Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte: American Indians, ca. 1883.

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Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte: American Indians, ca. 1883.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/156045919

Consists of twenty ethnographic albumin prints of North American Indians, commissioned by Prince Roland Bonaparte, and photographed by Alfred Ayotte; plus two additional photographs of Bonaparte himself.

1.7 linear ft. (1 flat box, 25 x 21 in.) : 20 plus 2 photographs.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6901479

Princeton University Library

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Ayotte, Alfred, 1905-1964

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Nisberg, Jack 1922-1980

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