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Creator:

Stirling, Matthew Williams, 1896-1975  Search this

Extent:

34 Pages

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

October, 1931

Scope and Contents:

Copy of diary. Also a note by Stirling concerning material in Bureau of American Ethnology Manuscript files 4451-a and 4451-b, 2 pages.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4451-b

Topic:

Diaries -- Stirling, Matthew Williams  Search this

Panama  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4451-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4451B

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4451b

Creator:

Jopling, Carol F.  Search this

Extent:

74 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (including some mounted for exhibition))

442 Negatives (acetate, 35 mm)

326 Contact prints (326 contact prints (on proof sheets))

Culture:

Ngäbe (Guaymi)  Search this

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Choco Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Negatives

Contact prints

Photographs

Place:

Panama Canal (Panama)

Panama

Date:

1981-1984

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs made by Carol F. Jopling documenting the Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi peoples of Panama, as well as the Panama Canal and scenery. Jopling's photographs depict Choco and Kuna dwellings (including their construction), Choco people waiting to receive vaccinations from Navy personnel, agriculture (including coconut harvesting), boats in the Panama Canal, and city buildings. Photographs and textual materials used for an exhibit in 1998 at the American Institute of Architects Baltimore Gallery, entitled "Contrasting Vernacular Architecture: Kuna and Choco Houses of Panama," are also available with the collection.

Biographical/Historical note:

Carol Farrington Jopling (ca. 1917-2000) was a librarian and anthropologist. As a librarian, she mostly worked for government agencies, including the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology in 1961 and 1962. In 1973, she received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Massachusettes, writing her disseration on the "Women Weavers of Yalalag; Their Art and Its Process." After spending four years as a research associate at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she became chief librarian of the Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute in Panama (1981-1984). There, she developed a focus on the anthropological study of architecture, publishing a book on the "Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies" in 1971.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 98-37

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The National Anthropological Archives holds the papers of Carol F. Jopling.

Jopling also donated artifacts to the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 368048.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Dwellings  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 98-37, Carol F. Jopling photographs of Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi peoples of Panama, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.98-37

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-98-37

Collector:

Creighton, J. M., Ensign, U.S.N.  Search this

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

April 5, 1917

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1745

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Panama  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 1745, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS1745

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1745

Collector:

Tewkesbury, Richard  Search this

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1940 ?

Scope and Contents:

From the Cuna as follows: at Icandi and Pintupu on the Bayano River, 1 page. (17 words, 1 sentence); at Piria on the Bayano River, 1 page. 12 words, and from headwaters of the Chucunaque River, same page 2 words; in locality of Bayano River, 7 geographic names, 1 page, also name of chief of Naragandi.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4111

Topic:

Panama  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4111, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4111

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4111

Creator:

Lull, Edward Phelps, 1836-1887  Search this

Extent:

6 Pages

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

May 9, 1873

Scope and Contents:

From Transactions of the American Philological Society, 1873

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1158

Local Note:

A printed pamphlet.

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Panama  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 1158, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS1158

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1158

Creator:

Spencer, June Alice  Search this

Extent:

42 Photographic prints

Culture:

Kuna (Cuna)  Search this

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Indians of Central America -- Panama  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Place:

San Blas Islands (Panama)

Date:

1996-1997

Summary:

This collection consists of forty-two 3.5 x 5" color photographic prints of the Guna peoples of Ukupseni (formerly Playón Chico), one of the islands in the Guna Yala Indigenous Territory (formerly San Blas), Panama. The photographs were taken by June Alice Spencer during visits in 1996-1997, and depict Guna people in their daily lives.

Scope and Contents:

This collection consists of forty-two 3.5 x 5" color photographic prints of the Guna peoples of Ukupseni (formerly Playón Chico), one of the islands in the Guna Yala Indigenous Territory (formerly San Blas), Panama. The photographs were taken by June Alice Spencer during visits in 1996-1997, and depict Guna people in their daily lives. Notable images include villagers fishing, repairing a building's roof, harvesting a sea turtle, as well as images of the market, village buildings, molas, a young child with albinism, a young girl having her nose pierced, children at play, and the nearby airport landing strip.

Arrangement:

The materials in this collection are organized into folders.

Biographical / Historical:

June Alice Spencer is a retired Assistant Professor from Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. She took the photographs in this collection while visiting Ukupseni (formerly Playón Chico), Panama, in 1996-1997.

Separated Materials:

Three Guna molas, made on the island of Ukupseni (formerly Playón Chico), were also donated to the NMAI by June Alice Spencer in 2016. These three molas were assigned object numbers: 26/9694, 26/9695, and 26/9696.

Provenance:

This collection was donated by June Alice Spencer in 2016.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday – Friday, 9:30am – 4:30pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); June Alice Spencer photograph collection, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.112

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-112

Creator:

Densmore, Frances, 1867-1957  Search this

Extent:

1 Folder

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1924

Scope and Contents:

Material comprises 56 typed pages manuscript, transcriptions of 2 songs and descriptive analyses of 2 songs. The title page of a manuscript "Songs and Instrumental Music of the Tule Indians of Panama," is filed herein. 56 pages text, 9 pages descriptive analyses, and 11 pages transcriptions, once filed under catalog number 3090, are no longer present. Possibly this manuscript was published in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Volume 77, Number 11, "Study of Tule Music", 1926.)

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 3090

Local Note:

The following have been returned to Harrington Collection, ELM, 3/78. Another copy of "Music and Customs of the Tule Indians of Panama," found in J. P. Harrington storeroom, 4/65. "Songs and Instrumental Music of the Tule Indians of Panama." 22 page manuscript, 5 pages in the hand of J. P. Harrington, found in J. P. Harrington storeroom, 4/65.

Topic:

Cuna Indians  Search this

Music  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Panama  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 3090, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS3090

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms3090

Creator:

Randolph, Ruth Morrison  Search this

Extent:

40 Items (photographs + 2 letters )

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

1920s

Biographical / Historical:

Ruth Randolph became the principal of a school at Gatun, Canal Zone, in 1923 and 1924 after obtaining her master's degree in education from Washington State Normal School.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Manuscript 7490, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7490

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7490

Creator:

Whitaker, C. H.  Search this

Extent:

36 Pages

62 Photographs

1 Map

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Photographs

Maps

Date:

1954

Scope and Contents:

Includes 62 photographs, and 1 map; and 1 exhibit: a printed Cuna primer, Tule Kaya Sunmakket Wilup Kan," by Alcibiades Iglesias, 1951.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4425

Topic:

Panama  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Maps

Citation:

Manuscript 4425, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4425

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4425

Creator:

Verrill, John, 1904-1933  Search this

Extent:

27 Pages

5 Maps

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Choco  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Maps

Photographs

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Includes: "Cuna Glossary," 8 pages; "[Choco] Glossary [and ethnographic notes]," 11 pages; "Snapshots [captions and background information]," 8 pages; 57 snapshots of Cuna and Choco Indians. Notes on John Verrill, recorded by C. Evans from telephone conversation with M. W. Stirling, 2/62. 1 page typed. (Added 2/62)

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4440

Topic:

Archeology -- Colombia  Search this

Colombia  Search this

Genre/Form:

Maps

Photographs

Citation:

Manuscript 4440, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4440

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4440

Photographer:

Hilu, Sam  Search this

Extent:

5 Items (35 mm color transparencies )

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Slides (photographs)

Date:

1966

Scope and Contents:

Relate to Cuna Indians, Island of Carti, Panama, 1966.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4958

Local Note:

Filed: slides.

Topic:

Panama  Search this

Genre/Form:

Slides (photographs)

Citation:

Manuscript 4958, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4958

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4958

Creator:

Cleveland, A.G.  Search this

Extent:

244 Pages

Culture:

Tule  Search this

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Pictographs

Maps

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Includes: "The San Blas Coast," 77 pages, handwritten; and typed transcript, with carbon copy, 82 pages each. Original examples of Tule picture writing, (only A and F found, others missing, 5/13/76), collected and partially interpreted by A.G. Cleveland. 30 pages in 12 in x 5 in black notebook. Typescript of the interpretations, with carbon copy, 8 pages each. (For negatives of the picture writing samples, see S.I. Negative Numbers 49,394-A-N). Picture writing, 33 pages, in 9 in x 7 in notebook. "Dictionary and interpretation of the San Blas Indian Language, as interpreted by A.G. Cleveland," 91 pages, handwritten, in 12 in x 5 in black notebook. Two manuscript maps of the San Blas coast, drawn by A.G. Cleveland.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4451-a

Other Title:

The San Blas Coast

Dictionary and interpretation of the San Blas Indian Language, as interpreted by A.G. Cleveland

Topic:

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Panama  Search this

Genre/Form:

Pictographs -- Tule

Maps

Citation:

Manuscript 4451-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4451A

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4451a

Creator:

Oliver, Frederick L. (Frederick Lansing), 1879-  Search this

Extent:

26 Pages

4 Photographs

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Photographs

Date:

1916

Biographical / Historical:

His appended note and personal communication indicates that Captain Oliver drafted the manuscript in 1916, basing it on his experience while serving in the U. S. S. Bancroft in 1902-03; the photographs were collected sometime between 1902 and 1916.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4746

OPPS NEG 55,584-587

Local Note:

Photographs copied as Negative Numbers 55,584-587.

Topic:

Panama  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 4746, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4746

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4746

Creator:

Randolph, Ruth Morrison  Search this

Extent:

19 Pages

6 Items (photographic prints )

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Date:

December 5, 1923

Scope and Contents:

The letter describes a trip by boat up the Sambu River, Panama, and meetings with "Chokoki" Indians. The photographs show Indians, boats, and houses.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 7529

Topic:

Boats -- Cuna  Search this

Dwellings -- Cuna  Search this

Panama -- Sambu River  Search this

Citation:

Manuscript 7529, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS7529

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7529

Creator:

Marsh, Richard O. (Richard Oglesby), 1883-1953  Search this

Names:

Marsh-Darien Expedition, 1924  Search this

Davis, Watson, 1896-1967  Search this

Extent:

75 Pages

7 Photographs

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Photographs

Date:

1923

Scope and Contents:

Contents as follows: "The White Indians or the Primitive White People of Southeastern Panama." Brockport, New York, October, 1923. 35 pages, typed, 7 photographs. "The Marsh Darien Expedition of 1924." 18 pages, handwritten, signed by R.O. Marsh. "The Discovery of the White Indians of Panama, as told by R.O. Marsh, their discoverer, to Watson Davis." Special newspaper feature, produced by Science Service, Inc., Washington, D.C. Copyright 1924 by Science Service. 22 pages, mimeo.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 4550

Other Title:

The White Indians or the Primitive White People of Southeastern Panama

The Marsh Darien Expedition of 1924

The Discovery of the White Indians of Panama, as told by R. O. Marsh, their discoverer, to Watson Davis

Topic:

Panama  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Manuscript 4550, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS4550

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms4550

Culture/People:

Chucunaque Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Collector:

Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges (F. A. Mitchell-Hedges), Non-Indian, 1882-1959  Search this

Lady Lilian Mabel Alice Richmond Brown (Lilian Mabel Alice Roussel), Non-Indian, 1885-1946  Search this

Donor:

Frederick A. Mitchell-Hedges (F. A. Mitchell-Hedges), Non-Indian, 1882-1959  Search this

Lady Lilian Mabel Alice Richmond Brown (Lilian Mabel Alice Roussel), Non-Indian, 1885-1946  Search this

Object Name:

Baby's shirt

Media/Materials:

Cotton cloth, thread, mother-of-pearl buttons

Techniques:

Sewn, reverse appliquéd, embroidered

Dimensions:

42.40 x 32.40 cm

Object Type:

Clothing/Garments

Place:

Río Chucunaque; Emberá-Wounaan Indigenous Territory, Darién Province, Guna de Waragandí Indigenous Territory; Panama (inferred)

Date created:

circa 1920

Catalog Number:

16/6497

Barcode:

166497.000

See related items:

Chucunaque Guna (Kuna)

Clothing/Garments

On View:

NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, & Games

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws67edcea03-2278-46b9-8cce-38ae4fac0ae5

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_178338

Culture/People:

Guna [Guna Yala]  Search this

Collector:

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

Object Name:

Man's headdress

Media/Materials:

Palm fiber, feather/feathers, cotton cord/cordage, dye/dyes

Techniques:

Twill-plaited, coiled, wrapped, tied

Object Type:

Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses

Place:

Río Navagandí and Río Ticantiquí (Tigantiquí); Mulatupo Municipality; Guna Yala Indigenous Territory (San Blas); Panama

Date created:

circa 1910

Catalog Number:

12/9170

Barcode:

129170.000

See related items:

Guna [Guna Yala]

Clothing/Garments: Headwear and Headdresses

On View:

NMAI, New York, NY: Infinity of Nations, Headdresses

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6b68ceba6-cccf-4ab5-bbbb-3b1c95880ad5

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_138883

Culture/People:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Collector:

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

Object Name:

Airplane model

Media/Materials:

Wood, cotton twine/string

Techniques:

Carved, drilled, pegged, strung

Dimensions:

85.00 x 46.00 cm

Object Type:

Games, Toys, Gambling

Place:

Río Sangandí (Samgandí) and Río Tubugandí; Guna de Madugandí Indigenous Territory; Panama

Date created:

circa 1920

Catalog Number:

12/8753

Barcode:

128753.000

See related items:

Guna (Kuna)

Games, Toys, Gambling

On View:

NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, & Games

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6666f4743-0b39-4354-8f48-742c049c2659

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_138502

Culture/People:

Guna [Guna Yala]  Search this

Collector:

David B. Stout, Non-Indian, 1913-1968  Search this

Previous owner:

David B. Stout, Non-Indian, 1913-1968  Search this

Seller:

David B. Stout, Non-Indian, 1913-1968  Search this

Object Name:

Monkey figure

Media/Materials:

Wood

Techniques:

Carved

Dimensions:

24.00 x 16.00 x 49.50 cm

Object Type:

Sculpture/Carving/Figures

Place:

Ailigandí; Ailigandí Municipality; Guna Yala Indigenous Territory (San Blas); Panama

Archipelago:

Archipiélago de San Blas (San Blas Islands)

Island Name:

Isla Ailigandí

Date created:

1935-1940

Catalog Number:

20/4440

Barcode:

204440.000

See related items:

Guna [Guna Yala]

Sculpture/Carving/Figures

On View:

NMAI, Washington DC: Window on Collections, As We Grow: Traditions, Toys, & Games

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6de33e7be-8938-43f1-a917-8a919f270cf8

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_218427

Creator:

Tower, Gilbert S.  Search this

Extent:

16 Prints (silver gelatin)

Culture:

Guna (Kuna)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Place:

San Blas Islands (Panama)

Date:

1921

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs depicting villages and people of the San Blas Islands made or collected by Gilbert Tower during his work in Panama. The prints are mounted on unbound pages, probably from an album.

Biographical/Historical note:

Gilbert S. Tower was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and engineer for the Panama Canal. He visited the San Blas Islands on a one-day excursion, which was sponsored by the Panamanian government, while working on the canal in 1921.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 2011-37

Location of Other Archival Materials:

National Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology Collections holds Cuna artifacts collected by Gilbert Tower (accession 327937).

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 2011-37, Gilbert S. Tower photographs of Cuna people of the San Blas Islands, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.2011-37

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-2011-37