Tassilo Adam photographs of Serimpi dance
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 73-21
name: label: Creator
content: Adam, Tassilo
topic: label: Topic
content: Serimpi (Dance)
label: Topic
content: Dance
creator: label: Creator
content: Adam, Tassilo
culture: label: Culture
content: Javanese (Indonesian people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Tassilo Adam (1878-1948?) was born in Munich and moved to Sumatra to work in the Dutch planting business. He moved to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), where he first worked as an ethnologist for the Dutch government. He then spent five years filming and making photographs in the court of the Sultan of Java. In 1929, he was appointed associate curator of Ethnology and assistant curator of Eastern Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1928
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The collection was transferred from the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab in 1973.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.73-21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting a Javanese dance group performing Serimpi dance.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Javanese dance by Adam can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97.