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Angkor
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 215
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. Filmed during an expedition led by William James Morden to East Africa, Uganda, the Sudan, India, Burma, Kashmir, Tibet, Sikkim, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Indochina, the Temples of Angkor Wat, Japan, and China from 1922-1924. During this expedition, made before his affiliation with the AMNH, William James Morden visited the ruins of the ancient Cambodian city of Angkor, which were filmed by the expedition cameraman, Herford...
Dates:
1922-1924
Diaries: [microform]
Collection
Identifier: Archives Microfilm #15-23
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1907-1948
Turkana
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 228
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Morden African Expedition, 1947. AMNH anthropologist Ralph Kepler Lewis made this documentary of the Turkana people during the Morden African Expedition of 1947, led by co-leaders William James Morden and Irene Morden. En route to the desolate Lodwar area in Kenya where the Turkanas live, Lewis recorded some of the scenery and people of Uganda and Kenya. Near Tamkal, Uganda, West Suk people drive their goats, and a little further on in a Karamojang village near Moroto,...
Dates:
1947-1948
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
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 218
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. Filmed during William James Morden's 1922-1924 expedition by Herford Tynes Cowling, Burma presents a beautiful portrait of the people, culture, architecture, and art of the country. Beginning with footage of the Rangoon harbor, the expedition journeys up the Irrawaddy River surveying covered boats, junks, paddle boats, barges (rafts of teak logs with caretaker huts built on the surface), and oil wells. Extensive and varied...
Dates:
1922-1924
Beyond the vale of Kashmir
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 217
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. With panoramic vistas of the Himalayas in the background, Beyond the Vale of Kashmir begins as the expedition travels through western Tibet. Cinematographer Herford Tynes Cowling filmed portraits of Tibetan people and their activities such as making flour from grain stalks. The expedition goes to the village of Mulbik, where they visit a colossal sculpture of a four-armed god carved into a mountain wall. At Srinagar, on the...
Dates:
1922-1924
The Baltistan-Ladakh hunt
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 216
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. This film chronicles the expedition made by William James Morden and Herford Tynes Cowling to hunt ibex and visit monasteries in northern Pakistan and India. Beginning in Baltistan (northern Pakistan) the expedition team weaves through the rocky terrain filming Baltis as they perform domestic tasks, such as weaving and making sandals. The expedition tracks across snowy Korakorum peaks and valleys and crosses the Indus River...
Dates:
1922-1924
South American postcards and photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .C64
Scope and Contents
Unprocessed photographs and postcards from various South American countries. Included are Argentina, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Uruguay. Contains envelopes addressed to Louis M. Cohn.
Dates:
1940-1960?
Field and Expedition Equipment
Collection
Identifier: Mem 305
Scope and Contents
Since 1887, the American Museum of Natural History has been conducting field expeditions in every continent. This is one of the main resources for the Museum’s scientific research and collection development activities throughout all its disciplines. This grouping holds the equipment that were used during expeditions from around 1877 to 1996. Most of these expeditions required direct interaction with the natural habitat of the subject of study, which usually involves being out in the...
Dates:
Usage: circa 1877-1990s
Ceylon
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 220
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Morden Expedition to Africa and Asia, 1922-1924. William James Morden's Ceylon is a travelogue of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1920s. Tamil and Sinhalese people, ancient Buddhist ruins, tropical landscapes, and day to day activities are shown in great detail on tinted stock. Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu Tamil men, women, and children are seen in a variety of activities throughout the film. In one scene, a group of Sinhalese women wearing wrapped skirts called comboys bathe...
Dates:
1922-1924
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- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 21
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 7
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- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 3
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947) 3
- Morden African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1953) 3
- Morden-Clark Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 3
- Morden-Graves North Asiatic Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1929-1930) 3
- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 2
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 2
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 2
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 2
- Morden, Irene 2
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 2
- Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960 2
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- Archbold, Richard 1
- Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 1
- Brown, Barnum 1
- Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 1
- Central African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1947-1948) 1
- Cook, Harold J. (Harold James), 1887-1962 1
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 1
- Department of Anthropology 1
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- Fleischmann-Clark, American Museum, Indo-China Expedition (1936) 1
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- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 1
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 1
- Hayden Planetarium 1
- Hoesch, Walter 1
- Klein, Alfred J. 1
- Lewis, Ralph Kepler, 1912-1997 1
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 1
- McConnell, Robert E. 1
- McKenna, Malcolm C. 1
- Mission Zoologique franco-anglo-américaine à Madagascar (1929-1931) 1
- Morris, Frederick K. (Frederick Kuhne), 1886 1
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 1
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 1
- O'Donnell-Clark African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1931) 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Patagonian Expedition (1899-1900) 1
- Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
- Pond, Alonzo William, 1894-1986 1
- Pope, Clifford H. (Clifford Hillhouse), 1899-1974 1
- Rungius, Carl, 1869-1959 1
- Rutland (Vermont) Women’s and Men’s Clubs 1
- Sage West China Expedition (1934) 1
- Shackelford, James B. 1
- Sherwood, George Herbert, 1876-1937 1
- Simpson, George Gaylord, 1902-1984 1
- Skinner, Morris F. 1
- United States. Air Force 1
- United States. Army 1
- Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 1
- Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1943-1935) 1
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