India Fieldwork 1958-1977: Field Journals, Travel Notes and Itineraries
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Lippe, Aschwin, 1914-1988
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection
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content: Aschwin Lippe Collection / Series 4: India Research and Publications
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
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content: FSA.A2012.01, Subseries 4.3
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content: Archival materials
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content: Aschwin Lippe's Field Journals [Boxes 19 and 20] contain both detailed information on sites and sculpture as well as general information about people met, daily events and local customs.  Box 21 contains itineraries, contacts, correspondence and administrative details related to Lippe's India travel. The material in Box 21 is divided into folders reflecting the organization of the material as found. Also included is a folder of material on an Indonesian trip. 
Lippe's wife Simone accompanied him on these trips. According to Lippe's stepson Thilo von Watzdorf, his mother Simone helped plan the expeditions and routes and contributed to the field journals. In some cases Ashwin described the site or sculptural detail and Simone recorded it. In others he wrote the entry himself. Simone also described the countryside, local festivals, current events and the people they visited. Lippe subsequently paginated and indexed the journals making it easy to find site information. He also added notes next to sites referencing previous or subsequent journal entries about visits to the same site or making comparisons with other sites.
Photography formed the core of Lippe's fieldwork.  The collection includes 8-by-10 inch black-and-white enlargements of sculpture and architectural details. [Subseries 5.2] and 35mm. color slides of many sites and their surroundings [Subseries 5.4].