Frank Maryl Setzler photographs
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 36
name: label: Creator
content: Setzler, Frank M. (Frank Maryl), 1902-1975
label: Names
content: United States De Soto Expedition Commission
label: Names
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
place: label: Place
content: Chichén Itzá Site (Mexico)
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content: Xochicalco Site (Mexico)
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content: Texas -- Antiquities
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content: Groote Eylandt (N.T.)
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content: Ohio -- Antiquities
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content: Palenque Site (Mexico)
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content: Uxmal Site (Mexico)
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content: West Virginia -- Antiquities
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content: Arizona -- Antiquities
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content: Arkansas -- Antiquities
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content: Louisiana -- Antiquities
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content: Kentucky -- Antiquities
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content: Georgia -- Antiquities
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content: Virginia -- Antiquities
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content: Gunbalanya (N.T.)
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content: Cuzco (Peru)
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content: Yirrkala (N.T.)
creator: label: Creator
content: Setzler, Frank M. (Frank Maryl), 1902-1975
culture: label: Culture
content: Aboriginal Australians
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Frank Maryl Setzler (1902-1975) was an archaeologist with the United States National Museum who served as Head Curator in the Department of Anthropology from 1937 until his retirement in 1960. Setzler specialized in the archeology of the midwestern states, especially the Hopewell mounds, and was also interested in the southeastern states. During his career, he conducted fieldwork throughout the United States, and in 1948 was the deputy leader for the Australian-American Arnhem Land Expedition sponsored by the Smithsonian, the National Geographic Society, and the Australian government.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1,889 Prints (silver gelatin)
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content: 169 Slides (35mm)
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content: 1,204 Negatives (nitrate)
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content: 290 Lantern slides
label: Extent
content: 12 Negatives (acetate)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1957
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.36
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Prints
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content: Slides
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content: Negatives
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content: Lantern slides
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content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Some images from the collection have been digitized and are available upon request.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Draft finding aid is available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs relating to or made during Setzler's archaeological work.  Images depict surveys and excavations, artifacts and burials, archaeological crew members, and other individuals.  They document work in Ohio (including the original Hopewell site on Paint Creek, Turner site, Newark site, High Bank Works, Tremper Mound, Seip Mound, Turner Group, Miamisburg Mound, Serpent Mound, and the Madisonville site), Wisconsin (including the Schwert group, Nicholls mound, and Trempealeau group), Louisiana (including the Marksville works and sites at Saline Point, Johnson place, and West Carroll, Madison, and Union parishes), Arkansas (including the Foster Place site).  Some photographs portray the excavation of an Indian canoe on Cumberland Island in Georgia, and a body found in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky.  Photographs of views in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida relate to the work of the De Soto Commission.  Photographs from the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition largely relate to Yirrkala, Milingimbi, Oenpelli (Gunbalanya), and Groote Eylandt, and include travel scenes, dances, and the preparation of face masks and bark for drawing.  Some lantern slides are associated with a lecture at the Smithsonian Institution, while others depict Latin American ruins and artifacts from Jalapa, Palenque, Uxmal, Chichén Ítza, Xochicalco, and Cuzco that once belonged to William Henry Holmes.

Setzler annotated many of the negative enclosures with image information. Photocopies of the enclosures are available in the collection, as well as one box of empty original enclosures. Also in the collection is an index card bibliography on Australia, and an index card catalog of individuals from Groote Eylandt.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds the Frank Maryl Setzler papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts collected during the Arnhem Land expedition are held in the anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History in accession 178294.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Geographic Society holds motion picture film from the Arnhem Land Expedition.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection holds some of Setzler's papers relating to the Arnhem Land Expedition (Frank Maryl Setzler - Records, 1948-1973, MS 5230).