Richard Lynch Garner photographs of African peoples and primates
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 81-58A
name: label: Creator
content: Garner, R. L. (Richard Lynch), 1848-1920
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Dwellings -- Africa
label: Topic
content: Primatology
creator: label: Creator
content: Garner, R. L. (Richard Lynch), 1848-1920
culture: label: Culture
content: Africans
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Richard Lynch Garner (1848-1920) was a scholar of primate behavior who studied how apes communicate through vocalizations. He began his research at zoos in 1884, employing sound recordings to study the monkeys' sounds and test reactions.  In 1892, he began to study apes in their natural habitat in the Ogawai River region in central Africa.  He spent time in an elevated cage among chimpanzees and gorillas as his studies expanded, observing general primate behavior as well as communication. While in Africa, he also observed the local people and wrote articles about their customs and circumstances.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 49 Lantern slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1892-1910
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Lantern slides possibly sent by Garner to Ales Hrdlicka for a lecture. Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by Ed Garner of the Department of Anthropology Processing Lab, 1981.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.81-58A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of primates, apparently those used by Garner in his experiments, as well as African people, villages, and plantlife. The collection also includes a few charts comparing the mental capabilities of apes and man, as well as maps of Africa; this suggests that the slides were used for lectures.  The slides may have been used by Garner in his lecture entitled "The Land of Monkeys."
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Richard Lynch Garner papers, 1891-1941.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Garner sent African artifacts to the Department of Anthropology in accession 36893.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts from the Collins-Garner Congo Expedition can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accessions 62237 and 64018.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Notes and papers by Garner can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the John Peabody Harrington papers, the Ales Hrdlicka papers, and the records of the Department of Anthropology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds the expedition history of the Collins-Garner Congo Expedition in the Interests of the Smithsonian Institution (SIA AH00413).