MS 1998-33 Chief Antonio Zarco visit collection
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1998-33
name: label: Correspondent
content: Crocker, William H. (William Henry), 1924-
label: Names
content: Zarco, Antonio, Chief
creator: label: Correspondent
content: Crocker, William H. (William Henry), 1924-
culture: label: Culture
content: Choco Indians
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: The Choco Indians live in small tribal groupings in the rainforests of northwestern Colombia and southwestern Panama. Chief Antonio Zarco, a Choco tribal leader, visited the Smithsonian Institution in the early 1970s and was able to identify several objects in its ethnology collections. In the early 1980s, Zarco was invited to return to the Smithsonian to assist with identifying other objects in the collection.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Photographs (black and white, 8 x 10 inches.)
label: Extent
content: 2 Photographs (color, 7.5 x 9 inches.)
label: Extent
content: 23 Pages (photocopies, 11 x 8.5 inches.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1980-1981
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated by William Crocker.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1998-33
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Correspondence
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection contains 9 black and white photographs and photocopies of correspondence relating to a visit by Chief Antonio Zarco, a Choco Indian, to the Smithsonian Institution in early 1980s to identify objects in its ethnology collections. Also includes two color prints of Zarco, neighbors and children in Panama, 1963, during the filming of a documentary about U.S. astronauts.