florida to examine remains of supposed ancient man

1917 March-July -- Served as Secretary on the Committee on Anthropology of the National Research Council

1917 Summer -- "Old American" research at Yale University, Harvard University, and the University of Virginia and in Tennessee

1917 August -- Sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, traveled to Oklahoma to visit the Shawnee Agency in eastern Oklahoma and the Kickapoo Indians in McCloud to search for adequate samples of pure blood Indians

1918 -- Elected to the American Philosophical Society Served as Chairman of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Founded the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and became its long-time editor Surveyed prehistoric sites on the southwest coast of Florida

1918 October 8 -- Death of his wife Marie

1920 -- Anthropometry published by the Wistar Institute Elected an honorary fellow of the Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain

1920 Summer -- Married Mina (Vilemina) Mansfield

1920 January-May -- Visited Japan, Korea, Manchuria, northern China, Mongolia, and Hawaii Lectured at Peking Union Medical College in China

1920 Fall -- Visited Minnesota Chippewa (at the White Earth Reservation?) to help the Department of Justice setter the question of mixed and pure bloods among the Chippewa

1921 -- Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

1922 -- Visited Spain, France, Germany, Moravia, and England Awarded honorary Sc.D. degree from the University of Prague Chairman of the American delegation to the 20th International Congress of Americanists in Rio de Janiero

1923 -- Served three and one-half months as Director of the American School in France for Prehistoric Studies Visited England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Croatia, and Italy

1925 -- The Old Americans published by Williams and Wilkins Co.

1925 March-October -- Traveled to Australia, Java, India, South Africa, and Europe on a trip sponsored by the Buffalo [New York] Society of Natural Science to obtain cranial measurements of Australian aborigines and Tasmanians, to investigate the Rhodesian Man site in South Africa, to survey the field of early man, and to collect data to support his hypothesis about the peopling of the Earth

1925-1926 -- President of the American Anthropological Association

1926 -- Awarded honorary Sc.D. degree from University of Brno and D.Nat.Sc. degree from Brunn University

1926 May-September -- First fieldwork in Alaska: reconnaissance down the Yukon River to its mouth, around the Bering Sea and through the Bering Strait along the Alaskan coast to Point Barrow

1927 -- Received Huxley Memorial Medal and gave Huxley Lecture on "the Neanderthal Phase of Man" before the Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain

1928 -- Helped found the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (AAPA)

1928-1929 -- President of the Washington Academy of Sciences

1928-1932 -- Served as first president of the AAPA

1929 -- Fieldwork in Alaska: surveyed the Yukon River from Tanana to its mouth, to St. Lawrence and the Diomede Islands, to Cape Prince of Wales, up to Point Barrow and back to Unalaska Awarded honorary Sc.D. degree from Charles University, Prague

1930 -- Published The Skeletal Remains of Early Man, Vol. 83 Smithsonian Miscellaneous collections Published "Anthropological Survey in Alaska," Forty-sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, pp. 21-374

1930 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: surveyed the Kuskokwim River from Bethel down river to Apogak and up river to Stony River

1931 -- Children Who Run on All Fours published by McGraw-Hill Book Co.

1931 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: excavated at Our (Jones) point site, trial excavations at Chief's Point and other sites, and a survey of Kodiak Island

1932 -- Kober Foundation lecturer of Georgetown University

1932 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: excavated at Our (Jones) Point site, trial excavations at Chief's Point and other sites, and a survey of Kodiak Island

1934 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: excavated at Our (Jones) Point site and surveyed Cooks Inlet sites and the mainland opposite the Our Point site

1935 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: excavated at Our (Jones) Point site

1936 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: excavated at Our (Jones) Point site and surveyed the Dutch Harbor caves, some of the Aleutian Islands, and the mummy cave on Kagamil Island

1937 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: surveyed the Aleutian Islands and Commander Islands

1938 Summer -- Fieldwork in Alaska: surveyed the Aleutian Islands, Dutch Harbor caves, and Commander Islands

1939 April 4 -- Testimonial dinner given by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in honor of his 70th birthday

1939 April-June -- Recuperated in London hospital after suffering a coronary occlusion

1942 March 31 -- Retired from curatorship at United States National Museum, becoming an associate in anthropology

1942 December -- Resigned as editor of the American Journal of Physical Anthropology

1943 -- Alaska Diary published by Cattell Press

1943 September 5 -- Died of heart attack

1944 -- Anthropology of Kodiak Island published by Wistar Institute

1945 -- The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants published by Wistar Institute

1969 -- Tenth Anthropological Congress of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences dedicated to Hrdlička in the 100th anniversary year of his birth

Selected Bibliography

1908 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. Physiological and Medical Observations Among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Bulletin 34, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1908.

1912 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. Early Man in South America. Bulletin 52, Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912.

1919 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. Physical Anthropology: Its Scope and Aims. Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1919.

1920 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. Anthropometry. Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1920.

1925 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. The Old Americans. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1925.

1930 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. The Skeletal Remains of Early Man. Vol. 83, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. City of Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1930. Hrdlička, Aleš. Anthropological Survey in Alaska. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1930.

1931 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. Children Who Run on All Fours, and Other Animal-like Behaviors in the Human Child. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1931.

1943 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. Alaska Diary, 1926-1931. Lancaster, PA: The Jacques Cattell Press, 1943.

1944 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. Anthropology of Kodiak Island. Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1944.

1945 -- Hrdlička, Aleš. The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants. Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1945.

Related Materials:

Additional material in the National Anthropological Archives relating to Aleš Hrdlička can be found in the papers of William Louis Abbott, Henry Bascom Collins, Herbert William Krieger, and Frank Spencer; records of the American Anthropological Association, Bureau of American Ethnology, Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum (National Museum of Natural History), Science Service, Anthropological Society of Washington, and the United States Army Medical Museum (anatomical section, records relating to specimens transferred to the Smithsonian Institution); and glass negatives of Indians collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution illustrations.

Additional related photographs can be found in Photo Lot 8, Division of Physical Anthropology collection; Photo Lot 9, Photographs of Indians for the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego; Photo Lot 24, Bureau of American Ethnology, United States National Museum photographs of American Indians; Photo Lot 70, Department of Anthropology portrait file; Photo Lot 78, Miscellaneous negatives; Photo Lot 97, Division of Ethnology collection ("USNM" Collection); Photo Lot 73-26B, Aleš Hrdlička photographs relating to the Panama-California Exhibition; Photo Lot 73-26G, Miscellany; Photo Lot 77-48, Group portraits of International Congress; Photo Lot 79-38, Division of World Archeology collection; Photo Lot 83-41, Division of Physical Anthropology collection of photographs of human bones; and Photo Lot 92-46, Anthropology lantern slides.

Related films can be found in the Human Studies Film Archive under the accession numbers HSFA 1982.2.1, 1982.2.2, 1986.12.1, and 2015.13.1.

Hrdlička's extensive collection of reprints is maintained in the Division of Physical Anthropology.

Frank Spencer's doctoral dissertation "Aleš Hrdlička, M.D., 1869-1943: A Chronicle of the Life and Work of an American Physical Anthropologist" (1979) is the only book length biography of Hrdlička. The Frank Spencer papers, 1836-1999, are available at the NAA and contain original correspondence between Hrdlička and his first wife, Marie Strickler; his childhood report card from 1869; copies of family photos obtained from Lucy Miller, Hrdlička's niece; and an audio recording of Hrdlička speaking at Wistar Institute.

Further material may be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

The University of Alaska Anchorage holds diaries relating to Hrdlička's Expeditions to Alaska in 1936, 1937, and 1938 in the Alan G. May papers. The finding aid for this collection is avialable online at https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/collections/specialcollections/hmc-0690/ and a trascription of May's diaries from the expeditions is available online at https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/11850

Provenance:

Hrdlička bequeathed his papers to the Smithsonian Institution. The Division of Physical Anthropology maintained them until they were deposited in the National Anthropological Archives in the 1960s. Some papers have come into the collection since then, most recently in 2018. These new accretions came to the collection through Donald Ortner, David Hunt, T. Dale Stewart, the Department of Anthropology, and the University of Alaska.

Restrictions:

The Aleš Hrdlička papers are open for research.

Access to the Aleš Hrdlička papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Human evolution  Search this

Physical anthropology  Search this

Children -- Physical anthropology  Search this

anthropometry  Search this

Ethnology  Search this

Fossil hominids  Search this

Citation:

Aleš Hrdlička papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Sponsor:

The Repatriation Office, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, provided funds for the arrangement and description of the Aleš Hrdlička papers

Identifier:

NAA.1974-31

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1974-31

Collector:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Photographer:

Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952  Search this

Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940  Search this

Micka, Frank  Search this

Extent:

1 Copy negative

135 Prints (circa, silver gelatin and albumen)

2 Copy prints

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Jicarilla Apache  Search this

Kiowa  Search this

Osage  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Yanktonnai Nakota (Yankton Sioux)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy negatives

Prints

Copy prints

Date:

1912

Scope and Contents note:

Front and profile images of Apache, Kiowa, Omaha, Osage, Teton, and Yankton people made for Ales Hrdlicka's use in preparing busts and physical anthropological exhibits for the Panama-California Exposition in 1915. Accompanying the photographs are notes produced under the supervision of Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme; these include the tribe, age, sex, name(s), photographer, and number of corresponding bust. Photographers represented in the collection are Frank Micka, a sculptor hired by the exposition to make busts, as well as photographers Frank Bennett Fiske, De Lancey W. Gill, and others.

Biographical/Historical note:

Ales Hrdlicka (1869-1943) was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States at the age of thirteen. Originally trained in medicine, he developed an interest in physical anthropology while working with the New York State hospitals and researching with the Department of Anthropology in the Pathological Institute of the New York State Hospitals. Hrdlicka joined the Hyde Expeditions to the American Southwest and made his own expeditions to study physical characteristics of Southwest tribes. In 1903, he was appointed head of the United States National Museum's newly-formed Division of Physical Anthropology.

In 1912, Hrdlicka planned and directed seven expeditions, gathering information that helped him prepare physical anthropology exhibits for the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, California (1915). During this process, he hired sculptor Frank Micka to make busts of people from around the world. While in the field making casts, Micka also took front and profile photographs of subjects. Hrdlicka made his own trip to photograph the people in Urga, Mongolia, making 360 images of Mongolians and some Tibetans for use in the exposition.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 9, USNM ACC 61302

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The National Anthropological Archives holds original negatives for many of these photographs (Photo Lot 73-26B) and images of resulting busts (Photo Lot 88-25).

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943.

Material from Hrdlicka, mostly correspondence, is held in the National Anthropological Archives in the papers and records of William Louis Abbott, Henry Bascom Collins, Herbert William Krieger, Frank Spencer, the American Anthropological Association, Bureau of American Ethnology, Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum (National Museum of Natural History), Science Service, Anthropological Society of Washington, and the United States Army Medical Museum (anatomical section, records relating to specimens transferred to the Smithsonian Institution).

Hrdlicka photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 8, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 78, Photo Lot 97, Photo Lot 73-26B, Photo Lot 73-26G, Photo Lot 83-41, and Photo Lot 92-46.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Citation:

Photo lot 9, Aleš Hrdlička collection of photographs of Native Americans for the Panama-California Exposition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.9

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-9

Photographer:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Owner:

Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924  Search this

Source:

Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922  Search this

Names:

Hyde Exploring Expedition (1902-1903)  Search this

Former owner:

Lumholtz, Carl, 1851-1922  Search this

Extent:

588 Photographic prints

190 Copy negatives

Culture:

Hualapai (Walapai)  Search this

Akimel O'odham (Pima)  Search this

Havasupai (Coconino)  Search this

Opata  Search this

Yoeme (Yaqui)  Search this

Otomí (Otomi)  Search this

Cora  Search this

Piipaash (Maricopa)  Search this

Wixarika (Huichol)  Search this

Seri  Search this

Nahua  Search this

Mojave (Mohave)  Search this

Indians of North America  Search this

Tohono O'odham (Papago)  Search this

Yoreme (Mayo)  Search this

Purepecha (Tarasco)  Search this

Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan)  Search this

Tepecano  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Copy negatives

Place:

Casa Grande (Ariz.)

Arizona -- photographs

Mexico -- Photographs

Date:

1898-1902

Summary:

This collection contains photographic prints and copy negatives taken by Ales Hrdlicka in Arizona and Mexico between 1898 and 1902. The majority of the photographs were donated by George Pepper to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in 1923. Native communities that Hrdlicka photographed during his research include--Purepecha (Tarasco), Yoeme (Yaqui), Hualapai (Walapai), Havasupai (Coconino), Piipaash (Maricopa), Mojave (Mahave), Tohono O'odham (Papapgo), Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan), Tepecano, Akimel O'odham (Pima), Opata, Cora, Seri, Wixarika (Huichol), Nahua, Otomi and Yoreme (Mayo). Ales Hrdlicka (1869-1943) was born in the Czech Republic moved to the United States in 1881. Hrdlicka became known as the "Father" of Physical Anthropology and worked at the U.S. National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History).

Scope and Contents:

This collection contains photographic prints taken by Ales Hrdlicka in Arizona and Mexico between 1898 and 1902. It is likely that many of the photographs were taken in 1902 as a part of the Hyde exploring expeditions on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. Some of these photographs were taken by Carl Lumholtz and not Hrdlicka. Native communities that Hrdlicka photographed during his research include--Purepecha (Tarasco), Yoeme (Yaqui), Hualapai (Walapai), Havasupai (Coconino), Piipaash (Maricopa), Mojave (Mahave), Tohono O'odham (Papapgo), Quechan (Yuma/Cuchan), Tepecano, Akimel O'odham (Pima), Opata, Cora, Seri, Wixarika (Huichol), Nahua, Otomi, and Yoreme (Mayo). Locations photographed in Mexico include--Michoacán, Sonora, Mesa del Encanto and the Ruins of Totoate in Jalisco, Ruins of La Quamada and Ruins of Teul in Zacatecas, Nayarit State, and the central altiplano. Locations photographed in Arizona include--Casa Grande in Pinal County, Fort Yuma Reservation, Supai in Coconino County and the Mission San Xavier del Bac.

The photographs include a large amount of posed portraits of men and women, none of them identified in our collection. Hrdlicka often posed his subjects both facing forward and in profile so that he could better examine their physical attributes.There are some group portraits as well as scenic shots of houses, churches and village views. Hrdlicka also photographed archaeological ruins inlcuding Casa Grande, Mesa del Encanto, Totoate, La Quamada and Teul.

The copy negatives that were made from the prints in the late 1960s by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Arrangement:

The majority of the photographs have been left in the order that they were originally cataloged. Photographs from the various tribal communities in Arizona and Mexico are in Series 1-16, each community with its own series. The final series, Series 17, contains photographs from various archaeological ruins in Arizona and Mexico.

Biographical / Historical:

Ales Hrdlicka (1869-1943) was born in Bohemia in and came to America when he was thirteen. As a young man, he was trained in medicine at New York's Eclectic Medical College and the New York Homeopathic Medical College, receiving degrees from each. His first professional work was as a private practitioner, but he gave that up in 1894 when he joined the staff of the New York State Hospital for the Insane at Middletown. There, in addition to other duties, he began studies of the physical characteristics of inmates. In 1896, in preparation for a research appointment with the Department of Anthropology in the Pathological Institute of the New York State hospitals, Hrdlicka went to Paris and studied with Leon Manouvrier. After his return to America, he worked for a short period with the Pathological Institute and came into contact with G.S. Huntington, of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. Hrdlicka arranged and studied Huntington's large collection of skeletal material, thus gaining knowledge of a well-documented collection representing largely normal persons of European ancestry. He furthermore came to the attention of Frederic Ward Putnam, of the American Museum of Natural History, who arranged for his first anthropological field studies.

Hrdlicka became a member of the Hyde Expeditions to the American Southwest and northern Mexico. In 1898, he traveled to Mexico with Carl Lumholtz to study the Tarahumaras, Huichols, and neighboring tribes. In subsequent years, he returned to Mexico and the Southwest alone and studied physical characteristics and medical conditions of several American Indian tribes. Following this experience and examinations of the Trenton and Lansing skeletal material for Putnam, Hrdlicka was appointed head of the newly formed Division of Physical Anthropology in the United States National Museum in 1903.

In 1905, Hrdlicka returned to the Southwest for studies of Pima and Apache children and, in the following year, traveled to Florida to examine allegedly ancient remains of man. In 1908, he worked among a number of Native American tribes, including the Menominee, Oglala Dakota, Quinailt, Hupa, and Mohave, in a study of tuberculosis among them. In 1909, he traveled to Egypt with an expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in order to study living Egyptians and to examine remains of Egypt's past population. The following year took him to Argentina, Peru, and Mexico. In the first of these, he again examined allegedly ancient remains of man. In Peru, he made a large collection of skeletal material near Trujillo, at Pachamac, and in the Chicama Valley.

Between 1912-1914, Hrdlicka undertook a physical anthropological exhibit for the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego and, for this, traveled to eastern Siberia, Mongolia, Peru, and Florida. He also examined fossil remains of man in Europe and directed field work of other anthropologists in South and East Africa, St. Lawrence Island in Alaska, the Philippines, eastern Siberia, and the Ukraine. In 1915, for the Department of Justice, he assessed the racial makeup of Chippewas on the Leech Lake and White Earth reservations in Minnesota and also studied Dakota Indians. In 1917, his field work was directed toward white American families with longtime residence in the United States. In 1918, he carried out a survey of ancient sites in eastern Florida for the Bureau of American Ethnology. In 1920, he traveled to Hawaii, Japan, Korea, and Manchuria in connection with an appointment to lecture at the Peking Union Medical College. As director of the American School for Prehistoric Studies in France, he again studied fossil remains of man in Europe in 1922 and 1923. In 1925, he carried out work in India, Ceylon, Java, Australia, South Africa, and Europe. In 1927, he was again in Europe to deliver the Huxley Memorial Lecture before the Royal Anthropological Society in Great Britain. Between 1929 and 1938, he traveled frequently to Alaska to carry on an anthropological survey. In 1939, he traveled to Russia and Siberia.

Beginning with much of the skeletal collection of the Army Medical Museum, which had been transferred to the Smithsonian in 1898 before he was appointed there, Hrdlicka amassed a bone collection that included, among many other specimens, the Huntington collection, casts of fossil remains of man, and a large and diverse North American collection. He also gathered a large collection of human brains. Over three hundred publications resulted from his study of this material, his field work, and his study of specimens in other museums. In addition, he was involved in many other activities. For United States government agencies, he provided services ranging from examinations of human remains for law enforcement officials to providing information and opinions concerning national origins and traits that were needed to interpret laws and form foreign policy. During World War II, he also advised government officials on policies to be pursued with certain national groups following the war.

In 1918, Hrdlicka founded the American Journal of Physical Anthropology and remained its editor until 1942. In 1928, he was the major force behind the organization of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists and served as its president in 1928-1932. He was also president of the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1907, the American Anthroplogical Association in 1925-1927, and the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1928-1929. He was chairman of Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1918 and secretary of the Committee on Anthropology of the National Research Council in 1917. In addition, Hrdlicka was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Sciences. He represented the Smithsonian at several international gatherings of scholars, including meetings of the International Congress of Americanists.

Biographical note courtesy of the National Anthropological Archives, National Museum of Natural History. See Ales Hrdlicka Papers. Edited by Rachel Menyuk, Processing Archivist at the National Museum of the American Indian.

Related Materials:

The majority of Ales Hrdlicka's papers and photographs are located at the National Athropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution. In addition to the Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943 additional Hrdlicka photographs can be found in photographic lots 8, Division of Physical Anthropology collection; 9, photographs of Indians for the Panama-California Exposition, San Diego; 24, Bureau of American Ethnology, United States National Museum photographs of American Indians; 70, Department of Anthropology portrait file; 78, miscellaneous negatives; 97, Division of Ethnology collection (―USNM‖ Collection); 73-26B, Aleš Hrdlička photographs; 73-26G, miscellany; 77-48, group portraits of International Congress; 79-38, Division of World Archeology collection; 83-41, Division of Physical Anthropology collection of photographs of human bones; and 92-46, anthropology lantern slides.

Provenance:

Although it is unclear when George Pepper received the photographs from Ales Hrdlicka, Pepper donated the majority of the collection of photographs to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (MAI) in 1923. The rest of the photographs were cataloged by the MAI some time in the 1920s but the provenance history is unknown.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archive 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).

There are several restricted photographs in Series 2: Yoeme (Yaqui). This have been restricted due to cultural sensitivity.

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive 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.

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Aleš Hrdlička photographs from Mexico and Arizona, Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.103

See more items in:

Aleš Hrdlička photographs from Mexico and Arizona

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-103

Names:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Ouray  Search this

Photographer:

James, George Wharton, 1858-1923  Search this

Maude, F. H. (Frederic Hamer)  Search this

Extent:

19 Copy negatives (glass)

Culture:

Lenape (Delaware)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Caddo  Search this

Oto  Search this

Apache  Search this

Ute Indians  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Osage  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)  Search this

Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)  Search this

Taos Indians  Search this

Tututni Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy negatives

Photographs

Place:

Walpi (Arizona)

Oraibi (Ariz.)

Date:

circa 1860-1920

Scope and Contents note:

Copy negatives made from negatives depicting Native Americans, dwellings, and ceremonies. There are images of Hopi people at Walpi and Oraibi pueblos and other Puebloan people, as well as portraits of Apache, Osage, Navajo, Blackfoot, Brule, Nez Perce, Rogue River, Taos, Pawnee, Oto, Caddo, Arapaho, and Delaware people and the Ute Chief Ouray. Some of the images are from the series "Dangers of the Indian Country--Frontier Exposures." Represented photographers include George Wharton James, F. H. Maude, and others.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 73-26G

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional George Wharton James photographs can be found in National Anthropological Archives MS 4577, Photo Lot 59, Photo Lot 89-8, and Photo Lot R92-15.

Additional F. H. Maude photographs can be found in National Anthropological Archives MS 4978, Photo Lot 59, Photo Lot 89-8, Photo Lot 90-1, and Photo Lot 24.

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Ales Hrdlicka papers and other collections relating to his work (Numbered Manuscript collections and Photo Lots).

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 73-26G, Copies of photographs of Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.73-26G

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-73-26g

Creator:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Names:

American Museum of Natural History  Search this

Royal College of Surgeons in London  Search this

United States National Museum  Search this

Extent:

595 Negatives (circa, glass and nitrate)

Culture:

Pueblo  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Osage  Search this

Jicarilla Apache  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Teton Indians -- depicted  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Mongols -- depicted  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives

Photographs

Date:

1912-1917

Scope and Contents note:

The bulk of the collection consists of photographs commissioned by Ales Hrdlicka for the Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, collected 1912-1914. They include front and profile portraits of Mongols in Urga, Mongolia, as well as Apache, Teton, Hopi, Navajo, Omaha, Osage, and Pueblo people. There are some full-length portraits of Apaches and views of Southwest Native dwellings, activities, and a dance. Additionally, there are some images of United States National Museum exhibits and items from the USNM, American Museum of Natural History, and the Royal College of Surgeons in London, some of which were made by Hrdlicka in 1917.

Biographical/Historical note:

Ales Hrdlicka (1869-1943) was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States at the age of thirteen. Originally trained in medicine, he developed an interest in physical anthropology while working with the New York State hospitals and researching with the Department of Anthropology in the Pathological Institute of the New York State hospitals. Hrdlicka joined the Hyde Expeditions to the American Southwest and made his own expeditions to study physical characteristics of Southwest tribes. In 1903, he was appointed head of the United States National Museum's newly formed Division of Physical Anthropology.

In 1912, Hrdlicka planned and directed seven expeditions, gathering information that helped him prepare physical anthropology exhibits for the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, California (1915). Hrdlicka hired sculptor Frank Micka to make busts of people from around the world to display in the exposition. While in the field making casts, Micka also took front and profile photographs of subjects. Hrdlicka made his own trip to photograph the people in Urga, Mongolia, making 360 images of Mongolians and some Tibetans for use in the exposition.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 73-26B

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs relating to the exposition, including prints of many of these negatives, are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 8, Photo Lot 9, and Photo Lot 88-25.

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Ales Hrdlicka Papers ca. 1887-1943 and his photographs in Photo Lot 8, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 78, Photo Lot 97, Photo Lot 73-26G, Photo Lot 83-41, and Photo Lot 92-46.

Restrictions:

Nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Physical anthropology  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 73-26B, Ales Hrdlicka photograph collection relating to the Panama-California Exposition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.73-26B

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-73-26b

Names:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Collection Collector:

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975  Search this

Extent:

2 Items (issues )

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

1919;1921

Scope and Contents:

Including articles on Pleistocene man in America and criticisms of Alěs Hrdlicka.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4372(8)

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 4372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

MS 4372 Miscellaneous material relating to the history of the Bureau of American Ethnology, the history of anthropology, and anthropological controversies

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms4372-ref6

Creator:

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Greenwood, Walter B.  Search this

Hill, Ernest H. Jr  Search this

Kyte, Dorothy  Search this

Leonard, Jane  Search this

Morgan, Dorothy  Search this

Smith, George Hubert  Search this

Stern, Theodore, 1917-  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

United States. Federal Civil Works Administration  Search this

Correspondent:

Allyn, Harriet M.  Search this

Antevs, Ernst V.  Search this

Baker, Frank C.  Search this

Chaney, Ralph W.  Search this

Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977  Search this

Figgins, J.D.  Search this

Gazin, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis), 1904-1996  Search this

Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen), 1893-1974  Search this

Hall, Marion  Search this

Harcus, John  Search this

Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992  Search this

Hitchcock, Virginia Beth  Search this

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954  Search this

Howard, Edgar B.  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Judson, Sheldon  Search this

Kellogg, A. Remington  Search this

Krieger, Alex D. (Alex Dony), 1911-1991  Search this

Leonard, Jane  Search this

McCarty, Oscar  Search this

Miller, Carl F.  Search this

Moomaw, Jack C.  Search this

Ray, Cyrus N.  Search this

Reiter, Paul David  Search this

Richards, Horace G.  Search this

Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990  Search this

Shepard, Anna O.  Search this

Van Devanter, D.W.  Search this

Van Riet, Clarence  Search this

Wheat, Joe Ben  Search this

Woodbury, George  Search this

Author:

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Anderson, Jack C.  Search this

Baby, Raymond S.  Search this

Atkins, Ruth  Search this

Deacon, John C.  Search this

Extent:

1 Item (Papers : 5.4 linear feet (16 boxes)

1 Item (Photographs : ca 3100 prints and negatives)

1 Item (Maps and illustrations )

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

United States -- Archeology

Bc53, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico -- Archeology

Chaco Canyon (N.M.) -- Archeology

Colorado -- Archeology

Arizona -- Archeology

New Mexico -- Archeology

Agate Basin, Wyoming -- Archeology

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

This collection of Rober's papers and photographs is almost excluvely concerned with his scientific fieldwork and resulting publications. It is not complete; for example, there is little in the photographs concerning his work at Agate Basin in Wyoming (though some related site forms are part of the records of the River Basin Surveys). Apparently, some of the series that form the records of the RBS began as Roberts's own files and were simply continued once his interest turned to the administration of the RBS. For instance, there is correspondence concerning Robert's work in New Mexico among the RBS correspondence series. The file of correspondence in manuscript 4851 is a miscellany with few letters from any one correspondent.

Biographical / Historical:

Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr. studied history and English at the University of Denver and after receiving his B.A.worked briefly as a journalist. Entering graduate school at Denver he was influenced by Etienne Bernadeau Renaud and, later, Jean Allard Jeacon. Although his studies toward a master's degree were in political science, he carried out archeological work among ruins in the Piedra-Pagosa region of the San Juan River valley in southwestern Colorado and became an instructor in archeology at the University of Denver. In 1923, he became an assistant curator at the Colorado State Museum.

Robert's formal training in archeology came through subsequent studies at Harvard University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1927. While a student, he worked during the summers of 1925 and 1926 for Neil Merton Judd on expeditions to Chaco Canyon. Judd offered him the opportunity to study pottery sequences, expanding upon work already carried out successfully for the Piedra region. From his work under Judd, Roberts produced his dissertation. The work also led to a permanent appointment as an archeologist with the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology in 1926.

For some time after this, Roberts continued to work primarily among ruins in the Southwest. In 1927, he conducted excavations at Shabik'esche Village in Chaco Canyon and carried on excavations at Kiathuthlunna on the Long H Ranch in eastern Arizona. In 1930, he excavated in the Village of the Great Kivas on the Zuni reservation and, in 1931-1933, worked along the Whitewater River in eastern Arizona and at a site near Allantown, Arizona. For the University of New Mexico Field School in 1940-1941, Roberts directed expeditions to the Bc-53 site in Chaco Canyon.

Throughout this work Roberts's primary interest was "the early structure and sequences of Southwestern culture." This led to Roberts's ultimate interest in the problem of early man in America. He was asked to inspect the discoveries at the original Fosom site in 1927, and over time became convinced of an error in contemporary thinking about the relatively recent arrival of humans in the New World. He was increasingly drawn to study the problem and particuarly after 1933, devoted most of his field work to it. Between 1934 and 1940, he worked at Lindenmeier, a Folsom campsite in northern Colorado. In 1941, he excavated the Mons site near the Peaks of Otter in Virginia, though failing to find expected remains of early man. In the same year, he worked at a Folsom site at San Jon, New Mexico, and, in 1942, another Folsom site in the Agate Basin in Wyoming. In 1943--again in connection with this interest in early man--he carried out a reconnaissance of the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in Texas. In addition, Roberts inspected other sites in Colorado, Arizona, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Saskatchewan.

Roberts also worked briefly with other interests. In 1932, he served as an advisor to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., in its excavation at Chichen Itza and Uxmal in the Yucatan. In 1933-1934, he conducted a Civil Works Administration expedition to excavate mounds in the Shiloh National Military Park in Tennessee. In 1956-1960, he was on the advisory council for the National Park Service's Wetherill Mesa Project.

In the administration of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Roberts became the assistant chief under Matthew Williams Stirling in 1944. In 1946, he became, in addition, the director of the BAE's River Basin Surveys, a salvage archeological program concerned with areas where the federal government was planning dams and reservoirs. In 1947, he became the associate director of the BAE and, in 1958, its director. In addition to these duties and his scientific work, Roberts served as American representative to the League of Nations' International Conference of Archeologists at Cairo in 1937 and as representative on the International Commission for Sites and Monuments in 1939-1942. During World War II, he was involved with the Ethnogeographic Board, an organization that provided liaison between federal war agencies and the scientific community. For the board, Roberts prepared a survival manual and a volume on Egypt and the Suez Canal that was issued as one of the Smithsonian's War Background Studies. For several years later in his life, Roberts was also on the National Council for Historical Sites and Buildings. He also served the Smithsonian on committees concerned primarily with personnel.

Outside official duties, Roberts represented the American Anthropological Association on the National Research Council in 1935-1949. In 1936, he was president of the Anthropological Society of Washington and, in 1944, vice president of the AAA. In 1949, he became president of the Washington Academy of Sciences. A founding member of the Society for American Archaeology and a member of the committee that drafts its constitution and bylaws, Roberts served that organization as president in 1950. In 1952, he became a vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Local Numbers:

MS 4851

Restrictions:

The photographic negatives are in special storage and require advance notice to view.

Topic:

Early man -- in America  Search this

Shiloh National Military Park  Search this

Lindenmeier site, Colorado -- Archeology  Search this

Shiloh Mound, Tennessee -- Archeology  Search this

San Jon, New Mexico -- Archeology  Search this

Piedra District, Colorado -- Archeology  Search this

Kiathuthlanna, Arizona -- Archeology  Search this

Village of the Great Kivas, New Mexico -- Archeology  Search this

Whitewater District, Arizona -- Archeology  Search this

Wyoming -- Archeology  Search this

Clear Fork site, Texas -- Archeology  Search this

Texas -- Archeology  Search this

Pagosa Springs, Colorado -- archeolgoy  Search this

Peaks of Otter -- Virginia -- Archeology  Search this

Virginia -- Archeology  Search this

Citation:

MS 4851, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4851

See more items in:

MS 4851 Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., papers and photographs

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4851

Creator:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Collector:

Myer, William Edward, 1862-1923  Search this

Extent:

2 Pages

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Place:

Tennessee -- Archeology

Date:

undated

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2176

Citation:

Manuscript 2176, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2176

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2176

Collector:

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Division of Physical Anthropology  Search this

Photographer:

Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (U.S.)  Search this

Gibson Art Galleries  Search this

Harris & Ewing  Search this

Underwood & Underwood  Search this

Farrar, Richard  Search this

Prokopec, Miroslav  Search this

Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920  Search this

Names:

Harper & Brothers, printers  Search this

Allen, Harrison, 1841-1897  Search this

Angel, J. Lawrence (John Lawrence)  Search this

Baer, Karl Ernst von, 1792-1876  Search this

Barbour, Erwin Hinckley, 1856-1947 (possible photographer)  Search this

Bertillon, Alphonse, 1853-1914  Search this

Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899  Search this

Broca, Paul, 1824-1880  Search this

Cobb, W. Montague (William Montague), 1904-1990  Search this

Corrêa, A. A. Mendes (Antonio Augusto Mendes), 1888-1960  Search this

Dubois, Eugène, 1858-1940  Search this

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926  Search this

Farabee, William Curtis, 1865-1925  Search this

Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968  Search this

Giuffrida-Ruggeri, V. (Vincenzo), 1872-1922  Search this

Goldstein, Marcus S. (Marcus Solomon), 1906-  Search this

Gorjanović-Kramberger, Dragutin, 1856-1936  Search this

Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort), 1855-1940  Search this

Harvey, William, 1578-1657  Search this

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954  Search this

Hough, Walter, 1859-1935  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Leakey, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett), 1903-1972  Search this

León, Nicolás, 1859-1929  Search this

Lillie, Frank Rattray, 1870-1947  Search this

Manouvrier, L. (Léonce), 1850-1927  Search this

Meigs, James Aitken, 1829-1879  Search this

Morton, Samuel George, 1799-1851  Search this

Newman, Marshall T. (Marshall Thornton), 1911-1994  Search this

Ortner, Donald J.  Search this

Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935  Search this

Purkyně, Jan Evangelista, 1787-1869  Search this

Retzius, A. (Anders), 1796-1860  Search this

Retzius, Gustaf, 1842-1919  Search this

Schultz, Adolph H. (Adolph Hans), 1891-  Search this

Schwalbe, Gustav Albert, 1844-1916  Search this

Sergi, Giuseppe, 1841-1936  Search this

Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883  Search this

St. Hoyme, Lucile Eleanor  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

Todd, T. Wingate (Thomas Wingate), 1885-1938  Search this

Virchow, Rudolf, 1821-1902  Search this

Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874  Search this

Extent:

1 Print (engraving)

2 Prints (chalk manner lithograph)

3 Prints (etching)

23 Photomechanical prints (halftone, photogravure, and collotype)

152 Photographic prints (silver gelatin and albumen)

8 Copy prints

6 Copy negatives

1 Print (offset lithography)

1 Print (probably chromolithograph)

11 Negatives (acetate)

3 Drawings

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photomechanical prints

Photographic prints

Copy prints

Copy negatives

Negatives

Drawings

Photographs

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs relating to physical anthropologists from the 19th and 20th centuries in Europe and the United States. Many of the photographs depict Smithsonian staff, particularly Ales Hrdlicka and T. Dale Stewart, as well as people and artifacts relating to physical anthropology throughout history. Some of the portraits are signed and the collection also includes pamphlets from professional societies, prints mounted for publication, a copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun relating to Adolph Schultz, and some correspondence.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 4822

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The National Anthropological Archives holds the Ales Hrdlicka papers, Thomas Dale Stewart papers, and John Lawrence Angel papers.

Additional photographs collected by the Division of Physical Anthropology held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 8 and Photo Lot 83-41.

Contained in:

Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)

See others in:

Division of Physical Anthropology collection of photographs of physical anthropologists, undated

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Physical anthropologists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 4822, Division of Physical Anthropology collection of photographs of physical anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.4822

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-4822

Creator:

MacRae, T.W.R.  Search this

Bohannan, C.T.R.  Search this

Names:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Extent:

39 Items (ca. pages ca. 39 pages)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1934

Scope and Contents:

Title page read: Smithsonian Institution U.S. National Museum Expedition to Kodiak Island led by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, 1934, personal notes of T.W.R. MacRae and C.T.R. Bohannan. Includes diary and drawings of artifacts

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 7528

Topic:

Alaska -- Kodiak Island -- Archeology  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 7528, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7528

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7528

Creator:

Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987  Search this

Connolly, Cornelius J. (Cornelius Joseph), 1883-1954  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

Extent:

3 Pages

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

Summer, 1924

Scope and Contents:

On USNM form. Face mask of Collins made at same time now in division of physical anthropology.

Biographical / Historical:

Stewart says Hrdlicka held informal sessions to instruct those in taking measurements. This was one such session.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 7102

Topic:

Anthropology, history of  Search this

Anthropology, physical -- anthropometry  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 7102, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7102

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7102

Creator:

Evans, Clifford, 1920-1981  Search this

Addressee:

Wilmsen, Edwin N.  Search this

Names:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Extent:

2 Pages

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

1971

Scope and Contents:

Letter concerns errors made in publications regarding Aleš Hrdlička's affiliation with the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 7225

Topic:

Anthropology -- History  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 7225, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7225

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7225

Creator:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Does not include Hrdlicka's photographs from Alaska (including Eskimo) or his non-North American Indian photos.

Catalog Number 4877: Acoma "Acomita (1900)," handwritten on front of mount, (6 1/2" x 8") mounted Photographer: Ales Hrdlicka Date: 1900. "Acoma (1900)," handwritten on front of mount, (6 1/2" x 8") mounted Ales Hrdlicka 1900. Numbers written on front of prints: 4755, and 4757, appear to be negative numbers but were not found in MNH lab., as of July, 1970. Apach: (Folder 1): 28 Baker and Johnston prints, (3 duplicates), 19 with original numbers, 9 unnumbered. Quoted information printed or handwritten on mounts. Photographer: Baker & Johnston B & J #71 "Huera" Photographer: Baker & Johnston. B & J #72 "Tonse (Crawler)" Photographer: Baker & Johnston. B & J #73 "Counetza (Bummer)," (1 duplicate) Baker & Johnston. Same as Negative Number 29,784. B & J #74 "Neschila (The Woman who winks) and two children" Baker & Johnston. B & J #75 "Gazie (Twisted) and two children" Baker & Johnston. B & J #76 "Marianetta" Baker & Johnston Same as Negative Number 29,778. B & J #77 "Taz-ayz-Slath and one child" Baker & Johnston. B & J "Tascelona" Baker & Johnston. B & J #79 "Ba-keitz-ogie (The Yellow Coyote) called Dutchy" Baker & Johnston See Negative Number 2575-R for different view. B & J #82 "Fel-ay-tay" Baker and Johnston. B & J #83 "Esh-kin-tsay-gizah (Mike)" Baker & Johnston. B & J #84 "Ba-cluth (Roaming Coyote)," (1 duplicate) Baker & Johnston Same as Negative Number 29,782. B & J #86 "Al-chi-say" (1 duplicate) Baker & Johnston. B & J #88 "Yuma Apache scout" Baker & Johnston Negative Number 56,889. B & J #89 "Na-din-praquai-gizay" Baker & Johnston. B & J #90 "Group of prisoners" Baker & Johnston. "Apache said to be 115 years old" Baker & Johnston. "Apache Boys" Baker & Johnston. "Apache scouts" Baker & Johnston. "Mohave Apaches," 2 prints Baker & Johnston. "White Mountain Apache" Baker & Johnston. "General Crook, Al-chi-say and Dutchy" Baker & Johnston. "Captain Jack Crawford and Lieut. MacDonald" Baker & Johnston Same as Negative Number 46,503-A. (Folder 2) "Geronimo," handwritten on mount Photographer: A. Frank Randall (Baker & Johnston mount) Same as BAE Negative Number 2508. "Got-ha, WArm Spring Apache, Granfather of his tribe," apparently written on negative (7 1/2" x 4 1/2") mounted A. Frank Randall Sames as Negative Number BAE 2580-b-11. "Apache squaw with cradle," handwritten on back of mount, (6" x 4") mounted [A. Frank Randall ?] See Negative Number BAE 2575-q for a different view. "Natz Chi Verat," handwritten on back of mount, (6" x 4") mounted H. S. Poley. "Chigo [Chiquito] and his wife, Pinal Apache," apparently written on negative, (5 3/4" x 4") mounted C. M. Bell Same as BAE Negative Number 2553-b. "Grey Eagle, Apache," apparently written on negative, (5 3/4 x 4") mounted C. M. Bell Same as BAE Negative Number 31,383-F (cropped). "White Mountain Apache children asleep and awake," handwritten on back of mount, (6" x 4") mounted See Negative Number 2580-b-13 for different view. "Polly, Mohave Apache squaw-'69," handwritten in ink on print, (6" x 4") mounted. [Models of Apache man and woman for museum display], (8" X 6") mounted. 3 pen and ink drawings of Apache men, one of which appears to be Gerinimo, (various sizes) Artist: B. E.

Catalog Number 4877: Apache: Jicarilla (folder 3) 6 prints, (8" x 6") mounted. Individual portraits of Jicarilla Apache men. Numbers written on front of prints: 4555-57, 4561, 4569, appear to be negative numbers, but were not found in MNH lab., as of July, 1970 Photographer: Ales Hrdlicka Date: 1900-1905]-Approximate date taken from Ales Hrdlicka, "Notes on the San Carlos Apache," American Anthropologist, n.s., volume 7, number 3, 1905, page 480. Apache: Lipan, Mescalero "Lipan tends (Mescal Resrv.)," 2 prints, (3 1/2" x 4 3/4") mounted Ales Hrdlicka [1900-1905] Negative Number 34,156-K J. "Grandmother with a scowling granddaughter," 2 prints, (4 1/4" x 3 1/2") mounted Ales Hrdlicka [1900-1905]. 22 prints, (various sizes) mounted, including: "Mescalero school girls;" and individual and group portraits of men and girls. Numbers written on front of prints: 4540, [4545], 4546, 4550, 4552, appear to be negative numbers, but were not found in MNH lab., as of July, 1970 Negative Number BAE 2575-C same as Hrdlicka 4545. Apache: San Carlos "San Carlos Apache flute," (3" x 9 1/2") mounted. Reproduced in Ales Hrdlicka, "Notes on the San Carlos Apache," American Anthropologist, n. s. volume 7, number 3, 1905, plate 31 Ales Hrdlicka [1900-1905] "Children's graves, San Carlos Apache," 2 prints, (2 1/2" x 3 3/4") mounted. Reproduced in Ales Hrdlicka, NOtes on the San CArlos Apache," American Anthropologist, n. s., volume 7, number 3, 1905, plate 32 Ales Hrdlicka [1900-1905] "Children's graves, San Carlos Apache," 2 prints, (2 1/2" x 3 3/4") mounted Ales Hrdlicka [1900-1905] Negative Number 34,156- C D. "San Carlos Apache graves (in talus)," 2 prints, (2 1/2" x 3 3/4") mounted. Top picture reproduced in Ales Hrdlicka, "Notes on the San CArlos Apache," American Anthropologist, n. s. volume 7, number 3, 1905, plate 32 Ales Hrdlicka [1900-1905]. "San Carlos Apache dwellings (near Rice school)," 3 prints, (various sizes) mounted. Top two pictures reproduced in Ales Hrdlicka, "Notes on the San Carlos Apache," American Anthropologist, n.s. volume7, number 3, 1905, plate 30. 23 prints, (various sizes) mounted, including: "Apache dwellings;" and individual and group portraits of Apache men and women. Original numbers 12, 14, 18, 22, 36, 46, 52, 66, 72; numbers written on front of prints: 4499, 4501, 4504, 4506, 4509-13, 4515, 4519, 4523-27, 4529, appear to be negative nimbers, but were not found in MNH lab., as of July, 1970. Apache: White Mountain and White River (folder 5): 30 prints, (2 duplicates), (various sizes) mounted. Individual and group portraits of men, women and children, including: "John Riley, White Mountain (Arizona) Apache (1900)," (1 duplicate); "White Mountain (Arizona) Apache woman making a basket." Original numbers 95, and 117, and numbers written on front of prints: 4429, 4431, 4433-35, 4437 (1 duplicate), 4439 (1 duplicate), 4440, 4442-43, 4445-49, 4452, 4455, 4457-58, 4463, 4466, 4472, 4474, 4477-78, 4533-34, 4542, appear to be negative numbers, but were not found in the MNH lab., as of July, 1970. Two prints reproduced in Ales Hrdlicka, Beauty among the American Indians," Boas Anniversary Volume, New York, 1906, plates 4 and 6. "Kumbata, White River Apache, age 65 y., Measurement #72 in Hrdlicka's notebook," hand written on back of mount, (8" x 6") mounted Ales Hrdlicka [1900-1905]. Arapaho: 16 Baker & Johnston prints, 15 with original numbers, 1 unnumbered: B & J #36 Photographer: Baker & Johnston Same as Negative Number 42,017 D. B & J #38 (1 duplicate) Baker & Johnston. B & J # 39 (1 duplicate) Baker & Johnston Same as NEgative NUmber 29,779. B & J #44 Baker & Johnston. B & J #45 Baker & Johnston. B & J #47 (?) (1 duplicate) Baker & Johnston Same as Negative Number 29,785. B & J #48 (?) Baker & Johnston Same as Negative Number 42,017B. B & J #49 Baker & Johnston. B & J #50 Baker & JOhnston Same as Negative Number 42,021B. B & J #51 Baker & Johnston. B & J #52 Baker & Johnston. B & J #52 Baker & Johnston. B & J #53 "Arapahoes" Baker & Johnston. "Little Raven, Arapaho," written on negative C. M. Bell Negative Number BAE 148-a-1 and 2. Assiniboin "Stoney Indian Girl, #528," written on negative; "Sioux linguist family," handwritten on front of postcard Byron [M]armon, Banff, Canada. "Stoney Indian and squaw, #506," written on negative; "Canadian Rockies- Sioux Family," handwritten on front of postcard Byron [H]armon, Banff, Canada. Bannock "Bannock (bust) Ya'Mu' (age 84)," handwritten on back of mounted print; 2 prints (front and profile) A. Hrdlicka 1912 Negative Number BAE 1708a; BAE 1708b. "A Family of Sheepeater Bannocks," printed on negative C. M. Bell mount Negative Number BAE 1713, credited to W. H. Jackson, 1871.

Catalog Number 4877: Blackfoot Group of 7 snapshots and 1 duplicate, some mounted, some originally in brown Smithsonian envelope marked, "Photograophs of Blackfoot Indians at Union Station Plaza, Washington, D. C., 1922." Date may be incorrectly given, as all Indians in first five prints may be identified by individual Bureau of American Ethnology portraits taken by D. L. Gill in Washington, D. C., in 1923. All identification will read left to right as follows: Group of Indians in outdoors, in street dress; back row: Charles Iron-Breast (BAE 415-A), Owen Heavy-Breast (BAE 420-a); second row: Chief Bird-Rattler (BAE 398-a); Chief Yellow-Kidney (BAE 392-a), Aims-Back (BAE 404-A), Joe Heavy-Breast (BAE 419-a), front: Julia Wades-in-Water (BAE 397-A), Mrs Yelllow Kidney (BAE 417-a), Mrs Aims-Back (BAE 405-a), Mrs After-Bird-Rattler (BAE 413) or Mrs Heavy-Breast (BAE 421-a). [subject wears same belt as subject in BAE 413-a, but different dress.] Photographer: [A. Hrdlicka ?] Date: [1923 ?]. (2) Group of Indians sitting on steps of Union Station Plaza; back row: Joe Heavy Breast (BAE 419 a), Mrs Walks in Water (BAE 395-a), Mrs Minnie Aims-Back (BAE 405-a), Mrs After-Bird-Rattler (BAE 413-a), Mrs Heavy- Breast (BAE 421-a), Mrs Julia Wades-in-Water (BAE 397-a); second row: Charles Iron-Breast (BAE 415-A), Aims-Back (BAE 404 A), Chief Bird-Rattler (BAE 398-a), Chief Yellow Kidney (BAE 392), Wades-in water (BAE 396-a); front: child, Owen Heavy-Breast (BAE 40-a), Two-Guns White Calf (BAE 412 A). (3) Indian, probably Two-Guns White CAlf (BAE 412-a-b-) and boy, in Indian dress, with headdresses, in front of tipi. (1 duplicate) [ A. Hrdlicka ?] [1923 ?]. (4) Group of 4 Indians, 1 child, outdoors: [Aims-Back ? (BAE 404-a)], Two-Guns White Calf (BAE 412-a), Charles Iron-Breast (BAE 418-A), Mrs Walks-in-Water Iron Breast (BAE 395-a) [A. Hrdlicka ?] [1923 ?]. (5) Three Indians, one white woman, outdoors in same place as #4. [Aims-Back (BAE 404-a)], unidentified white woman, Two-Guns White Calf (BAE 418-a) and child [A. Hrdlicka ?] [1923 ?]. (6) Group of Indians outside tipis, all in street dress. Portion of Lincoln memorial in middle of extreme right edge [A. Hrdlicka ?] [1923 ?]. (7) Group of Indians, some standing, some sitting, outside tipis. White man in center of the group. All in street dress [A. Hrdlicka ?] [1923 ?]. (8-10) 3 snapshot photographs of Blackfoot pictographs on rocks. (11) "Mrs Walks in Water Iron Breast (1) 44 yrs., Property of the U. S. National Museum, Wm. H. Egbert," handwritten on back of print D. L. Gill, Bureau of American Ethnology 1923 BAE Negative Number 395-a. (12) "White Calf," handwritten in pencil on back of print. cf. BAE 401 for identification (although subject is younger in this print). Catawba "Grand child of Ruben Quick Bear," handwritten in pencil on back of mount. Print shows woman holding young baby, outdoors. Cherokee "Col Geo[rge] W. Pascal, Washington, D. C.," handwritten on back of print in ink; "Cherokee family," handwritten on back of print in pencil. "Agnes Paschal McNeir" written on top of negative; "Cherokee family" handwritten on back of print in pencil. "Ridge Paschal" written on top of negative; "H. R. Marks, Austin, Texas," printed underneath on mount; "Pascal," handwritten in ink on back of print; "Cherokee family," handwritten on back of print in pencil Photographer: H. R. Marks. "Miss Marcia Pascal," handwritten in ink on back of print; "part Cherokee," handwritten in pencil on back of print. "Photo of Woolsley Hale [Hall ?]. His father was a mulatto. His mother was a Cherokee. His grandfather's side was white, and his grandmother on his father's side was an African slave," handwritten in ink on back of prints. 2 prints, front and profile.

Catalog 4877: Cheyenne "Little Robe, Cheyenne," written on negative Photographer: C. M. Bell mount Same as BAE Negative Number 313-a-b, credited to J. Gurnet & son, 1871. "Grover Cleveland," handwritten on front of print (postcard). "Mrs Grover Cleveland," handwritten on front of print. "Cheyenne mother and child (husband= #2)," handwritten on back of print. "Henry Roman Nose, Wowgini- Yellow Bear, Nugkuftiyuwais- Lame Man, or Cohoe, Nuguinkus, Southern Cheyennes," handwritten on front of print D. L. Gill, BAE 1899 Negative Number BAE 345. "Chief Two Moons--Northern Cheyenne," printed on photoengraving "Copr. Rodman Wanamaker [?]." "Esh-Sha-A-Nish-Is- Cheyenne, Lame Deer , Mont., 1912, Sawyer," in raised letters (photo of bas-relief bust of Two Moons, cf. BAE 260-a-b-c). [Moe correct rendering of Indian name is "Ishere-nishes."] Artist: WElls M. Sawyer 1912. Chippewa (folder 1) (1) "Robert McKee & wife & boy child (girl = relation), Ponsford, Minn., Chippewa," handwritten on back of postcard. (2) Group of 4 girls, standing in snow, "All four of these girls say they are full bloods, O. O. B.," handwritten on front of postcard. (3) Group of 21 young women, all wearing same uniform (except for younger girl, with slightly different version of uniform), posed outdoors. "Chippewa," handwritten on back of postcard. (4) "Chippewa Braves, Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post," apparently printed on negative of postcard. Group of 5 men, one wearing war bonnet, all in Indian dress. (5) "Ka-be-na-gwe-wes, John Smith," apparently written on negative; "This picture taken about 1912," handwritten on front of print. cf. BAE 562 for identification of subject ca. 1912. (6) "Mike Denver, Chippewa Chief, (7) Songukomigouse, age 56, Chippewa mixed," handwritten on back of prints; 2 prints, front and profile D. L. Gill, BAE 1913 Negative Number BAE 496-a and b. (8) Edawigilig, Ojibwa 5.," apparently written on negative, "Ojibwa Tribe, (Algonquian stock)," printed on label pasted on mount below print C. M. Bell 1880-81 Same as Negative Number BAE 547a. (9)(10) "William J. Parker, Chippewa.," handwritten in ink on back of mount. 2 prints, front and profile. (11)-(30) 20 snapshots (3" x 4 1/2") with negatives, 3 additional negatives with no accompanying prints; some published, Ales Hrdlicka, "Trip to the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota," Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collection, Volume LXVI, Number 3, Washington, D. C., 1916, pages 7-75. Handwritten descriptions on backs of prints as follows: "Chippewa jurta-like tipi, Round Lake, Minnesota, birch bark," (published); "Chippewa houses, Leach Lake;" Mix-blood (white and India

Biographical / Historical:

Ales Hrdlicka joined the Smithsonian staff in 1903 as head of the Division of Physical Anthropology. Prior to that his work was done under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. See Introduction to Bureau of American Ethnology-Bulletin 34, page 1, for summary of his field work from 1898-1905 and tribes visited.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4877

Local Note:

Filed: Original prints, by tribe.

Topic:

Photographs  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4877, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4877

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4877

Creator:

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Names:

International Congress of Americanists, 19th Organizing Committee  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Extent:

1 Volume

52 Pages

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Volumes

Pages

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Consists of minutes of meetings of both the full committee and its subcommittees; includes lists of sponsoring institutions, Organization Committee members and officers, foreign Associate Secretaries, and Honorary Committee members.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 7071

Citation:

Manuscript 7071, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7071

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7071

Creator:

St. Hoyme, Lucile Eleanor  Search this

Names:

Čs. společnost antropologická při Čs. akademii věd  Search this

Angel, J. Lawrence (John Lawrence)  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

St. Hoyme, Lucile Eleanor  Search this

Extent:

12 Prints (silver gelatin)

Culture:

Czechs  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Place:

Humpolec (Czech Republic)

Date:

1969

Scope and Contents note:

The collection consists of photographs relating to the congress of the Czechoslovak Anthropological Society, held August 31-September 5, 1969 in Humpolec, Czech Republic. It includes images of attendees and sessions (including one probably related to Aleš Hrdlička) of the 1969 congress of the Czechoslovakn Anthropological Society, as well as a view of Aleš Hrdlička Street in Humpolec.

Biographical/Historical note:

The Czechoslovak Anthropological Society (Cs. spolecnost antropologicka) was established in 1964 as a section of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Ales Hrdlicka, whom the congress appears to have been celebrating, was a Czech anthropologist who was born in Humpolec and worked at the United States National Museum (1903-1942).

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 7C

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The National Anthropological Archives holds the Aleš Hrdlička Papers ca. 1887-1943.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Physical anthropologists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 7C, Lucile Eleanor St. Hoyme photographs of congress of the Czechoslovak Anthropological Society, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.7C

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-7c

Creator:

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology  Search this

Names:

H. B. Hall & Sons, engraver  Search this

Wilcox, John Angel James, 1835- (engraver)  Search this

Depicted:

Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887  Search this

Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878  Search this

Birtwell, Francis Joseph  Search this

Boban, E.  Search this

Bohmersheim, August Bohn von  Search this

Bolles, T. Dix (Timothy Dix), -1892  Search this

Casanowicz, Immanuel M.  Search this

Craddock, Charles Egbert, 1850-1922  Search this

Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 1857-1900  Search this

Daniel, Z. T.  Search this

Dedrick, Thomas S.  Search this

Eames, Moses  Search this

Evans, Sir John  Search this

Fisk, Clinton Brown  Search this

Golovneen, D.  Search this

Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896  Search this

Hawley, Edwin H.  Search this

Hayden, F. V. (Ferdinand Vandeveer), 1829-1887  Search this

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Johnston, T. C.  Search this

Knowlton, Frank Hall, 1860-1926  Search this

Langley, S. P. (Samuel Pierpont), 1834-1906  Search this

LeConte, Joseph N. (Joseph Nisbet), 1870-1950  Search this

Lesley, J. P. (J. Peter), 1819-1903  Search this

Matthews, Washington, 1843-1905  Search this

McCartee, Divie Bethune, 1820-1900  Search this

Millner, Isaac B.  Search this

Montgomery, Henry  Search this

Morse, Edward Sylvester, 1838-1925  Search this

Murfree, Mary Noailles, 1850-1922  Search this

Palmer, Edward, 1829-1911  Search this

Putnam, F. W. (Frederic Ward), 1839-1915  Search this

Rathbun, Richard, 1852-1918  Search this

Renshawe, John H.  Search this

Scott, Hugh Lenox, 1853-1934  Search this

Simpson, Charles Torrey, 1846-1932  Search this

Slocum, Joshua, 1844-1909  Search this

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962  Search this

Stevenson, James, 1840-1888  Search this

Stevenson, Matilda Coxe, 1850-1915  Search this

Volk, Ernest  Search this

Walker, Francis Amasa, 1840-1897  Search this

Ward, Herbert, 1863-1919  Search this

Winson, Justin  Search this

Photographer:

Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893  Search this

Dumble, A. E.  Search this

Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940  Search this

Herman, Mme de (of Paris)  Search this

Holland (of Trenton, New Jersey)  Search this

Lainer, Charles  Search this

Macnabb Studio  Search this

Notman, J.  Search this

Parker, Charles  Search this

Parker, Joseph C.  Search this

Prince, George  Search this

Rice, Moses P.  Search this

Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896  Search this

Teel, S. S.  Search this

Yasvoin, A. (of St. Petersburg, Russia)  Search this

Collector:

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Hough, Walter, 1859-1935  Search this

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908  Search this

Extent:

4 Copy prints

4 Engravings

2 Prints (woodburytype)

42 Prints (albumen, silver gelatin, and platinum)

18 Prints (halftone)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy prints

Engravings

Prints

Photographs

Date:

circa 1864-1921

Scope and Contents note:

The collection consists of studio portraits and expedition photographs of anthropologists, administrators, scholars, and others. It includes some photographs of an Native American demonstrating sign language, possibly made during W J McGee's Seriland expedition.

Photographers represented in the collection are Charles Milton Bell, A. E. Dumbie; De Lancey W. Gill, Mme de Hermann, of Paris; Holland, of Trenton, New Jersey; Charles Lainer, J. Notman; Parker, George Prince, Macnabb, of New York; Moses P. Rice; Napolean Sarony; S. S. Teel; and A. Yasvoin, of St. Petersburg, Russia.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 70

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photograph collections of anthropologists held in the National Anthropological Archives are Photo Lot 4822, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 39, and Photo Lot 77-80.

See others in:

Department of Anthropology photograph collection of anthropologists, circa 1864-1921

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 70, Department of Anthropology collection of photographs of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.70

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-70

Depicted:

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology  Search this

Allen, R. A.  Search this

Allen, Richard A.  Search this

Andrews, Andreas Joseph, d. 1992  Search this

Anglim, John E.  Search this

Blaker, Margaret Contant  Search this

Bray, William H.  Search this

Casanowicz, Immanuel M.  Search this

Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987  Search this

Egberts, William H.  Search this

Elder, Robert A.  Search this

Evans, Clifford, 1920-1981  Search this

Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997  Search this

Gibson, Gordon D. (Gordon Davis), 1915-2007  Search this

Hawley, Edwin H.  Search this

Hendley, H. W.  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Jenkins, Richard C.  Search this

Jenkins, Robert C.  Search this

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010  Search this

Krieger, Herbert W. (Herbert William), 1889-1970  Search this

Lewis, G. Robert  Search this

Mason, Otis T., 1838-1908  Search this

Maynard, G. C.  Search this

McBryde, George  Search this

McCoy, George D.  Search this

Meggers, Betty Jane  Search this

Metcalf, George, 1900-1975  Search this

Newman, Marshall T. (Marshall Thornton), 1911-1994  Search this

Paine, Richard G.  Search this

Pelham, Willie Mae  Search this

Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902  Search this

Riesenberg, Saul H.  Search this

Semple, Caroline I.  Search this

Setzler, Frank M. (Frank Maryl), 1902-1975  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

Sweeney, Thomas W.  Search this

Upham, E. P. (Edwin Porter), 1845-1918  Search this

Van Beek, Gus W. (Gus Willard), 1922-  Search this

Watkins, C. Malcolm, 1911-  Search this

Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996  Search this

Whitmore, Jeraldine M.  Search this

Names:

Hough, Walter, 1859-1935  Search this

Extent:

1 Copy negative

9 Copy prints

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy negatives

Copy prints

Date:

1898-1962

Scope and Contents note:

The collection consists of copy prints depicting Smithsonian anthropologists, including group portraits of the staff of the United States National Museum Department of Anthropology and mounted individual portraits of department heads in 1904, 1931, 1952, 1959, and 1962. The photographs were possibly made as part of a 1969 event, "The Anthropology of Anthropology, or Everything You Wanted to Know About the Anthropology Department but Didn't Know What to Ask." The announcement for this event is available with the collection.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 39

Reproduction Note:

Copy prints made by the Smithsonian Institution, 1969.

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Original negatives for some images are held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Records of the Department of Anthropology.

Additional photographs of Department of Anthropology staff can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 70, Photo Lot 136, Photo Lot 76-127, Photo Lot 77-52, Photo Lot 77-80, Photo Lot 79-51, Photo Lot 80-17, Photo Lot 83-15, and the BAE historical negatives.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Citation:

Photo lot 39, Copies of portraits of Smithsonian anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.39

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-39

Creator:

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Collection Creator:

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Greenwood, Walter B.  Search this

Hill, Ernest H. Jr  Search this

Kyte, Dorothy  Search this

Leonard, Jane  Search this

Morgan, Dorothy  Search this

Smith, George Hubert  Search this

Stern, Theodore, 1917-  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

United States. Federal Civil Works Administration  Search this

Collection Correspondent:

Allyn, Harriet M.  Search this

Antevs, Ernst V.  Search this

Baker, Frank C.  Search this

Chaney, Ralph W.  Search this

Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977  Search this

Figgins, J.D.  Search this

Gazin, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis), 1904-1996  Search this

Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen), 1893-1974  Search this

Hall, Marion  Search this

Harcus, John  Search this

Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992  Search this

Hitchcock, Virginia Beth  Search this

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954  Search this

Howard, Edgar B.  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Judson, Sheldon  Search this

Kellogg, A. Remington  Search this

Krieger, Alex D. (Alex Dony), 1911-1991  Search this

Leonard, Jane  Search this

McCarty, Oscar  Search this

Miller, Carl F.  Search this

Moomaw, Jack C.  Search this

Ray, Cyrus N.  Search this

Reiter, Paul David  Search this

Richards, Horace G.  Search this

Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990  Search this

Shepard, Anna O.  Search this

Van Devanter, D.W.  Search this

Van Riet, Clarence  Search this

Wheat, Joe Ben  Search this

Woodbury, George  Search this

Collection Author:

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Anderson, Jack C.  Search this

Baby, Raymond S.  Search this

Atkins, Ruth  Search this

Deacon, John C.  Search this

Extent:

1 Photograph (003 in x 005 in)

Culture:

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Scope and Contents:

Eight men standing in western dress, six with type of headdress, not feathers, two with western hats. One holding what looks like a bow. Village of the Great Kivas, New Mexico.

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 10000220

NAA MS 4851

OPPS NEG 79-11638

Local Note:

Black and white photoprint

Place:

New Mexico Zuni Pueblo

Forms part of:

Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Colln Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives

Collection Restrictions:

The photographic negatives are in special storage and require advance notice to view.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

MS 4851, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

MS 4851 Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., papers and photographs

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms4851-ref1

Creator:

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Collection Creator:

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Greenwood, Walter B.  Search this

Hill, Ernest H. Jr  Search this

Kyte, Dorothy  Search this

Leonard, Jane  Search this

Morgan, Dorothy  Search this

Smith, George Hubert  Search this

Stern, Theodore, 1917-  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

United States. Federal Civil Works Administration  Search this

Collection Correspondent:

Allyn, Harriet M.  Search this

Antevs, Ernst V.  Search this

Baker, Frank C.  Search this

Chaney, Ralph W.  Search this

Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977  Search this

Figgins, J.D.  Search this

Gazin, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis), 1904-1996  Search this

Guthe, Carl E. (Carl Eugen), 1893-1974  Search this

Hall, Marion  Search this

Harcus, John  Search this

Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992  Search this

Hitchcock, Virginia Beth  Search this

Hooton, Earnest Albert, 1887-1954  Search this

Howard, Edgar B.  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Judson, Sheldon  Search this

Kellogg, A. Remington  Search this

Krieger, Alex D. (Alex Dony), 1911-1991  Search this

Leonard, Jane  Search this

McCarty, Oscar  Search this

Miller, Carl F.  Search this

Moomaw, Jack C.  Search this

Ray, Cyrus N.  Search this

Reiter, Paul David  Search this

Richards, Horace G.  Search this

Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990  Search this

Shepard, Anna O.  Search this

Van Devanter, D.W.  Search this

Van Riet, Clarence  Search this

Wheat, Joe Ben  Search this

Woodbury, George  Search this

Collection Author:

Judd, Neil Merton, 1887-1976  Search this

Anderson, Jack C.  Search this

Baby, Raymond S.  Search this

Atkins, Ruth  Search this

Deacon, John C.  Search this

Extent:

1 Photograph (003 in x 005 in)

Culture:

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Photographs

Scope and Contents:

Pictographs of animals and other items on rock. To the left are the words "Bob Hudson"; to the right is a feathered headdress. Village of the Great Kivas, New Mexico.

Local Numbers:

NAA INV 10000221

NAA MS 4851

OPPS NEG 79-11643

Local Note:

Black and white photoprint

Place:

New Mexico Zuni Pueblo

Forms part of:

Frank Harold Hanna Roberts Colln Smithsonian Institution National Anthropological Archives

Collection Restrictions:

The photographic negatives are in special storage and require advance notice to view.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Collection Citation:

MS 4851, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

See more items in:

MS 4851 Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., papers and photographs

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms4851-ref2

Interviewee:

Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph), 1908-1996  Search this

Interviewer:

Banks, Larry D.  Search this

Givens, Douglas R.  Search this

Names:

River Basin Surveys  Search this

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Bushnell, David I., Jr. (David Ives), 1875-1941  Search this

Evans, Clifford, 1920-1981  Search this

Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992  Search this

Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943  Search this

Lehmer, Donald Jayne, 1918-1975  Search this

Roberts, Frank H. H. (Frank Harold Hanna), 1897-1966  Search this

Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-  Search this

Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997  Search this

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975  Search this

Strong, William Duncan, 1899-1962  Search this

Wedel, Mildred Mott  Search this

Extent:

2 Sound cassettes (analog)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

1996 June 17

Scope and Contents:

Interview of Waldo R. Wedel conducted by Larry D. Banks and Douglas Givens on June 17, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado. The interview was conducted at Wedel's nursing home, a couple of months before he died.This interview is part of a series of oral histories of archaeologists recorded by Givens. Topics include Wedel's youth, career, fieldwork, colleagues, the Smithsonian Institution, and the River Basin Surveys.

Biographical / Historical:

Waldo R. Wedel was an archaeologist, best known for his contributions to Plains archaeology. He worked at the Smithsonian Institution from 1936 to 1977. He began his career at the Smithsonian as an assistant curator under Neil M. Judd in the Division of Archeology in the United States National Museum. He later became curator of archeology in 1950, and in 1962, he became head curator of the Department of Anthropology. In 1964-1965, he was acting head of the newly organized Smithsonian Office of Anthropology. Wedel also established and directed the Missouri Basin Project (1946-50) of the Bureau of American Ethnology's River Basin Surveys.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2011-29

General:

Date on box insert incorrectly listed as July 18, 1996.

Other Archival Materials:

See also Waldo R. Wedel and Mildred Mott Wedel Papers

Provenance:

Received from Dennis Stanford.

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Manuscript 2011-29, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.MS2011-29

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2011-29