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Carl Lumholtz photographic slide collection: Northern Mexican Huichol Indian Art

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 664

Scope and Contents

Studio photographs of Northern Mexican Indian artifacts taken by John Lilly. Artifacts from the AMNH Department of Anthropology collection. Objects refer to two publications: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume III: I-Symbolism of the Huichol Indians (by Carl Lumholtz, May 1900) and Arte Symbolico (AMNH Memoirs by the Instituto Nacional Indigenista).

Dates

  • 1996

Creator

Restrictions on Access

Please contact Special Collections; materials are sometimes restricted.

Extent

0.25 Linear Feet (1 box )

20 Photographic Slides : color ; 35 mm

Language of Materials

English

General Note

All slides have captions with catalog numbers.

General Note

Catalog numbers correspond to those in the AMNH catalog Mexico and Central America Ethnology 65.

Title
Carl Lumholtz photographic slide collection: Northern Mexican Huichol Indian Art, 1996
Author
Iris Lee
Date
2011-2012
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English
Sponsor
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation provided support to make this finding aid available in ArchivesSpace (2016-2017). Minimal level collection record created with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Hidden Collections grant, 2010.

Repository Details

Part of the Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library Repository

Contact:
American Museum of Natural History
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New York NY 10024 USA
(212) 769-5420