Pacific Survey file
name: label: Creator
content: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
label: Names
content: Ethnogeographic Board (Washington, D.C.)
label: Names
content: Human Relations Area Files, inc
label: Names
content: United States. Navy
place: label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: East Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: World War, 1939-1945
creator: label: Creator
content: Murdock, George Peter, 1897-1985
bioghist: label: Historical Note
content: With the coming of World War II, George Peter Murdock, in a move to aid the efforts of the United States, turned the attention of his Cross Cultural Survey file (later the Human Relations Area File) to the Pacific, especially the Japanese mandated islands there. This resulting file includes abstracts and illustrations from publications on five-by-eight-inch cards and slips. They are arranged by geographic area and subject following George Peter Murdock's Outline of Cultural Materials, 1945. The set was maintained in the offices of the Ethnogeographic Board at the Smithsonian Institution. By report, the file was heavily used by the U. S. Navy in planning the invasions of islands in the Pacific.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 23.25 Linear feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940 - circa 1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0324
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Smithsonian Institution Archives holds records related to the Pacific Survey file in Records, 1942-1946 (SIA.FARU0087), Series 8: Uncompleted Project File: 1943-1945.