Nicholas K. Vereschagin photographs of excavations of woolly mammoths
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 91-17, USNM ACC 387077
name: label: Creator
content: Vereschagin, Nicholas K.
label: Names
content: Lazarev, Piotyr
place: label: Place
content: Primorskiĭ kraĭ (Russia)
label: Place
content: Laptev Sea (Russia)
label: Place
content: Siberia (Russia)
label: Place
content: Taymyr Peninsula (Russia)
label: Place
content: Kolyma River Valley (Russia)
topic: label: Topic
content: Exhibitions
label: Topic
content: Paleontology
label: Topic
content: woolly mammoth
creator: label: Creator
content: Vereschagin, Nicholas K.
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Nicholas K. Vereschagin was a Soviet paleontologist with the Institution of Zoology, Leningrad Aacademy of Sciences. He came to Washington, DC, in 1990 to attend a conference of the International Council for Archeozoology.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 49 Color slides
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1970
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Presented by Nicholas K. Vereschagin May, 1990, at a reception in the director's office, National Museum of Natural History. Photographs transferred to the National Anthropological Archives from the Department of Anthropology, 1991.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.91-17
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Color slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs made by Nicholas K. Vereschagin documenting excavations of woolly mammoth sites, including Primorije Territory, Laptev Sea Shore, Taymyr Peninsula, Kolyma River Valley, and Bereliokh. The collection also includes views of an exhibition of woolly mammoths in St. Petersburg, possibly at the Institute of Zoology, Leningrad Academy of Sciences.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Samples of woolly rhinoceros and woolly mammoth hair and intestinal contents held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 387077.