Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Erminnie Platt Smith
- Date: January 25, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Anthropologist Erminnie Platt Smith, Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, was an expert in the Iroquois Nation of New York and Canada and the first woman to specialize in ethnographic field work. #Groundbreaker
Sneak Peek 4/20/2020
- Date: April 20, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, demonstrates horse riding technique of a Dakota warrior, SIA Acc. 11-006, USNM No. 8349.
Sneak Peek 10/8/2018
- Date: October 8, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Bureau of American Ethnology exhibit featuring "Basketry of the American Indians" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-16402.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol Farrington Jopling
- Date: October 28, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Alice Cunningham Fletcher
- Date: October 5, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher (left), contributor to the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, was one of the 1st female ethnologists, a founding member of the American Anthropological Association, and the 1st female president of the American Folklore Society. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marion Stirling Pugh
- Date: May 27, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Marion Stirling Pugh began her career with the Smithsonian in 1931 as a secretary for her future husband, Matthew Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. For the next 40 years, the couple studied Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. Pugh served as the president of the Society of Women Geographers from 1960 to 1963 and from 1969 to
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See Here: 4/13/2010
- Date: April 13, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="415" caption="National Geogrqaphical Society photographer Richard Stewart is photographing an archological site being excavated by Matthew and Marion Stirling of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, south of Parita, Herrera, Panama, March 2, 1948, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Gwyneira Isaac
- Date: October 21, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
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See Here: 9/29/2010
- Date: September 29, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Victor and Cosmos Mindeleff building models of the Penasco Blanco Pueblo Indian village for use in the Bureau of American Ethnology exhibitions, 19th century, c. 1885, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 31, Negative Number: 6084."][/caption]
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Matilda Coxe Stevenson
- Date: December 14, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915), Bureau of American Ethnology, was the first woman to study the American Southwest, the first female anthropologist hired by the U.S. Government, and did substantial fieldwork among the Zuni and other Southwest tribes. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret C. Blaker
- Date: February 8, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
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Exploring the National Parks
- Date: August 1, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: August is National Parks Month, but the Smithsonian has celebrated the National Park Service for decades! Enjoy a selection of national parks images from the Archives' collection.