Morris Steggerda photographs of Mayan peoples
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 3319
name: label: Creator
content: Steggerda, Morris, 1900-1950
label: Names
content: Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Genetics
topic: label: Topic
content: Photographs
creator: label: Creator
content: Steggerda, Morris, 1900-1950
culture: label: Culture
content: Mayas
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Morris Steggerda (1900-1950) was a biological anthropologist who studied Mayan culture.  He received his BA from Hope College in Michigan (1922) and his MA (1923) and PhD (1928) from the University of Illinois Department of Zoology.  While still in his PhD program, he met Charles Davenport of the Department of Genetics at Carnegie Institution of Washington, with whom he studied the indigenous people of the British West Indies and published Race-Crossing in Jamaica (1929).  Steggerda became an assistant professor at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, (1928-1930) before joining the research staff of the Carnegie Institution Department of Genetics based in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York.  During his fourteen-year career with the Institution, Steggerda did research in Yucatan, Mexico, and wrote two reports that were published by the Carnegie Institution in 1932 and 1941.  In 1944, he was appointed professor of Anthropology at Hartford Seminary Foundation (Connecticut), a position which he kept until his death.  Steggerda was a founding member of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists in 1930 (later serving on its Executive Committee and as its vice president) and a councilmember for the American Anthropological Association.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 70 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1931
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Charles B. Davenport, Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Genetics, 1932.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.3319
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Anthropometric portraits of Maya people in the vicinity of Chichen Itza, probably made for Steggerda's Carnegie Institution publication 434, "Anthropometry of Adult Maya Indians: A Study of Their Physical and Physiological Characteristics," 1932.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Steggerda photographs held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Bureau of American Ethnology-Smithsonian Institution Illustrations.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Steggerda held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Handbook of South American Indians Records, Bureau of American Ethnology General correspondence, John Lawrence Angel Papers, Ales Hrdlicka Papers, and MS 4846.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine holds the Steggerda Collection of anthropometric records.
label: Contained in
content: Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)