Miroslav Prokopec video
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 2008.14.1
name: label: Creator
content: Prokopec, Miroslav
label: Names
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Names
content: Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
topic: label: Topic
content: Anthropologists
label: Topic
content: Physical anthropology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Miroslav Prokopec in 2008.
creator: label: Creator
content: Prokopec, Miroslav
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Video recording (95 minutes, color sound; VHS)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1994
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Prokopec: Hrdlicka 1993."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.2008.14
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Video shot by Miroslav  Prokopec while on a Smithsonian fellowship in the Department of Anthropology researching the collections of Czechoslovakian physical anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka. Video shows scenes of Smithsonian buildings, the mall, gardens and short interviews with Department of  Anthropology staff and curators including T. Dale Stewart, Betty Meggers, John Homiak, Douglas Owsley, Douglas Ubelaker, Lucile Hoyme, JoAllyn Archambault, Donald Hales, Dennis Stanford and Rick Potts.  Scenes recorded also include Carolyn Rose teaching a class, the Anthropology library, the National Anthropological Archives, working with skeletal materials, hallway storage with original labels, and Ales Hrdlicka's grave.  Prokopec also shows photographs of a 1969 exhibit in Prague commemorating the 100th anniversary of Hrdlicka's birth and an interview with Hrdlicka's niece, Kate Zelenka-Palic  who shows family photographs of her uncle.

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