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Amahuaca
Collection
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
Amanda Mayer Stinchecum Japanese ikat production research collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss .S75
Content Description
The collection consists of 5 notebooks with notes taken by Stinchecum while doing research in Japan, color slides, black and white photographs and negatives, contact sheets, and a VHS tape. There is also a stack of index cards containing bibliographic information and photocopies of Japanese publications dealing with ikat textiles.
Dates:
1649-1987; Majority of material found in 1978-1987
American Association for the Advancement of Science correspondence and papers, 1916, 1928-1929
Collection
Identifier: Mss .A461
Dates:
1916 - 1929
American Museum Congo Expedition correspondence, 1917-1920.
Collection
Identifier: Mss .C661
Dates:
1917 - 1920
American Museum Congo expedition photographs
Collection
Identifier: PPC .A47
Scope and Contents
Field photographs of Congo Expeditions from 1909-1915.
Dates:
1909-1915
American Museum Natural History special publications papers, 1930s-1990s.
Collection
Identifier: DR 105
Dates:
1930 - 1999
American Museum of Natural History address book of annual members, 1873.
Collection
Identifier: DR 147
Abstract
Handwritten registry book containing names and addresses of annual members of the AMNH in 1873. The front page of the book contains a copy of membership invitations from trustees, information about member benefits and costs, and list of donors. Book contains several signatures of members of Roosevelt family.
Dates:
1873
American Museum of Natural History administrative files from the director's office
Collection
Identifier: DR 119
Abstract
Administrative files from the museum director's office including those of Thomas D. Nicholson, Director 1969-1989. Includes correspondence with William J. Moynihan and George D. Langdon.
Dates:
circa 1980s.
American Museum of Natural History annual report photocopies, undated.
Collection
Identifier: DR 099A
Abstract
Bound photocopies of AMNH annual reports dating from 1912-1987. One box of blowbacks from microfilm.
Dates:
9999 - 9999
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- Osborn, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935 26
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- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Invertebrates 21
- Andrews, Roy Chapman, 1884-1960 21
- Department of Education 18
- Morden, William J. (William James), 1886-1958 18
- Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 16
- Central Asiatic Expeditions (1921-1930) 15
- Hayden Planetarium 15
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Mammalogy 11
- Department of Entomology 11
- Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964 10
- Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945 10
- Akeley, Carl Ethan, 1864-1926 9
- Carter, T. Donald (Thomas Donald), 1893 9
- Clark, James L. (James Lippitt), 1883-1969 9
- Crocker Land Expedition (1913-1917) 9
- Department of Exhibition 9
- Fisher, Clyde, 1878-1949 9
- Akeley Memorial Hall of African Mammals 8
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Ornithology 8
- Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929 8
- Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973 8
- Shackelford, James B. 8
- Shapiro, Harry L. (Harry Lionel), 1902-1990 8
- Department of Ichthyology 7
- Ellsworth, Lincoln, 1880-1951 7
- Gregory, William K. (William King), 1876-1970 7
- Bickmore, Albert S. (Albert Smith), 1839-1914 6
- Central Asiatic Expeditions Films (1921-1930) 6
- Jesup, Morris K. (Morris Ketchum), 1830-1908 6
- Klein, Alfred J. 6
- Lutz, Frank Eugene, 1879-1943 6
- Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944 6
- Vernay, Arthur Stannard, 1877-1960 6
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Vertebrate Paleontology 5
- Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 5
- Brown, Barnum 5
- Hyman, Libbie Henrietta, 1888-1969 5
- Matthew, William Diller, 1871-1930 5
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 5
- Nelson, N. C. (Nels Christian), 1875-1964 5
- Parr, Albert Eide, 1900-1991 5
- Stout, Gardner D. 5
- Akeley, Mary L. Jobe (Mary Lenore Jobe), 1878-1966 4
- Allen, J. A. (Joel Asaph), 1838-1921 4
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Preparation and Installation 4
- American Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs 4
- Bird, Junius Bouton, 1907-1982 4
- Burden, W. Douglas (William Douglas), 1898-1978 4
- Chubb, S. Harmsted (Samuel Harmsted), 1863-1949 4
- Cockerell, Theodore D. A. (Theodore Dru Alison), 1866-1948 4
- Crocker, Templeton, 1884-1948 4
- Day Roraima Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1927-1928) 4
- Department of Animal Behavior 4
- Department of Anthropology 4
- Granger, Walter, 1872-1941 4
- Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 4
- Lerner, Michael, 1890-1978 4
- Mayr, Ernst, 1904-2005 4
- Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958 4
- Noble, G. Kingsley (Gladwyn Kingsley), 1894-1940 4
- Olsen, Chris E., 1880-1965 4
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 4
- Smithsonian Institution 4
- Van Gelder, Richard George, 1928-1994 4
- Weyer, Edward Moffat, 1904-1998 4
- Whitney South Sea Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1920-1941) 4
- Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873 3
- Allen, Jerome Lee, 1891-1955 3
- American Museum Congo Expedition (1909-1915) 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Department of Public Instruction 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Library 3
- American Museum of Natural History. Trustees 3
- Aronson, Lester R. (Lester Ralph), 1911-1996 3
- Asaeda, Toshio 3
- Atz, James W. 3
- Bartlett, Bob, 1875-1946 3
- Beals, Jessie Tarbox 3
- Breder, Charles M. (Charles Marcus), 1897-1983 3
- Brown, F. Martin (Frederick Martin), 1903-1993 3
- Burden East Indian Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History (1926) 3
- Burroughs, John, 1837-1921 3
- Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 3
- Colbert, Edwin H. (Edwin Harris), 1905-2001 3
- Correia, José G., 1881-1954 3
- Dean, Bashford, 1867-1928 3
- Department of Geology and Mineralogy 3
- Department of Geology and Paleontology 3
- Department of Herpetology 3
- Dos Passos, Cyril F. (Cyril Franklin), 1887-1986 3
- Ekblaw, W. Elmer (Walter Elmer), 1882-1949 3
- Gilliard, E. Thomas (Ernest Thomas), 1912-1965 3
- Irma and Paul Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life 3
- Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1897-1902) 3
- Klots, Alexander B. (Alexander Barrett), 1903-1989 3
- Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 3
- Legendre Indochina Expedition (1931-1932) 3
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