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The Sudan
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 51
Scope and Contents
This show begins by examining the type of African films presented to the public, presenting as examples a clip of Simba, King of Beasts and Hollywood versions of African life. The main presentation, however, is an excerpt from The Pagan Sudan, a film made by Edgar Monsanto Queeny, AMNH trustee and chairman of the board of Monsanto Chemical Company. The film carefully depicts the country and its inhabitants, including the Madis and the Dinkas. The Madis are seen spearing a hippopotamus in a...
Dates:
1953
The Tomas of West Africa ; Birdwatching ; Troy
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 80
Scope and Contents
SEGMENT 1: The Tomas of West Africa. The Tomas of Liberia and Sierra Leone, Africa are depicted in a film based on the book Sacred Forest, with special emphasis on their rituals and sacrifices, including male and female initiations. Another film on the Toma people is shown. Made by missionaries, this film depicts weaving, playing games, fishing, preparing food, playing music, parading for an inauguration, and dancing for various ceremonial rituals. Joseph Moore, an anthropology professor at...
Dates:
1954
The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala exhibition and demonstration photographic slides
Collection
Identifier: PSC 102I
Scope and Contents
Slides of the demonstration The Wheel of Time Sand Mandala, held at the American Museum of Natural History, July-August 1988. Images of Tibetan monks creating a sand mandala with museum visitors observing.
Dates:
1988
Theodore Roosevelt portraits and photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .R6676
Scope and Contents
Photographs of Roosevelt's life collected by the museum. Includes family photos, photographs on expedition, inaguartion photographs, etc.
Dates:
undated
This is the American Earth exhibition photographic slides, circa 1992-1993.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 157G
Abstract
Views of the temporary exhibition This is the American Earth, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1992-1993. Framed photographs by Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall.
Dates:
circa 1992-1993
Thomas Larson photographic slide collection, 1951.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 334
Abstract
Field photographs of South African tribes. Beuchanaland, near Okavango River; Namaqualand, Liliefontein Reserve; N'gamiland, Shakawe.
Dates:
1951
Thomas Nicholson astronomy papers, undated.
Collection
Identifier: DR-H 14
Abstract
Various academic papers and periodicals concerning astronomy that were compiled and annotated by Thomas Nicholson.
Dates:
9999 - 9999
Tibetan butter sculptures and performance photographic slides, 1989.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 61A
Abstract
Tibetan monks from the Gyuto Tantric Monastery making butter sculptures in a month-long butter sculpting project in the AMNH Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds. The sculptures depicted a number of figures including Shayamuni Buddha, the five visions of Tsongkhapa, White Tara, 16 offering goddesses of Chakrasamvara, four protector dieties, the seven ornaments of royalty and the mandalas of Guhyasamaja, Vajrabhairava and Chakrasamvara, all embellished with delicate flowers and leaves. Some...
Dates:
1989
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