Carl Schuster
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers
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content: Edmund Snow Carpenter papers / Series 2: Research and project files
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1940-1963
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content: 1986-2000
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content: bulk 1940-1949
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.2017-27, Subseries 2.9
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material in this sub-series is arranged alphabetically.
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content: This sub-series documents Carpenter's work related to the papers of the art historian Carl Schuster at the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Ethnology) in Basel, Switzerland. Schuster's work focused on tribal art and traditional symbolism.

The bulk of the material relates to an unidentified project entitled "Cheek Marks," a term which likely referred to comparisons of facial markings and symbols in ancient and tribal art. This material comprises catalog records and item descriptions, as well as reference photographs and artistic reproductions of described artifacts and art. Additional material in the sub-series includes correspondence; notes; articles and presentations; and reports – some produced and/or collected by Carpenter, and some by Schuster.

Carpenter edited/co-authored Schuster's oeuvre as the 12-volume Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition and Continuity (1986-1988). It was condensed into one volume, entitled Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art, in 1996. It is unclear how much of the material retained in this sub-series relates to that publication.