Marian Wenzel papers concerning Nubian architecture
name: label: Creator
content: Wenzel, Marian
place: label: Place
content: Sudan
label: Place
content: Nubia
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture
label: Topic
content: Archaeology
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Marian Wenzel in 1964.  Original materials were returned to Wenzel to be deposited at the University of Khartoum in 1965.
creator: label: Creator
content: Wenzel, Marian
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content: Marian Wenzel papers concerning Nubian architecture
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Marian Barbara Wenzel was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1932.  She earned at BA in Philosophy from Columbia University in 1957 and a PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, in 1966.  Wenzel is best known for her work studying the art and architecture of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina.  In the early 1960s, she was commissioned by the University of Khartoum to conduct a salvage archeological study of doorways and other decorative elements of Nubian houses in the Wadi Halfa District of the Sudan.  In 1972, she published House Decoration in Nubia based on this research.  Wenzel died in 2002.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1964
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1965.0406
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection title changed from "Marian W. Cavendish papers."
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of photocopies of Wenzel's notes on Sudanese architecture and 35mm slides.  The material was produced on a salvage archeological study of doorways and other decorative elements of Nubian houses in the Wadi Halfa District of the Sudan that was scheduled to be flooded by the Aswan High Dam. The work was carried out on expeditions sponsored by the Sudan Unit, University of Khartoum.

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relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Pitt Rivers Museum holds Wenzel's original notebooks in the Papers of Marian Barbara Wenzel.