Copy prints of original photographs held by the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, and National Archives cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Collection Citation:
Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Collection Citation:
Harold F. Pierce Aviation Medicine Collection, Acc. 2014.0044, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Edited film produced for National Geographic Society Explorer television series by Ann Derry explores the roll of steel drums in Trinidadian life. The footage shows making of steel drums from old oil barrels, a tuner "tuning" a drum, and painting of drums. Highlighted is a yearly steel festival in which a well-known steel orchestra, the Desperados from Lavantio, compete and win.
General:
HSFA 1990.1.1
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
National Geographic Explorer videos, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film produced for National Geographic Society Explorer television series by Steve Burns focuses on preparations for and performance in Brazil's Carnival Samba parade. Film features Samba dancers from the Manguera slums of Rio de Janiero, Brazil, as they prepare for the Samba parade and an interview with the Manguera master of Samba. Scenes include rehearsing for the parade, costume construction, streets and homes of Manguera, and the children's and adult's Samba parade in which 16 Samba schools compete. Manguera inhabitants express conflicting views of Samba as an essential expression of community pride and as an impediment to economic improvement of an impoverished community.
Local Number:
HSFA 1990.1.3
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
National Geographic Explorer videos, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film produced for National Geographic Society Explorer television series explores Ju Ju music, particularly as played in Lagos, Nigeria. Ju Ju musicians playing calabash rattle, drum, guitar, and bottle are shown performing in various settings. Influences originating in the New World, such as Latin drums and English chamber music, are also shown and discussed.
Local Number:
HSFA 1990.1.4
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
National Geographic Explorer videos, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film produced for National Geographic Society Explorer television series by John Lipscomb examines the nature of Voodoo through the yearly Festival of Our Lady of Mount Carmel held at a sacred waterfall outside Ville Bonne Heure, Haiti. Photographer Carol de Villers is interviewed concerning the practice of Voodoo and is shown photographing the pilgrims. Pilgrims are shown praying and making offerings to the spirits at different stations on the way to the waterfalls, cleansing themselves in the falls, and attending mass.
Local Number:
HSFA 1990.1.5
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
National Geographic Explorer videos, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Edited film produced for the National Geographic Society Explorer television series was shot in 1987 and shows Wodaabe life, preparing for celebrations at the end of the rainy season, and relations with American photographer Carol Beckwith who has lived with and extensively photographed the Wodaabe. A pastoralist people of the African Sahel, Niger, the Wodaabe are seen setting up camp and performing gender divided labor according to strict tribal tabus, drinking tea at the men's morning tea ceremony, searching for a water hole, and sewing and doing bead work. Film concludes with two dances which are performed at the end of the rainy season--a celebration which had not been performed since before the severe drought of 1985. Preparations for the dances include elaborate face painting.
General:
HSFA 1990.1.2
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
National Geographic Explorer videos, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Photograph (lantern slide, hand-colored, 3.25 x 4 in.)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Lantern slides
Place:
Gunston Hall (Mason Neck, Virginia)
United States of America -- Virginia -- Fairfax County -- Mason Neck
Date:
[between 1914 and 1949?]
General:
Mount reads: "From National Geographic Society; Washington, D. C."
Historic plate number: "154."
Historic plate caption: "Gunston Gall Mr. Hertle."
Collection Restrictions:
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.
Sponsor:
A project to describe images in this finding aid received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
