American Museum of Natural History
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
American Museum of Natural History photographic slides of Ainu artifacts, 1998.
Collection
Identifier: PSC-585
Abstract
Photographs of Ainu artifacts in three sets. Part one is taken by photographers Kazuyoshi and Takako Ohtsuka of Ainu artifacts, and includes weaponry, clothing, jewelry, bags, and wooden woven crafts or structure. Part two contain images of artifacts from the B. Dean Expedition and B. Laufer Expedition, containing scrolls of illustrations of Japanese officials, hearth, bear cage, and ritual bear hunt. Also included models of Ainu man and woman, engraved bone implements, knife and case, Nivkh...
Dates:
1998
Albert S. Bickmore papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss .B5351- .B5358
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of correspondence, diaries, manuscripts, reports, newspaper clippings and photocopies of journal articles, photographs of Bickmore, and one drawing. The bulk of Bickmore's papers (32 boxes) consists of correspondence, mostly typewritten, relating to his work as superintendent of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and curator of the Dept. of Public Education. Additional material consists of handwritten diaries from Bickmore's travels; the typescript of his...
Dates:
1854-1914; Majority of material found within ( 1865-1903)
American Museum of Natural History
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New York, NY 10024-5192