Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition Negative Collection

Collection

Identifier: NNC .M36 V47

Staff Only

Content Description

914 images taken by Henry Raven durning the Vernay Hopwood Chindwin Expedition 1934-1935.

Dates

1934-1935

Creator

Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 (Photographer, Person)

Extent

914 Photographic Negatives (23 rolls) : black and white, nitrate ; 35 mm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Condition note

Good.

Related Materials

This set of negatives is from the larger collection of AMNH Department of Mammalogy Nitrate Negative Collection (NNC .M36).

The library has a film of the expedition, Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin expedition, 1935 (Film Collection no. 285).

The library has a Manuscript collection for Henry Raven which contains an undated document related to the collection, Birds of the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition by E. Mayr, Introduction by HC Raven, undated (Mss .R38).

Related Materials

AMNH Division of Anthropology has objects collected during the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition (1935). To view the items in their database, follow the link from External Documents.

Bibliography

Hasinoff, Erin L. 2013. Confluences: an American expedition to northern Burma, 1935.

General

The images were used in an exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) in New York, NY, titled "Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935" (April 4-August 3, 2013). Erin L. Hasinoff, BGC-AMNH postdoctoral fellow in museum anthropology and AMNH research associate, organized the exhibition in collaboration with BGC graduate students. She wrote the extensively illustrated catalogue that accompanies the exhibit.