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CATALOGUE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL MATERIALSIN THE HITOSHI WATANABE COLLECTION

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The Hitoshi Watanabe Collection
Yoshihiro Nishiaki
The University Museum,The University of Tokyo
This catalogue documents a collection of the notebooks, field records and ethnoarchaeologizal
materials made by the late Professor Hitoshi Watanabe 0919-1998). About half of them wererecently donated by his family to the University Museum, the University of Tokyo.
Professor Watanabe. educated in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tokyo.
and in the Department of Anthropology of London University, taught anthropology and prehisto­
ry at the University of Tokyo over thirty years since 1947. Following his retirement in 1980. heserved as professor at Hokkaido University 0980-1983). Sapporo University 0983-1984). Waseda
University 0984-1989). and Reitaku University 0984-1992). He taught as a visiting professor atthe University of New Mexico 0974) and at the University of Michigan (1983-1984) as well.
His main interest of the long academic career was the history of human ecology. Thus diverse
subjects of anthropology were deal with, covering almost all the periods of the human history on aglobal scale. The strength of Professor Watanabe· s research is derived from his extensive knowl­edge of contemporary people, which always allowed him to look at the human past with a uniqueinsight His numerous works include "The Ainu Ecosystem· (University of Tokyo Press. 1972/University of Washington Press. 1973). "Bow and Arrow Census in a West Papuan Lowland
Community" (University of Queensland. 1975). "Human Activity System" (University of TokyoPress. 1977). "Why Did Man Stand Up?" (in Japanese; University of Tokyo Press. 1985), "Jomon
Stratified Society" (in Japanese; Rokko Shuppan, 1990). "The Jamon Clay Figurines and theMother Goddess" (in Japanese: Dosei-sha Press. 20()1) to mention a few.
The collection consists of 2769 items of the primary records from his research: publications(HW.A. 1-221). field day-notes and drawings (HW. F. 1-162), files of letters (HW. L. 1-37),
research documents (HW. M. 1-381). ethnographic notes (HW. N. 1-253). fieldwork photos (HW.
P. 1-77), color slides (HW. S. 1-131). video films (HW. C. 1-27). and ethnographic-archaeologicalobjects (HW. E. 1-1480). Particularly useful are those related to his own fieldwork both in Japanand foreign countries. They include detailed ethnographic data on the Hokkaido Ainu

(1957-1997). the natives of Papua New Guinea (1971) and Laos (1975). as well as excavation records
on the Neanderthal caves of Amud, Israel. and Keoue. Lebanon 0960-1970) and other archaeological sites in Japan.