Alexander Wetmore in Paraguay with Lengua Indians
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Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: September 25, 1920
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 170, Album: I "Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay - 1920"
Alexander Wetmore standing (far right) with six men, women, and children Lengua Indians in his field camp at Laguna Wall, Kilometro 200, west of Puerto Pinasco, Paraguay on September 25, 1920. Alexander Wetmore, noted ornithologist and sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1944-1952, while conducting field work for the United States Bureau of Biological Survey throughout the islands of the Caribbean and various Latin American countries.
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Historic Images of the Smithsonian
There are a variety of pictures from Wetmore's field work in Latin America at this SIA location.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 170, Album: I "Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay - 1920"
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
September 25, 1920
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SIA2012-0861 or Wetmore #1399
Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 3h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print