Spinden, Herbert Joseph, 1879-1967

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Report to Brooklyn Museum staff, Campeche.

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Correspondence regarding funding for Institute; employment of Dr. Paul S. Wingert as organizer and supervisor. Wingert resume.

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Correspondence, including with N. Herman; M. Esterbrook; A. Caso; M. Covarrubias; T. Heyerdahl; J. Vogt, Cultural Attache to Mexico. Graphology report. Certification, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1929).

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Correspondence, including with Boaz Long; Committee of One Thousand.

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Correspondence with collectors and institutions regarding accepted and rejected gifts to Brooklyn Museum. Includes object lists.

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Correspondence regarding loans from Brooklyn for exhibit: "Aboriginal Cultures of the Western Hemisphere"; Pacific House programs; difficulty in getting Ecuador and Columbia to participate; with Philip N. Youtz, consultant and Director of Pacific Division, regarding acquisition of objects.

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Correspondence regarding membership. Bulletins; notices; annual reports.

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Income tax forms; correspondence regarding taxes.

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Inquiries from individuals, including correspondence regarding fetish figure and mask in Brooklyn Museum African gallery; "origins of the Negro race" [phrasing original to inquiry]. Includes pamphlet on the Institute of Semito-African Studies; and list of photographs of Africa by P. J. L. Vandenhoute.

Scope and Contents Inquiries from individuals, including correspondence with U.S. Department of the Interior regarding maps of trails through the Bittersweet mountains, and information regarding Nez Perce Indians; correspondence regarding Chilkat Indian weaving; Cherokee and other Indian alphabets; theory that Indians were of Jewish descent; Tlingit geometric design; new National Gallery of the American Indian; origins of popcorn; article on the Ute's last stand; relation of Shoshone and Mexican languages;...