Lewis M. Purnell photograph collection relating to Burmese market and marionette troupe
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 97-38, NAA Photo Lot 82-63, USNM ACC 350955
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints made by the Smithsonian Institution from copy negatives, circa 1982.
name: label: Collector
content: Purnell, Lewis M.
topic: label: Topic
content: Marionettes -- Burma
label: Topic
content: Markets -- Burma
creator: label: Collector
content: Purnell, Lewis M.
culture: label: Culture
content: Shan (Asian people)
label: Culture
content: Burmese
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Lewis M. Purnell graduated from Johns Hopkins University and was a Foreign Service officer for thirty years, most of which were spent in Asia. He served as assistant attache for the United States Embassy in Burma in the early 1950s and became Officer in Charge of Burma Affairs for the Department of State in April 1955. In 1952, Bo Set Kya, former Burmese Secretary of Defense, gave Purnell six Burmese marionettes, which he later donated to the National Museum.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 18 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1950-1960
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Copy negatives donated by Lewis M. Purnell to the Department of Anthropology in 1982 (accession 350955). One set of eighteen prints were found in Smithsonian curator William Trousdale's office following his retirement.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.97-38
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs, possibly made by Lewis M. Purnell, depicting a performance by a marionette troupe and Shan people at a market in Burma. They include close ups of marionettes and singers.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Photo Lot 82-63 has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 97-38. These photographs are of the same subjects, were also collected by Lewis Purnell, and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Purnell donated six Burmese marionettes along with this collection to the Department of Anthropology in accession 350955.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Purnell can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Henri Geiger Omwake's papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional artifacts donated by Purnell can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 336965, 324266, and 359770.