Subject file
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Abbott, William Louis, 1860-1936
label: Collection Creator
content: Hough, Walter, 1859-1935
label: Collection Photographer
content: Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944
label: Collection Creator
content: Kloss, Charles Boden
label: Collection Creator
content: Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908
setName: label: See more items in
content: William Louis Abbott collection
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0228, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists primarily of notes compiled by Otis Mason on a variety of
subjects relating to the Abbott collections from Malaysia and Indonesia. Information
contained in these folders was derived largely from Abbott's letters, of which this series
includes originals as well as Mason's notes and excerpts from them. Files on places and
people contain data on native populations, their physical characteristics, way of life,
clothing, food, dwellings, character and intelligence, fertility, health and medicine, and
local vegetation and wildlife. In addition, Abbott's collecting activities, some objects
collected, and their shipment to the United States may be discussed. Abbott also refers to
the works of Modigliani, photographs, and other sources of information.