Henri F. Pittier photographs of Costa Rican people and artifacts
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 128
name: label: Creator
content: Pittier, Henri, 1857-1950
label: Names
content: Museo Nacional de Costa Rica
topic: label: Topic
content: Whistles
label: Topic
content: Pottery craft
creator: label: Creator
content: Pittier, Henri, 1857-1950
culture: label: Culture
content: Guatuso
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Henri Francois Pittier de Fabrega (1857-1950) was a Swiss-born geographer, botanist, and anthropologist who carried out most of his work in Central and South America. Educated in civil engineering at the University of Lausanne and Jena University, he moved to Costa Rica in 1887, where he became founder-director of the Instituto Fisico-geografico. In about 1904, Pittier took a position as "Special Agent in Botanical Investigation in Tropical Agriculture in the Bureau of Plant Industry" for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He continued to work for the USDA until 1919, though his title was changed to Botanist in 1912. In 1919, he left the United States to become director of the Commercial Museum in Caracas, Venezuela, where he conducted extensive studies of the nation's flora.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Page (Sheet music :)
label: Extent
content: 128 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1903-1904
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Henri Pittier to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1903 and circa 1904.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.128
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs of Guatuso people and activities including pottery making, as well as images of artifacts, mainly whistles from the collections of the National Museum in San Jose. ALso included is a sheet of music.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Pittier photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 40, and Photo Lot 93.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Pittier is in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts donated by Pittier are held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 45947, 45831, 44747, and 65286.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds Henri Pittier field notes (SIA Acc 12-350) and records relating to Pittier in SIA RU000192.