BB Record/Material Culture, Alitoa, January 1932

in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N95: Papua New Guinea, Folder 1: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Field data. Arapesh Notebooks and Material culture) (District of Columbia) (January 1932) , 144 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Handwritten notes in a flip-top notebook titled 'BB Notebook/Material Culture, Alitoa' list the contents of various boxes apparently belonging to Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. Contents include photographic supplies, camping supplies, medicine, first aid, bedding, and clothes. Also lists more than 100 items identified as 'material culture' such as pillows, spears, and knives, and notes whether the items are domestic to Alitoa or imported. Dated January 1932.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Field notes
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Reo Fortune, 1903-1979, Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 144
Page Range: 1-144
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Papua Nova Guiné, Papua New Guinea, Arapesh
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Papúa Nueva Guinea, Papua Nova Guiné