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Inventory of the United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Survey Staff (Yale University) card file
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Description
Project to compile anthropological information on peoples of the Pacific Islands and East Asia. Notes, photographs, and extracts
from printed sources, relating to the people of the Bonin and Izu Islands, the Carolines, Hokkaido, the Kuriles, the Marianas,
the Marshalls, Micronesia, Burma, Siam, Indonesia, Nauru, the Ryukyus, and Formosa. Compiled in preparation for Allied military
government administration in these areas.
Background
These data files were developed on behalf of the Chief of Naval Operations Cross Cultural Survey Staff at Yale University.
They were donated by the Navy Department to the Hoover Institution in November 1955.
Extent
39 oversize boxes
(15.6 linear feet)
Restrictions
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Availability
Collection is open for research.