Photographs of anthropologists at the University of California, Berkeley
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 81-16
name: label: Names
content: Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology
label: Names
content: University of California, Berkeley
label: Names
content: Ishi, d. 1916
label: Names
content: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
label: Names
content: Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957
label: Names
content: Radin, Paul, 1883-1959
label: Names
content: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
label: Names
content: Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
label: Culture
content: Yana
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The photographs were probably made in the summer of 1915 when Ishi was living with Thomas T. Waterman and employed as an informant by Edward Sapir. Robert Lowie, who was engaged in field work as a member of the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, may have traveled to California to attend a special meeting of the American Anthropological Association held in August.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1915
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The snapshots were donated by Margaret Lantis, 1981. According to her letter of January 22, 1980, she probably recieved them from Robert Lowie "not long before his death" in 1957.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.81-16
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Robert Lowie and other anthropologists at the University of California, Berkeley. One photograph depicts the Yana Indian Ishi with Robert Harry Lowie, Paul Radin, Edward Sapir, and Thomas T. Waterman. The second photograph, which appears to have been made around the same time, shows Alfred Louis Kroeber, Lowie, a man, and a woman, in front of the metal shed that housed the Museum of Anthropology (later the Lowie Museum) at the University of California at Berkeley.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Kroeber and Lowie at the University of California, Berkeley, can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 77-68.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: A letter from Kroeber to Waterman concerning Sapir, Ishi, and the Zuni language can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7116.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: An additional photograph of Ishi can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Papers and notes by Paul Radin can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 3609, MS 4652, and MS 1800-a-b-c-d-e.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Papers and notes by Sapir can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 1751, MS 2806 and MS 4929.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Papers, notes, and photographs by Waterman can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 3183, MS 1863, MS 2916, MS 2915, MS 2938, and MS 1864.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Papers and notes by Kroeber can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 2622, MS 2560, and MS 3134.