Carol F. Jopling photographs of Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi peoples of Panama
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 98-37
name: label: Creator
content: Jopling, Carol F.
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Kuna

Ngawbe
place: label: Place
content: Panama Canal (Panama)
label: Place
content: Panama
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings
creator: label: Creator
content: Jopling, Carol F.
culture: label: Culture
content: Ngäbe (Guaymi)
label: Culture
content: Guna (Kuna)
label: Culture
content: Choco Indians
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Carol Farrington Jopling (ca. 1917-2000) was a librarian and anthropologist.  As a librarian, she mostly worked for government agencies, including the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology in 1961 and 1962.  In 1973, she received her doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Massachusettes, writing her disseration on the "Women Weavers of Yalalag; Their Art and Its Process." After spending four years as a research associate at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she became chief librarian of the Smithsonian's Tropical Research Institute in Panama (1981-1984). There, she developed a focus on the anthropological study of architecture, publishing a book on the "Art and Aesthetics in Primitive Societies" in 1971.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 74 Prints (circa, silver gelatin (including some mounted for exhibition))
label: Extent
content: 442 Negatives (photographic) (acetate, 35 mm)
label: Extent
content: 326 Contact prints (326 contact prints (on proof sheets))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1981-1984
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Carol Jopling, 1998.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.98-37
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Contact prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Carol F. Jopling documenting the Kuna, Choco, and Guaymi peoples of Panama, as well as the Panama Canal and scenery. Jopling's photographs depict Choco and Kuna dwellings (including their construction), Choco people waiting to receive vaccinations from Navy personnel, agriculture (including coconut harvesting), boats in the Panama Canal, and city buildings. Photographs and textual materials used for an exhibit in 1998 at the American Institute of Architects Baltimore Gallery, entitled "Contrasting Vernacular Architecture: Kuna and Choco Houses of Panama," are also available with the collection.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the papers of Carol F. Jopling.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Jopling also donated artifacts to the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 368048.