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Division of Ethnology photograph collection

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Sultan in Uniform and Wearing Medals and Five Men, Entourage, In Costume with Daggers and Swords on Ship's Deck; Group of Men, Including Some Non-Native Sailors, Behind Them
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Object Details

Scope and Contents

Consists of photographs collected by the United States National Museum (USNM) Division of Ethnology and later by the Smithsonian Office of Anthropology (SOA). Coverage is worldwide outside North America. Most of the items are photographic prints, some in albums. There are also negatives, photomechanical prints, artwork, and newsclippings. For the most part, the material is historical or ethnological, including images of specimens, portraits, and scenes of daily activity. Some landscape views are also included.
sova.naa.photolot.97

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3361718ad-0211-4be3-805f-10163a0c4dc2

Creator

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology

Creator

Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology. Division of Ethnology

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Division of Ethnology photograph collection

Extent

14,500 Items

Date

ca. 1860s-1960s

Archival Repository

National Anthropological Archives

Identifier

NAA.PhotoLot.97

Type

Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Drawings
Clippings

Citation

Photo lot 97, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Arrangement

Arranged by geographic area, generally following George P. Murdockʹs Outline of World Cultures.

Genre/Form

Photographs
Drawings
Clippings
NAA.PhotoLot.97
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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3361718ad-0211-4be3-805f-10163a0c4dc2
NAA.PhotoLot.97
NAA

Record ID

ebl-1628120086765-1628120087354-0

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Man in Costume and with Necklaces

Two Young Women with Face Paint and in Costume Outside Pole And Thatch House

Man in Costume Painting

View of Cuna Village Showing Pole Houses with Thatch Roofs and Dugout Canoes

Man and Two Women in Costume with Ornaments, Fish Nets And Wooden Pole in Jungle Clearing Near Fence

Group on Bamboo Bridge Over River; Canoes Along Shore

Portrait (Front) of Man, 42 Years Old, from Kuldja (Now Yining), Ili Colonial Dependency Between Sungaria and Chinese Turkestan (Now Sinkiang, China), in Costume

Stucco House with Thatched Roof, Government Building, Used As Temporary Laboratory by "Albatross"

Greeting Card Silkscreen

Drawing, 1777, by W. Hodges and Engraving by B. T. Pouncey Of Resolution Bay, Marquesas Islands, Showing Men in Costume In Outrigger Canoes and Coastline

Object

Pole and Thatch House with Woven Bamboo Walls Near Coast; View of Moorea Island in Background

Portrait (Profile) of Woman, 31 Years Old, from Zerawschan and Syr-Daria District, Russian Turkestan (Now Kazakh SSR), in Costume

Ceremony, Feast

Group of Women and Children, Including Mother Carrying Infant In Kaross (Animal Skin Sling), in Costume Near Mat House And Surrounding Mat and Pole Fence

Ceremony, Shah Nasr Ed-Din's Funeral

Collection, for Making Tapa, Wood, Woven Cloths:From Various Islands in Oceania

North America

Medicine Horn Drawing

Group in Costume Holding Poles and in Canoes on Water Near Shore

Object

Spear, Collection; Some with Marron Points, All In Stand

Group in Costume with Ornaments, Turtles Outside Pole and Thatch House

Adler/Albert

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