Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico). Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology archives, 1927-[ongoing].
Title:
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology archives, 1927-[ongoing].
Summary: As of 1997, collection consists of administrative records and related materials on the mission and activities of the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology and its predecessors. Includes correspondence, project reports, minutes of board meetings, accession books, audits, and field school management files. Correspondence includes an extensive exchange between Jesse Nusbaum, director of the Lab 1931-1935, and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Other correspondents include: Carl Guthe, William H. Jackson, Jesse D. Jennings, A.V. Kidder, Alexander Lesser, Sylvanus G. Morley, Earl Morris, Morris Opler, Elsie Clews Parsons, Herman Schweizer, Anna O. Shepard, Julian Steward, Duncan Strong, and M. Titiev, as well as staff members: Kenneth M. Chapman, A.E. Dittert, Bertha Dutton, Nancy Fox, Marjorie Lambert, H.P. Mera, Stewart Peckham, S.A. Stallings, and Stanley D. Stubbs. Field school files relate to summer sessions held annually 1929-1936, containing student letters, financial records, and correspondence with faculty. Supporting materials include scrapbooks, photograph albums, blueprints and plans. Subjects include: museum architecture, dendochronology, salvage archaeology, Indian arts and crafts, Indian pottery, the Hyde Expedition, the "Indian Detours" tours conducted by Fred Harvey and WPA projects.
ArchivalResource:
<50> linear feet.
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