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Awatovi Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 995-11, 35-126, 36-131, 38-120,39-97
Overview:

The collection documents the Peabody Museum Expedition to Awatovi (northeastern Arizona) from 1935-39, and includes historical material, financial records, field notes, diaries, photographs, drawings, correspondence, and field and artifact cards.

Biostatistics Lab data and correspondence

Collection Identifier: 2017.1.36

C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky Tepe Yahya expedition records

Collection Identifier: 2015.6.1
Scope and Contents: The Tepe Yahya expedition papers largely consist of field records and publication materials from C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky’s excavations in Tepe Yahya in Southeastern Iran. The expedition took place between 1968 and 1975, although the papers include additional materials from both before and after the excavations. He and his team recorded all items found on small finds cards, including drawings. He also...

David I. Bushnell, Jr. collection records

Collection Identifier: 41-72
Scope and Contents:

The papers primarily consist of Bushnell and the Bushnell estate's correspondence with dealers, artists, museum professionals and other collectors; Bushnell's fieldnotes from his work with the Choctaw and archaeological expeditions; and, manuscript drafts and notes for his many publications.

Duchess of Mecklenburg collection records

Collection Identifier: 40-77-40/14326.1

Evelyn Childs Rattray papers

Collection Identifier: 2016.27.1

Frederic Ward Putnam papers

Collection Identifier: 999-24
Overview:

This collection of Putnam papers were formerly part of the Ralph Dexter Papers at Kent State University Archives. They include FW Putnam family correspondence, professional papers and ephemera.

George Grant MacCurdy papers

Collection Identifier: 995-3
Overview: George Grant MacCurdy (GGM) was an American anthropologist. He and Janet MacCurdy founded the American School of Prehistoric Research (ASPR) in 1921, which published Bulletins from 1926 onward, and became the Department of Old World Archaeology at the Peabody Museum as per his bequest in 1954. The records include correspondence; original artwork; postcards; sketch books; travel notebooks; biographical...

Hell Gap Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 63-38
Scope and Contents: The expedition records contain evidence of the many activities that were carried out on site. Series include field notes, site cards, clippings, correspondence,personnel records, manuscripts and...

Hemenway Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 43-39A, 46-73, 13-26, 980-2, 2000.20,2001.7
Scope and Contents: The Hemenway Expedition Records reveal the working relationships in field correspondence between expedition members and with Mary Hemenway; the intellectual products of the work in Cushing, Bandelier, and ten Kate's ethnological manuscripts; and the raw data of site notes and cards, reports, plans, and field notebooks. The records also contain some of Margaret Magill's watercolors of archaeological artifacts. The materials are organized primarily by chronological accession and then according...

Ian Graham papers

Collection Identifier: 2004.15.2
Scope and Contents: These papers mainly consist of the professional activities of British Mayanist Ian Graham, including the activities and recording methods of CMHI, or the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphics program at Harvard University as well as Graham’s MacArthur Fellowship. It also contains personal material and correspondence, as well as Graham’s address book. Some other topics and activities represented in these files are fieldwork permits, publications records, antiquities trade articles, magazines, DVDs,...

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 Marshall research papers Digital

Collection Identifier: 2018.9.1
Scope and Contents: This collection includes research material collected and produced in part by Lorna Jean McLean Marshall regarding the Marshall family’s eight journeys to Namibia, Botswana and Angola to research the lifeways of African hunter-gatherers, primarily the G/ui and Ju/’hoansi. Of note are detailed itineraries; files organized by subject matter; chronological files; correspondence; notes by other scholars who accompanied the Marshalls on their expeditions, including Robert Dyson, J. Otis Brew,...

Noel Morss papers

Collection Identifier: 998-21

Peabody family papers

Collection Identifier: 967-23-00/1-unacc.
Scope and Contents: George Peabody established the trust that founded the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in 1866. The Peabody family papers contain some miscellaneous items, correspondence relating to financial and other family concerns, and probate materials relating to estate matters of a number of family members, including Margaret Peabody, Charles...

Southwest Africa Expeditions records Digital

Collection Identifier: 51-60-00-56-57-00-58-43-00
Scope and Contents: This collection comprises expedition correspondence, field note excerpts, field reports, research permits, bibliographies, news clippings, South West African government reports, and financial records (inventories, purchase lists, expense records, travel records, receipts, and cancelled checks). Of note are records related to expedition planning (including the co-sponsorship of the Smithsonian Institution starting in 1955), correspondence and reports sent from the expedition sites, and...

W. W. (William White) Howells papers

Collection Identifier: 995-15
Overview:

This collection consists primarily of anthropometric data/ field sheets and somatotype photographs of a variety of cultures.

Yap Expedition records

Collection Identifier: 48-51
Overview:

Includes records of the Harvard expedition to Yap, Caroline Islands between 1947 and 1948. Consists of field notes and correspondence by four expedition members, David Schneider, Nathaniel R. Kidder, Edward E. Hunt, Jr., and William D. Stevens, to the Peabody Museum and the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.