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Rowe, John Howland [Photographs pertaining to Robert H. Lowie from the John Howland Rowe papers].
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Title:

[Photographs pertaining to Robert H. Lowie from the John Howland Rowe papers]

Creator/Contributor:

Rowe, John Howland, 1918-2004, creator, creator.

Abstract:

Miscellaneous photographs perhaps once belonging to Robert H. Lowie. Collection includes a photograph album presented to Lowie containing snapshot portraits of attendees of the 24th annual International Congress of Americanists in Hamburg, Germany (including Lowie, Franz Boas and dozens of others). Also includes miscellaneous photographs and postcards: a group portrait of Lowie, Alfred Kroeber, Monica Flannery and Theodore Gray (1921?); a group portrait of Thomas Waterman, Paul Radin, Ishi, Lowie and Edward Sapir (1915?); a few copy photographs of originals taken in the 1870s documenting the Crow Indians (portrait of Plain Owl, portrait of chief Plenty Coups, teepee on the Crow Reservation in Yellowstone, a burial scaffold and a tobacco dance ritual); a set of published postcards documenting indigenous peoples of Ecuador; a set of postcards published by the Field Museum of Natural History depicting pottery from Chimu and Nazca in Peru.

Date:

1970 (issued)

Subject:

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Americanists -- Photographs
Crow Indians -- Photographs
Indigenous peoples -- Ecuador -- Photographs
Pottery -- Peru -- Photographs
Américanistes -- Photographies
Crow -- Photographies
Americanists
Crow Indians
Indigenous peoples
Pottery
Ecuador
Peru
International Congress of Americanists (24th : 1930 : Hamburg, Germany) -- Photographs
International Congress of Americanists.
Rowe, John Howland -- 1918-2004 -- Archives
Lowie, Robert Harry -- 1883-1957 -- Archives
Lowie, Robert Harry -- 1883-1957 -- Photographs
Lowie, Robert Harry -- 1883-1957
Rowe, John Howland -- 1918-2004

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by John Howland Rowe.
Transferred from the John Howland Rowe papers (BANC MSS 2006/175).
Gift ; of Patricia Lyon ; 2019.
Photograph album inscribed in German; published postcards from Ecuador in Spanish; all other materials in English.
Photographs pertaining to Robert H. Lowie from the John Howland Rowe papers, BANC PIC 2019.112, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
picture postcards.
postcards.
Archives.
Photographs.
Postcards.
Photograph albums.
Postcards.
Cartes postales.

Physical Description:

photoprint
approximately 120 photographs in 1 album and 1 folder : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets 20 x 26 cm, album 13 x 19 cm

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Related Item:

John Howland Rowe papers : Rowe, John Howland, : 1918-2004