Henri Geiger Omwake papers
name: label: Correspondent
content: Solecki, Ralph S.
label: Correspondent
content: Robbins, Roland Wells
label: Correspondent
content: South, Stanely G.
label: Correspondent
content: Purnell, Lewis M.
label: Correspondent
content: Oswald, Adrian H.
label: Correspondent
content: Robbins, Maurice
label: Correspondent
content: Quimby, George I. (George Irving), 1913-2003
label: Correspondent
content: Neitzel, Robert S.
label: Correspondent
content: Haggerty, Gilbert
label: Creator
content: Omwake, Henri Geiger, 1907-1967
label: Correspondent
content: O'Neil, B.H.
label: Correspondent
content: Green, Amos R.
label: Correspondent
content: Gillette, Charles E.
label: Correspondent
content: Guthe, Alfred K. (Alfred Kidder), 1920-1983
label: Correspondent
content: Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997
label: Correspondent
content: Witthoft, John, 1921-1993
label: Correspondent
content: Woolworth, Alan R.
label: Correspondent
content: Wray, Charles F.
label: Correspondent
content: Walker, Iain C.
label: Correspondent
content: Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
label: Correspondent
content: Watkins, C. Malcolm
label: Correspondent
content: Weslager, C.A.
label: Correspondent
content: Stears, Richard B.
label: Correspondent
content: Steen, Charlie R., 1908-1997
label: Correspondent
content: Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-
label: Correspondent
content: Stern, Theodore, 1917-
label: Correspondent
content: Miller, P. Schuyler
label: Correspondent
content: Mohr, Robert D.
label: Correspondent
content: McCary, Ben C.
label: Correspondent
content: Miller, Carl F.
label: Correspondent
content: Mayre, William B.
label: Correspondent
content: McBeath, George
label: Correspondent
content: Marx, Robert
label: Correspondent
content: Mason, Ronald J.
label: Correspondent
content: Mair, Ernest F.
label: Correspondent
content: Marochen, K.
label: Correspondent
content: Lazarus, William C.
label: Correspondent
content: Lopez, Julian
label: Correspondent
content: Kinsey, W. Fred
label: Correspondent
content: Kidd, Kenneth E.
label: Correspondent
content: Larrabee, Edward McM
label: Correspondent
content: Knowles, Jerome
label: Correspondent
content: Hume, Ivor Noel
label: Correspondent
content: Huey, Paul R.
label: Correspondent
content: Kelly, A. R. (Arthur Randolph), 1900-1979
label: Correspondent
content: Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
label: Correspondent
content: Harrington, Jean C.
label: Correspondent
content: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
label: Correspondent
content: Hall, Robert F.
label: Correspondent
content: Helbers, G.C.
label: Correspondent
content: Hayes, Charles F., III
label: Correspondent
content: Burnett, Edwin K.
label: Correspondent
content: Bullen, Ripley P.
label: Correspondent
content: Cauzier, Arch
label: Correspondent
content: Byers, Douglas S., 1903-1978
label: Correspondent
content: Boyd, Mark F.
label: Correspondent
content: Brannon, Peter A.
label: Correspondent
content: Brooks, Edward
label: Correspondent
content: Bull, Elias B.
label: Correspondent
content: Anderson, Albert J.
label: Correspondent
content: Arentz, George
label: Correspondent
content: Bird, Junius
label: Correspondent
content: Black, Glenn A. (Glenn Albert), 1900-1964
label: Correspondent
content: Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997
label: Correspondent
content: Demarest, Tom
label: Correspondent
content: Cross, Dorothy
label: Correspondent
content: American Museum of Natural History
label: Correspondent
content: Gifford, Stanley E.
label: Correspondent
content: Flegel, P.S.
label: Correspondent
content: Fernstrom, Karl D.
label: Correspondent
content: Fairbanks, Charles H. (Charles Herron), 1913-1985
topic: label: Topic
content: Trade -- American Indian
label: Topic
content: Pipes -- trade pipes -- American Indian
label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Pipes
creator: label: Correspondent
content: Solecki, Ralph S.
label: Correspondent
content: Robbins, Roland Wells
label: Correspondent
content: South, Stanely G.
label: Correspondent
content: Purnell, Lewis M.
label: Correspondent
content: Oswald, Adrian H.
label: Correspondent
content: Robbins, Maurice
label: Correspondent
content: Quimby, George I. (George Irving), 1913-2003
label: Correspondent
content: Neitzel, Robert S.
label: Correspondent
content: Haggerty, Gilbert
label: Creator
content: Omwake, Henri Geiger, 1907-1967
label: Correspondent
content: O'Neil, B.H.
label: Correspondent
content: Green, Amos R.
label: Correspondent
content: Gillette, Charles E.
label: Correspondent
content: Guthe, Alfred K. (Alfred Kidder), 1920-1983
label: Correspondent
content: Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997
label: Correspondent
content: Witthoft, John, 1921-1993
label: Correspondent
content: Woolworth, Alan R.
label: Correspondent
content: Wray, Charles F.
label: Correspondent
content: Walker, Iain C.
label: Correspondent
content: Willey, Gordon R. (Gordon Randolph), 1913-2002
label: Correspondent
content: Watkins, C. Malcolm
label: Correspondent
content: Weslager, C.A.
label: Correspondent
content: Stears, Richard B.
label: Correspondent
content: Steen, Charlie R., 1908-1997
label: Correspondent
content: Stephenson, Robert L. (Robert Lloyd), 1919-
label: Correspondent
content: Stern, Theodore, 1917-
label: Correspondent
content: Miller, P. Schuyler
label: Correspondent
content: Mohr, Robert D.
label: Correspondent
content: McCary, Ben C.
label: Correspondent
content: Miller, Carl F.
label: Correspondent
content: Mayre, William B.
label: Correspondent
content: McBeath, George
label: Correspondent
content: Marx, Robert
label: Correspondent
content: Mason, Ronald J.
label: Correspondent
content: Mair, Ernest F.
label: Correspondent
content: Marochen, K.
label: Correspondent
content: Lazarus, William C.
label: Correspondent
content: Lopez, Julian
label: Correspondent
content: Kinsey, W. Fred
label: Correspondent
content: Kidd, Kenneth E.
label: Correspondent
content: Larrabee, Edward McM
label: Correspondent
content: Knowles, Jerome
label: Correspondent
content: Hume, Ivor Noel
label: Correspondent
content: Huey, Paul R.
label: Correspondent
content: Kelly, A. R. (Arthur Randolph), 1900-1979
label: Correspondent
content: Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
label: Correspondent
content: Harrington, Jean C.
label: Correspondent
content: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950
label: Correspondent
content: Hall, Robert F.
label: Correspondent
content: Helbers, G.C.
label: Correspondent
content: Hayes, Charles F., III
label: Correspondent
content: Burnett, Edwin K.
label: Correspondent
content: Bullen, Ripley P.
label: Correspondent
content: Cauzier, Arch
label: Correspondent
content: Byers, Douglas S., 1903-1978
label: Correspondent
content: Boyd, Mark F.
label: Correspondent
content: Brannon, Peter A.
label: Correspondent
content: Brooks, Edward
label: Correspondent
content: Bull, Elias B.
label: Correspondent
content: Anderson, Albert J.
label: Correspondent
content: Arentz, George
label: Correspondent
content: Bird, Junius
label: Correspondent
content: Black, Glenn A. (Glenn Albert), 1900-1964
label: Correspondent
content: Ewers, John C. (John Canfield), 1909-1997
label: Correspondent
content: Demarest, Tom
label: Correspondent
content: Cross, Dorothy
label: Correspondent
content: American Museum of Natural History
label: Correspondent
content: Gifford, Stanley E.
label: Correspondent
content: Flegel, P.S.
label: Correspondent
content: Fernstrom, Karl D.
label: Correspondent
content: Fairbanks, Charles H. (Charles Herron), 1913-1985
culture: label: Culture
content: American Indian -- Eastern -- trade pipes
setName: label: See more items in
content: Henri Geiger Omwake papers
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Henri Geiger Omwake (Ohm-way) was a school official in Delaware, a very active amateur archaeologist, and an authority on pipes of European manufacture that were traded to American Indians. His study of the subject began in the 1940s and continued until his death.  Omwake was one of the main organizers of the Archeological Society of Delaware, the Sussex County Society of Archeology and History in 1948, and the Kent Archaeological Society in 1965. He served on the Delaware State Archeological Board.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 22 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1940-1967
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0203
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged in 5 series: 1. Alphabetical file; 2. notebooks; 3. subject file; 4 correspondence; 5. miscellany.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers include letters, notes, drawings, clippings, photographs, bibliographies, lists, reports, manuscript and copies of a mimeographed form "Survey of Pipes of European Manufacture Traded to the Indians in the Easterndsprecs." Many of the papers in this collection relate to the Omwake pipe collection which has also been donated to the Smithsonian.

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: The Omwake trade pipe collection (around 150 specimens) has also been donated to the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Some of the materials in the Henri Geiger Omwake papers include notes that relate to objects in the artifact collection.

The National Anthropological Archives holds material related to Omwake's work on the Townsend Site excavation in MS 4669 The Townsend Site near Lewes, Delaware and MS 7223 Archaeological report on the Townsend Site in Delaware.

The Detroit Public Library holds the Henri Geiger Omwake papers, 1950-1963.