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Karl G. Heider papers on New Guinea

Collection Identifier: 2011.22.1
Overview: Karl Heider was a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea, spending an additional twenty-one months observing the Dani people on his own after the other members had departed. The purpose of the expedition and Heider’s work was to holistically capture the lives of the Dani people before the changes of the modern era began to infiltrate their preliterate, “Stone Age” culture. The records include field notebooks, tape...

Lorna and Laurence Marshall expeditionary notebooks and diaries Digital

Collection Identifier: 2003.36
Scope and Content Note: This collection of notebooks and journals written respectively by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall and Laurence Kennedy Marshall cover seven of the Marshall Family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana, Angola, and South Africa to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are Laurence Marshall's "record books" including: expenditures; travel planning information (packing lists, distance, and mileage); film and photographic technical...