Skip to main content

Lumholtz Expeditions to Mexico (1890-1898)

 Organization

Summary

To explore region, collect birds, mammals, and archaeological and ethnological materials relating to Huichol, Cora, Tepeciano, and Tarasco people. Also Walpi, Moqui, Nahua, Aztec, Yaqui, Papago (Tohono O'Odham), Pima, Mohave, Maricopa, Yuma, Zuni people.

Personnel: Lumholtz, Carl S., leader; Hrdlicka, Ales (1898)

Department: Anthropology, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles

Sponsors: Museum trustees; Villard; American Geographical Society of New York

Sources: Annual Report No. 23, 1891, p. 7; No. 24, 1892, p. 7; No. 25, 1893, p. 9, 49; No. 26, 1894, pp. 9-10, 56; No. 28,1896, p.22; 1897, p. 14; l898, p. 15, Bulletin V. 5, pp. 27-42, Vol. X, 1898, . pp. 1-14; V. I, No. 7-8, pp. 125-128; Lumholtz, Carl "Explorations in the Sierra Madre," 1891

Places: Sierra Madre, Mexico; Sonora, Mexico; Chihuahua, Mexico; Jalisco, Mexico

Topics