Miriam McNair Scott Papers
name: label: Creator
content: Miriam McNair Scott
label: Names
content: Stratton, Carol
place: label: Place
content: Thailand
topic: label: Topic
content: Art, Southeast Asian
label: Topic
content: Art, Buddhist
creator: label: Creator
content: Miriam McNair Scott
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content: Miriam McNair Scott Papers
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Miriam McNair Scott (née Tannhauser) was a Southeast Asian art historian. She graduated from Vassar College in 1963 and studied at the University of Zurich. She married Dr. Robert McNair Scott in 1967. He was the photographer for some of the photographs within the collection. In 1972, she moved with her family to Bangkok, Thailand on a military assignment for her husband. 

Between 1972 and 1978, she studied Buddhism and Southeast Asian art and volunteered with the National Museum Volunteers (NMV) group as the lecture series lead. During this time, she collaborated with Carol Stratton, another NMV volunteer, on the book "The Art of Sukhothai." The two intended to create an eight-volume series on the art of Thailand covering architecture, ceramics, sculpture, painting, and prehistory. "The Art of Sukhothai" was published in 1981. McNair Scott and Stratton began work on their next book, "The Art of Northern Thailand", before McNair Scott died in 1987. Stratton's book "Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand" was based on the work for "The Art of Northern Thailand" and McNair Scott's contribution is credited.   

McNair Scott is also credited with contributing to the "Golden Peninsula" chapter of the National Geographic Society's "People and Places of the Past." She also consulted for the Smithsonian later in her career.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3.7 Cubic feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1960-1983
label: Date
content: bulk 1970-1983
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Gift of Robert McNair Scott.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A2001.09
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: This collection is organized into two series
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains notes and drafts related to Miriam McNair Scott's book "The Art of Sukhothai," as well as planned future books. Her research focused on these periods of Thai art history and history: Ayudhya/ Ayutthaya, Dvaravati, Haripunjaya/ Haripunchai, Lan Na, and Sukhothai. 

The collection contains papers and articles by scholars in the Thai history and art history field that were used by Miriam McNair Scott for her book. Topics included ceramics, linguistics, architecture, and Thai history. Photographs of architecture and statues were taken by Robert McNair Scott and Robert Stratton. Additional photographs are from the collections of the British Museum and the National Museum Bangkok. 

Folder titles use place names as they appeared in original folders and documentation, some of which may be outdated. Notable alternative spellings include: Haripunjaya/ Haripunchai and Ayudhya/ Ayutthaya.