Arapesh Children's Drawings (Lent by Margaret Mead to Ernest Seeman)

in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N93: Papua New Guinea, Folder 8: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. Field data. Arapesh. Children's drawings (used by Ernest Seeman in article in Character and Personality)) (District of Columbia) (1932) , 14 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: **The image(s) of the document may be omitted here because of copyright considerations** Arapesh children's drawings collected in Alitoa by Margaret Mead include human figures, lizards, stars, and plants and are accompanied by Mead's handwritten notes. Undated. Also included is correspondence between Mead and Ernest Seeman, associate editor of the journal 'Character and Personality,' who used the drawings in an article in the March 1934 issue; in addition to the drawings, Mead sent information about Alitoa, the children who made the drawings, and a vocabulary list.
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Miscellaneous artwork
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Margaret Mead, 1901-1978, Ernest Seeman, 1887-1979
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 14
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Drawing and drawings, Children, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Aliatoa, Alitoa, East Sepik, Arapesh
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Aliatoa