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Carl Schuster

National Museum of Natural History

Object Details

sova.naa.2017-27_ref262
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3fca737ed-2d1e-49ca-b161-5d2c858b82b6
Collection Creator
Carpenter, Edmund, 1922-2011
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Edmund Snow Carpenter papers
Edmund Snow Carpenter papers / Series 2: Research and project files
Sponsor
Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Rock Foundation.
Date
1940-1963
1986-2000
bulk 1940-1949
Archival Repository
National Anthropological Archives
Identifier
NAA.2017-27, Subseries 2.9
Type
Archival materials
Collection Citation
Edmund Snow Carpenter papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Arrangement
The material in this sub-series is arranged alphabetically.
Collection Rights
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Scope and Contents
This sub-series documents Carpenter's work related to the papers of the art historian Carl Schuster at the Museum der Kulturen (Museum of Ethnology) in Basel, Switzerland. Schuster's work focused on tribal art and traditional symbolism. The bulk of the material relates to an unidentified project entitled "Cheek Marks," a term which likely referred to comparisons of facial markings and symbols in ancient and tribal art. This material comprises catalog records and item descriptions, as well as reference photographs and artistic reproductions of described artifacts and art. Additional material in the sub-series includes correspondence; notes; articles and presentations; and reports – some produced and/or collected by Carpenter, and some by Schuster. Carpenter edited/co-authored Schuster's oeuvre as the 12-volume Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art: A Record of Tradition and Continuity (1986-1988). It was condensed into one volume, entitled Patterns That Connect: Social Symbolism in Ancient and Tribal Art, in 1996. It is unclear how much of the material retained in this sub-series relates to that publication.
Series Restrictions
Use of archival sound recordings with no duplicate access copy requires advance notice.
NAA.2017-27_ref262
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3fca737ed-2d1e-49ca-b161-5d2c858b82b6
NAA.2017-27
NAA
Record ID
ebl-1564583426473-1564583426538-0

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