Object Details
sova.naa.2017-27_ref262
- 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
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- 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
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- Record ID
- ebl-1564583426473-1564583426538-0