Center for Short-lived Phenomena photograph collection relating to Tasaday people
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 86-49
name: label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Short-lived Phenomena
label: Photographer
content: Panamin Foundation
place: label: Place
content: Philippines
creator: label: Collector
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Short-lived Phenomena
culture: label: Culture
content: Tasaday (Philippine people)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Center for Short-Lived Phenomena (CSLP) was created in January 1968 to assist Smithsonian scientists by providing an information service on phenomena such as meteoritics, vulcanism, earthquakes, and sudden ecological events or changes. One of the events on which they reported was the discovery of the "Tasaday Manube" tribe in July 1971. According to Dr. Robert B. Fox (Chief Anthropologist for the National Museum of the Philippines and Director of Panamin research), PANAMIN President Manuel Elizalde, Jr. made the first Western contact with the Tasaday people, who were an isolated "stone age" level tribe with no agriculture or contact with other Philippine people. In the 1980s, the discovery was accused of being a hoax, leading to an ongoing controversy.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Contact prints
label: Extent
content: 7 Copy prints
label: Extent
content: 11 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1971
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: The photographs were left by the Center for Short-lived Phenomena when it left the Smithsonian and moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1975. They were transferred by Elizabeth Neals of the Department of Mineral Sciences, 1986.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.86-49
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Contact prints
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Prints
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Smithsonian Institution Center for Short-lived Phenomena Annual Report, 1971.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Tasaday people, shelters, and tools. Many of the photographs were provided by PANAMIN (the Private Association for National Minorities or the Presidential Arm for National Minorities) and were made by either Manuel Elizalde, Jr. or Dr. Robert B. Fox, both PANAMIN employees.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Copies of Center for Short-lived Phenomena articles, including one on the "Tasaday Manubo Discovery," were donated with this collection. They can be found in the National Anthropological Archives Reference Files.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds the Center for Short-lived Phenomena's event cards (SIA Acc. T89040, SIA Acc. 11-301, SIA RS01444), publications (SIA RS01443, SIA Acc. 09-129, SIA Acc. T89038), and records (SIA RU000607, SIA Acc. T89037).