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Found in 693 Collections and/or Records:

Alexander the Great

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 132
Scope and Contents The 1956 Hollywood production of Alexander the Great provides the impetus for this broadcast, which compares the historical accuracy of the movie with actual relics from the fourth century B.C., in the collections of the AMNH. Scenes from the movie are shown, in addition to film clips of the crew making costumes, actors being dressed and made up, the sets and the ruins created. Robert Rossen, producer, director and writer of Alexander the Great, joins Walter Ashlin Fairservis, AMNH...
Dates: 1956
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Alexander the Great

All things flow ; Japanese monkeys ; Genetics

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 79
Scope and Contents SEGMENT 1: All Things Flow. This segment takes its name from a film it presents that shows the constant motion in nature, through time-lapse photography. Lester R. Aronson, of the museum's Department of Animal Behavior, discusses the cat experiments in progress at that time. SEGMENT 2: Japanese Monkeys. Aronson narrates a film on the social life of an isolated group of Japanese monkeys. The film was made by the Japanese Anthropological Society and won an award at the Venice Film Festival....
Dates: 1954
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / All things flow ; Japanese monkeys ; Genetics

Alousie Boker photographic slide collection of African animals and birds, undated.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 170
Abstract

Photographs of East Africa including game parks in Kenya and Tanzania. Amboseli, Murchison River, Ngorongoro. Birds and safari animals, hippopotamus, lion, elephant, eland, warthog, gerenuk and flamingo among others. Some slides taken in Nairobi.

Dates: undated
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Alousie Boker photographic slide collection of African animals and birds, undated.

Amahuaca

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 5
Scope and Contents In 1960-1961, anthropologists Robert Carneiro (AMNH curator) and Gertrude Dole filmed the Amahuaca Indians, who inhabit a remote area of Peru, as documentation for their field work. The film documents the daily life of the inhabitants of Chumichinia, an island in the Ucayali River, whose way of life has not been significantly changed by outside contact except for the addition of modern clothing to their traditional costume. The planting and tending of maize, pottery making, baking of corn...
Dates: 1960-1961
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Amahuaca

Amazon head-hunters ; Theory of flight

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Identifier: Film Collection no. 68
Scope and Contents SEGMENT 1: Amazon Head-Hunters. Harry Tschopik, ethnologist at the AMNH, discusses the custom of head-hunting as a means of vengeance practiced by the Jivaro Indians in the Montana region of Peru and Ecuador (near the headwaters of the Amazon River). Tschopik attributes the rapid decimation of the Jivaro to that custom. In the studio, Tschopik observes shrunken heads and narrates a film depicting a Jivaro raid of reprisal against their enemy. A man is killed and his head is taken, shrunk and...
Dates: 1954
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Amazon head-hunters ; Theory of flight

Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos exhibition photographic slides

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Identifier: PSC 102G
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos, held at the American Museum of Natural History. The exhibition displayed 50 photographs capturing the centuries-old lifestyle of the Amazon's Tapirapé Indians, highlighting the work of Charles Wagley.

Dates: circa 1993
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos exhibition photographic slides

Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos exhibition photographic slides

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Identifier: PSC 157B
Scope and Contents

Views of the temporary exhibition Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos, held at the American Museum of Natural History. The exhibition displayed 50 photographs capturing the centuries-old lifestyle of the Amazon's Tapirapé Indians, highlighting the work of Charles Wagley.

Dates: 1993 April 29
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Amazon Portrait: Indios e Caboclos exhibition photographic slides

Amber: Window to the Past photographic slides of exhibition, 1996-1997.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 50-51
Abstract

Slides of the temporary exhibit Amber: Window to the Past, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1996-1997. The exhibit displayed a re-creation of a 23 to 30 million-year-old Dominican amber forest. Gallery 3. PSC 50 contains images of the exhibit being constructed and installed. PSC 51 contains images from the finished exhibition.

Dates: 1996-1997
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Amber: Window to the Past photographic slides of exhibition, 1996-1997.

Amber: Window to the Past photographic slides of exhibition construction, 1996.

 Collection
Identifier: PSC 527
Abstract

Slides of the construction for the temporary exhibition Amber: Window to the Past, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1996-1997.

Dates: 1996
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Amber: Window to the Past photographic slides of exhibition construction, 1996.

American Association for the Advancement of Science correspondence and papers, 1916, 1928-1929

 Collection
Identifier: Mss .A461
Dates: 1916 - 1929
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / American Association for the Advancement of Science correspondence and papers, 1916, 1928-1929
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