Some materials concerning the operations of the University of North Carolina Department of Anthropology are restricted.
Collection Rights:
Honigmann used pseudonyms when referring to his informants in publications. Irma Honigmann has requested that researchers refrain from publishing their names.
Collection Citation:
John Joseph Honigmann Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Papers presented at annual meetings of American Anthropological Association and Southern Anthropological Society
Collection Restrictions:
The Francis P. Conant Papers are open for research. Access to the Francis P. Conant Papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Francis P. Conant Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The papers of Francis P. Conant were processed with the assistance of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Veronika Conant. Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Includes talks for The American Anthropological Association, The American Women's Voluntary Services, an Anthropological Conference at Rollins College, the Bernardsville Garden Club, the Brighton Seminole Indian Reservation, the Business and Professional Women's Club of Morristown, the Christiansted League for Preservation of Historic Sites, the Cub Scouts, the Daughters of the American Revolution, Dale Carnegie's Get Together, and The Florida Anthropological Society.
Collection Restrictions:
By Ethel Freeman's instructions, the collection was restricted for ten years dating from the receipt and signing of the release forms on October 12, 1972. Literary property rights to the unpublished materials in the collection were donated to the National Anthropological Archives.
Access to the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers requires an appointment.
Seminole recordings cannot be accessed without the permission of the Seminole Tribe.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Two Types of Cultural Response to External Pressures Paper Read at Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association Nov. 21, 1963 in San Francisco
By Ethel Freeman's instructions, the collection was restricted for ten years dating from the receipt and signing of the release forms on October 12, 1972. Literary property rights to the unpublished materials in the collection were donated to the National Anthropological Archives.
Access to the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers requires an appointment.
Seminole recordings cannot be accessed without the permission of the Seminole Tribe.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
This series consists of materials gathered during three meetings which Freeman attended: the American Anthropological Association annual meeting in Mexico City, 1959-60; the VII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Moscow, 1964; and the VIII International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Japan, 1968.
Arrangement:
Arranged chronologically.
Collection Restrictions:
By Ethel Freeman's instructions, the collection was restricted for ten years dating from the receipt and signing of the release forms on October 12, 1972. Literary property rights to the unpublished materials in the collection were donated to the National Anthropological Archives.
Access to the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers requires an appointment.
Seminole recordings cannot be accessed without the permission of the Seminole Tribe.
Collection Rights:
Contact repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
By Ethel Freeman's instructions, the collection was restricted for ten years dating from the receipt and signing of the release forms on October 12, 1972. Literary property rights to the unpublished materials in the collection were donated to the National Anthropological Archives.
Access to the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers requires an appointment.
Seminole recordings cannot be accessed without the permission of the Seminole Tribe.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
This folder contains memorials and obituaries of Ivan Karp. Included are photographs, poems, and tributes from a memorial day of Karp held in Amukura, Kenya; obituaries from the American Anthropological Association, Emory University, African Arts, and the African Studies Association; and a slideshow tribute from the National Museum of African Art.
Collection Restrictions:
Recommendations that Karp wrote for his colleagues and students are restricted until 2061.
Access to the Ivan Karp papers requires an appointment.
Collection Citation:
Ivan Karp papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
This collection was processed with the support of a Wenner-Gren Foundation Historical Archives Program grant awarded to Corinne Kratz.
Ethnographic Study of New York City Health Areas 24 and 26 --This applied project was carried out in cooperation with a comprehensive primary-care health center [Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Center, originally called the Montefiore Neighborhood Medical Care Demonstration] located in the South Bronx, and the data therefore focus particularly on health, illness, and medical beliefs and practices. Funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the health center was mandated to raise health levels of residents of the two Health Areas. I began the research in August 1967 as a regular
employee of the Research Department of the health center and then received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. As Principal Investigator of that grant, I hired and trained a research team of local residents and expanded the study to 11 randomly selected multi-unit buildings in the area. Researchers visited households in these buildings over the course of approximately a year, gathering data through participant observation, formal interviewing, and process recording. (For more on the setting and methodology of this study, see Harwood 1977: 6-33.) This Carnegie-funded part of the research ran from 1968 to 1970.
Data from this study are in three different forms:
(1) Process and participant observation data gathered from households during the course of the study were recorded on 3" x 5" multi-copy slips, which are filed chronologically, by household, and by topic;
(2) Data from formal interviews or from specific data-gathering projects (e.g., contents of medicine cabinets, dietary practices, immunization status of children, medical records from the health center of participants in the study) were recorded on specific questionnaire sheets or in spiral notebooks;
(3) Information from the first two sources was transferred by researchers onto data analysis sheets for quantitative treatment.
In addition to these data, this set of materials contains research reports, correspondence, and business files from the project. It also includes questionnaires, code sheets, punch cards, and printouts from a census of the two Health Areas, which was carried out before I joined the Research Department of the center.
Besides providing basic data on health status and healthcare practices, additional information in the archive about housing, schooling, shopping, and working provides a vivid portrait of people living in a low-income area of New York City during the late-1960's period of the "Great Society." The archive also invites methodological inquiry by including information suitable for comparing observational data with data from medical records and census interviews on the same families. - Alan Harwood
Correspondence, memos, research proposals, and personnel files for the study can be found in Subseries: Business Files. The subseries also contains materials relating to other research and activities of the health center. These include health center reports; materials relating to an Albert Einstein College of Medicine community medicine course, which Harwood helped prepare and teach; and testimony by Harwood and other representatives of the health center to the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs on the housing condition of the South Bronx.
Process and participant observation data collected by Harwood and his research team are located under Subseries: Data Slips. Because the data slips contain identifying information of households in the study, the entire subseries is restricted. Other data and the analyses of data (some of which are restricted) are located in Subseries: Research Files along with papers and reports by Harwood, reports by colleagues, census data, and reference materials. Among the papers by Harwood are drafts of his article "The Hot-Cold Theory of Disease: Implications for Treatment of Puerto Rican Patients" and his paper that he presented at the 1970 American Anthropological Association meeting, "Participant Observation and Census Data in Urban Research."
One of the healthcare practices Harwood looked at in the study was spiritism among the Puerto Rican community. Although his book Rx: Spiritist as Needed: A Study of a Puerto Rican Community Mental Health Resource is not in the collection, Subseries: Research Files does contain a draft of his paper "Puerto Rican Spirtism as a Community Mental Health Resource" along with his field notes and writings by others on the subject.
It should be noted that during the study, the health center changed its name from the Neighborhood Medical Care Demonstration (NMCD) to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Health Center.
Arrangement:
Folders in this series are organized by topic.
SUBSERIES: BUSINESS FILES
SUBSERIES: METHODOLOGY
SUBSERIES: RESEARCH FILES
SUBSERIES: DATA SLIPS (RESTRICTED UNTIL 2056)
Collection Restrictions:
Materials that identify the participants in Harwood's Bronx and Boston studies are restricted until 2056.
Collection Rights:
Contact repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Alan Harwood Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Papers by Harwood including "Participant Observation and Census Data in Urban Research," which he presented at the 1970 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association
Collection Restrictions:
Materials that identify the participants in Harwood's Bronx and Boston studies are restricted until 2056.
Collection Rights:
Contact repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Alan Harwood Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Audio-letter from Harold Conklin (Prof. Yale; formerly of Columbia and my advisor at the time), Mario Bick (fellow graduate student; Ph.D. Columbia; faculty of Bard College), Georgeda Buchbinder Bick (fellow graduate student; Ph.D. Columbia; deceased); Michiko Takaki (fellow graduate student, transferred to Yale when Conklin moved there; Ph.D., Yale; faculty at University of Massachusetts Boston, retired).
Contents:
Harold Conklin, professor, yale University, formerly of Columbia University and my advisor at the time
Mario Bick (fellow graduate student; Ph.D. Columbia; faculty of Bard College)
Georgeda Buchbinder Bick (fellow graduate student; Oh.D. Columbia University; deceased)
Michiko Takaki (fellow graduate student, transferred to Yale when Conklin moved there; Ph.D., Yale University; faculty at Univeristy of Massachusetts, Boston, retired)
Local Numbers:
Harwood Sound Recording 6
Collection Restrictions:
Materials that identify the participants in Harwood's Bronx and Boston studies are restricted until 2056.
Collection Rights:
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Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Speeches
Collection Citation:
Alan Harwood Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Society for Cultural Anthropology (U.S.) Search this
Extent:
28 Linear feet (23 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records (digital records)
Date:
circa 1986-2006
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains presidential files and the records of the journal Cultural Anthropology, a publication of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and documents the activities of the journal's editors.
Biographical / Historical:
The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. It was founded in 1983 to promote interdisclipinary scholarship in cultural anthropology. Cultural Anthropology is the society's journal.
Local Note:
This collection is stored off-site. Consult with archivist.
Restrictions:
Access to journal files is restricted for 25 years from date of production.
New Directions in Formal Economic Anthropology: Operationalizing the Method, session at American Anthropological Association meeting, New York, session chaired by Schneider, with speakers John Cole, Matthew Edel, Richard Salisbury, Shepard Forman (comm...
New Directions in Formal Economic Anthropology: Operationaizing the Method, session at American Anthropological Association Symposium, [sound recording]
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Search this
Extent:
112.75 Linear feet
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1897-1965
Scope and Contents:
This series constitutes the administrative correspondence of the BAE, and is the largest series in the collection. It is divided into twenty subseries. The first subseries, Indices and Registers of Letters Sent and Received, is arranged chronologically and then, therein, alphabetically by correspondent. These records provide the date of receipt, name of sender and a brief description of subject discussed. There is a substantial gap in these records from 1902 to 1949.
Bound copies of outgoing letters comprise the second subseries, Letterbooks. Letterbooks are arranged categorically by kind and then, therein, chronologically. Letterbooks in the "general series" include outgoing letters sent chiefly by John Wesley Powell, James C. Pilling, Garrick Mallery, H.C. Rizer, WJ McGee, Frederick W. Hodge and William Henry Holmes. Matters discussed in these letters relate to the preparation and distribution of publications issued by the BAE; formal instructions relating to staff research projects; the maintenance and reproduction of manuscripts and photographs within the BAE collection; the collection and distribution of material objects obtained on BAE field expeditions; the appointment of BAE staff and arrangements made with outside collaborators; requests for appropriations; plans of operation; summaries of expenditures; Indian legislation; laws for the preservation of antiquities; execution of the Antiquities Act; and cooperation with other government agencies. Also discussed are routine housekeeping matters such as the acquisition and return of materials borrowed from the Library of Congress and other institutions or the purchase of supplies and equipment. Lettersbooks comprising letters of "transmittal" discuss the distribution of publications, manuscripts or anthropological information. Letterbooks regarding "requisitions for printing and binding" include letters sent to the Public Printing Office. Letterbooks pertaining to "annual reports" include complete or partial reports addressed to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. They differ slightly in content from those published in the BAE Annual Report series. Letters filed and bound under "library" mostly concern the borrowing or lending of library material, and the purchase of library supplies. "Editorial" letterbooks includes letters to authors, editors and printers, expressing editorial or printing concerns. Letterbooks relating to "accounts" pertain generally to BAE accounts and the conveyance of vouchers.
The letterbooks of William Henry Holmes include letters concerning his charge as Chief Officer of the BAE. Many discuss BAE accounts, plans of operation, staff changes, staff instructions and proposed federal laws for the preservation of antiquities. Others discuss the archaeological work of the BAE, especially the mound surveys carried out by the Division of Mound Explorations. They include replies to requests for information pertaining to Indian mines, quarries and caves, as well as the methods used in excavating these sites. Also included are acknowledgements for the receipt of specimens, photographs and manuscripts. The letterbook of Frank M. Barnett includes letters relating primarily to BAE accounts. Letters in Frank Hamilton Cushing's letterbooks concern, by and large, the collection of specimens in Florida for the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Pennsylvania.
The letterbooks of WJ McGee include letters relating to BAE scholarly work and the Bureau's dealings with the American Geological Society, the Columbia Historical Society, the Joint Commission of the Scientific Societies of Washington (later the Washington Academy of Science), the National Geographic Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological Association, the Washington Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America and the International Archaeological Commission. Other letters document McGee's professional relationship with fellow ethnologists and geologists, his personal relationship with William Henry Holmes, and his role as the executor of the estate of Alexander H. and Maria Matilda Evans (parents of Matilda Coxe Stevenson). Others document his position as vice president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and his role as the American representative to the preliminary conferences responsible for forming the International Archaeological Commission. Discussed elsewhere is the preparation and distribution of McGee's own publications, his involvement in a series of public lectures hosted by the Smithsonian Institution, and his observances on the death of John Wesley Powell. Of particular interest is a letter dated July 10, 1896 concerning charges of fraud brought against Frank Hamilton Cushing and another dated November 18, 1902 describing John Wesley Powell's last years as a scholar and administrator of the BAE. McGee's letterbooks also include typescript articles, lectures and similar works. Worthy of note is an article by Matilda Coxe Stevenson relating to a Zuni Scalp ceremony (November 27, 1894). Other articles include, "Primitive Trephining Illustrated by the Munis Peruvian Collection" (January 26, 1894), "The Antiquity of Man in America" (April 13, 1894), "The Expedition to Seriland" (February 14, 1896), "The Papago Time Concept" (July 22, 1896), "A Proposed American Anthropologic Association" (June 21, 1902), "Powell as Anthropologist" (April 11, 1902) and "Progress toward an International Archaeolgic and Ethnologic Commission".
The third subseries, Letters Received 1878, relates exclusively to the work of the US Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. The series is arranged in no particular order. The fourth subseries, Letters Received 1879-1887, is arranged alphabetically by correspondent or institution. Attached to many of these letters are official copies of BAE outgoing replies. Letters deserving special attention include Alexander Graham Bell's letter and chart pertaining to Powell's phonetic alphabet; Franz Boas' rationale and plan for publishing material relating to Northwest Coast Indians; Cushing's sketch map of ruins and caves in the vicinities of San Juan and Wingate, Arizona; Dorsey's wordlist of "Shasti or Klamath"; Gatschet's 1884 "Map of Creek Country in the Eighteenth Century: Names and Sites Restored from the Contemporaneous Documents"; Gatschet's "Affinities between Tehwa and Shoshonian Dialects"; and Cyrus Thomas' report regarding the Traona manuscript.
The fifth subseries, Letters Received 1888-1906, is arranged alphabetically by correspondent or institution. Attached to many of these letters are official copies of BAE outgoing replies. Letters deserving special mention include Dinwiddie's explanation of the fraud charges brought against Frank Hamilton Cushing; Washington Matthews' discussion of the pueblo names in Chaco Canyon; Shelley's transcription of Quanah Parker's statements regarding James Mooney; Mooney's letters concerning his Arapaho photographs; Franz Boas' list of Chinook place names; Abbe's letter concerning the origin of the term "Chinook winds"; and Ashenhurst's letter including a copy of "The Lord's Prayer in Millipama (Mith-hhlama, Tenino).
The sixth and seventh subseries, Letters Received 1907 and Letters Received 1908, are arranged alphabetically by correspondent or institution. Attached to many of these letters are official copies of BAE outgoing replies. Material largely concerns special projects being conducted by the BAE at the time, including the study of various aboriginal languages spoken throughout Indiana, Fewkes' work at Casa Grande, and Frachtenberg's work among the Tutelo. Letters regarding the preparation of various BAE publications, such as the second volume of Hodge's Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, are also included in these subseries.
The eighth and ninth subseries, Letters Received 1909-1949 and Letters Received 1950-1965, are arranged alphabetically by correspondent or institution with the exception of those letters filed by subject or project. Letters received include requests for information regarding Native American languages, customs, relics or lands surveyed by the BAE. Inquiries were received from museum curators, geologists, military officials, professional anthropologists, students and members of the general public. The majority of outgoing letters were composed by BAE administrative staff fielding these queries; however, some were composed by members of the BAE research staff themselves. Other incoming letters concern personnel matters; research proposals; the BAE budget; the acquisition or distribution of specimens, manuscripts and photographs; legislation affecting BAE activities; and BAE publications. Also found among these letters are official reports concerning the progress of field work being carried out by BAE staff and collaborators. Noteworthy material found among Letters Received 1909-1949, include Boas' "Memorandum on the Changes of the Human Body under the Influences of American Life"; Densmore's "Native Songs of Two Hybrid Ceremonies among the American Indians"; Fenton's photographs taken while on the Tonawanda Reservation; John Peabody Harrington's photographs of his informants; Thomas M. Galey's print of the Osage Indian Non-pe-wa-the; and Kelsey's photograph of Kuanui of the Palolo Valley, Oahu, Hawaii; and the Latin American Expedition's photographs of the Tule. Material deserving special mention in Letters Received 1950-1965 is William S. Laughlin's preliminary report of the archaeological work being conducted on the Aleutian Islands during the summer of 1952; William Reeder's report on the biological investigations carried out on the Kodiak Islands; and Alice Larde de Venturino's "Astonishing Stone Inscriptions of North Chile".
The tenth and eleventh subseries, Letters Sent, Photocopies and Transcripts 1879-1902 and Letters Received, Photocopies and Transcripts 1879-1906, are arranged in no particular order. Reasons behind the duplication or transcription of these letters are unknown. The twelfth subseries, Letters Received, Temporary Correspondence 1949 to 1965, follows two ordering schemes: material dating from 1949 to 1952 is arranged alphabetically by correspondent or institution and material dating from 1953 to 1965 is arranged chronologically. Letters in this subseries appear to have been culled from two separate accumulations of correspondence (one maintained between 1949 and 1952; the other between 1953 and 1965), and unified as a sampling of the various types of requests that were received by the Bureau during this period.
The remaining eight subseries comprise the correspondence of specific individuals, institutions or organizations that worked directly or indirectly with the BAE. They are arranged chronologically and then, therein, alphabetically. The decision to isolate this correspondence from the larger, chronologically ordered unit of BAE correspondence (described above) is unknown. Also unknown is when the separation occurred; it may have occurred at the archival processing level or earlier at the BAE administrative level. It should be noted that the separation process was not comprehensive and, thus, BAE correspondence with these individuals, institutions and organizations may also be found elsewhere in the series.
Arrangement:
Subseries: Indices and Registers of Letters Sent and Received.
Subseries: Letterbooks
Subseries: Letters Received 1878
Subseries: Letters Received 1879-1887
Subseries: Letters Received 1888-1906
Subseries: Letters Received 1907
Subseries: Letters Received 1908
Subseries: Letters Received 1909-1949
Subseries: Letters Received 1950-1965
Subseries: Letters Sent, Photocopies and Transcripts 1879-1902
Subseries: Letters Received, Photocopies and Transcripts 1879-1906
Subseries: Letters Received, Temporary Correspondence 1949 to 1965
Subseries: Letters Received, S. F. Baird, 1879-1887
Subseries: Letters Received, Franz Boas, 1889-1947
Subseries: Letters Received, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, 1890-1918
Subseries: Letters Received, Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1907
Subseries: Letters Received, Matthew Stirling 1925-1950
Subseries: Letters Received, US Government Agencies 1888-1908
Subseries: Letters Received, US Government Agencies 1909-1950
Subseries: Letters Received, US National Museum Smithsonian Institution 1889-1909
Subseries: Letters Received, Charles D. Walcott 1907-1909
Collection 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.
Collection Rights:
Contact repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
"Roster of Women Anthropologists as of June 11, 1974," American Anthropological Association
Collection Creator:
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Container:
Box 430, Folder 6
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1974
Collection 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).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Container:
Box 262A, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1928 - 1968
Restrictions:
Image number 011 "Holiday Handcraft" has been removed from the slideshow due to culutral sensitivity.
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Container:
Box 404, Folder 3
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1925 - 1927
Collection 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).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Biographical / Historical:
Born in Tottenville, Staten Island, George Hubbard Pepper (1873-1924) became interested in archaeology and the "prehistory" of American Indians as a boy. When Pepper was 22 years old, he spent a winter working at the Peabody Museum of Harvard University. The next year, in 1896, Pepper became assistant curator of the Department of the Southwest in the American Museum of Natural History. From 1896 until 1900, Pepper conducted archaeological work, during the summer months, at Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, as part of the AMNH's Hyde Exploring Expedition. Although Pepper's interests were always primarily archaeological, while he was working in the Southwest he visited several Pueblos. He also visited the Navajo and, becoming interested in Navajo weaving techniques, began collecting Navajo textiles to build his own study collection. He eventually gave his collection to the Museum of the American Indian—Heye Foundation.
While still employed by the American Museum of Natural History, Pepper participated in at least two archaeological expeditions sponsored by George G. Heye for the Heye Museum. Pepper excavated in Michoacan, Mexico in 1904 and, with Marshall H. Saville, in Manabi, Ecuador, in 1907. Pepper left the American Museum of Natural History in 1909 and joined the staff of the Department of American Archaeology at the University Museum in Philadelphia. The following year, in 1910, he began working full-time for George G. Heye and became part of the staff of the Museum of the American Indian—Heye Foundation when it was established in 1916. Pepper worked at the Museum of the American Indian—Heye Foundation until his death at the age of 51. He seems to have had an especially close relationship with George G. Heye. Pepper took part in numerous archaeological expeditions for the Museum of the American Indian—Heye Foundation, including the Hendricks-Hodge Expedition at the Zuni site of Hawikuh. Pepper was involved in several professional associations and was a founding member of the American Anthropological Association.
Collection 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).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Biographical / Historical:
After high school, Irving A. Hallowell (1892-1974) attended the University of Pennsylvania where he met Frank G. Speck. Intrigued by Speck's accounts of his field experiences among American Indians, Hallowell enrolled in several of Speck's anthropology classes. With Speck as his mentor, Hallowell began conducting field research among the St. Francis Abenaki in eastern Canada and attended one of Franz Boas' seminars at Columbia University. Immersed in the study of "culture traits" and "trait complexes," Hallowell wrote his dissertation on the geographical distribution of traits associated with bear ceremonies in both the Old and New Worlds. It was published in 1926 as "Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere" in the American Anthropologist.
Hallowell became a highly respected and influential anthropologist. His theoretical formulations were almost always based upon ethnographic field research with North American Indians, especially the Ojibwa. Hallowell served as president of the American Anthropological Association in 1949. In 1965 a festschrift, Context and Meaning in Cultural Anthropology (edited by Melvin E. Spiro), was published in his honor. Hallowell retired from the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught throughout his professional career, at the age of 70. He died in Wayne, Pennsylvania, at the age of 82.
Collection 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).
Collection Rights:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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