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National Zoo  Search this

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Zoology;Animals;Veterinary medicine;Animal health  Search this

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National Zoo

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Creator:

National Museum of the American Indian  Search this

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Native Americans;American Indians  Search this

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National Museum of the American Indian

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EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_1-BXfWbTMXc

Manufacturer:

General Electric Company  Search this

Materials:

Metal, wood, rubber, felt

Dimensions:

3-D: 38.1 x 21.6 x 58.4cm, 2.6kg (15 x 8 1/2 x 23 in., 5 13/16lb.)

Other (Face): 20.3cm (8 in.)

Type:

INSTRUMENTS-Navigational

Country of Origin:

United States of America

Date:

1931-1933

Credit Line:

Transferred from the United States Air Force Museum

Inventory Number:

A19600014009

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv95ddaeb4c-8a73-4330-9d9a-cb637b25532c

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A19600014009

Creator:

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Director:

Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957  Search this

Dockstader, Frederick J.  Search this

Names:

Ford-Bartlett East Greenland Expedition 1930  Search this

Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)  Search this

Hendricks-Hodge Expedition (1917-1923).  Search this

Huntington Free Library  Search this

Hyde Exploring Expedition (1902-1903)  Search this

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research  Search this

Collector:

Barrett, S. A. (Samuel Alfred), 1879-1965  Search this

Churchill, Clara G.  Search this

Churchill, Frank C. (Frank Carroll), 1850-1912  Search this

Davis, Edward H., b. 1862  Search this

Emmons, George Thornton  Search this

Gridley, Marion E. (Marion Eleanor), 1906-1974  Search this

Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971  Search this

Harvey, Byron  Search this

Harvey, Fred  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994  Search this

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956  Search this

Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965  Search this

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

Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925  Search this

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950  Search this

Stiles, William F., 1912-1980  Search this

Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1871-1954  Search this

Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936  Search this

Wildschut, William  Search this

Former owner:

Burnett, Edwin K.  Search this

Force, Roland W.  Search this

Extent:

400 Linear feet

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Administrative records

Photographs

Annual reports

Field notes

Correspondence

Ledgers (account books)

Minutes

Date:

1890-1998

Summary:

These records document the governance and programmatic activities of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation (MAI) from its inception in 1904 until its sublimation by the Smithsonian Institution in 1990. The types of materials present in this collection include personal and institutional correspondence, individual subject files, minutes and annual reports, financial ledgers, legal records, expedition field notes, research notes, catalog and object lists, publications, clippings, flyers, maps, photographs, negatives and audio-visual materials. These materials span a varied range of subjects relating to the activities of the museum which are more fully described on the series level.

Scope and Contents:

These records document the governance and programmatic activities of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation (MAI) from its inception in 1904 until its sublimation by the Smithsonian Institution in 1990. The types of materials present in this collection include personal and institutional correspondence, individual subject files, minutes and annual reports, financial ledgers, legal records, expedition field notes, research notes, catalog and object lists, publications, clippings, flyers, maps, photographs, negatives and audio-visual materials. These materials span a varied range of subjects relating to the activities of the museum which are more fully described on the series level.

Arrangement:

The MAI, Heye Foundation records have been arranged into 21 series and 50 subseries: Series 1: Directors, 1908-1990 (1.1: George Gustav Heye, 1863-1962, 1.2: Edwin K. Burnett, 1943-1960, 1.3: Frederick Dockstader, 1950-1976, 1.4: Alexander F. Draper, 1972-1977, 1.5:Roland W. Force, 1963-1990, 1.6: George Eager, Assistant Director, 1977-1990) Series 2: Board of Trustees, 1916-1990 (2.1: Board of Trustee Minutes, 1916-1990, 2.2: Individual Board Correspondence, 1943-1990, 2.3: Subject Files, 1917-1990) Series 3: Administrative, 1916-1989 (3.1: Subject Files, 1904-1991, 3.2: Personnel, 1956-1991, 3.3: Legal, 1900-1989, 3.4: Task Force, 1976-1986, 3.5: George Abrams, 1980-1991) Series 4: Financial, 1916-1990 (4.1: Ledgers, 1900-1962, 4.2: Correspondence, 1905-1985, 4.3: Subject Files, 1916-1990) Series 5: Expeditions, 1896-1973Series 6: Collectors, 1872-1981Series 7: Registration, 1856-1993Series 8: Collections Management, 1937-1988Series 9: Curatorial, 1963-1990 (9.1: Curatorial Council, 1973-1990, 9.2: Gary Galante, 1979-1991, 9.3: Mary Jane Lenz, 1974-1994, 9.4: James G. E. Smith, 1963-1990, 9.5: U. Vincent Wilcox, 1968-1984, 9.6: Anna C. Roosevelt, 1973-1988) Series 10: Exhibits, 1923-1991 (10.1: MAI Exhibits, 1923-1990, 10.2: Non-MAI Exhibits, 1937-1991) Series 11: Public Programs, 1935-1990Series 12: Publications, 1904-1994 (12.1: Annual Reports, 1917-1989, 12.2: Publications by MAI, 1904-1990, 12.3: Publications by Other Sources, 1881-1990, 12.4: Administration, 1920-1988, 12.5: Archival Set of Official Publications, 1907-1976) Series 13: Public Affairs, 1938-1991Series 14: Development, 1927-1991 (14.1: Administration, 1979-1990, 14.2: Donors, 1978-1990, 14.3: Fundraising, 1973-1990, 14.4: Grants, 1970-1990, 14.5: Subject Files, 1976-1990) Series 15: Other Departments, 1914-1990 (15.1: Archives, 1914-1990, 15.2: Conservation, 1972-1989, 15.3: Education, 1921-1990, 15.4: Indian Information Center, 1977-1989, 15.5: Museum Shop, 1947-1989, 15.6: Photography, 1918-1990, 15.7: Physical Anthropology, 1919-1956) Series 16: Huntington Free Library, 1926-1991Series 17: Museum Relocation, 1969-1992 (17.1: Subject Files, 1979-1990, 17.2: American Museum of Natural History, 1980-1987, 17.3: Dallas, Texas, 1984-1987, 17.4: Smithsonian Institution, 1979-1990, 17.5: U.S. Custom House, 1977-1990, 17.6: Other Locations, 1974-1987) Series 18: MediaSeries 19: PhotographsSeries 20: Miscellaneous, 1837-1990Series 21: Oversize, 1873-1972 (21.1: Maps, 1873-1975, 21.2: Miscellaneous, 1884-1982)

History of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation:

The Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation was established by wealthy collector George Gustav Heye in 1908. Heye began collecting American Indian artifacts as early as 1897 and his collection rapidly increased over the next several years. Based in New York, Heye bought collections and documentary photographs, sponsored expeditions, and traveled and collected items himself. In addition, once MAI was established he sponsored numerous expeditions across the Western Hemisphere, including North American, Canada, South America and Central America.

From 1908 to 1917 Heye housed his artifacts on temporary loan at the University of Pennsylvania's University Museum, Pennsylvania, in lofts on East 33rd Street in New York City, and at other depositories. In 1917, the collections moved from his apartment to their permanent museum location at Audubon Terrace, at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City. The museum, containing ethnographic and archaeological collections from North, Central and South America, opened to the public in 1922. Less than ten years later, Heye completed a storage facility in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx, known as the Research Branch. Heye served as Chairman of the Board and Museum Director until his death in 1957. After growing concern about the financial and other management of the collections came to a head, the museum became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1989 and in 1994 opened exhibit space in the U.S. Customs House at Bowling Green near New York City's Battery Park. The Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Maryland later opened in 1999 and the main Washington, DC museum opened in 2004.

Please visit the following links for more information about the history of the museum; History of the Collection, Collections Overview, and Significance of the Collection. Moreover, for information about how the museum currently cares for and exhibits the collection, please see the Conservation department and recent entries regarding Exhibitions and Conservation on the NMAI Blog. In addition, see portions of the NMAI Archive Center's collections highlighted in the SIRIS Blog.

Related Materials:

In 2004, the Huntington Fee Library, once part of the MAI/Heye Foundation, was transferred to the Cornell University Library Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. While this collection mainly contained books, it also contained a significant amount of archival materials. The Huntington Free Library's Native American Collection contains outstanding materials documenting the history, culture, languages, and arts of the native tribes of both North and South America, as well as contemporary politics and human rights issues are also important components of the collection. Further information about the collection and links to finding aids can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/HFL_old.html.

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).

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.

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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru  Search this

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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Haiti  Search this

Genre/Form:

Administrative records

Photographs

Annual reports

Field notes

Correspondence

Ledgers (account books)

Minutes

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.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001

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Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv412df8cf1-44c0-41fd-9101-eefb477e5aef

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001

Manufacturer:

Hudson's Bay Company, Canada  Search this

Materials:

Wool

Dimensions:

3-D (Hood, folded flat): 36.2 × 22.9 × 5.7cm (1 ft. 2 1/4 in. × 9 in. × 2 1/4 in.)

Type:

PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Personal Items

Country of Origin:

United Kingdom

Date:

1931-1933

Credit Line:

Transferred from the USAF Museum

Inventory Number:

A20030079056

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv913f747aa-04f2-4fc1-b46a-caae08c63a91

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A20030079056

Donor Name:

American Museum Of Natural History  Search this

Object Type:

Flint

Place:

Somme, France, Europe

Accession Date:

1888

Topic:

Archaeology  Search this

Accession Number:

021293

USNM Number:

A140071-0

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Anthropology

Data Source:

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/30f491040-c315-4514-b567-af072110fbc1

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhanthropology_8019593

Artist:

Alexis Rockman, born New York City 1962  Search this

Medium:

oil and acrylic on wood

Dimensions:

overall: 96 x 288 in. (243.8 x 731.5 cm)

Type:

Painting

Date:

2004

Credit Line:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment

Copyright:

© 2004, Alexis Rockman

Object number:

2011.36A-D

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection

Department:

Painting and Sculpture

On View:

Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2nd Floor, North Lobby

Data Source:

Smithsonian American Art Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7d73ac260-bccc-43ea-9cfc-2665bcd63508

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:saam_2011.36A-D

Artist:

James Earle Fraser, 4 Nov 1876 - 11 Oct 1953  Search this

Sitter:

Daniel Boone, 11 Feb 1734 - 26 Sep 1820  Search this

Medium:

Limestone*

Dimensions:

305cm x 122cm x 122cm (120 1/16" x 48 1/16" x 48 1/16"), Estimate

Type:

Sculpture

Date:

c. 1900-53

Topic:

Daniel Boone: Male  Search this

Daniel Boone: Politics and Government\State Legislator\Virginia  Search this

Daniel Boone: Law and Crime\Police\Sheriff  Search this

Daniel Boone: Natural Resource Occupations\Pioneer  Search this

Daniel Boone: Natural Resource Occupations\Pioneer\Frontiersman  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: American Museum of Natural History

Object number:

NY280009

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4980b29f1-dcd9-4c94-adf1-c88fcd449436

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NY280009

Artist:

Vilma Von Parlaghy, 1864 - 1923  Search this

Sitter:

Joseph Hodges Choate, 24 Jan 1832 - 14 Mar 1917  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

183.8cm x 120.9cm (72 3/8" x 47 5/8"), Sight

Type:

Painting

Date:

c. 1890-1911

Topic:

Joseph Hodges Choate: Male  Search this

Joseph Hodges Choate: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Joseph Hodges Choate: Politics and Government\Diplomat\Ambassador  Search this

Joseph Hodges Choate: Society and Social Change\Administrator\Charity administrator\Charity founder  Search this

Joseph Hodges Choate: Society and Social Change\Socialite  Search this

Joseph Hodges Choate: Society and Social Change\Founder\Museum founder  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: American Museum of Natural History

Object number:

NY280019

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm419237703-af85-4aba-93e7-2a7e3d4b2f15

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NY280019

Artist:

Kenneth Frazier, 1867 - 1949  Search this

Sitter:

Elihu Root, 15 Feb 1845 - 7 Feb 1937  Search this

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

*

Type:

Painting

Date:

c. 1900-36

Topic:

Elihu Root: Male  Search this

Elihu Root: Politics and Government\US Senator\New York  Search this

Elihu Root: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

Elihu Root: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of War  Search this

Elihu Root: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\Secretary of State  Search this

Elihu Root: Visual Arts\Visual arts administrator\Art museum administrator\Art museum trustee  Search this

Elihu Root: Nobel Prize  Search this

Elihu Root: Society and Social Change\Administrator\Think tank administrator  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: American Museum of Natural History

Object number:

NY280060

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4c5da7d10-d5ea-488f-944f-f750d0c2ff5d

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NY280060

Artist:

Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1 Mar 1848 - 3 Aug 1907  Search this

Sitter:

William Collins Whitney, 5 Jul 1841 - 2 Feb 1904  Search this

Medium:

Bronze

Dimensions:

57.5cm x 60cm x 35.5cm (22 5/8" x 23 5/8" x 14"), Estimate

Type:

Sculpture

Date:

c. 1890-1907

Topic:

William Collins Whitney: Male  Search this

William Collins Whitney: Law and Crime\Lawyer  Search this

William Collins Whitney: Politics and Government\Public official  Search this

William Collins Whitney: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Secretary of the Navy  Search this

William Collins Whitney: Business and Finance\Financier  Search this

William Collins Whitney: Sports and Recreation\Horse racing  Search this

Portrait  Search this

Credit Line:

Owner: American Museum of Natural History

Object number:

NY280070

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

Catalog of American Portraits

Data Source:

Catalog of American Portraits

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4f09fc59b-fb7c-4d5e-9731-5b9b918bd675

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:npg_NY280070

Creator:

National Museum of the American Indian  Search this

Type:

Conversations and talks

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2017-04-25T00:59:23.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Native Americans;American Indians  Search this

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National Museum of the American Indian

YouTube Channel:

SmithsonianNMAI

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_WyLcksTB0oY

Materials:

Steel, copper alloy, brass, paint, nickel plating

Dimensions:

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel with nickel coating, 3 1/4" (2)): 8.6 × 3.2 × 0.9cm (3 3/8 × 1 1/4 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel with nickel coating, 3" (2)): 7.3 × 3.5 × 1cm (2 7/8 × 1 3/8 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel with black paint, 2 1/4" (3)): 6 × 1.7 × 1cm (2 3/8 × 11/16 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel 1 1/4" (2)): 3.2 × 1.3 × 1cm (1 1/4 × 1/2 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel 7/8" (3)): 2.2 × 0.8 × 0.3cm (7/8 × 5/16 × 1/8 in.)

3-D (Barrell Swivel, Brass 1 1/2" (1)): 3.8 × 0.6 × 0.6cm (1 1/2 × 1/4 × 1/4 in.)

3-D (Barrell Swivel, Brass 7/8"): 2.2 × 1 × 1cm (7/8 × 3/8 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Barrell Swivel, Brass 2/3" (1)): 1.7 × 0.3 × 0.3cm (11/16 × 1/8 × 1/8 in.)

Type:

EQUIPMENT-Survival

Date:

1931-1933

Credit Line:

Transferred from the USAF Museum

Inventory Number:

A20030072034

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9abd43f01-0eab-4fd8-ad6a-30d380c54251

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A20030072034

Materials:

Steel, copper alloy, brass, paint, nickel plating

Dimensions:

3-D (Fishing hook, Steel with nickel coating, 3 1/4" (1)): 8.6 × 3.2 × 0.9cm (3 3/8 × 1 1/4 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hook, Steel with nickel coating, 3" (1)): 7.3 × 3.5 × 1cm (2 7/8 × 1 3/8 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel with black paint, 2 1/4" (3)): 6 × 1.7 × 1cm (2 3/8 × 11/16 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hook, Steel 1 1/4" (1)): 3.2 × 1.3 × 1cm (1 1/4 × 1/2 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel 1" (3)): 2.5 × 1 × 0.3cm (1 × 3/8 × 1/8 in.)

3-D (Fishing hooks, Steel 7/8" (2)): 2.2 × 0.8 × 0.3cm (7/8 × 5/16 × 1/8 in.)

3-D (Barrell Swivel, Brass 1 1/2" (1)): 3.8 × 0.6 × 0.6cm (1 1/2 × 1/4 × 1/4 in.)

3-D (Barrell Swivels, Brass 1 1/8" (2)): 2.9 × 0.6 × 0.6cm (1 1/8 × 1/4 × 1/4 in.)

3-D (Barrell Swivel, Brass 7/8" (1)): 2.2 × 1 × 1cm (7/8 × 3/8 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Barrell Swivel, Brass 2/3" (1)): 1.7 × 0.3 × 0.3cm (11/16 × 1/8 × 1/8 in.)

3-D (Crossline Swivel, Brass 1 2/3" (1)): 4.4 × 4.8 × 1cm (1 3/4 × 1 7/8 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Roller Swivels, Brass 1 1/4" (2)): 3.2 × 1 × 1cm (1 1/4 × 3/8 × 3/8 in.)

3-D (Roller Swivel, Brass 1 1/2” (1)): 3.8 × 0.6 × 0.6cm (1 1/2 × 1/4 × 1/4 in.)

Type:

EQUIPMENT-Survival

Date:

1931-1933

Credit Line:

Transferred from the USAF Museum

Inventory Number:

A20030072017

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9faeaedcc-c4ce-4f73-aee0-9385768da678

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A20030072017

Materials:

Canvas and hemp rope

Dimensions:

3-D (Flat): 102.2 × 48.3 × 3.8cm (40 1/4 × 19 × 1 1/2 in.)

3-D: 96.5 x 45.7cm, 0.9kg (38 x 18 in., 2lb.)

Type:

EQUIPMENT-Mission Support

Date:

1931-1933

Credit Line:

Transferred from the USAF Museum

Inventory Number:

A20030068012

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

See more items in:

National Air and Space Museum Collection

Data Source:

National Air and Space Museum

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9dfcd7b0c-2db0-48b0-9544-c985687a09e9

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nasm_A20030068012

Creator:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum  Search this

Type:

Symposia

YouTube Videos

Uploaded:

2010-01-11T20:56:48.000Z

YouTube Category:

Education  Search this

Topic:

Design  Search this

See more by:

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

YouTube Channel:

cooperhewitt

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:yt_uiHfQd4opKM

Publisher:

Charles E. Merrill Company  Search this

Physical Description:

paper (overall material)

ink (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 7 1/2 in x 5 in x 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 12.7 cm x 1.27 cm

Object Name:

book

Place made:

United States: New York, New York City

Date made:

1922

Subject:

Civics  Search this

Health  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection

ID Number:

2017.0095.333

Accession number:

2017.0095

Catalog number:

2017.0095.333

See more items in:

Home and Community Life: Education

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b4-5d84-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_1934757

Creator:

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962  Search this

Correspondent:

Mooney, James, 1861-1921  Search this

Extent:

2 Pages (and 1 envelope)

Culture:

Eskimos  Search this

Inuit  Search this

Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this

Arctic peoples  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Place:

Barrow, Point (Alaska)

Date:

bulk 1915 November 10

Scope and Contents:

Typewritten letter sent by Vilhjalmur Stefansson to James Mooney on November 10, 1915 from the winter quarters of the Canadian Arctic Expedition at Armstrong Point, Victoria Island. The letter is a response to Mooney's letter sent July 10, 1914. In Stefansson's letter, Stefansson clarifies Eskimo terms and suggests people in Point Barrow, Alaska that Mooney can contact for information on the Barrow Eskimos. He also describes errors in his recently published diary, Stefánsson-Anderson Arctic expedition of the American museum: preliminary ethnological report, published by the American Museum of Natural History (1914).

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2002-01

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Eskimo ?  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 2002-01, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2002-01

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw37ee9994a-cba0-427e-8c26-5cd7da0c52a7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2002-01

Creator:

De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004  Search this

McClellan, Catharine  Search this

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Guédon, Marie Françoise  Search this

Emmons, George Thornton  Search this

Correspondent:

Stearns, Mary Lee  Search this

Aberle, David F. (David Friend), 1918-2004  Search this

Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier), 1910-1997  Search this

Baird, Melissa  Search this

Balzer, Marjorie  Search this

Bersch, Gretchen  Search this

Birket-Smith, Kaj  Search this

Black, Lydia  Search this

Boas, Franz, 1858-1942  Search this

Chowning, Ann  Search this

Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002  Search this

Codere, Helen F., 1917-2009  Search this

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

Colton, Harold Sellers, 1881-1970  Search this

Conklin, Harold C., 1926-2016  Search this

Corbett, John M.  Search this

Darnell, Regna  Search this

Dauenhauer, Nora  Search this

Dauenhauer, Richard  Search this

Davenport, William  Search this

Dockstader, Frederick J.  Search this

Drucker, Philip, 1911-1982  Search this

Du Bois, Cora Alice, 1903-1991  Search this

Duff, Wilson, 1925-  Search this

Fair, Susan  Search this

Fitzhugh, William W., 1943-  Search this

Foster, George McClelland, 1913-  Search this

Garfield, Viola Edmundson, 1899-1983  Search this

Giddings, James Louis  Search this

Gjessing, Gutorm, 1906  Search this

Grinev, Andrei V.  Search this

Hanable, William S.  Search this

Hara, Hiroko, 1934-  Search this

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

Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979  Search this

Helm, June, 1924-  Search this

Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963  Search this

Holtved, Erik  Search this

Jenness, Diamond, 1886-1969  Search this

Kahn, Mimi  Search this

Kan, Sergei  Search this

Krauss, Michael E., 1934-  Search this

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960  Search this

Larsen, Helge, 1905-1984  Search this

Leer, Jeff  Search this

Lindgren, E. J. (Ethel John), 1904-1988  Search this

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002  Search this

Low, Jean  Search this

Mathiassen, Therkel, 1892-1967  Search this

Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978  Search this

Olson, Wallace  Search this

Rainey, Froelich G. (Froelich Gladstone), 1907-1992  Search this

Riddell, Francis A. (Francis Allen), 1921-2002  Search this

Ritchie, William A. (William Augustus), 1903-1995  Search this

Schneider, William  Search this

Schumacher, Paul J. F.  Search this

Shinkwin, Anne D.  Search this

Spier, Leslie, 1893-1961  Search this

Spiro, Melford E., 1920-2014  Search this

Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984  Search this

VanStone, James W.  Search this

Weiner, Annette B., 1933-  Search this

Weitzner, Bella, 1891?-1988  Search this

White, Leslie A., 1900-1975  Search this

Woodbury, Natalie Ferris Sampson  Search this

Woodbury, Richard B. (Richard Benjamin), 1917-2009  Search this

Workman, Karen Wood  Search this

Workman, William B.  Search this

Names:

American Anthropological Association  Search this

Bryn Mawr College  Search this

Photographer:

Smith, Harlan Ingersoll, 1872-1940  Search this

Extent:

2 Map drawers

38 Linear feet (71 document boxes, 1 half document box, 2 manuscript folders, 4 card file boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 oversize box)

Culture:

Yakutat Tlingit  Search this

Tutchone  Search this

Tsimshian  Search this

Indians of North America -- Subarctic  Search this

Tlingit  Search this

Tanana  Search this

Kawchodinne (Hare)  Search this

Ahtna (Ahtena)  Search this

Athapascan Indians  Search this

Northern Athabascan  Search this

Chugach  Search this

Kalaallit (Greenland Eskimo)  Search this

Indians of North America -- California  Search this

Eyak  Search this

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

Degexit'an (Ingalik)  Search this

Arctic peoples  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Map drawers

Manuscripts

Maps

Field notes

Correspondence

Photographs

Sound recordings

Place:

Alaska -- Archaeology

Aishihik (Yukon)

Angoon (Alaska)

Alaska -- Ethnology

Chistochina (Alaska)

Greenland

Copper River (Alaska)

Klukshu (Yukon)

Hoonah (Alaska)

Kodiak Island (Alaska)

Klukwan (Alaska)

Saint Lawrence River Valley

New Brunswick -- Archaeology

Yukon Island (Alaska)

Date:

1890-2004

bulk 1923-2004

Summary:

These papers reflect the professional and personal life of Frederica de Laguna. The collection contains correspondence, field notes, writings, newspaper clippings, writings by others, subject files, sound recordings, photographs, and maps. A significant portion of the collection consists of de Laguna's correspondence with family, friends, colleagues, and students, as well as her informants from the field. Her correspondence covers a wide range of subjects such as family, health, preparations for field work, her publications and projects, the Northwest Coast, her opinions on the state of anthropology, and politics. The field notes in the collection mainly represent de Laguna and her assistants' work in the Northern Tlingit region of Alaska from 1949 to 1954. In addition, the collection contains materials related to her work in the St. Lawrence River Valley in Ontario in 1947 and Catherine McClellan's field journal for her research in Aishihik, Yukon Territory in 1968. Most of the audio reels in the collection are field recordings made by de Laguna, McClellan, and Marie-Françoise Guédon of vocabulary and songs and speeches at potlatches and other ceremonies from 1952 to 1969. Tlingit and several Athabaskan languages including Atna, Tutchone, Upper Tanana, and Tanacross are represented in the recordings. Also in the collection are copies of John R. Swanton's Tlingit recordings and Hiroko Hara Sue's recordings among the Hare Indians. Additional materials related to de Laguna's research on the Northwest Coast include her notes on clans and tribes in Series VI: Subject Files and her notes on Tlingit vocabulary and Yakutat names specimens in Series X: Card Files. Drafts and notes for Voyage to Greenland, Travels Among the Dena, and The Tlingit Indians can be found in the collection as well as her drawings for her dissertation and materials related to her work for the Handbook of North American Indians and other publications. There is little material related to Under Mount Saint Elias except for correspondence, photocopies and negatives of plates, and grant applications for the monograph. Of special interest among de Laguna's writings is a photocopy of her historical fiction novel, The Thousand March. Other materials of special interest are copies of her talks, including her AAA presidential address, and the dissertation of Regna Darnell, a former student of de Laguna's. In addition, materials on the history of anthropology are in the collection, most of which can found with her teaching materials. Although the bulk of the collection documents de Laguna's professional years, the collection also contains newspaper articles and letters regarding her exceptional performance as a student at Bryn Mawr College and her undergraduate and graduate report cards. Only a few photographs of de Laguna can be found in the collection along with photographs of her 1929 and 1979 trips to Greenland.

Scope and Contents:

These papers reflect the professional and personal life of Frederica de Laguna. The collection contains correspondence, field notes, writings, newspaper clippings, writings by others, subject files, sound recordings, photographs, and maps.

A significant portion of the collection consists of de Laguna's correspondence with family, friends, colleagues, and students, as well as her informants from the field. Her correspondence covers a wide range of subjects such as family, health, preparations for field work, her publications and projects, the Northwest Coast, her opinions on the state of anthropology, and politics. Among her notable correspondents are Kaj Birket-Smith, J. Desmond Clark, Henry Collins, George Foster, Viola Garfield, Marie-Françoise Guédon, Diamond Jenness, Michael Krauss, Therkel Mathiassen, Catharine McClellan, and Wallace Olson. She also corresponded with several eminent anthropologists including Franz Boas, William Fitzhugh, J. Louis Giddings, Emil Haury, June Helm, Melville Herskovitz, Alfred Kroeber, Helge Larsen, Alan Lomax, Margaret Mead, Froelich Rainey, Leslie Spier, Ruth Underhill, James VanStone, Annette Weiner, and Leslie White.

The field notes in the collection mainly represent de Laguna and her assistants' work in the Northern Tlingit region of Alaska from 1949 to 1954. In addition, the collection contains materials related to her work in the St. Lawrence River Valley in Ontario in 1947 and Catharine McClellan's field journal for her research in Aishihik, Yukon Territory in 1968. Most of the audio reels in the collection are field recordings made by de Laguna, McClellan, and Marie-Françoise Guédon of vocabulary and songs and speeches at potlatches and other ceremonies from 1952 to 1969. Tlingit and several Athapaskan languages including Atna, Tutochone, Upper Tanana, and Tanacross are represented in the recordings. Also in the collection are copies of John R. Swanton's Tlingit recordings and Hiroko Hara's recordings among the Hare Indians. Additional materials related to de Laguna's research on the Northwest Coast include her notes on clans and tribes in Series VI: Subject Files and her notes on Tlingit vocabulary and Yakutat names specimens in Series 10: Card Files.

Drafts and notes for Voyage to Greenland, Travels Among the Dena, and The Tlingit Indians can be found in the collection as well as her drawings for her dissertation and materials related to her work for the Handbook of North American Indians and other publications. There is little material related to Under Mount Saint Elias except for correspondence, photocopies and negatives of plates, and grant applications for the monograph. Of special interest among de Laguna's writings is a photocopy of her historical fiction novel, The Thousand March.

Other materials of special interest are copies of her talks, including her AAA presidential address, and the dissertation of Regna Darnell, a former student of de Laguna's. In addition, materials on the history of anthropology are in the collection, most of which can found with her teaching materials. The collection also contains copies of photographs from the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899. Although the bulk of the collection documents de Laguna's professional years, the collection also contains newspaper articles and letters regarding her exceptional performance as a student at Bryn Mawr College and her undergraduate and graduate report cards. Only a few photographs of de Laguna can be found in the collection along with photographs of her 1929 and 1979 trips to Greenland.

Arrangement:

Arranged in 12 series: (1) Correspondence, 1923-2004; (2) Field Research, 1947-1968; (3) Writings, 1926-2001; (4) Teaching, 1922-1988; (5) Professional Activities, 1939-2001; (6) Subject Files, 1890-2002; (7) Writings by Others, 1962-2000; (8) Personal, 1923-2000; (9) Photographs, 1929-1986; (10) Card Files; (11) Maps, 1928-1973; (12) Sound Recordings, 1904-1973

Biographical / Historical:

Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna was a pioneering archaeologist and ethnographer of northwestern North America. Known as Freddy by her friends, she was one of the last students of Franz Boas. She served as first vice-president of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) from 1949 to 1950 and as president of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) from 1966-1967. She also founded the anthropology department at Bryn Mawr College where she taught from 1938 to 1972. In 1975, she and Margaret Mead, a former classmate, were the first women to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Born on October 3, 1906 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, de Laguna was the daughter of Theodore Lopez de Leo de Laguna and Grace Mead Andrus, both philosophy professors at Bryn Mawr College. Often sick as a child, de Laguna was home-schooled by her parents until she was 9. She excelled as a student at Bryn Mawr College, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in politics and economics in 1927. She was awarded the college's prestigious European fellowship, which upon the suggestion of her parents, she deferred for a year to study anthropology at Columbia University under Boas. Her parents had recently attended a lecture given by Boas and felt that anthropology would unite her interests in the social sciences and her love for the outdoors.

After a year studying at Columbia with Boas, Gladys Reichard, and Ruth Benedict, de Laguna was still uncertain whether anthropology was the field for her. Nevertheless, she followed Boas's advice to spend her year abroad studying the connection between Eskimo and Paleolithic art, which would later became the topic of her dissertation. In the summer of 1928, she gained fieldwork experience under George Grant MacCurdy visiting prehistoric sites in England, France, and Spain. In Paris, she attended lectures on prehistoric art by Abbe Breuil and received guidance from Paul Rivet and Marcelin Boule. Engaged to an Englishman she had met at Columbia University, de Laguna decided to also enroll at the London School of Economics in case she needed to earn her degree there. She took a seminar with Bronislaw Malinowski, an experience she found unpleasant and disappointing.

It was de Laguna's visit to the National Museum in Copenhagen to examine the archaeological collections from Central Eskimo that became the turning point in her life. During her visit, she met Therkel Mathiassen who invited her to be his assistant on what would be the first scientific archaeological excavation in Greenland. She sailed off with him in June 1929, intending to return early in August. Instead, she decided to stay until October to finish the excavation with Mathiassen, now convinced that her future lay in anthropology. When she returned from Greenland she broke off her engagement with her fiancé, deciding that she would not able to both fully pursue a career in anthropology and be the sort of wife she felt he deserved. Her experiences in Greenland became the subject of her 1977 memoir, Voyage to Greenland: A Personal Initiation into Anthropology.

The following year, Kaj Birket-Smith, whom de Laguna had also met in Copenhagen, agreed to let her accompany him as his research assistant on his summer expedition to Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet. When Birket-Smith fell ill and was unable to go, de Laguna was determined to continue on with the trip. She convinced the University of Pennsylvania Museum to fund her trip to Alaska to survey potential excavation sites and took as her assistant her 20 year old brother, Wallace, who became a geologist. A close family, de Laguna's brother and mother would later accompany her on other research trips.

In 1931, the University of Pennsylvania Museum hired de Laguna to catalogue Eskimo collections. They again financed her work in Cook Inlet that year as well as the following year. In 1933, she earned her PhD from Columbia and led an archaeological and ethnological expedition of the Prince William Sound with Birket-Smith. They coauthored "The Eyak Indians of the Copper River Delta, Alaska," published in 1938. In 1935, de Laguna led an archaeological and geological reconnaissance of middle and lower Yukon Valley, traveling down the Tanana River. Several decades later, the 1935 trip contributed to two of her books: Travels Among the Dena, published in 1994, and Tales From the Dena, published in 1997.

In 1935 and 1936, de Laguna worked briefly as an Associate Soil Conservationist, surveying economic and social conditions on the Pima Indian Reservation in Arizona. She later returned to Arizona during the summers to conduct research and in 1941, led a summer archaeological field school under the sponsorship of Bryn Mawr College and the Museum of Northern Arizona.

By this time, de Laguna had already published several academic articles and was also the author of three fiction books. Published in 1930, The Thousand March: Adventures of an American Boy with the Garibaldi was her historical fiction book for juveniles. She also wrote two detective novels: The Arrow Points to Murder (1937) and Fog on the Mountain (1938). The Arrow Points to Murder is set in a museum based on her experiences at the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the American Museum of National History. Fog on the Mountain is set in Cook Inlet and draws upon de Laguna's experiences in Alaska. Both detective novels helped to finance her research.

De Laguna began her long career at Bryn Mawr College in 1938 when she was hired as a lecturer in the sociology department to teach the first ever anthropology course at the college. By 1950, she was chairman of the joint department of Sociology and Anthropology, and in 1967, the chairman of the newly independent Anthropology Department. She was also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1947-1949; 1972-1976) and at the University of California, Berkeley (1959-1960; 1972-1973.)

During World War II, de Laguna took a leave of absence from Bryn Mawr College to serve in the naval reserve from 1942 to 1945. As a member of WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), she taught naval history and codes and ciphers to women midshipmen at Smith College. She took great pride in her naval service and in her later years joined the local chapter of WAVES National, an organization for former and current members of WAVES.

In 1950, de Laguna returned to Alaska to work in the Northern Tlingit region. Her ethnological and archaeological study of the Tlingit Indians brought her back several more times throughout the 1950s and led to the publication of Under Mount Saint Elias in 1972. Her comprehensive three-volume monograph is still considered the authoritative work on the Yakutat Tlingit. In 1954, de Laguna turned her focus to the Atna Indians of Copper River, returning to the area in 1958, 1960, and 1968.

De Laguna retired from Bryn Mawr College in 1972 under the college's mandatory retirement policy. Although she suffered from many ailments in her later years including macular degeneration, she remained professionally active. Five decades after her first visit to Greenland, de Laguna returned to Upernavik in 1979 to conduct ethnographic investigations. In 1985, she finished editing George Thornton Emmons' unpublished manuscript The Tlingit Indians. A project she had begun in 1955, the book was finally published in 1991. In 1986, she served as a volunteer consultant archaeologist and ethnologist for the U. S. Forest Service in Alaska. In 1994, she took part in "More than Words . . ." Laura Bliss Spann's documentary on the last Eyak speaker, Maggie Smith Jones. By 2001, de Laguna was legally blind. Nevertheless, she continued working on several projects and established the Frederica de Laguna Northern Books Press to reprint out-of-print literature and publish new scholarly works on Arctic cultures.

Over her lifetime, de Laguna received several honors including her election into the National Academy Sciences in 1976, the Distinguished Service Award from AAA in 1986, and the Lucy Wharton Drexel Medal from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. De Laguna's work, however, was respected by not only her colleagues but also by the people she studied. In 1996, the people of Yakutat honored de Laguna with a potlatch. Her return to Yakutat was filmed by Laura Bliss Spann in her documentary Reunion at Mt St. Elias: The Return of Frederica de Laguna to Yakutat.

At the age of 98, Frederica de Laguna passed away on October 6, 2004.

Sources Consulted

Darnell, Regna. "Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004)." American Anthropologist 107.3 (2005): 554-556.

de Laguna, Frederica. Voyage to Greenland: A Personal Initiation into Anthropology. New York: W.W. Norton Co, 1977.

McClellan, Catharine. "Frederica de Laguna and the Pleasures of Anthropology." American Ethnologist 16.4 (1989): 766-785.

Olson, Wallace M. "Obituary: Frederica de Laguna (1906-2004)." Arctic 58.1 (2005): 89-90.

Related Materials:

Although this collection contains a great deal of correspondence associated with her service as president of AAA, most of her presidential records can be found in American Anthropological Association Records 1917-1972. Also at the National Anthropological Archives are her transcripts of songs sung by Yakutat Tlingit recorded in 1952 and 1954 located in MS 7056 and her notes and drawings of Dorset culture materials in the National Museum of Canada located in MS 7265. The Human Studies Film Archive has a video oral history of de Laguna conducted by Norman Markel (SC-89.10.4).

Related collections can also be found in other repositories. The University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania holds materials related to work that de Laguna carried out for the museum from the 1930s to the 1960s. Materials relating to her fieldwork in Angoon and Yakutat can be found in the Rasmuson Library of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in the papers of Francis A. Riddell, a field assistant to de Laguna in the early 1950s. Original photographs taken in the field in Alaska were deposited in the Alaska State Library, Juneau. Both the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress and the American Philosophical Library have copies of her field recordings and notes. The American Museum of Natural History has materials related to her work editing George T. Emmons' manuscript. De Laguna's papers can also be found at the Bryn Mawr College Archives.

Provenance:

These papers were donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Frederica de Laguna.

Restrictions:

Some of the original field notes are restricted due to Frederica de Laguna's request to protect the privacy of those accused of witchcraft. The originals are restricted until 2030. Photocopies may be made with the names of the accused redacted.

Rights:

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Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Anthropology -- History  Search this

Genre/Form:

Manuscripts

Maps

Field notes

Correspondence

Photographs

Sound recordings

Citation:

Frederica de Laguna papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.1998-89

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Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3363424fd-e665-498b-a37c-9f4a81302a35

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1998-89