Photograph of Robert F. Heizer at Palenque
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 77-59
name: label: Collector
content: Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979
label: Names
content: Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979
place: label: Place
content: Palenque Site (Mexico)
creator: label: Collector
content: Heizer, Robert F. (Robert Fleming), 1915-1979
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Robert F. Heizer (1915-1979) was an anthropologist best known for his archeological and ethnographic work in California and Nevada. After receiving his doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley (1941), he worked there as a professor from 1946 to 1976, when he gained emeritus status. Heizer's research interests grew to include Mexican archeology, and he undertook an expedition in 1955 to La Venta with Philip Drucker, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and Robert J. Squiers.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Print (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Robert Heizer, through Betty Ahrens at the Center for the Study of Man, 1977.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.77-59
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 Robert F. Heizer standing next to carved name, probably of Désiré Charnay, in Palenque temple, April 1955.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Robert Fleming Heizer Papers 1943-1978; 1955-1970.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Special Collections at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley also hold Heizer's papers.