Collection consists of film and photographs taken by Richard Kenneth Saker of Tibetan New Year (Losar) and of Western Tibet 1942-1943. Collection also includes chapters from his unpublished memoir relating to his tour of duty in Tibet.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Biographical / Historical:
Richard Kenneth Saker was the British Trade Agent posted to Gyantse, Tibet from 1941-1943.
Provenance:
Received from Stephen Saker in 2008.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
395 Photographic prints (black-and-white hand-colored)
Type:
Archival materials
Negatives (photographic)
Photographic prints
Date:
1942-1943
Scope and Contents:
Contains photographs of Gyantse and New Year festivities (Losar) in Lhasa, Tibet. Chaam dancers are also photographed in courtyard. Other images include a 1943 trek into Western Tibet including scenery and peoples encountered such as nomadic groups and Indian traders as well as some miscellaneous photographs of Saker and his wife.
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
Richard Kenneth Saker films of Tibet, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Video project by Mark Freeman documents the Otavalo Indians of the Andean highlands (province of Imbabura) of northern Ecuador and their economic success in adapting their traditional weaving and crafts for the international marketplace. The video project also records the tensions between traditional indigenous values and customs and modernization pressures that prosperity brings including tourism. Also examined are the ethnic tensions between the Otavalos and their less affluent white and mestizo neighbors. The edited video, "Weaving the Future" was edited from this project.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Number:
HSFA 1998.7.1
Related Materials:
Edited film Weaving the Future is archived at UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Provenance:
Received from Mark Freeman in 1998.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Alonzo Pond was an archaeologist who worked for 6 years (1925-1931) as an Assistant Curator at the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College. This collection contains films and supplementary materials concerning the excavations that he led in Northern Africa, Algeria, and New Mexico while he served in this position.
Scope and Contents:
This collection contains motion picture film and supplementary documents (audio recordings, correspondence, and manuscripts) relating primarily to the Beloit College/Logan Museum of Anthropology excavations in Northern Africa and Algeria led by Alonzo Pond. There are additional films relating to the Logan Museum's excavation in the Mimbres River Valley, New Mexico, and their purchase of an Aurignacian necklace.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged in 2 series: (1) Films, 1925-circa 1930; (2) Supplementary Materials, 1922-circa 2003
Biographical Note- Alonzo Pond:
Alonzo W. Pond was born on June 18, 1894, in Janesville, Wisconsin. He received his B.S. at Beloit College in 1920 after taking two years off (1917-1919) to serve as an ambulance driver for the American Field Service in France during World War I. He was a member of the first class of the American School in Europe for Prehistory at the University of Paris (1921-1922). On his return to the United States, he began work on his M.A. at the University of Chicago. However, his studies were interupted when the Logan Museum of Anthropology sent him to Europe to purchase objects for their collection. He became an Associate Curator for the Logan Museum and, in that capacity, led three expeditions to Algeria and Northern Africa between 1925 and 1930. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1928. In addition to the expeditions that he led for the Logan Museum, he served as the archaeologist for Roy Chapman Andrews' third Asiatic Expedition in 1928 and led the Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition in 1933. During the Great Depression, he worked for the U.S. Park Service (1934-1935) as the archaeologist at Jamestown Island, Virginia, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, and for the Civilian Conservation Corps (1935-1937), acting as superintendent of the camp at Interstate Park, Wisconsin.
With his family, he developed and managed the newly discovered Cave of the Mounds in Wisconsin from 1940 to 1945. He then served as an information specialist with the Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center (ADTIC) at Maxwell Airforce Base in Alabama from 1949 to 1958. While with ADTIC, he was involved in 4 desert survival and reconnaissance flights in the Sahara (to Timbuktu) and Mid-East deserts. After his retirement, he and his family opened and operated the Wisonsin Gardens in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Pond wrote popular and scientific articles on travel, archaeology, ethnology, geography and natural history in local, state, and national newspapers and magazines, especially Wisconsin Tales and Trails, the New York Times, Life Magazine, Natural History Magazine, and American Legion Magazine. His books include A Contribution to the Study of Prehistoric Man in Algeria (1928); Primitive Methods of Working Stone: Based on Experiments of H. L. Skavlem (1930); Interstate Park and Dalles of St. Croix (1936); Prehistoric Habitation Sites in Sahara and N. Africa (1937); Guide Book to Cave of the Mounds (1941); Limestone Caverns, an educational movie produced by Coronet Productions (1941); Afoot in the Desert (1951, Revised 1956); Climate and Weather in Central Gobi of Mongolia (1951, Revised 1954); Sun, Sand and Survival, a survival training film produced by U.S. Air Force (1954); The Survival Book (1959); The Desert World (1962); Deserts, Silent Lands of the World (1965); Caverns of the World (1968); Survival in Sun and Sand (1969); Andrews, Gobi Explorer (1972); Dr. Kate and the Million Penny Parades (1974); and Paul Bunyan's Cookbook (1977).
Pond died on December 25, 1986, in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Sources Consulted
Register of the Alonzo W. and Dorothy L. Pond Papers, 1869-1989 (bulk 1913-1986), Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections. Accessed August 10, 2020. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00762
Chronology
1894 -- Born June 18 in Janesville, Wisconsin
1917-1919 -- Drove an ambulance for the American Field Service in France during World War I
1920 -- Received B.S. at Beloit College
1921-1922 -- Studied at the American School in Europe for Prehistory
1925-1931 -- Assistant Curator at Logan Museum of Anthropology
1925-1926 -- Led the Logan Sahara Expedition
1926 -- Married Dorothy Long on July 20
1926-1927 -- Led Logan African Expedition
1928 -- Received M.A. from University of Chicago Archaeologist with Roy Chapman Andrews' third Asiatic Expedition
1929-1930 -- Led Logan African Expedition
1933 -- Led Rainbow Bridge-Monument Valley Expedition
1934-1935 -- Served as archaeologist for U.S. National Park Service at Jamestown Island, Virginia, and Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
1935-1937 -- Served as superintendent of Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Interstate Park, Wisconsin
1940-1945 -- Managed the Cave of the Mounds near Madison, Wisconsin
1949-1958 -- Worked as an information specialist with the Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Center (ADTIC) at the Maxwell Airforce Base in Alabama
1958-1968 -- Owned and operated Wisconsin Gardens in Minocqua, Wisconsin with his wife
1986 -- Died at home on December 25 in Minocqua, Wisconsin
Biographical Note- Dorothy Pond:
Dorothy Pond was born Dorothy Long in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, in 1900. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for Economics. Dorothy and Alonzo were pen pals on his 1925 expedition and married soon after his return. She served as the camp director on Beloit College's 1930 Algerian Expedition as well as on many other of Alonzo's excavations. Her account of her experiences in Algeria, If Women Have Courage: Among Shepherds, Sheiks, and Scientists in Algeria, was published posthumously in 2014. A manuscript draft of this is included in the collection.
Dorothy Pond died in November 1987 in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Sources Consulted
Beloit Digital Archives. "Members of the Expedition." Beloit College's 1930 Expedition to Algeria. Accessed August 18, 2020. http://beloitdigitalarchives.com/cms/exhibits/show/1930-expedition/people
Higgins, Jim. "Dorothy L. Pond's 'If Women Have Courage' Recounts Wisconsinite's Adventure." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Accessed August 18, 2020. http://archive.jsonline.com/entertainment/books/dorothy-l-ponds-if-women-have-courage-recounts-wisconsinites-adventure-b99416733z1-287337471.html/
Chronology
1900 -- Born on August 26th in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
1926 -- Married Alonzo Pond on July 20
1930 -- Served as camp director for the Logan African Expedition
1958-1968 -- Owned and operated Wisconsin Gardens in Minocqua, Wisconsin, with her husband
1987 -- Died in November in Minocqua, Wisconsin
Related Materials:
Reliving the Past: Alonzo Pond and the 1930 Logan African Expedition; George L. Waite "Desert Sheiks" lantern slides, 1930 (NAA.PhotoLot.2010-12 in SOVA); Alonzo W. and Dorothy L. Pond Papers at the Wisconsin Historical Society; George L. Waite collections at the Wisconsin State Historical Society; Alonzo W. Pond papers at Beloit College; Alonzo William Pond collection at the American Museum of Natural History Archives. Expeditionary objects are in the collection of the Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College and The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Provenance:
The rolls of 35mm nitrate negatives were donated by Alonzo Pond (by way of the Wisconsin Historical Society, where they had been stored) and the rolls of 35mm prints (which were most likely used by Pond during his lectures) and all other films were donated by Beloit College.
Accession 1987.1.1, North Africa Prehistory Expedition, was donated by the University of Minnesota, Department of Anthropology.
The audio materials were recorded by the HSFA.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
This series includes films from Logan Museum/Beloit College expeditions to Algeria, Northern Africa, and New Mexico from 1925 to 1930. The film footage of the African expeditions includes travel, local scenes and people, and dig sites. There is also an edited film of the Algerian Expedition. The film footage from New Mexico shows the excavations at Mimbres. Also included is a newsreel showing an Aurignacian necklace found in Dordogne, France, which had been purchased by Beloit College.
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (original black-and-white silent reversal; 400 feet, 16mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.1-1
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
Spring 1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (original black-and-white silent reversal; 300 feet, 16mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.1-2
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
Spring 1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (original black-and-white silent reversal; 600 feet, 16mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.1-3
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
Spring 1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (black-and-white silent print; 951 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-1
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (black-and-white silent print; circa 1,000 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-2
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (black-and-white silent print; 604 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-3
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (black-and-white silent print; 924 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-4
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (black-and-white silent print; 823 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-5
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
3 Film reels (black-and-white silent fine grain master positive; 2,011 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-6, 7, 8
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
2 Film reels (black-and-white silent fine grain master positive; 1,568 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-9, 10
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
Film footage shot by Chuck Nash, a Beloit college student, during the 1930 Beloit College/Logan Museum archaeological expedition to northern Algeria led by Alonzo Pond. Footage includes: the departure from Washington, D.C., and shipboard activities on the USS France; passage through the Straits of Gibraltar; street scenes in Canrobert, Algeria; excavations at dig sites with Arab workers; Roman ruins at Kramica and Timgad; Arab women washing clothes and drawing well water; the oasis and town of El Kantara at the mouth of the Sahara; Arabs on camelback near Biskra; scenes in Arab bazaar, French funeral with a horsedrawn hearse, and African (unidentified) street musicians in Biskra; street scenes in Paris; the return to New York on the USS Leviathan; and scenes in Chicago.
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
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Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (black-and-white silent fine grain master positive; 809 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-11
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (black-and-white silent print; circa 800 feet, 35mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.2-12
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1930
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (original black-and-white silent reversal; 300 feet, 16mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.3-1
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1925-1928
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
1 Film reel (original black-and-white silent reversal; 200 feet, 16mm)
Container:
Item 1982.5.3-2
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Film reels
Date:
1925-1928
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Beloit College and Alonzo and Dorothy Pond collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digital preservation and finding aid are supported by the generous funding of the Smithsonian Women's Committee and Beloit College Logan Museum.
