Edward Adamson Hoebel photographs of Shoshoni and Comanche people and dances
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-9
name: label: Creator
content: Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993
label: Names
content: Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico)
label: Names
content: Linton, Ralph, 1893-1953
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Shoshone
topic: label: Topic
content: Sun Dance
label: Topic
content: Indian dance -- North America
creator: label: Creator
content: Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson), 1906-1993
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Niuam (Comanche)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Edward Adamson Hoebel (1906-1993) was an anthropologist and educator who pioneered studies of the legal systems of pre-literate societies.  He received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1934, publishing his dissertation, "The Political Organization and Law-ways of the Comanche Indians," after conducting field research on Comanche legal systems at the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology under the direction of Ralph Linton.  Hoebel taught sociology and anthropology at New York University from 1929 until 1948 and later became a professor, head of the anthropology department, and Dean of Arts and Sciences at the University of Utah. Hoebel took visiting professorships at the universities of Harvard, Chicago, Nijmegen, Arizona, and Lehigh and served as president of the American Ethnological Society and the American Anthropological Association.  He retired as Regents' Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 33 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1933-1934
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by E. Adamson Hoebel through Thomas Kavanagh, 1990.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-9
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 made by Edward Adamson Hoebel during a 1933 Laboratory of Anthropology field school session led by Ralph Linton. They consist of images of Comanche people, including a Comanche brush dance at Walters, Oklahoma, and images of Shoshoni people during a sun dance at Fort Hall, Idaho, in 1934.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Reports and correspondence by Hoebel held in the National Anthropological Archives in the American Ethnological Society records, Bureau of American Ethnology Administrative File, Esther Schiff Goldfrank Papers, and Raoul Weston LaBarre Papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Comanche Indians at Walters held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7505.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The American Philosophical Society holds the E. Adamson Hoebel Papers.