Photographs used to illustrate Alfred Louis Kroeber's "Handbook of the Indians of California"
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 66E
name: label: Creator
content: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
topic: label: Topic
content: Buildings
label: Topic
content: Implements, utensils, etc.
label: Topic
content: Boats and boating
creator: label: Creator
content: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
culture: label: Culture
content: Karuk (Karok)
label: Culture
content: Whilkut (Redwood Indians)
label: Culture
content: Wintun
label: Culture
content: Yurok
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Alfred Louis Kroeber (1876-1960) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, but his family moved to New York City shortly afterward.  He received his BA (1896) and MA (1897) from Columbia University and worked as a teaching assistant there from 1897-1898.  During this time, he took courses from Franz Boas who introduced him to the university's newly established Department of Anthropology. Kroeber received his PhD in Anthropology in 1901 and then accepted a position at the University of California at Berkeley, where he founded the Department of Anthropology. Kroeber conducted extensive research into California tribes and collected artifacts for museums. His "Handbook of the Indians of California," submitted in 1919, was published in the Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin in 1925.  In 1923, Kroeber published "Anthropology," considered among the first general textbooks on the subject.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 12 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1900-1919
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.66E
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in A. L. Kroeber, "Handbook of the Indians of California," BAE Bulletin 78, 1925.
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content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Images included in Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78 ("Handbook of the Indians of California") and photographs of spoons and acorn gruel stirrers, some of which were also published in the volume. Among the photographs included as plates are the interior of a Yurok sweat house (plate 10), a Chilula sweat house (plate 13), a Yurok boat (plate 13), a view of the Karok center of the world (plate 22), and a Wintun cradle (plate 35).
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Papers and notes by Kroeber can be found in National Anthropological Archives MS 2108, MS 2622, MS 2560, and MS 3134.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Kroeber held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7116, MS 4365-a, MS 1897-a, MS 4623, NAA MS 4372(4), American Ethnological Society records, Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Handbook of South American Indians Records, and collections of personal papers.