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Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection

Creator:
Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965  Search this
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this
Names:
Peabody Museum, Harvard University  Search this
Extent:
1188 Negatives (photographic)
3 Photographic prints
18 Lantern slides
Culture:
Maya (archaeological culture)  Search this
Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan)  Search this
A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this
Selk'nam (Ona)  Search this
Kaqchikel Maya (Cakchiquel)  Search this
Tz'utuhil Maya (Tzutuhil/Zutigil)  Search this
Quiché Maya (Quiche)  Search this
Central America  Search this
Island Caribbean  Search this
Hopi Pueblo  Search this
K'iche' Maya (Quiché)  Search this
K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo)  Search this
Inka (Inca) (archaeological)  Search this
Lenca  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Photographic prints
Lantern slides
Photographs
Negatives
Place:
North America
Zuni (N.M.) -- Photographs
Tierra del Fuego (Argentina and Chile)
Date:
1915-1928
Summary:
The Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection primarily contains negatives, photographic prints, and lantern slides made by Lothrop while employed by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation from 1924-1930. Lothrop was an archaeologist and photographer who extensively traveled and worked throughout Central America and South America and led expeditions on behalf of the MAI to Argentina, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Peru. There are also photographs from prior to Lothrop's time at MAI that were made in other locations in Central America, Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wisconsin between 1915 and 1918.
Scope and Contents:
The Samuel K. Lothrop collection primarily contains negatives, photographic prints, and lantern slides made by Lothrop while employed by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation from 1924-1930. There are also photographs from prior to Lothrop's time at MAI that were made in other locations in Central America, Puerto Rico, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wisconsin between 1915 and 1918.

Series 1: Non-MAI Expeditions to Wisconsin and the Southwest, United States, 1915, includes photographic negatives from S.K. Lothrop's first field experience in archaeology the summer of 1915 under the direction of A.V. Kidder through the R.S. Peabody Foundation of Andover. This includes photographs in the Southwest at the San Cristobal Pueblo ruins, A:shiwi (Zuni) Pueblo, Acoma Pueblo, K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo) in New Mexico and at various locations at Hopi Pueblo, Arizona. There are also photographs of Bird Effigy Mound and Panther Effigy in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, also made in 1915.

Series 2: Non-MAI Expeditions to Central America and Puerto Rico, circa 1915-1918, includes photographic negatives and lantern slides from Lothrop's time as Director of the Harvard Peabody Museum's Central American,1916-1917. Some of the photographs in this series are listed as 1918, though during that time Lothrop was working for the U.S. Army Military Intelligence. It's also possible that the photographs from Puerto Rico, which are cataloged as 1918 were taken during a 1915 trip to the island. The photographs in this series include views from Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Puerto Rico.

Series 3: MAI Central American Expedition to El Salvador, 1924, includes photographs from the "S.K. Lothrop Central American Expedition" between January and May 1924. The majority of the photographs were made in El Salvador, though a small amount were taken in Guatemala. The photographs in EL Salvador include photographs of volcanos, archaeological sites, antiquities, landscape views, villages, and native peoples, such as the Lenca, engaged in pottery and rope making, food preparation, house building, and ceremonial activities.

Series 4: MAI Tierra del Fuego Expedition, 1924-1925, includes photographs from the "MAI Tierra del Fuego Expedition" between October 1924 and March, 1925. Lothrop, accompanied by J. Linzee Weld, spent three months on the Islands of Tierra del Fuego (Chile, Argentina) visiting Selk'nam (Ona) and Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan) settlements. The three Selk'nam (Ona) settlements included one at the Southeast corner of Lake Fagnano, one at the Northeast of Lake Fagnano and the third east of the Laguna de Pescados. Yámana (Yagán/Yahgan) settlements were encountered at Tierra Mayor, Cambaceres Bay, Gable island and Puerto Mejillones on Navarin Island. The photographs include depictions of the daily live and ceremonial activities of the Native peoples, as well as landscape views. Also included in this series are photographic negatives made in Peru sometime in 1925 during Lothrop's trip in South America. These include images in Incahuasi and La Centinela, among other locations.

Series 5: MAI La Plata Expedition (Paraná River Delta Argentina Expedition), 1925, includes photographic negatives from the "Mrs. Thea Heye, La Plata Expedition" also known as the "Thea Heye - Lothrop Paraná River Delta Argentina Expedition" between March and June 1925. The expedition was conducted jointly between the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and the Museo de la Plata in Argentina (Argentine Republic). Excavations were made in the Río Paraná Delta in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Many of the photographs show views of the river as well as views of the excavation site including mounds and trenches. There are a number of restricted photographs in this series due to cultural sensitivity.

Series 6: MAI Guatemala Expedition, 1928, includes photographic negatives from the "Mrs. Thea Heye Guatemala Expedition" between February and May 1928. Many of the photographs include depictions of Mayan ruins in different Guatemalan provinces. There are also photographs of Tz'utuhil Maya (Tzutuhil/Zutigil), K'iche' (Quiché) Maya, and Kaqchikel Maya (Cakchiquel) people engaged in weaving, rope making, canoeing, and ceremonial activities. There are a number of restricted photographs in this series due to cultural sensitivity.
Arrangement note:
This collection has been arranged in six Series chronologically by expedition.

Series 1: Non-MAI Expeditions to Wisconsin and the Southwest, United States, 1915

Series 2: Non-MAI Expeditions to Central America and Puerto Rico, circa 1915-1918

Series 3: MAI Central American Expedition to El Salvador, 1924

Series 4: MAI Tierra del Fuego Expedition, 1924-1925

Series 5: MAI La Plata Expedition (Paraná River Delta Argentina Expedition), 1925

Series 6: MAI Guatemala Expedition, 1928

Physical Arrangement:

Lantern slides arranged by lantern slide numbers (L00101-L00103, L00577-L00579, L00584-L00585, L00589, L00597, L00622-L00629)

Negatives arranged by negative numbers (N09139-N09140, N09147-N09308, N09316-N09389, N09760-N09997, N10310-N10577, N10803, N14031-N14212, N19372-N19620)

Prints Arranged by print numbers (P10108-P10110)
Biographical/Historical note:
Samuel Kirkland Lothrop was born in Milton, Massachusetts on July 6, 1892, to William Sturgis Hooper Lothrop and Alice Putnam Lothrop. Lothrop spent his childhood in Massachusetts and Puerto Rico and entered Harvard college in 1911. He graduated in 1915 with a concentration in archaeology and anthropology having studied under Alfred Marston Tozzer. Lothrop had his first field experience in archaeology the summer of 1915 under the direction of A.V. Kidder through the R.S. Peabody Foundation of Andover, spending time in the Southwest as well as studying mounds in Wisconsin. Lothrop also traveled extensively in Central American and in Puerto Rico as an associate of the Peabody Museum of Harvard, visiting sites and making small excavations. During World War I, Lothrop's career was interrupted when he served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence between 1917-1918. Following the war, Lothrop returned to graduate work at Harvard and his thesis, submitted in 1921, was focused on the ceramics of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

Lothrop was then employed by the Carnegie Institution's Historical Division to make field investigations in Yucatan and Guatemala in 1923. His 1924 publication on the Yucatan ruin of Tulum was the first major monograph published on the subject. Starting in 1923, with the Hendricks-Hodge Hawikku (Hawikuh) expedition, Lothrop joined the research staff of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (MAI) in New York City. Though George Gustav Heye originally hired Lothrop to research Native Guatemalan and El Salvadoran textiles and pottery, Lothrop also led several expeditions in South America in such places as Tierra del Fuego. During this period, Lothrop became a good friend of Argentine archaeologists at the time such as Fernando Marquez Miranda and published several monographs on his research. Following the dissolution of the MAI's research staff in 1930, Lothrop returned to Harvard's Peabody Museum as a research associate and curator of Andean archaeology until his retirement. Lothrop continued in an active emeritus status until his death in 1965.

Source: Willey, Gordon R. "Samuel Kirkland Lothrop," Biographical Memoirs: Volume 48, pp 253-272. National Academies Press, 1976.
Related Materials:
Samuel K. Lothrop papers (996-20), Peabody Museum Archives. https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/6/resources/4764

Lothrop, S.K. Chile field notes and diary about the Indian of Chile, 1929-1930, #9055. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Separated Materials:
Photographs that were made by S.K. Lothrop during the Hendricks-Hodge Hawikku (Hawikuh) expedition are included in the Hendricks-Hodge Hawikku Expedition photograph collection, NMAI.AC.001.042.

Catalogs and expense records for Lothrop's expeditions can be found in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation records, NMAI.AC.001, in Series 5: Expeditions.
Provenance:
The photographs produced during Museum of the American Indian expeditions were sent to the MAI by Samuel K. Lothrop, alongside field collections, between 1924 and 1930. The photographs that were made by Lothrop prior to his employment at MAI were donated by Lothrop in 1930.
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives 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:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives 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.

There are photographs in this collection that are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Topic:
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Photographs  Search this
Indians of Central America -- El Salvador -- Photographs  Search this
Fuegians -- Social life and customs -- Photographs  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Argentina -- Photographs  Search this
Genre/Form:
Lantern slides
Photographs
Negatives
Photographic prints
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Samuel K. Lothrop photograph collection, NMAI.AC.001.010. National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NMAI.AC.001.010
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Archival Repository:
National Museum of the American Indian
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv44afe2ce2-971a-46ed-a9e8-af14d391f1eb
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-010

El matrimonio entre los indios cuna de Panamá / por Manuel Reverte C

Author:
Reverte Coma, José Manuel 1922-  Search this
Physical description:
45 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
1967
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Marriage customs and rites  Search this
Call number:
F1565.2.C8 R45 1967
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_70858

Los Todos Santeros a family album of Mam Indians in the village of Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, C.A. 1947-1987 Hans Namuth

Author:
Namuth, Hans  Search this
Physical description:
127 pages illustrations, portraits 29 cm
Type:
Books
Illustrated books
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés
Place:
Guatemala
Date:
1989
Topic:
Mayas--Social life and customs  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Indians of Central America--Social life and customs  Search this
Mayas--Mœurs et coutumes  Search this
Indiens d'Amérique--Mœurs et coutumes  Search this
Guatemala--Maya--Social life  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1155226

Women and the ancestors : Black Carib kinship and ritual / Virginia Kerns

Author:
Kerns, Virginia 1948-  Search this
Physical description:
xv, 229 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Belize
Date:
1983
C1983
Topic:
Kinship  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Black people--Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
F1505.2.C3K47 1983X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_203440

Life around the lake embroideries by the women of Lake Pátzcuaro Maricel E. Presilla and Gloria Soto

Author:
Presilla, Maricel E  Search this
Author:
Soto, Gloria  Search this
Physical description:
1 volume (unpaged) color illustrations 26 x
Type:
Juvenile literature
Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Juvenile works
Literature
Place:
Pátzcuaro, Lake (Mexico)
Pátzcuaro, Lac de (Mexique)
Mexico
Lake Pátzcuaro
Date:
1996
Topic:
Purépecha embroidery  Search this
Purépecha Indians--Social life and customs  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Tarasques--Mœurs et coutumes  Search this
Manners and customs  Search this
Mœurs et coutumes  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_917026

Los indios de Panamá / introducción por Noris Correa de Sanjur

Title:
Panamá
Author:
Correa de Sanjur, Noris  Search this
Palacio, William  Search this
Murillo, José Angel  Search this
Antoniadis, Ana María  Search this
Physical description:
39 p., [72] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 32 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Place:
Panama
Date:
1994
[1994]
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Clothing  Search this
Dwellings  Search this
Call number:
F1565 .I36 1994
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_748812

Social and religious life of a Guatemalan village

Author:
Wagley, Charles 1913-  Search this
Physical description:
150p. plates. 25cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Guatemala
Central America
Santiago Chimaltenango (Guatemala)
Date:
1949
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Religion  Search this
Indian mythology  Search this
Call number:
F1465.2.M3 W13 1949
F1465.2.M3W13 1949
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_399414

Noche de rábanos : tradiciones navideñas de Oaxaca / Alejandro Méndez Aquino

Author:
Méndez Aquino, Alejandro  Search this
Physical description:
189 p. : ill. ; 28 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Mexico
Oaxaca
Oaxaca (Mexico : State)
Date:
1990
[1990]
Topic:
Christmas  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_746182

The Maya / by Petra Press

Author:
Press, Petra  Search this
Physical description:
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm
Type:
Juvenile literature
Date:
2002
C2002
Topic:
Mayas--History  Search this
Mayas--Social life and customs  Search this
Mayas  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_746379

Le mouvement du monde : croissance, fécondité et régénération sociale chez les Ngobe de Costa Rica et de Panama / by Corine Le Carrer

Author:
Le Carrer, Corine  Search this
Physical description:
xxii, 500 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Theses
Place:
Costa Rica
Panama
Date:
2010
Topic:
Guaymi Indians--Rites and ceremonies  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1049763

Blanca flor de mi pueblo : sac kotzij re nu tinimit, ceremonia matrimonial Quezaltenango dramatizacion / por Alfredo Encarnación Ulín

Author:
Ulín Reyes, Alfredo Encarnación  Search this
Museo Ixchel del Traje Indígena de Guatemala  Search this
Physical description:
[20] p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Guatemala
Date:
1974
[1974]
Topic:
Marriage customs and rites  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
F1434.2.S63 U39 1974
F1434.2.S63U39 1974
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_378550

Historia de una caja de comunidad : Tehuacán, 1586-1630 / Blanca Lara Tenorio

Author:
Lara Tenorio, Blanca  Search this
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico)  Search this
Physical description:
151 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Mexico
Tehuacán
Tehuacán (Mexico)
Date:
2005
Topic:
Indians of Mexico--History  Search this
Indians of Mexico--Antiquities  Search this
Indians of Mexico--Social life and customs  Search this
History  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
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EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_918979

Mestiz@ scripts, digital migrations and the territories of writing / Damián Baca ; foreword by Linda Martín Alcoff

Author:
Baca, Damián 1975-  Search this
Physical description:
xxiv, 210 p. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Mexico
Date:
2008
Topic:
Picture-writing--History  Search this
Mestizos--History  Search this
Mestizos--Social life and customs  Search this
Manuscripts, Mexican (Pre-Columbian)  Search this
Languages--Writing  Search this
Culture--Semiotic models  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_902922

Pueblos etnicos de Honduras : resumen informativo sobre los pueblos etnicos de Honduras

Author:
Consejo Asesor Hondureño para el Desarrollo de las Etnias Autóctonas  Search this
Physical description:
27 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Honduras
Date:
1988
[1988]
Topic:
Indigenous peoples  Search this
Rural conditions  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
F1505 .P97 1988
F1505.P97 1988
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_387104

The symbolism of subordination : Indian identity in a Guatemalan town / by Kay B. Warren

Author:
Warren, Kay B. 1947-  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 207 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Guatemala
San Andrés Semetabaj (Guatemala)
Date:
1989
Topic:
Ethnic identity  Search this
Religion  Search this
Catholic action  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
F1465.2.C3 W28 1989
F1465.2.C3W28 1989
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_383559

Indians of California, southwestern United States, and Latin America : photographs of modernized museum exhibits from United States National Museum ; 1955 annual report

Title:
Photographs of modernized museum exhibits from United States National Museum
Author:
United States National Museum  Search this
Physical description:
[12] p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Exhibitions
Place:
California
Southwest, New
Date:
1955
1955?]
Topic:
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
E56 .I53 1955
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_714710

Rarámuri souls : knowledge and social process in northern Mexico / William L. Merrill

Author:
Merrill, William L  Search this
Physical description:
xi, 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Mexico
Chihuahua
Date:
1988
C1988
Topic:
Religion  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Call number:
F1221.T25M47 1988X
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_375793

Your travel guide to ancient Maya civilization / Nancy Day

Author:
Day, Nancy  Search this
Physical description:
96 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Juvenile literature
Date:
2001
C2001
Topic:
Mayas  Search this
Mayas--Social life and customs  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_714801

Mesoamerican archaeology : theory and practice / edited by Julia A. Hendon and Rosemary A. Joyce

Author:
Hendon, Julia A (Julia Ann)  Search this
Joyce, Rosemary A. 1956-  Search this
Physical description:
xvi, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Mexico
Central America
Date:
2004
Topic:
Mayas--Antiquities  Search this
Mayas--Material culture  Search this
Mayas--Social life and customs  Search this
Antiquities  Search this
Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_717109

The measure and meaning of time in Mesoamerica and the Andes / Anthony F. Aveni, editor

Editor:
Aveni, Anthony F.  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 315 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Type:
Congresses
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Place:
Central America
Andes Region
Date:
2015
Topic:
Time--Social aspects--History  Search this
Indians of Central America--Social life and customs  Search this
Mayas--Social life and customs  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Indian chronology  Search this
Maya chronology  Search this
Indian calendar--History  Search this
Maya calendar--History  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1051488

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