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Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Negatives
Photographs
Date:
probably 1870s-1880s
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs of skulls in the United States Army Medical Museum collection, which appear to have been collected for physical anthropological purposes. Included are archeological remains and remains of Native American tribes and some other ethnic groups. Other than tribe or location, data for the specimens include Army Medical Museum specimen number, AMM negative number, and sex; for some, there is also collection data and information on physical or medical conditions. There are also notes identifying donors who included army officers, physicians, scientists, and explorers such as Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, Edward Palmer, Frederic Ward Putnam, George Rolleston, Paul Schumacher, and many others. Some of the photographs may have been made as part of the Army Medical Museumʹs program of distributing images of its specimens.
Represented are Africans, Chinook, Choptank, Dakota, Eskimo of Greenland, Taiwanese peoples, Hawaiians, Hidatsa, Nisqually, Philippine peoples, Ponca, Potowatomi, Pueblo, Tonkawa, and Ute. Archeological specimens are from the Aleutian Islands, California, the Dakotas, England (Roman period), Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, New Mexico, Peru, Vancouver Island, and Vermont. For some, there is also information about the status or physical condition of the individual or observations of medical conditions shown in the specimens. Some additional photographs appear to show specimens at the American Museum of Natural History.
Biographical/Historical note:
The United States Army Medical Museum (AMM, renamed the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1989) was established by US Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond in 1862. Its initial focus was on collecting specimens of unusual pathology, mostly taken from victims of the American Civil War. By 1867, the museum had expanded to include medical, microsopical, anatomical, comparative anatomics, and other sections. The anatomical collection grew in part as a result of Circular No. 2 of 1867, which authorized military medical officers to collect cranial specimens from deceased Native Americans. Additionally, the AMM made an arrangement with the Smithsonian Institution, by which the Smithsonian transferred their collection of human remains in exchange for ethnological artifacts. AMM photographed and measured many of the specimens in its collection as part of the museum's anthropological research.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 73-26C, NAA Photo Lot 73-26D
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs previously filed in Photo Lot 73-26D have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 73-26C. These are also Army Medical Museum negatives of skulls and form part of this collection.
Additional Army Medical Museum photographs of skulls can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 6A, Photo Lot 6B, Photo Lot 78-42, Photo Lot 83-41, and Photo Lot 97.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
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Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 73-26C, United States Army Medical Museum photographs of skulls, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
By Ethel Freeman's instructions, the collection was restricted for ten years dating from the receipt and signing of the release forms on October 12, 1972. Literary property rights to the unpublished materials in the collection were donated to the National Anthropological Archives.
Access to the Ethel Cutler Freeman papers requires an appointment.
Seminole recordings cannot be accessed without the permission of the Seminole Tribe.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Ethel Cutler Freeman papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded through generous support from the Arcadia Fund.
Taiwan yuan zhu min shen ti zhuang shi yu fu shi / Shi Cuifeng zhu = The body decorations and custumes [i.e. costumes] of Taiwanese aborigines / Tsui-Feng Shih
Title:
臺灣原住民身體裝飾與服飾 / 施翠峰著 = The body decorations and custumes [i.e. costumes] of Taiwanese aborigines / Tsui-Feng Shih
Body decorations and custumes of Taiwanese aborigines
Body decorations and costumes of Taiwanese aborigines
Yuan zhen zhi mei : Chen Chengqing xian sheng zhen cang Taiwan yuan zhu min yi shu wen wu = Aboriginal arts in Taiwan : the collection of Chen Cheng-ching / [bian ji Guo li li shi bo wu guan bian ji wei yuan hui ; zhu bian Huang Yongchuan]
Title:
原真之美 : 陳澄晴先生珍藏臺灣原住民藝術文物 = Aboriginal arts in Taiwan : the collection of Chen Cheng-ching / [編輯國立歷史博物館編輯委員會 ; 主編黃永川]
Chen Chengqing xian sheng zhen cang Taiwan yuan zhu min yi shu wen wu
Yuan zhu min zhi pin ji shi pin tu lu : Guo li Taiwan shi qian wen hua bo wu guan cang pin = Textile and ornaments of the aboriginal people in Taiwan, collections of National Museum of Prehistory / [zhu bian Fang Zhirong]
Title:
Guo li Taiwan shi qian wen hua bo wu guan cang pin
Textile and ornaments of the aboriginal people in Taiwan : collections of National Museum of Prehistory
Author:
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Photographs of skulls, which were sent by Stuart Eldridge of Yokohama, Japan, to the Army Medical Museum in November 1876. They include front and profile images of skulls of "Botan" warriors from the island of Formosa (Taiwan) and of an adult male from Manila, Philippines.
Biographical/Historical note:
Stuart Eldrige (1843-1901) was a New York-born physician known for his work in Japan for both the United States and Japanese governments. He traveled to Japan as Secretary and Physician to the Scientific Mission to Japan under General Horace Capron in 1871. He continued to serve there in several positions, including Surgeon-General of the Kaitakushi (Commissioner of Development Projects), director of the General Hospital of Yokohama, and Member of the Central Sanitary Board by the Japanese Government (1883).
The United States Army Medical Museum (AMM, renamed the National Museum of Health and Medicine in 1989) was established by US Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond in 1862. Its initial focus was on collecting specimens of unusual pathology, mostly taken from victims of the American Civil War. By 1867, the museum had expanded to include medical, microsopical, anatomical, comparative anatomics, and other sections. The anatomical collection grew in part as a result of Circular No. 2 of 1867, which authorized military medical officers to collect cranial specimens from deceased Native Americans. Additionally, the AMM made an arrangement with the Smithsonian Institution, by which the Smithsonian transferred their collection of human remains in exchange for ethnological artifacts. AMM photographed and measured many of the specimens in its collection as part of the museum's anthropological research.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 6B
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Army Medical Museum photographs of skulls can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 6A, Photo Lot 73-26C, Photo Lot 78-42, Photo Lot 83-41, and Photo Lot 97.
The National Anthropological Archives holds records concerning skeletal material transferred to the Smithsonian Institution from the Army Medical Museum.
Photo lot 6B, Dr. Stuart Eldridge photograph collection of skulls from Taiwan and the Philippines, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Film reel (3 minutes, color silent; 100 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Archival materials
Film reels
Date:
circa 1950-1959
Scope and Contents:
Edited film produced by Rickshaw Films of Hong Kong is a travelogue of Sun Moon Lake, a popular tourist sight in Taiwan. Featured are overviews of the lake and scenes in a village known as Mu-Tan (Sun Moon Lake) which includes dances by descendants of one of Taiwan's aboriginal groups.
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:
Rickshaw Films collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
