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Photographs of Double Adobe site mammoth head and stones

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Catalog Data

Names:
Cummings, Byron, 1860-1954  Search this
Haury, Emil W. (Emil Walter), 1904-1992  Search this
Extent:
2 Prints (silver gelatin)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Photographs
Place:
Arizona -- Antiquities
Date:
circa 1926
Scope and Contents note:
Images of excavated mammoth head and Double Adobe site where milling stones were found twelve feet below the surface. The photographs were probably collected by Neil Merton Judd, whose handwritten notes are on the versos.
Biographical/Historical note:
The Double Adobe Site is an archaeological site in the Whitewater Draw area of southern Arizona. In October 1926, Byron Cummings led four University of Arizona students, including Emil Haury, in excavating the site after a mammoth skull was found by picnicking schoolchildren. Below the skull, the archeologists found milling and handstones as well as the bones of Pleistocene species of bison and horse.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 89-12
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Reports and correspondence by Cummings can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 3379, MS 3332, Neil Merton Judd's papers, the Cooperative Ethnological Investigations file (1928-1935), and the Bureau of American Ethnology General Correspondence.
The Arizona Historical Society holds the Byron Cummings papers, 1861-1954 (MS 200) and photograph collection (PC 29).
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Mammoths  Search this
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo Lot 89-12, Photographs of Double Adobe site mammoth head and stones, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.89-12
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw39d773979-c620-49e0-b7a8-90ee6663b4f7
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-89-12