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| Named Person: | Frederick Webb Hodge |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Odd S Halseth; Charles Avery Amsden; Emily Davis; M R Harrington; Edna Parker Harrington; Fred K Hinchman; Carl S Knopf; Frances E Watkins; Dorothy Black; W A Chalfant; Harvey P Smith; Napoleon Cordy; Arthur Caswell Parker; Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
| OCLC Number: | 79456481 |
| Notes: | Volume 5 of Southwest Museum membership publication. "To help the Southwest fulfill the wisest of all the precepts of the Greeks - 'Know Thyself' - by unlocking to its children its underground treasure-house of knowledge with the master-key of modern anthropology, which is nothing less than the science of man. Declaration of policy of the Southwest Museum" -- cover. |
| Description: | 192 p. : ill., port., map ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Number 1, May-June 1931: The pilot says farewell / by M. R. Harrington -- The civic side of archaeology / by Odd S. Halseth -- Children and grown-ups -- Mr. Hinchman speaks -- National anthropological organizations to meet at the Southwest Museum -- Old adobe transformed / by Dorothy Black -- The library of the Southwest / by Marion Horton -- Ancient American inventions / by Emily Davis. Number 2, July-August 1931: Man-hunting: sidelights of a symposium on "The Antiquity of Man in America" / by Charles Amsden -- Publications by M. R. Harrington -- A gypsum cave romance -- Medicine men of the Eastern Mono / by William A. Chalfant -- The Anthropological meetings -- At Mataguay -- Indian art in the Southwest Museum. Number 3, September 1931: La Fiesta de Los Angeles / by Marion Parks -- Casa Adobe prepares for La Fiesta -- The Hispanic Society of California / by M. R. Harrington -- Fiestas of other days / by Edna Parker Harrington -- "The Hopi Craftsman" -- Restoration of the Spanish Governors' Palace in San Antonio, Texas / by Harvey P. Smith. Number 4, October-November 1931: Our own fiesta -- The birth of written records -- Ancient writing / by Carl S. Knopf -- Among the Pueblos / by Fred K. Hinchman -- Indian giving / by M. R. Harrington -- Elephants in our front yard. Number 5, December 1931: New Director chosen: Frederick Webb Hodge -- The meaning of the Maya Day names / by N. Cordy -- Still borrowing / by Charles Amsden -- The story bag / by Jiskogo -- New accesions / by Frances E. Watkins -- Death Valley expedition. Number 6, January 1932: Prehistoric irrigation in Central Arizona / by Odd S. Halseth -- The story bag / by Jiskogo -- Teluli -- Elephant teeth date earliest man -- The explorer / by Arthur C. Parker. |
| Other Titles: | Masterkey for Indian lore and history. |
| Responsibility: | Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, California. |
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- Hodge, Frederick Webb, -- 1864-1956.
- Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
- Southwest Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History.
- Indians of North America -- California.
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New.
- Indians of North America -- Southwest, New -- Antiquities.
- Anthropology -- Southwest, New.
- Archaeology -- Southwest, New.
- Irrigation -- Arizona.
- Shamans.
- Southwest, New -- Antiquities.
- Arizona -- History.
- Southwest, New -- History
- California -- History.
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Indian art.
- Adobe buildings.
