Flora S. Kaplan collection

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Flora S. Kaplan collection

1965-1989; bulk 1972-1977

https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAI.AC.024

The Flora S. Kaplan collection includes manuscript materials, field notes, slides, negatives and photographs. The extensive slide collection was taken in several regions of Mexico from the mid-to-late 1960's through the early 1980's and documented local craft processes, particularly ceramics, their makers, their families and life styles.

0.3 Linear feet (1 Hollinger Box); 56 Photographic prints; 3284 slides (photographs); 1828 negatives (photographic)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363799

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

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Kaplan, Flora S.

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Flora Edouwaye S. Kaplan, anthropologist, is a professor emerita, and former founding director (1978-99) of the Museum Studies Program, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, New York University. She taught Anthropology as a Fulbright professor, (1983-85), University of Benin, Nigeria; and previously taught at Lehman College, CUNY (1970-1976), before arriving at New York University in 1976. She publishes widely on Benin (Nigeria) and on Mexico, museum politics, art, photography, religion and gender. She ...