East China Sea Program: General, 1964-1968.
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Knez, Eugene I. (Eugene Irving), 1916-2010
setName: label: See more items in
content: Eugene Irving Knez papers
label: See more items in
content: Eugene Irving Knez papers / Series 5: RESEARCH GRANTS / Research:
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 4 Folders
container: label: Container
content: Box 44
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Includes outline for a Smithsonian Research Awards program grant along with a draft proposal, 1967; copies of letters regarding the rejected proposal to carry out research in the Ryukyu Islands; correspondence with Douglas G. Haring (Syracuse University) as a consultant to the East China Sea Program and Haring's research in Japan; correspondence with George H. Kerr, Honolulu Academy of Arts, regarding the Ryukyu Islands and the United States responsibility for its cultural properties; Kerr's attitude towards Knez's Program proposal; Kerr's Ryukyu Islands Cultural Survey photographic collection and a copy going to the Smithsonian; Kerr's comments on the scientists and museum personnel on Okinawa and evaluation of Japanese scholars; detailed information about the politics at Okinawa, Yaeyama and Miyako Islands; list and description of recommended sites to visit in the Ryukyu Islands; internal memorandum on the East China Sea Program and its relationship to work on the Ryukyu Islands; draft proposal for the East China Sea Program to the National Geographic Society; a draft report on the Smithsonian Institution Program in the Ryukyu Islands as a response to the United States High Commissioner's request in 1964, and a letter from the Cultural Attache, United States Embassy at Korea, notifying Knez that the Korean government approved his East China Sea program, 1967.