Regis M. Quirin and Leon Poplawski photographs of Carib peoples in Dominica
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 94-7
name: label: Creator
content: Quirin, Regis M. (photographer, coauthor, and collector)
label: Names
content: Poplawski, Leon (photographer and coauthor)
place: label: Place
content: Dominica
topic: label: Topic
content: Canoes and canoeing
label: Topic
content: Villages
label: Topic
content: Bananas
creator: label: Creator
content: Quirin, Regis M. (photographer, coauthor, and collector)
culture: label: Culture
content: Carib Indians
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Regis M. Quirin is an industrial photographer and photo journalist.  After serving in the United States Army in Japan and Formosa (1953-1955), he traveled with Leon Poplawski, a radar repairman with the US Army (1953-1955), to Dominica, a British island in the West Indies (June-July 1955).  The pair visited Roesau, the capital of Dominica, as well as Salybia, a small village on the island's Carib reserve.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Map
label: Extent
content: 15 Pages (Report :)
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content: 29 Negatives (acetate)
label: Extent
content: 55 Color slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Regis M. Quirin, 1993.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.94-7
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Maps
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Copy slides, copy negatives, and reference prints for negatives available.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Regis M. Quirin and Leon Poplawski in Dominica that depict the island's natural and urban scenery as well as Carib peoples.  There are images of Carib Indians and their activities and villages as well as cities and scenery in Dominica, including Roseau and Portsmouth.  Among the photographs of Carib peoples are images of basket making, clothes washing and drying, the making of a dugout canoe, and banana agriculture, including cutting bunches and loading bananas onto ships.  The collection also includes a map of the West Indies and Regis M. Quirin and Leon Poplawski's report, "The Carib Expedition."
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: An additional photograph of Carib in Salybia held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7294.