Gilbert S. Tower photographs of Cuna people of the San Blas Islands
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 2011-37
name: label: Creator
content: Tower, Gilbert S.
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: San Blas Indians
place: label: Place
content: San Blas Islands (Panama)
creator: label: Creator
content: Tower, Gilbert S.
culture: label: Culture
content: Guna (Kuna)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Gilbert S. Tower was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and engineer for the Panama Canal. He visited the San Blas Islands on a one-day excursion, which was sponsored by the Panamanian government, while working on the canal in 1921.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1921
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Gilbert S. Tower's daughter-in-law, Nancy Tower, to the National Musem of Natural History in 1978 (accession 327937). Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives in 2011.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2011-37
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
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting villages and people of the San Blas Islands made or collected by Gilbert Tower during his work in Panama. The prints are mounted on unbound pages, probably from an album.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: National Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology Collections holds Cuna artifacts collected by Gilbert Tower (accession 327937).