Archives; artwork pertaining to AMNH publications in anthropology (in the Department of Anthropology Archives); photographs (in the Photographic Collection); films (in the Film Collection); books and serials on anthropology and natural history (in the Library).

Approximately 654 linear feet of archives (in the Department of Anthropology Archives); Artifact Catalog (in the Department of Anthropology Archives): 115 volumes. The Department of Anthropology Archives include accession documentation, catalogs and field notes related to the collections and also departmental correspondence from 1894 to the present.

The Department of Anthropology Archives is a major resource for field notes related tot he archaeology of the Americas. Also in this location are miscellaneous ethnographic field notes - largely unpublished. In general, field data do not exist for ethnographic research published prior to 1970.

The Department of Anthropology's photographic and film collections are incorporated into Special Collections, Department of Library Services. (The personal photographic collection of Franz Boas is an exception - it is kept in the Department of Anthropology.) The Department of Anthropology's collection of 2,500 sound recordings (1900-1935) - primarily North American Indian and indigenous peoples of Siberia - are on deposit with the Archives of Traditional Music, Indiana University, which releases tape copies with permission of the (AMNH) Department of Anthropology.

The Collections and Archives of the Department of Anthropology are open to scholars, by written appointment, Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. See the "Guidelines for Study in the Collections and Archives of the Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History," for more detailed information on access to Department of Anthropology archival resources. Library hours are Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A prior written request to the Special Collections Librarian is required. Department of Library Services materials must be used on-site.

Bella Weitzner, "A year-by-year summary of the Department of Anthropology based on the Annual Reports of the American Museum of Natural History from 1871 through 1952," - a manuscript on file in Department of Anthropology Archives, AMNH.>

A.E. Parr, "Filling the Gaps of Knowledge. I," American Museum of Natural History, Eighty-Fourth Annual Report, July 1952-June 1953 (New York: 1953), pp. 7-33.

Stanley A. Freed and Ruth S. Freed, "Clark Wissler and the Development of Anthropology in the United States," American Anthropologist 85(4), December 1983, pp.800-825.

Ira Jacknis, "Franz Boas and Exhibits: On the Limitations of the Museum Method of Anthropology," in: George W. Stocking, Jr. editor, Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture. (Madison: 1985) (=History of anthropology; vol. 3) pp. 75-111.

Also useful are American Museum publications in Anthropology, including: AMNH Memoirs, vols. 2-8, 10-15 ([1898-1930]); AMNH, Anthropological Papers, Vols. 1-77 (1907-1995); AMNH, Bulletin, Vols. 8-10, 12-21, 35, 48, 58, 67 ([1896-1934]); and miscellaneous AMNH publications.

On the AMNH Library, see: Nina J. Root, "American Museum of Natural History Library," Science and Technology Libraries, vol. 6, no. 1-2 (Fall 1985/Winter 1985-1986), pp. 1-7.

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