| PHOTOGRAPHS
COLLECTED FOR AN INCA ARCHEOLOGY EXHIBIT The enlarged prints were part of a
1954 Latin American archeology exhibit in the United States National Museum. Included are
general views of ruins, specific structures, and details of structures. Views are of Machu
Picchu, Ollantaytambo, Tiahuanaco, Cuzco, Sacahuaman, Urcos, Virú Valley, and Pachacamac.
Photographers include anthropologists Harry S. Tschopik, Jr., Clifford Evans, and
Heinrich Ubbelohde-Doering. The Ubbelohde-Doering photographs were in Art of Ancient
Peru, New York, 1952.
DATES: No date
QUANTITY: 41 prints
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: None
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 66A
PORTRAITS OF INDIAN AGENTS
The collection is made up of glass negatives. Most subjects are probably federal Indian
agents or others connected with Indian delegations to Washington. Identified persons are
Daniel C. Oakes, with the Ute delegation of 1868; W. Kershaw; George W. Stidham, a Creek;
William F.M. Arny, Navaho agent; Charles Le Clair, French-Ponca; and Henry Walther,
assistant in the Bureau of American Ethnology photographic laboratory. Photographers
include the Ulke Brothers, A. Zeno Shindler, and Charles M. Bell. A dry plate of Walther,
probably made by De Lancey W. Gill, is apparently unrelated to the other photographs.
DATES: Perhaps 1858-1913
QUANTITY: 21 negatives
ARRANGEMENT: Unarranged
FINDING AID: List
RESTRICTION: Researchers with special needs may arrange to view the negatives.
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 31
PORTRAITS OF INDIANS OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND
The copy prints were made from incompletely identified glass negatives. Purportedly the
subjects are Shinnecocks.
DATE: No date
QUANTITY: 5 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 79-53
INDIANS WITH MEMBERS OF THE LAW FIRM OF SERVEN AND POTTER
One 1930 photograph shows a luncheon group including A.R. Serven, Guy Potter, John G.
Carter, and a Nez Perce group. Another photographs shows Oscar Boy, a Piegan Blackfoot,
with Carter.
DATES: 1930 and 1934
QUANTITY: 2 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 89-50
INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1943-1952), Records
The Institute of Social Anthropology (ISA) was an autonomous unit of the Bureau of
American Ethnology. It grew out of efforts by the Inter-American Society of Anthropology
and Geography and operated with support from the United States Department of State. The
ISA purpose was to promote cooperation with other American states in anthropological
training and research. Its headquarters were in Washington, D.C. Julian H. Stewart was the
director from 1943 to 1946 and George M. Foster from 1946 to 1952. Staff members worked
stationed in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Guatemala, where they taught university
classes, directed the field work of students, and assisted with publications. In 1952, the
ISA came under Institute of Inter-American Affairs sponsorship, and that organization
absorbed ISA functions at the close of the year.
The records chiefly contain administrative files concerning finance, recruitment, use
of personnel, and cooperation with State Department and other organizations. Some
correspondence includes reports by individual staff members. A few photographs included in
ISA publications are described separately (appendix H, numbered collections). Individual
staff members kept most of their photographs and other field materials.
Correspondents include Richard N. Adams, Heloisa Alberto Torres, Francisco de
Aparicío, José Rafael Arboleda, José Antonio Arze, Ralph L. Beals, John W. Bennett,
Wendell C. Bennett, William Berrien, Junius B. Bird, Ralph S. Boggs, Donald D. Brand,
Henry J. Bruman, Aníbal Buitroacute;n, Douglas S. Byers, John W. Campbell, Pedro
Carrasco, Milciades Chaves, César Cisneros, Donald Collier, Juan Comas, Raymond E. Crist,
José M. Cruxent, Jorg Diaz, Lincoln Dsang, Walter Dupouy, Charles J. Erasmus, Paul Fejos,
S.H. Fong, George M. Foster, Jr., John P. Gillin, Raymond M. Gilmore, Luis D. Goacute;mez,
Carl E. Guthe, Lewis Hanke, Emil W. Haury, Robert F. Heizer, Gregorio Hernaacute;ndez de
Alba, Melville J. Herskovits, Gordon W. Hewes, Preston Holder, William D. Hohenthal, Jr.,
Allan R. Holmberg, Kenneth Holland, Norman D. Humphrey, Frederick Johnson, Isabel T.
Kelly, Alfred L. Kroeber, George A. Kubler, Raoul W. LaBarre, Kepler Lewis, Li Anche,
Ashley W. Lindsay, Charles P. Linton, Ralph Linton, Robert H. Lowie, Pablo Martínez del
Rio, Felix W. McBryde, Theodore D. McCown, Alfred Métraux, Horace M. Miner, Henry A. Moe,
Guillermo Nannetti, Stanley S. Newman, Kalervo Oberg, Donald Pierson, Felix Restrepo, John
H. Rowe, Daniel F. Rubín de la Borbolla, Ozzie G. Simmons, Harry R. Snyder, David H.
Stevens, Julian H. Steward, William Duncan Strong, Sol Tax, Harry S. Tschopik, Jr., Luis
E. Valcercel, Charles W. Wagley, Robert C. West, Arthur P. Whitaker, Andrew H. Whiteford,
Gordon R. Willey, and William L. Wonderly.
DATES: 1941-1952
QUANTITY: ca. 3 linear meters (ca. 10 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: (1) Annual reports, 1942-1952; (2) organizational and personnel files,
1943-1952; (3) records relating to cooperation with the Department of State, 1946-1951;
(4) correspondence, 1952-1952; (5) records relating to cooperative arrangements with Latin
American countries, 1942-1952; (6) records relating to other organizations, 1942-1952; (7)
accounts and fiscal records, 1946-1952; (8) budget records, 1944-1951
FINDING AID: Draft inventory
RESTRICTION: This collection is closed until January 1, 2003.
GROUP PORTRAITS OF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES
One print is a group portrait of those attending the Second International Congress of
Criminal Anthropologists in Paris in 1889. Thomas Wilson was the Smithsonian's delegate.
Two almost identical prints are group portraits made at the XVII International Congress of
Americanists at Buenos Aires in 1910. Aleš Hrdlicka was the Smithsonian's delegate
and the delegate of the United States government. A.P. Wilcomb, of Buenos Aires, made the
last two photographs.
DATES: 1889, 1910
QUANTITY: 3 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 77-48
GROUP PORTRAIT OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF
AMERICANISTS
In 1874, the International Congress of Americanists was organized in Paris as an
outgrowth of the Société Américaine
de France. Its purpose was "to contribute to the progress of ethnographic,
linguistic and historic studies relative to North and South America, especially for the
period belonging and anterior to Christopher Columbus." The 1902 Congress, the first
held in the United States and the second to take place in the New World, assembled in New
York in October. After formal meetings, delegates toured major cities to visit scientific
institutions and also visited Fort Ancient in Ohio. It was at the Ohio site that the group
portrait was made.
DATE: 1902
QUANTITY: 2 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 76-139
INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS, Papers
Included are forms, draft entries, and manuscripts. The papers relate to the
preparation of Lawrence Krader's fourth edition of the International Directory of
Anthropologists.
DATES: ca. 1967
QUANTITY: ca .6 linear meter (2 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: Unprocessed
FINDING AID: None
PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBIT "INUA:
SPIRIT WORLD OF THE BERING SEA ESKIMO"
The National Museum of Natural History exhibit, organized by William W. Fitzhugh and
Susan Kaplan, made use of the Edward W. Nelson collection of Eskimo materials. The
photographs were made by a Smithsonian staff photographer and Moreau B.C. Chambers, and
most show Smithsonian staff viewing the new exhibit. Included are Eskimo dancers from
Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, who formed a part of the exhibit.
DATE: June 1982
QUANTITY: 7 color prints and 8 black and white prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 83-29
PHOTOGRAPH OF IROQUOIS LEADERS
The vintage photograph is a group portrait of "Six Nations" men in New York.
The individuals are not identified.
DATE: 1866
QUANTITY: 1 photograph
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 92-41
IROQUOIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ALASKAN MATERIAL, Scientific
records
The institute is a private consulting firm based in Falls Church, Virginia. The
material includes forms, bibliographic data, photographs, maps, and narrative summaries
that concern a subsistence survey in Alaskan communities. There are also other economic
and geographic data.
DATES: 1970s
QUANTITY: 1.3 linear meters (ca. 4.25 linear feet)
ARRANGEMENT: (1) Survey of village subsistence, early 1970s; (2) community profiles by
native region, 1973; (3) "Subsistence harvest in five native regions," 1974; (4)
Hooper Bay, 1975; (5) photographs of settlements, 1975
FINDING AID: Folder list
GROUP PORTRAITS OF ANTHROPOLOGISTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA
One snapshot shows the Yana Indian Ishi with Robert H. Lowie, Paul Radin, Edward Sapir,
and T.T. Waterman. It was probably made in the summer of 1915 when Ishi was living with
the Watermans and was employed as an informant by Sapir. Lowie, of the American Museum of
Natural History, had been at the Hopi Reservation and traveled to California for a special
meeting of the American Anthropological Association.
The other snapshot appears to have been made about the same time. It shows Alfred L.
Kroeber and Lowie before the metal shed that housed the University of California Museum of
Anthropology (later the Hearst Museum). With them are an unidentified man and woman. The
copy prints were donated by Margaret Lantis, who received them from Lowie.
DATE: 1915
QUANTITY: 2 prints
CALL NUMBER: Photo Lot 81-16 |