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Admiralty Islands
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 63
Scope and Contents
Margaret Mead, AMNH anthropologist, discusses the sociological, economic, cultural, and political changes that have taken place on Manus in the Admiralty Islands in the twenty-five years between her first and second visits. Photographs and artifacts from the first trip are shown, along with a film taken in 1953 which includes newsreels of American troops landing on the island.
Dates:
1954
Adventure
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 109
Scope and Contents
The topic of discussion for this broadcast is the concept of adventure. After a brief examination of the various meanings of the word, three feature films are shown to illustrate different types of adventure. Robert Cushman Murphy, AMNH ornithologist, joins host Charles Romine to narrate the program. The first film shows carnivorous plants indigenous to bogs and marshes, especially the Venus's fly trap and pitcher plant, devouring insects. This film was made by Dr. Harlow of the New York...
Dates:
1955
Adventures on the Upper Nile
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 2
Scope and Contents
Charles Oliver O'Donnell (AMNH fellow) and James Lippitt Clark (AMNH vice-director of preparation and exhibition) traveled by steamer, in 1931, up the Nile from Khartoum to Shambe in the Sudan to collect giant eland for the AMNH Hall of African Mammals. Most of the footage was taken from the steamer, and consists of panoramic views of life along the Nile, and of the activities of the expedition staff and the shikaris (native hunters) on board ship. Expedition staff appearing in the film are:...
Dates:
1931
Afghan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History field photographs, 1950-1951
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A38
Scope and Contents
Field photographs from the Afghan Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History.
Dates:
1950-1951
Afghanistan archaeology ; Chicken egg embryo
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 34
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: Afghanistan Archaeology. Walter Ashlin Fairservis, archaeologist at the AMNH, discusses archaeological findings in Afghanistan. While on an archaeological tour in Afghanistan, he and his wife, Jan, discovered considerable evidence of ancient civilization in this region. Films of Afghan desert life include a contemporary analysis of harems. Jan Fairservis is seen in the television studio discussing various pieces of a harem costume. SEGMENT 2: Chicken Egg Embryo. In this segment...
Dates:
1953
Africa: Exploration and Expedition exhibition photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 613F
Scope and Contents
Views of the temporary exhibition, Africa: Exploration and Expedition, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1998, Library Gallery. Includes rare books, artifacts, portraits, and maps as well as items from the Chapin Lang Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Curated by Roscoe Thompson, then Assistant Director of Library Services.
Dates:
1998
African artifacts photographic slides, undated.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 26
Abstract
Slides of African artifacts from Kenya, Nigeria, Ivory & Gold Coast, Belgian Congo, Liberia, Zaire, Kenya,Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sudan.
Dates:
undated
African Jumping Shrews / LR "Chas. R. Knight"
Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 167
Scope and Contents
Two African jumping shrews on jungle floor. Frame: Metal frame, glazed, matted.
Dates:
1918
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