Comte Henri Begouen photographs of Peleolithic cave art
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 76-78, USNM ACC 121411
name: label: Creator
content: Begouen, Henri, comte, 1863-1956
place: label: Place
content: France -- Antiquities
topic: label: Topic
content: Paleolithic period -- France
creator: label: Creator
content: Begouen, Henri, comte, 1863-1956
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Comte Henri Begouen (1863-1956) was a Professor of Prehistory at the University of Toulouse. In addition to excavation of caves on his property, he also participated in an excavation with James Townsend Russell in 1931.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 31 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1912-1930
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The photographs were purchased from Count Henri Begouen at the University of Toulouse by James Townsend Russell with money from the Old World Archeology Fund in 1932 (accession 121411). One photograph was transferred to the National Anthropological Archives from the Anthropology Processing Lab in 1975. The rest were found in the files in the office of Gus Van Beek, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian, and transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1979.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.76-78
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
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs documenting Henri Begouen's excavations of caves, mostly on his property in France.  There are images of Paleolithic paintings, carvings, and sculpture in caves in France, including Cave du Tuc d'Audobert, Cave de Montespan, Cave de Niaux, and Cave des Trois Freres.  One image depicts an excavation party, including Henri Breuil, Comte Begouen and sons, and Comte Cartailhac.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Begouen, which were previously filed in Photo Lot 79-38, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 76-78. These photographs were also purchased as part of accession 121411 and form part of this collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Begouen also donated artifacts to the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accessions 117494 and 117889.