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Weavers of the Andean highlands
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 288
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the AMNH Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador, 1930. This film was made by Ronald L. Olson, AMNH archaeologist during the Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador. Granger sponsored the expedition for the AMNH. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (disbanded in 1951) approached Clark Wissler, an AMNH anthropologist, about securing motion pictures representing weaving, pottery making, and other such activities, and...
Dates:
1930, 1986
Wheels across India
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 289
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Denis-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition, 1939. Made entirely in Burma, this film records the Denis-Roosevelt Asiatic Expedition led by filmmaker Armand Denis and his wife Leila Roosevelt. In Rangoon views of the beautiful Shive Dagon Pagoda and huge bamboo irrigation water wheels are seen, as well as the temples, pagoda and bas-reliefs featuring snake motifs at the Pegan ruins. Karen women carry baskets by tumplines. Their wrists, knees, ankles, and necks are wrapped with...
Dates:
[1940?]
When mountains call
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 246
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Pack-Finley Expedition to the Pacific Northwest, 1927. This film includes beautiful footage of the Northwest mountains and regional fauna: its objective is to record the splendid and varied environments of these mountains. The staff travels by pack mule through the mountains. Water ouzel, ptarmigan, and a hermit thrush feeding its young are filmed. Two staff members climb tall pine trees in order to get footage of young bald eagles in their nest. Arthur N. Pack fishes and...
Dates:
1927
Wild animal outposts
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 247
Scope and Contents
Filmed during the Finley-Church Expedition to the Northland, 1926. This film was taken during the 1926 Finley-Church Expedition to the Northland, on the Kenai Peninsula and the Bering Sea. Deer are seen swimming across the river, and canoes are shown navigating the same waters. Footage of rabbits, porcupine, rock ptarmigan, and blue fox is seen. Most of the film, however, is devoted to two bear cubs, who are featured in other Nature Magazine films. This sequence of the film takes place on...
Dates:
1926
Wings to the south
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 248
Scope and Contents
This film, taken on the coast of Texas, is primarily comprised of footage of birds. Establishing shots of a harbor, boats, and fishermen open the film. A great variety of Texas shore birds are shown in this segment of the film: laughing gulls, black skimmers, spoonbills, royal terns, Inca doves, caracara, heron, reddish egrets, white egrets, and brown pelicans. Eggs, nests, and chicks of several of these species are featured. A box turtle and a desert tortoise are filmed eating. An armadillo...
Dates:
[192-?]
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- Scientific expeditions -- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) 3
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- Beijing (China) -- Description and travel 1
- Birds -- Brazil -- Collection and preservation 1
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- Dinka (African people) -- Social life and customs 1
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- Khalkha (Mongolian people) 1
- Korea -- Description and travel 1
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- Blakely, Dudley Moore, 1902-1982 1
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- CBS/AMNH Adventure Series (1953-1956) 1
- Carneiro, Robert L. (Robert Leonard), 1927- 1
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 1
- Cherrie, George Kruck, 1865-1946 1
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 1
- Coles, Charles, 1917-2013 1
- Columbia Broadcasting System, inc. 1
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- Hayden Planetarium-Grace Peruvian Eclipse Expedition (1937) 1
- Heller, Edmund, 1875-1939 1
- Hope, John William, 1889-1982 1
- Instituto Butantan 1
- Ipyranga (Ship) 1
- Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960 1
- Leigh, William Robinson, 1866-1955 1
- Myron I. Granger Archaeological Expedition to Peru and Ecuador (1930) 1
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 1
- O'Donnell, Charles Oliver 1
- O'Donnell-Clark African Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1931) 1
- Olsen, George, d. 1939 1
- Olson, Ronald L. (Ronald Leroy), 1895-1979 1
- Raddatz, Richard 1
- Rockwell, Robert H. 1
- Runcie Stockhausen, Walter Osborne, 1881-1966 1
- Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 1
- Shippee, Robert 1
- Shippee-Johnson Peruvian Expedition (1931) 1
- Stout, Clare 1
- Stout, Gardner D. 1
- Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935) 1
- Wang, Hao-t'ing 1
- Woodcraft Indian Trip to the Southwest of the American Museum of Natural History (1927) 1 ∧ less
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