John Peabody Harrington photographs from California

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John Peabody Harrington photographs from California

1923

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Negatives and photographic prints taken by John Peabody Harrington in Santa Barbara and Ventura County, California in 1923. John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) was an ethnologist and linguist who specialized in the Native peoples of California and served with the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology from 1915 to 1955. Beyond his efforts to document innumerable Native languages, Harrington also collected objects for the Bureau of Ethnology and on his own. Photographs in this collection accompanied the objects he sold to or collected for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

17 Negatives (photographic); 16 Photographic prints; 2 Copy negatives

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

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

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National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center

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Curator of the exhibit was Susan Milbrath. From the description of Star gods of the ancient Americas [1982]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 67615718 Founded in 1916 by George G. Heye, the Museum is devoted to the collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of materials connected with the anthropology of the aboriginal peoples of North, Central, and South America. From the description of Records, 1860-1983, 1890-1980 (bulk). (Unknown). World...

Heye, Thea

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Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957

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Harrington, John Peabody

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Bautista, Bob c.1843-1923

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