Edgar L. Hewett files, 1915-1940.

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Edgar L. Hewett files, 1915-1940.

Summary: Collection consists of correspondence, student papers, and lecture notes concerning archaeology and ethnology in the Southwest. Included topics are: Chaco Canyon, Gran Quivira, Mesa Verde, Pajarito Plateau, the School of American Archaeology, Pueblo Indian agricultural economy in the 1920s, and Central American antiquities. The Chaco Canyon material includes correspondence, lecture notes, survey maps, and reports. Mesa Verde material includes photographs, and Jesse Nusbaum's excavation and repair of Balcony House. Central American material includes papers from S.G. Morley. Correspondents include: Erna Fergusson, Reginald Fisher, John P. Harrington, A. Hrdlicka, Florence Hawley Ellis, Clyde Kluckhohn, Wayne Mauzy, Barbara Freire Marreco, J.F. Zimmerman, and others.

2 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7399074

Museum of New Mexico Library

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Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943

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Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960

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Hrdlička, Alěs 1869-1943

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Ales Hrdlicka was born in Bohemia and came to America in 1882. He received an M.D. degree from the New York Eclectic College (1892) and graduated from the New York Homeopathic College (1894). He also studied medicine and anthropology at the Sorbonne. Dr. Hrdlicka was assistant curator (1903-1910) and curator (1910-1943) of the Division of Physical Anthropology at the National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He led numerous anthropological expeditions and did extensive research on prehisto...

Fisher, Reginald G.

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Ferdon, Edwin N., 1913-....

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Zimmerman, J. F.

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Nusbaum, Jesse L. (Jesse Logan)

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School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)

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Cummings, Byron, 1860-1954

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Mauzy, Wayne L.

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Morley, Sylvanus Griswold, 1883-1948

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Fergusson, Erna, 1888-1964

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Reagan, Albert B., 1871-1936

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Jeançon, J. A. (John A.)

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