Subject | • | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork |
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| | • | Archaeology, prehistory |
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| | • | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture |
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| | • | Financial support for research and publication |
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| | • | Linguistics and philology |
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| | • | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections |
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| | • | Personal matters |
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| | • | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution |
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| | • | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous |
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| | 1 | Author: | Bowers, Stephen, 1832-1907 | | | | | Minister. Interested in archaeology, prehistory, and ethnology, particularly that of southern California | |
| | | Title: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence
| | | | Type: | Collection | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1860-1915 | | | | Extent: | 120 items | | | | Abstract: | Approximately one-third of the collection deals with archaeology, ethnology, and craniology. Correspondents include Spencer F. Baird, John S. Billings, Daniel Garrison Brinton, Frederick W. Putnam, and others. Museum collections, in geology, Indian artifacts, craniology; California geology and archaeology. | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Archaeology, prehistory | Cultural description and analysis, social organization and structure, ceremonial behavior, material culture | Anthropological and archaeological fieldwork | Linguistics and philology | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | Personal matters | |
| 2 | Author: | Brinton, Daniel Garrison, 1837-1899 | | | | | Physician, anthropologist. Assistant editor, Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1867, editor, 1874-1887; professor, ethnology and archaeology, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 1884-1886; professor, American linguistics and archaeology, University of Pennsylvania, 1886-1898. Brinton was an Americanist, concentrating his attention on the linguistics and archaeology of North and South American Indians. He was a leader in the systematic classification of American Indian languages and in the analysis of the origin of American Indian mounds. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 1 April 1884 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Publications | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Publishing, publications, miscellaneous | Financial support for research and publication | |
| 3 | Author: | Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933 | | | | | Archaeologist, illustrator. Artist, U.S. Survey, 1872-1874, assistant geologist, 1874-1879; assistant geologist, U.S. Geological Survey, 1880-1888; archaeologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1889-1894; curator of anthropology, Field Museum, Chicago, 1894-1897; curator, department of anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, 1897-1920; chief, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1907; director, National Gallery of Art, 1920-1932. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | n.d. | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Personal | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Personal matters | |
| 4 | Author: | Hrdlicka, Ales, 1869-1943 | | | | | Physical anthropologist. Research intern, Middletown State Hospital, New York, 1894-1896; associate anthropologist, New York State Pathological Institute, 1896-1899; physical anthropologist, Hyde expedition, American Museum of Natural History, 1898-1903; assistant curator, division of physical anthropology, Smithsonian Institute, 1903-1910, curator, 1910-1942; founder and editor (1918-1942), American Journal of Physical Anthropology. | |
| | | Title: | Letter to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 5 August 1904 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | California Indian skull | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Physical studies -- Physical anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropometrics, craniology, race, human evolution | |
| 5 | Author: | Putnam, Frederick Ward, 1839-1915 | | | | | Archaeologist, naturalist, museum administrator. Curator of ichthyology, Boston Society of Natural History; superintendent, Museum of East India Marine Society, Salem, 1867-1869; director, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, 1869-1873; curator, Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, 1874-1909; Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard, 1886-1909, emeritus professor, 1909-1915; curator of anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1894-1903 | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Stephen Bowers
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 17 May 1886 - 2 July 1886 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | A collection of human artifacts | | | | Source: | Stephen Bowers Correspondence (B B672) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Museums -- Development, operation, and collections | |
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