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Anthropology

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

[Pictograph Series]

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 917
Dates: 9999 - 9999
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Pictograph Series]

"Pohk-kong" The Torturing Scene

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1006
Description

Oil painting depicting interior of wigwam showing a group of men watching three men being suspended from ceiling by pierced thongs through their chest and being weighted by skulls.

Dates: 1853 - 1870
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / "Pohk-kong" The Torturing Scene

Potlatch Ceremony / LR "Will S. Taylor"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1428
Dates: 1916
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Potlatch Ceremony / LR "Will S. Taylor"

Preparation Molds for Exhibits

 Collection
Identifier: Mem 306
Scope and Contents Molds for exhibits were created and used to prepare the models that compose the exhibits of the American Museum of Natural history, approximately from 1889 to the 1990s, first by the science departments and then by the Department of Exhibition and its different iterations. Models were meant to reproduce existing and extinct animal specimens, humans and cultural artifacts, insects and plant life. The types of mold that can be found in this grouping provide insight on the methods employed to...
Dates: Usage: circa 1889-1990s
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Preparation Molds for Exhibits

Preparing Fish Oil / LR "Will S. Taylor"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1424
Dates: 1911
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Preparing Fish Oil / LR "Will S. Taylor"

Salmon Fishing / LR "Will S. Taylor"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 1429
Dates: 1912
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Salmon Fishing / LR "Will S. Taylor"

[Sketches for Pilgrim Murals] / Reverse "Deming"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 879
Dates: 1915
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Sketches for Pilgrim Murals] / Reverse "Deming"

Smoking the Shield, Comanche.

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 998
Dates: 1853 - 1870
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Smoking the Shield, Comanche.

Studies of Indian Implements / LR "Catlin"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 987
Dates: 1850 - 1870
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Studies of Indian Implements / LR "Catlin"

[Studies of Native's Heads] / LL "Webber"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 915
Dates: 9999 - 9999
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [Studies of Native's Heads] / LL "Webber"
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