Photographs depicting members of the Department of Anthropology in conversation and receiving awards from National Museum of Natural History Director Porter Kier. The awards were presented on April 10, 1979 in the conference room of the Division of Physical Anthropology. The photographs were probably made by the Department of Anthropology Chairman's office.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 79-51
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs of awards presented to Department of Anthropology staff can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 76-127 and Photo Lot 77-52.
Photographs documenting a reception honoring Douglas H. Ubelaker's transition from Department Chairman. They include images of Douglas H. Ubelaker and other members of the Department of Anthropology staff, as well as gifts given to Ubelaker in celebration of his five-year tenure as chairman. The photographs were probably made by a Smithsonian photographer in the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab of the National Museum of Natural History on January 31, 1985.
Biographical/Historical note:
In 1985, Adrienne Lois Kaeppler replaced Douglas H. Ubelaker as chair of the Department of Anthropology.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 85-14
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Records of the department during Ubelaker's chairmanship can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Smithsonian Department of Anthropology Records 1877-1980.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Posters
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 85-14, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photographs of human bone used in the Cultural Resource Management Studies publication issued by the Department of Interior in 1980. Some of the images show the results of excavations in South Dakota and Maryland, views of masses of bones in an ossuary in Maryland and burial urns in Ecuador, and an example of trephination.
Biographical/Historical note:
Douglas H. Ubelaker (b. 1946) is a forensic anthropologist, curator of biological anthropology in the Smithsonian Institution Department of Anthropology, and a Professorial Lecturer in Anthropology and Anatomy at The George Washington University. He has published research on the paleopathology, paleodemography, and osteology of ancient populations.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 92-36
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Field notes by Ubelaker held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7220 and MS 7474.
Records relating to Ubelaker's work for the Smithsonian held in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA RU000366, SIA Acc. 95-013, SIA RS00028, and SIA AH00204.
Collins, Henry B. (Henry Bascom), 1899-1987 Search this
Extent:
2 Items (ca. inch ca. 2 inch)
90 Photographs
2 Volumes
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Volumes
Date:
1980;1987
Scope and Contents:
The material relates to two events: a dinner in honor of Collins, December 5, 1980, and a memorial service, November 5, 1987. Included are announcements, a guest book for the memorial, xerox copies of photographs of and writings by Collins, messages from many prominent anthropologists and archeologists, and an album of photographs and other memorabilia presented to Collins at the dinner in 1980. Particularly lengthy messages are from Moreau Browne Congleton Chambers, Frederica de Laguna, William G. Haag, Clifford Evans and Betty Jane Meggers, James Bennett Griffin, Stephen Williams, Helge Larsen, James B. Griffin, and William S. Laughlin. The photographs show Henry Bascom Collins (some by Sabra K. McCracken), Douglas H. Ubelaker, James B. Griffin, David Challinor, Richard Fiske, Regina Flannery Herzfeld, Waldo R. Wedel, John C. Ewers, Clifford Evans, Stephen Williams, Margaret Lantis, William W. Fitzhugh, Helge Larsen. Also included are photographs of St. Lawrence Island, 1959 taken by Robert E. Ackerman.
See the brochure for contents. Speakers include Douglas Henry Ubelaker, Herman J. Viola, Richard Fiske, William Fenton, H. Dempsey, Douglas Parks, Joe Medicine Crow, Mildred Wedel, James Hanson, T. Wessell, J. Gunnerson, D. Gunnerson, Brian Hesse, Loretta Fowler, J. Hotopp, George Frison, D. Gradwohl, and Dennis Stanford. All speakers materials were published except for Uberlaker's, Viola's, and Fiske's opening remarks, Joe Medicine Crow's "The Crow migration story", and D. Gunnerson's "Apachean migration and adaptation" (a slide lecture)
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7293
Local Note:
Seven-inch tape records 1/2 track, 7.5 ips.
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Genre/Form:
Lectures
Citation:
Manuscript 7293, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The form includes the site designation, feature number, burial number, location within the site, burial type, burial dimensions, deposition, grave type, grave dimensions, stratification, associations, preservation, completeness, sex, age, negative numbers, remarks, and sketches. The diary (June 14-August 4) is for work at the Mobridge site by the burial party, for which Ubelaker served as director.
