Photographs of Department of Anthropology conservation and ceramic studies
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-6
name: label: Names
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Names
content: Andrews, Andreas Joseph, d. 1992
label: Names
content: Potts, William
label: Names
content: Rye, Owen S.
topic: label: Topic
content: Ceramics
label: Topic
content: Museum conservation methods
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Andreas Joseph Andrews (d. 1992) was a sculptor and creator of plaster casts for the Smithsonian Institution and an artifact restorer for the Department of Anthropology.  Dr. Owen S. Rye was an Australian scholar of Pakistani ceramics and pottery who participated in the Pakistani Culture Studies-Foreign Currency Program with Department of Anthropology staff Clifford Evans and Gus Van Beek.  William Potts was a graduate student of paleo-archeology during the 1970s; during the 1971 and 1972 seasons, he worked at Tell Jemmeh in Israel as a square supervisor and then as an assistant to Dr. William Melson for his geological study of the surrounding area.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 35 Negatives (acetate: 35mm)
label: Extent
content: 10 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-6
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs largely depicting Andreas Joseph Andrews, a conservator in the Department of Anthropology, working with pottery and other artifacts in his laboratory. There are also images of Dr. Owen Rye and William Potts conducting laboratory tests as part of an Ancient Technology Project study of ceramic firing. The photographs were made in May 1973, probably by a Smithsonian photographer.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Andrews can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Rye's report on the Smithsonian-New South Wales Expedition to Pakistan can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7376.