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Burma blues from a buzzing Orient
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 219
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. This is a William James Morden film of Burmese dancers performing a pwe, a drama or dance with dialogue, in Mandalay on the Irrawaddy River. The performance takes place on mats before a pagoda. The principal musical instruments are eighteen drums, of varying sizes, encircling a performer who beats them with his hands. A circle of brass gongs is played by another musician. Both the gongs and the drums sit within separate...
Dates:
1922-1924
Burma field photographs, undated
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B876
Scope and Contents
Field photographs of indigenous peoples, daily life, villages, landscapes, Buddhist monks and temples.
Dates:
undated
Frederick B. Butler collection on the 1925 field season of the Third Asiatic Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B88
Scope and Contents
This collection contains field notes written by Butler during the 1925 field season (April 11-August 20) of the Third Asiatic Expedition. It also contains a typed diary detailing his experiences in Mongolia and discussing expedition staff members. Correspondences include letters to and from Butler and his wife in Tianjin (Tientsin), China, and official correspondences. Also included are various lectures ("Speech to the Algonquin Club. Boston, Dec. 7, 1926"; "Expedition lecture with...
Dates:
1924-1927; Majority of material found within 1925-1926
Byrd Antarctic Expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .B97
Scope and Contents
Field photographs and newspaper clippings of Byrd Antarctic Expedition.
Dates:
circa 1929
CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission Image collection
Collection
Identifier: MA.2021.010
Content Description
Images and progress reporting produced by J. Kelly Cluer and M. Saandar during the CAE II 100th Anniversary Rephotography Mission project. Bulk of the material is born-digital, with the exception of some analog poster-sized printouts of comparison shots. Material includes original rephotographs, compiled images in pdf format comparing the historic photograph with the rephotograph, powerpoint presentations and a progress report. AMNH Research Library collection images from the Second Asiatic...
Dates:
2016 - 2023
Cameroun
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 21
Scope and Contents
This film, made by the French government while Cameroon was still under French trusteeship, shows the dances of people of the southern provinces of Akonolinga, Yaounde, Doume, and Batouri. Details of clothing, ornaments, hair styles, and the xylophone that provides the music for the dances are shown. The first dance, in Akonolinga, features young girls in what is possibly an initiation dance. They wear vegetable fiber skirts, silver arm and leg ornaments and European elfin stocking caps. In...
Dates:
between 1920 and 1939
Camping Among the Indians
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 22
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH-Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest, 1927. The AMNH Woodcraft Indian trip was led by Ernest Thompson Seton, the author, and George Clyde Fisher (AMNH curator of visual instruction). The film depicts a variety of dances (the buffalo, hood, war, eagle, corn, deer and snowbird) performed by Indians of the Tesuque, Taos, Acoma and Santa Clara Pueblos. Fisher also filmed other activities of the local people during the trip, most notably an intertribal ceremony in Gallup,...
Dates:
1927
Canadian travel photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C36
Scope and Contents
Includes maps of the provinces, views of the major cities, the Canadian Rocky Mountains and geological formations.
Dates:
1898-1938
Carib Syndicate, Limited Columbian and South American expedition field photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C375
Scope and Contents
Includes field photographs taken by the members of the Carib Syndicate during their expedition to Columbia.
Dates:
1917
Carl Akeley Memorabilia Collection
Collection
Identifier: MEM 47
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of objects that AMNH taxidermist Carl Akeley used or created throughout his life including his first piece of taxidermy (canary, age 12) and his sculpting tools used to create taxidermy for the museum's dioramas. Includes tools and equiptment used on expeditions and tools used for taxidermy process including casts, film can, his pith helmet and walking stick. Also includes a bust of Akeley and various certificates and awards.
Dates:
1876 - 1926
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