Correspondence Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Department of Anthropology
label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum. Department of Anthropology
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content: Department of Anthropology records
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content: Department of Anthropology records / Series 1: Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1966-1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.XXXX.0311, Subseries 1.11
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent or subject.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This sub-series consists mostly of correspondence to and from Chairmen Saul H. Risenberg and Clifford Evans. There are also copies of correspondence of staff members that were routed through the chairman or sent for his information. Matters of concern cover a broad range of subjects, but many focus on acquisitions and loans of specimens; arrangements for visiting researchers; research plans and proposals; inquiries about employment; and requests for information, assistance, and support from anthropologists and the general public. There is a small amount of material about the Base collection of Tibetan artifacts (filed Bose and Carmichael) and the Von der Heydt collection.

There are generally only a few items of correspondence with any one individual except for Sol Tax and Marvin E. Tong. There are many outgoing letters for which there are no related incoming ones.