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name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sturtevant, William C.
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content: William C. Sturtevant papers
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content: William C. Sturtevant papers / Series 2: Research Files
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.2008-24, Subseries 2.7
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries contains Sturtevant's research from Burma (today known as Myanmar) and a small amount of research on Kashmir. Sturtevant's first wife, Theda Maw, was from a prominent political Burmese family. On a year-long family trip to Burma, Sturtevant intended to complete a study of clothing in the Pegu District northeast of Rangoon. He could not get permission from the Burmese government to spend much time outside the capital, so instead he visited neighborhoods in Rangoon and villages in the surrounding countryside, examined photographs in archives, studied the language, and read about the country's history and culture. He assembled extensive notes on Burmese clothing and many other aspects of the culture, took hundreds of photographs, and made a large collection, 386 objects in all, of clothing and other objects for the Smithsonian.