Overview
The negative collection captures the research and field work undertaken by Lloyd Cabot Briggs in Algeria in the 1950s. Images include village scenes as well as human remains. The negatives were digitized in 2012 through an NEH grant and can be viewed at the Peabody Museum Collections Online website at http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/
Dates
- Creation: 1950-1959
Conditions Governing Access
Restrictions on access: some images include human remains and may be restricted. Permission to view sensitive images may be obtained from the Peabody Museum's curatorial department.
Extent
91 imagesThese negatives are part of the core negative collection at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University and capture the research and field work undertaken by Lloyd Cabot Briggs in Algeria in the 1950s. Images include village scenes as well as human remains, such as photographs of skulls. The negatives are organized by negative number and have been digitized through a National Endowment for the Humanities grant. Images can be viewed at the Peabody Museum's Collections Online website at: http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/
Search by Peabody number begins with 2004.24 and artist contains Briggs.
Biographical Sketch
Lloyd Cabot Briggs was an anthropologist who specialized in the prehistory of northwest Africa, but was also interested in the ethnology of Saharan peoples, especially the Tuareg. A graduate of Harvard (B.A. 1931, M.A. 1935, Ph.D. 1952), Briggs was a Research Fellow in North African Anthropology at the Peabody Museum from 1952 until his death in 1975. He was also affiliated with the Museum through the American School for Prehistoric Research, of which he was an active member from the late 1940s until his death. From 1967 on, Briggs served as the chairman of the anthropology department at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire, and from 1970 he was a technical consultant to the Laboratory of Applied Anthroplogy, University of Paris. Briggs left his ethnographic collection, working library, and professional papers to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Briggs' publications include: Living Races of the Sahara Desert, 1958, Tribes of the Sahara, 1960, and No More Forever, with N. L. Guede.
Sources:
- Doucette, Scott, Lloyd Cabot Briggs, 1909-1975, http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/briggs_lloyd.html
- Anthropology News, Issue 7. September 1975. p. 4
Physical Location
Peabody Museum Archives
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2004.24
Donated by the estate of Lloyd Cabot Briggs in 1975.
General note
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Processed by:
Patricia H. Kervick Archivist; 2012
- Title
- Briggs, LLoyd Cabot (1909-1975) Negatives: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Peabody Museum Archives
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- pea00074
Repository Details
Part of the Peabody Museum Archives Repository
Papers in the Peabody Museum Archives consist of primary source materials that document the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic research and fieldwork since its founding in 1866. More than 2,800 feet of archival paper collections contain documents, papers, manuscripts, correspondence, data, field notes, maps, plans, and other historical records that represent diverse peoples from around the world, and which were created or collected by the Museum, its individual affiliates, or related entities. The collections also document the history or provenience, as well as the creation of, many of the Museum’s archaeological and ethnographic collections.