Journeys to the Southwestern United States and Mexican Indians
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hrdlička, Aleš, 1869-1943
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content: Aleš Hrdlička papers
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content: 6.1 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1898-1919
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1974-31, Series 6
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content: Archival materials
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content: Descriptions in quotation marks are Hrdlička's own.
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content: This series includes notes on the various Indian tribes Hrdlička visited on his trips to the southwestern United States and Mexico between 1898 and 1903. Most of these are ethnographic in nature (for example, origin stories, responses from consultants, and notes on medicines), but they also include anthropometric data, adding machine tapes, and some correspondence. The physical anthropology tables are primarily anthropometric measurements and many participants are identified. The photographs are mostly portraits or show skeletal remains. Most were taken by Hrdlička, although there are prints of Ute Indians taken by Charles Goodman. The journals are personal remembrances with little material of anthropological significance. The materials titled "The Pueblos" were used in the publication "The Pueblos, with Comparative Data on the Bulk of the Tribes of the Southwest and Northern Mexico," American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 20, no. 3 (1935): 235-460. The drawings are of skeletal specimens, mostly at the AMNH, and are annotated to indicate sex, age, and museum number. Most of the notes on museum specimens are on crania in the AMNH, although some are on bones in the National Museum of Mexico and in private collections. The statistical work sheets apparently were prepared for E.A. Hooton at his statistical laboratory at Harvard in the late 1930s from data supplied by Hrdlička. The data was analyzed on the basis of age range, cephalic measurements, and stature to calculate the mean of various physical anthropological measurements. Most, if not all, the data were compiled from male specimens.

Series 15: Anthropometric Measurements of Indians Taken at the United States National Museum has additional materials that may be related to these trips.