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Language:English
Date:1915
Contributor:Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973
Type:Still Image | Text
Genre:Diaries | Photographs | Maps
Extent:1 volume; 28 black and white silver gelatin prints; 1 map
Description: "A record of the trip into northeastern Lower California." Typed manuscript of a diary kept on the Brooklyn Museum Expedition to Lower California, 1915. Mentions Cocopa Indians, which he regards as a branch of the Cahuilla tribe.
Collection:Robert Cushman Murphy journals (Mss.B.M957)
Language:English
Date:1955-1956
Contributor:Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973
Subject:Mexico--History | United States--History | Antiquities
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:1 volume
Description: "Coast to Coast and Mexico." A sightseeing tour in winter, from New York and Philadelphia to Vancouver, Texas, Mexico, and back to Long Island. Records observations on visits to Palacio de Bellas Artes and the National Museum, Mexico City; the manufacturing of replicas of Indian artifacts in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco.
Collection:Robert Cushman Murphy journals (Mss.B.M957)
Culture:
Language:English
Date:1919-1920; 1953-1954
Contributor:Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973
Subject:Oceanography | Peru--History | Antiquities | Archaeology
Type:Text
Genre:Journals
Extent:2 items
Description: One item, "Peruvian littoral expedition of the Brooklyn Museum," describes a voyage to study oceanic conditions relating to littoral animal life and guano production. The author comments on the employment of Indians in guano extraction, dress of Indian passengers, Indian leaders; with observations at private museum of Incaic and Peruvian artifacts. Discusses opening of an Indian burial. Miscellaneous lesser references to Peruvian Indians. The other item, "Visit to Peru," was compiled from a visit to study ecology for guano and anchovy production. Describes exhibits at Bolivar museum, Lima. Mentions and gives details of excavation at ancient Pachacamac.
Collection:Robert Cushman Murphy journals (Mss.B.M957)
Language:English
Date:1937
Contributor:Murphy, Robert Cushman, 1887-1973
Subject:Oceanography | Meteorology | Colombia--History | Ecuador--History | Panama--History
Type:Text | Still Image | Cartographic
Extent:1 volume
Description: Volume 38, titled "Choco expedition. 1937. Field work in the launch "Wilpet" between Panama and Ecuador". Primarily concerned with collection of water samples from the Pacific, meteorological data, etc. Some notes and discussion of Indigenous peoples of Colombia and Ecuador. A partial list of groups and places mentioned: Choco, Citara, Noanama, Cholo, Paparo, Tucura(?), and Kuna.
Collection:Robert Cushman Murphy journals (Mss.B.M957)