Photograph of Antonio Zarco and H. Morgan Smith
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 82-49
name: label: Names
content: Zarco, Antonio, Chief
culture: label: Culture
content: Choco Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of Central America -- Panama
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Antonio Zarco is an elder of the Choco Tribe of Panama. He served on the staff of the United States Air Force Tropic Survival School in the Canal Zone and worked with American astronauts for part of their training. In 1970, Zarco was at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama assisting in a course involving intercultural contact. After attending one of Zarco's seminars, Wilton Sterling Dillon, who was director of the Smithsonian Office of Symposia and Seminars, helped arrange for him to visit Washington, DC. When Zarco found no Choco material in the National Museum of Natural History, he donated items he had with him and made an additional donation after his return to Panama.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Print (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1982
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Robert Elder of the Processing Lab, 1982.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.82-49
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: Photograph depicting Antonio Zarco with his traveling companion, botanist H. Morgan Smith, in the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab, National Museum of Natural History. This photograph was made after Zarco's last donation to the museum of items from his tribal community (accession 349818). The photograph may have been made by Robert Elder of the Processing Lab or a Smithsonian photographer.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Items donated by Zarco can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accessions 296264, 307730, and 349818.