Frederick Johnson photograph collection

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Frederick Johnson photograph collection

1924-1931

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.001.038

The Frederick Johnson collection consists of original negatives made from 1924 to 1931 by Johnson primary among the Mi'kmaq, Innu, Algonquin, Potawatomi, Montagnais, Abenaki, Anishinaabe, and Mistassini Cree peoples of Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Quebec, Canada. Frederick Johnson began his anthropological studies as a teenager, accompanying anthropologist Frank G. Speck (1881-1951) on trips to Native communities in Eastern Canada. Between 1923 and 1929, Johnson studied at the University of Pennsylvania and conducted several research trips in Canada, some of which were sponsored by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

1.5 Linear feet; 450 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)

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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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SNAC Resource ID: 11622563

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Archive Center

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Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994

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Frederick Johnson (1904-1994) was an anthropologist and longtime curator (1936-1968) at the Robert S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology, in Andover, Massachusetts. He is recognized for contributing to the development of an interdisciplinary approach to archaeology, in which scientists from a variety of fields were brought together to study archaeological problems. He organized the collaboration of fifteen scientists on the Boylston Street Fish Weir project in 1939 in Boston, and later, another ...