(left to right): Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1906-2004) and Kaj Birket-Smith (1893-1977)
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Download IIIF ManifestRequest permissionsDownload image PrintID: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0960]
Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977
Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1937
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0960
Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) was an anthropologist associated in 1937 with the University of Pennsylvania Museum; she had studied at Columbia during the late 1920s and had done groundbreaking research in Alaska in 1930s with Danish ethnologist Kaj Birket-Smith (1893-1977) (at right). The original photo caption reads: "Digging tediously among the ice of the north, they have brought to light traces of the early Eskimos."
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0960
Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-0960]
Gelatin silver prints