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Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

245 Linear feet ((375 boxes and 10 map drawers))

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1878-1965

Summary:

The records in this collection embody the administrative functions of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1879 to 1965. The collection consists of correspondence, card files, registers, official notices, annual and monthly work reports, research statements, research proposals, grant applications, personnel action requests, notices of personnel action, meeting minutes, purchase orders and requisitions, property records, biographical sketches, resolutions, newspaper clippings, reviews of publications, drafts of publications, circulars, programs, pamphlets, announcements, illustrations, cartographic materials, photographic prints, photographic negatives, bibliographies, and reprinted publications.

Scope and Contents:

The records in this collection embody the administrative functions of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1879 to 1965. The collection consists of correspondence, card files, registers, official notices, annual and monthly work reports, research statements, research proposals, grant applications, personnel action requests, notices of personnel action, meeting minutes, purchase orders and requisitions, property records, biographical sketches, resolutions, newspaper clippings, reviews of publications, drafts of publications, circulars, programs, pamphlets, announcements, illustrations, cartographic materials, photographic prints, photographic negatives, bibliographies, and reprinted publications.

Correspondence comprises the bulk of this collection. A significant portion of this correspondence originates from the Bureau's duty to field inquiries regarding North American aboriginal cultures and respond to requests relating to the duplication of BAE library and archival materials. Inquiries and requests, received from all parts of the world, were submitted by colleagues, museum curators and directors, students, professors, amateur archaeologists, government agents, military officials, Smithsonian Institution officials, artists, and members of the general public. Other correspondence reflects the Bureau's day-to-day operations and internal affairs. Subjects discussed in this correspondence include research projects, field expeditions, annual budgets, personnel matters, the acquisition of manuscripts, the disbursement of specimens, and production of BAE publications. Correspondence is occasionally accompanied by announcements, circulars, programs, pamphlets, photographs, drawings, diagrams, bibliographies, lists, newspaper clippings, and maps. Also among these records are the card files and registers of incoming and outgoing correspondence maintained by early BAE administrative staff. For a list of correspondents, see the appendix to this finding aid, available in the NAA reading room.

The majority of illustrations, artwork, and photographs that appear in this collection are associated with BAE publications, including BAE Annual Reports, BAE Bulletins, Contributions to North American Ethnology and Smithsonian Institution, Miscellaneous Collection. Maps located among the collection originate, by and large, from BAE field expeditions and research projects. BAE staff also amassed great quantities of newspaper clippings that concerned BAE research or points of interest. Of particular note are three scrapbooks comprised of clippings that relate to "mound builders" and the work of the BAE's Division of Mound Explorations.

Also worthy of note are the various records relating to the 1903 investigation of the BAE. Records related to the investigation highlight the Smithsonian Institution's longstanding dissatisfaction with the internal management of the BAE, its concerns over the BAE's loose relationship with the parent organization, and displeasure with the manner in which BAE scientific research was developing. Other materials of special interest are the various administrative records covering the period 1929 to 1946 and 1949 to 1965. The majority cover personnel matters; however, others justify the work of the BAE and bear witness to growing concerns that the BAE would eventually be absorbed by the Department of Anthropology within the United States National Museum.

Arrangement:

The collection has been arranged into the following 12 series: (1) Correspondence, 1897-1965; (2) Cooperative Ethnological Investigations, 1928-1935; (3) Miscellaneous Administrative Files, 1929-1946; (4) Miscellaneous Administrative Files, 1949-1965; (5) Records Concerning the Photographic Print Collection, 1899-1919; (6) Records Concerning Employees; (7) Fiscal Records, 1901-1902 and 1945-1968; (8) Records Relating to the 1903 Investigation of the BAE; (9) Property Records and Requisitions; (10) Clippings; (11) Publications; (12) BAE Library Materials, Pamphlets and Reprints

Administrative History:

The Bureau of Ethnology was established by an act of the United States Congress on March 3, 1879, but it was largely the personal creation of the geologist and explorer Major John Wesley Powell. His earlier explorations of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon formed the basis of the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. While exploring the area, Powell became alarmed at what he perceived to be the decline of the aboriginal way of life due to rapid depopulation. In a letter to the Secretary of the Interior, he warned that "in a few years, it will be impossible to study…Indians in their primitive condition, except from recorded history" (Hinsley). He urged swift government action; the result of which was the appropriation of $20,000 (20 Stat. 397) to transfer all documents relating to North American Indians from the Department of Interior to the Smithsonian Institution and its Secretary's appointment of Powell as director of the newly established Bureau of Ethnology, a position he held until his death in 1902. In 1897, its name was changed to the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) to underscore the limits of its geographical reaches.

Under Powell, the BAE organized the nation's earliest anthropological field expeditions, in which the characteristics and customs of native North Americans were observed firsthand and documented in official reports. Images of Indian life were captured on photographic glass plate negatives, and their songs on wax cylinder recordings. Histories, vocabularies and myths were gathered, along with material objects excavated from archaeological sites, and brought back to Washington for inclusion in the BAE manuscript library or the United States National Museum.

The fruits of these investigations were disseminated via a series of highly regarded and widely distributed publications, most notably BAE Annual Reports, BAE Bulletins, and Contributions to North American Ethnology. BAE research staff also responded routinely to inquiries posed by colleagues, government agencies, and the general public on matters ranging from artwork to warfare. Moreover, the BAE prepared exhibits on the various cultural groups it studied not only for the Smithsonian Institution, but also for large expositions held nationwide.

In 1882 Powell, under instruction of Congress, established the Division of Mound Explorations for the purpose of discovering the true origin of earthen mounds found predominately throughout the eastern United States. It was the first of three temporary, yet significant, subunits supported by the Bureau. Cyrus Thomas, head of the Division, published his conclusions in the Bureau's Annual Report of 1894, which is considered to be the last word in the controversy over the mounds' origins. With the publication of Thomas' findings, the Division's work came to a close.

The course of BAE operations remained largely the same under Powell's successors: W.J. McGee (acting director) 1902; William Henry Holmes, 1902-1910; Frederick W. Hodge, 1910-1918; J. Walter Fewkes, 1918-1928; Matthew W. Stirling, 1928-1957; Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr., 1957-1964; and Henry B. Collins (acting director), 1964-1965. However, following a 1903 internal investigation of the Bureau's administrative activities, Smithsonian officials called for a broader scope of ethnological inquiry and greater application of anthropological research methodologies. The BAE responded in 1904 by expanding agency activities to include investigations in Hawaii, the Philippines, and the Caribbean.

The BAE extended its geographical reaches once again, in the 1940s, to include Central and South America. In 1943, the Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA) was established as an independent subunit of the Bureau for the purpose of developing and promoting ethnological research throughout the American Republics. The findings of ISA-sponsored investigations were published in the six volume series, Handbook of South American Indians (BAE Bulletin 143). Julian H. Steward, editor of the Handbook, was appointed director of ISA operations and held the position until 1946 when George M. Foster assumed responsibility. The ISA was absorbed by the Institute of Inter-American Affairs in 1952, thus terminating its relationship with the BAE.

In 1946 the BAE assumed partial administrative control of the recently established River Basin Surveys (RBS), its third and final autonomous subunit. The purpose of the RBS was to salvage and preserve archaeological evidence threatened by post-World War II public works programs, more specifically the rapid construction of dams and reservoirs occurring throughout the country. Excavations conducted under the RBS yielded considerable data on early North American Indian settlements, and subsequent deliberations on this data were published as reports in various BAE Bulletins.

In 1965, the BAE merged administratively with the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Anthropology to form the Office of Anthropology within the United States National Museum (now the Department of Anthropology within the National Museum of Natural History). The BAE manuscript library, also absorbed by the Department of Anthropology, became the foundation of what is today the National Anthropological Archives (NAA).

In its 86 year existence, the BAE played a significant role in the advancement of American anthropology. Its staff included some of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries' most distinguished anthropologists, including Jeremiah Curtain, Frank Hamilton Cushing, J.O. Dorsey, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Alice Cunningham Fletcher, Albert H. Gatschet, John Peabody Harrington, John N.B. Hewitt, William Henry Holmes, Ales Hrdlicka, Neil Judd, Francis LaFlesche, Victor and Cosmo Mindeleff, James Mooney, James Pilling, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Matthew Williams Stirling, William Duncan Strong, and William Sturtevant. The BAE also collaborated with and supported the work of many non-Smithsonian researchers, most notably Franz Boas, Frances Densmore, Gerard Fowke, Garrick Mallery, Washington Matthews, Paul Radin, John Swanton, Cyrus Thomas, and T.T. Waterman, as well as America's earliest field photographers such as Charles Bell, John K. Hillers, Timothy O'Sullivan, and William Dinwiddie. Several of its staff founded the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1880, which later became the American Anthropological Association in 1899. What is more, its seminal research continues to be drawn upon by contemporary anthropologists and government agents through the use of BAE manuscripts now housed in the NAA.

Sources Consulted:

Hinsley, Curtis. Savages and Scientists: The Smithsonian Institution and the Development of American Anthropology, 1846-1910. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981.

McGee, WJ. "Bureau of American Ethnology." The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of its First Half-Century, pp. 367-396. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1897.

Sturtevant, William. "Why a Bureau of American Ethnology?" Box 286, Functions of the BAE, Series IV: Miscellaneous Administrative Files, 1948-1965, Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, National Anthropological Archives.

Related Materials:

Additional material relating to BAE administrative affairs and research projects can be found among the National Anthropological Archives' vast collection of numbered manuscripts. Too numerous to list in this space, these include official correspondence, monthly and annual work reports, fiscal records, field notes, personal diaries, expedition logs, catalogues of specimens, vocabularies, historical sketches, maps, diagrams, drawings, bibliographies, working papers and published writings, among various other material. Most of these documents are dispersed throughout the numbered manuscript collection as single items; however, some have been culled and unified into larger units (e.g., MS 2400 is comprised of documents relating to the Division of Mound Explorations). Artwork and illustrations produced for BAE publications are also located among the NAA's numbered manuscript collection as well as its photograph collection (e.g., Photo Lot 78-51 and Photo Lot 80-6).

Photographs concerning BAE research interests can be found among the following NAA photographic lots: Photo Lot 14, Bureau of American Ethnology Subject and Geographic File ca. 1870s-1930s; Photo Lot 24, BAE Photographs of American Indians 1840s to 1960s (also known as the Source Print Collection); Photo Lot 60, BAE Reference Albums 1858-1905; and Photo Lot 85, BAE Miscellaneous Photographs 1895 to 1930. Other photographic lots include portraits of BAE staff and collaborators, namely Photo Lot 33, Portraits of Anthropologists and others 1860s-1960s; Photo Lot 68, Portraits of John Wesley Powell ca. 1890 and 1898; and Photo Lot 70, Department of Anthropology Portrait File ca. 1864-1921.

Additional materials in the NAA relating to the work of the BAE can be found among the professional papers of its staff, collaborators and USNM anthropologists. These include the papers of Ales Hrdlicka, John Peabody Harrington, Otis Mason, J.C. Pilling, Matthew Williams Stirling, and William Duncan Strong. Documents relating to the work of the BAE can be found among the records of the River Basin Surveys (1928-1969) and the Institute of Social Anthropology (1941-1952).

Records related to this collection can also be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA). SIA accession 05-124 includes information regarding the 1942 transfer of six audio recordings related to the Chumash Indian language from the Bureau of American Ethnology to the National Archives, nine pages of Chumash translations, and "The Story of Candalaria, the Old Indian Basket-Maker." The Fiscal and Payroll Records of the Office of the Secretary, 1847 to 1942 (Record Unit 93), includes voucher logs, disbursement journals and daybooks of money paid out to the BAE from 1890 to 1910. BAE correspondence can also be found among the Records of the Office of the Secretary (Record Unit 776, accession 05-162). The Papers of William Henry Holmes, second director of the BAE, are also located among the SIA (Record Unit 7084).

Accession records concerning artifacts and specimens collected by the BAE are located in the registrar's office of the National Museum of Natural History.

Related collections can also be found at the National Archives and Records Administration. RG 57.3.1, the Administrative Records of the United States Geological Survey, includes register of applications for BAE ethnological expositions conducted between 1879-1882. RG 75.29, Still Pictures among the Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, includes 22 photographs of Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Navajo, and Apache Indians taken by William S. Soule for the BAE during 1868-1875. RG 106, Records of the Smithsonian Institution, includes cartographic records (106.2) relating to Indian land cessions in Indiana created for the First Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1881 (1 item); a distribution of American Indian linguistic stock in North America and Greenland, by John Wesley Powell, for the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, ca. 1887 (1 item); a distribution of Indian tribal and linguistic groups in South America, 1950 (1 item); the Indian tribes in North America, for Bulletin 145, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1952 (4 items). Sound Recordings (106.4) include songs and linguistic material relating to the Aleut, Mission, Chumash, and Creek, gather by the BAE in 1912, 1914, 1930-41. Some include translations (122 items).

Provenance:

The Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology were transferred to the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Archives with the merger of the BAE and the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History in 1965. The Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Archives was renamed the National Anthropological Archives in 1968.

Restrictions:

The Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology are open for research.

Access to the Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact repository for terms of use.

Citation:

Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.XXXX.0155

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Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw391046c25-21e2-4334-a01f-9a6f734ae9cd

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-xxxx-0155

Collector:

James G. Swan  Search this

Donor Name:

James G. Swan  Search this

Height - Object:

122 cm

Culture:

Haida  Search this

Object Type:

Figure

Place:

Laskeek (Tanu), Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii) / Louise Island, British Columbia, Canada, North America

Accession Date:

21 Dec 1883

Collection Date:

1883

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

013804

USNM Number:

E89038-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/33404bde5-d4e9-498e-baff-b47f12277704

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8485350

Collector:

Robert E. Peary  Search this

Donor Name:

American Museum of Natural History  Search this

Culture:

Eskimo  Search this

Object Type:

Parka

Place:

North / Smith Sound, Greenland

Accession Date:

26 Dec 1900

Collection Date:

1895 to 1896

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

037404

USNM Number:

E209178-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3671db12e-e165-44bd-8fcc-929c54497eda

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8358526

Collector:

Robert E. Peary  Search this

Donor Name:

American Museum of Natural History  Search this

Culture:

Eskimo  Search this

Object Type:

Parka

Place:

North / Smith Sound, Greenland

Accession Date:

26 Dec 1900

Collection Date:

1895 to 1896

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

037404

USNM Number:

E209179-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3822c03ed-c176-4bc4-b879-264f047bf5a0

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8358527

Collector:

Robert E. Peary  Search this

Donor Name:

American Museum of Natural History  Search this

Culture:

Eskimo  Search this

Object Type:

Trousers

Place:

North / Smith Sound, Greenland

Accession Date:

26 Dec 1900

Collection Date:

1895 to 1896

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

037404

USNM Number:

E209178-1

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3d6baafc5-4437-4eba-b5c6-68ca064f5d28

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8546257

Collector:

Robert E. Peary  Search this

Donor Name:

American Museum of Natural History  Search this

Culture:

Eskimo  Search this

Object Type:

Trousers

Place:

North / Smith Sound, Greenland

Accession Date:

26 Dec 1900

Collection Date:

1895 to 1896

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

037404

USNM Number:

E209179-1

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3e314e5fe-edf5-4690-a68d-3b07e2fa901c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8546258

Collector:

Robert E. Peary  Search this

Donor Name:

American Museum of Natural History  Search this

Culture:

Eskimo  Search this

Object Type:

Boot

Place:

North / Smith Sound, Greenland

Accession Date:

26 Dec 1900

Collection Date:

1895 to 1896

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

037404

USNM Number:

E209179-2

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/332854949-9348-4e33-b37f-e4778f2ac8ae

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8546259

Collector:

James G. Swan  Search this

Donor Name:

James G. Swan  Search this

Culture:

Tlingit, Hutsnuwu  Search this

Object Type:

Artwork

Place:

Admiralty Island, Alexander Archipelago / Chatham Strait, Alaska, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1876

Collection Date:

1875

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

004730

USNM Number:

E20839-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/38374ad06-c94f-41eb-8cdb-386bcb4cea55

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8358403

Collector:

Miss Eliza R. Scidmore  Search this

Donor Name:

Miss Eliza R. Scidmore  Search this

Culture:

Japanese  Search this

Object Type:

Box / Photograph / Ticket / Place Card

Place:

Japan, Asia

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

008373

USNM Number:

E220151-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/328d00d4c-9586-4b6c-9c20-abd1f88b22fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8363961

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Prehistoric  Search this

Object Type:

Metate

Place:

Susanville, Lassen County, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1875

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Accession Number:

004392

USNM Number:

A19603-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/367baa77f-a304-4366-b2da-bfde7727d862

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8040992

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Prehistoric  Search this

Object Type:

Grinder

Place:

Susanville, Lassen County, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1875

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Accession Number:

004392

USNM Number:

A19604-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36a7de48c-8c8d-426b-a7ba-47832146d1f1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8041003

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Prehistoric  Search this

Object Type:

Sheller

Place:

Susanville, Lassen County, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1875

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Accession Number:

004392

USNM Number:

A19605-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/30a2d3e82-6e1c-4f5f-85ec-896a4d556f52

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8041015

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Prehistoric  Search this

Object Type:

Grinder

Place:

Susanville, Lassen County, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1875

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Accession Number:

004392

USNM Number:

A19607-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a5ff5cc4-985c-4976-bfc9-b9d7313b545d

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8041038

Collector:

Edwin B. Webster  Search this

Donor Name:

U. S. Department of the Navy  Search this

Culture:

Tlingit  Search this

Object Type:

Figure

Place:

Baranof Island / Sitka, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, United States, North America

Accession Date:

14 Dec 1886

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

018397

USNM Number:

E127612-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/36a226daa-f189-4500-8b5a-6fcf74a256d8

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8334177

Collector:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Paiute  Search this

Object Type:

Gambling Set

Place:

Not Given, Washoe County / Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1876

Collection Date:

1875 to 1876

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

004856

USNM Number:

E19045-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3a629a6ca-509d-45f8-bb71-3bb6b9359cd0

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8353738

Collector:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Maidu (?)  Search this

Object Type:

Arrow

Place:

Susanville / Big Meadows, Lassen County / Plumas County, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1876

Collection Date:

Oct. 1875

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

004856

USNM Number:

E19610-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31c6fc18c-f050-45a9-9e87-705f1a4ad921

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8354146

Collector:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Hupa (?)  Search this

Paiute (?)  Search this

Object Type:

Rattle

Place:

Not Given / Walker Lake (not certain), Mcloud River (not certain) / Mineral County (not certain), California (not certain) / Nevada (not certain), United States, North America

Accession Date:

1876

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

004856

USNM Number:

E19616-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f8c2a2d6-316d-46d9-834a-31d0417302de

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8354151

Collector:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Paiute (?)  Search this

Object Type:

Pipe

Place:

Lone Pine Near, Inyo County / Owens River, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1876

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

004856

USNM Number:

E19717-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3b82d492c-9cb2-457d-a386-edc4284e82cc

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8354252

Collector:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Culture:

Hupa  Search this

Object Type:

Box

Place:

Hoopa Valley / Trinity River, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1876

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

004856

USNM Number:

E21334-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/367d1caf8-6ac4-4b48-b133-d7453e1eee95

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8360348

Collector:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Donor Name:

Stephen Powers  Search this

Length - Object:

ca. 538 cm

Culture:

Konkow (Concow)  Search this

Maidu  Search this

Object Type:

Scarf

Place:

Feather River, California, United States, North America

Accession Date:

1876

Topic:

Ethnology  Search this

Accession Number:

004856

USNM Number:

E21397-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/388370254-de9f-42e7-b423-837acf66f792

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8360861