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MS 7489 Material relating to Betty Meggers' doll collection

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Catalog Data

Creator:
Meggers, Betty Jane  Search this
Names:
Dollology Club of Washington, D.C.  Search this
Extent:
71 Items (cards + 2 photographs + 2 post cards + 11 labels + 1 envelope )
Culture:
Menominee (Menomini)  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Includes catalog cards with country, costume (including tribe), height, acquisiton (source), and price. Many have photographs of the dolls attached to the back. All of the dolls are of American Indians. The postcards show a group in costume ready for a pow-wow and a group of Menominee Indians taken near Shawano, Wisconsin. The photographs are of exhibits at a Dollology Club Show, May 22, 1943.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 7489
Topic:
Dolls -- American Indian  Search this
exhibit -- Dolls  Search this
Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Manuscript 7489, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Identifier:
NAA.MS7489
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3867441e2-6284-413f-92f3-78b4d62b0c98
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-ms7489