Report on the field work with the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley expedition of 1934, / by James A. Russell and Russell White, 1934.

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Report on the field work with the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley expedition of 1934, / by James A. Russell and Russell White, 1934.

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This is a mimeographed copy of the official report resulting from the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition of 1934. These expeditions, which were privately funded and headed by Ansel Franklin Hall, took place from 1933-1938. The work was supervised by Lyndon Hargrave of the Museum of Northern Arizona and the crew consisted of archaeologists, paleontologists, botanists, biologists, and geologists. The report details the group's findings from their archaeological surveys and excavations of several early Anasazi (Pueblo) sites in northern Arizona and southern Utah. It also gives a detailed description of the geology of the region including Monument Valley, Navajo National Monument, the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park, and concludes with a chapter on the modern Indians of the region, the Hopi and Navajo. Also included are maps and seventy-two mounted original photographs. The forward is by Ansel Franklin Hall.

157 pages, bound volume.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Hargrave, Lyndon Lane, 1896-1978

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Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition

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Hall, Ansel F. (Ansel Franklin), 1894-1962

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A series of Rainbow Bridge/Monument Valley Expeditions were carried out between 1933 and 1938, but the most famous one is possibly the 1933 expedition. The goal of the expeditions was to research the area so that the National Park Service could establish a park in the region from southeast Utah to Northern Arizona. Led by Ansel Hall, the expedition included members from the Explorers Club from New York, researchers from UC-Berkeley, and others from a variety of universities througho...

Russell, James A. (James Avery), 1958-

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James A. Russell and Russell White were instructors at the Edison Technical High School in Fresno, California. From the description of Report on the field work with the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley expedition of 1934, / by James A. Russell and Russell White, 1934. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228737746 ...

White, Russell C.

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