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The Morden-Graves North Asiatic Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 226
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Morden-Graves North Asiatic Expedition to Soviet Central Asia and eastern Siberia, 1929. The second AMNH-sponsored expedition led by William James Morden journeyed to Soviet Central Asia and far eastern Siberia in search of saiga antelope and the long-haired Siberian tiger. Along with him were George Gilbert Goodwin, AMNH mammalogist, George Coe Graves II, whose father financed the expedition, and two Soviet guides, dispatched from the Soviet Academy of Science. The...
Dates:
1929
Journal of a safari in Turkana : the Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History / [microform] / Kepler Lewis.
Item
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #5
William James Morden field photograph collection of Alaska
Collection
Identifier: PPC .M6711
Scope and Contents
Field photographs of Alaska. Includes photographs from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army.
Dates:
1949
The Morden African Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 223
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Morden African Expedition, 1953. The five reels of film taken during the Morden African Expedition of 1953 each represent one leg of the trip and is treated individually. In addition to co-leaders William James Morden and Irene Morden, collectors Walter Moesch and Lili Braun were also members of the expedition. Windhoek to Etosha Pan Etosha Pan is the largest salt pan in Africa and is located in South-West Africa (now Namibia) in the center of Etosha National Park, an...
Dates:
1953
The Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 225
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition to Central Asia, 1926. Filmed by James Lippitt Clark, this is a record of one of two museum expeditions that were to rendezvous in Central Asia. Led by William James Morden, this was an expedition across the Himalayas and the Karakoram Mountain Range to a restricted territory in Russia, called the Pamirs, looking for specimens of Marco Polo's sheep (Ovis poli) and ibex. Morden and Clark crossed the Himalayas, encountering many hardships,...
Dates:
1926
The Morden African Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 222
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Morden African Expedition, 1947. The purpose of the expedition was to collect artifacts to fill the gaps in the AMNH anthropology collection, and to study and film the Turkana people of northern Kenya. The six reels of film that comprise the expedition material are discussed individually. New York; Cape Town; Lodwar, Kenya The arrival in Cape Town, South Africa, of the freighter, Robin Luxford, from New York, signals the beginning of the expedition's journey through...
Dates:
1947
Moscow May Day
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 227
Scope and Contents
Despite the title given to this film by William James Morden, it was probably made in November of 1928 during the anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution, rather than during May Day festivities. Morden went to the Soviet Union in November to obtain permits for the AMNH Morden-Graves North Asiatic Expedition to collect mammals in Turkestan the following year. The first part of the film features historic sites in Leningrad and Moscow. The Leningrad sites include the Central Naval...
Dates:
1928
The Morden African Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 221
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. When William James Morden decided to organize his 1922-1924 expedition to East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and the Sudan) he hired professional cinematographer Herford Tynes Cowling to accompany him and film the local people. The result is this film that captures an ethnographic cross-section of a small part of East Africa. Not all of the peoples depicted could be positively identified, despite extensive research and consultation...
Dates:
1922-1924
The Morden African Expedition
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 224
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Peabody Museum of Natural History-Morden African Expedition, 1956. In 1956 William James Morden and his wife, Irene, traveled to Africa to collect ethnographic and zoological specimens for the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. As in 1953, they were accompanied by collector Walter Hoesch, who concentrated his efforts on small mammals and birds. Southwest Africa Beautiful labyrinthine villages decorated with flowers and gourd-bearing vines characterize an...
Dates:
1956
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