Aims and objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Date:
1923
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Aims and objects of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the commencement of this research Mr Heye was fortunate in having the active interest and aid of his mother, the late Marie Antoinette Heye, through whose codperation Professor Saville’s studies were made possible. In all, nine field seasons have been spent in the area mentioned. In 1907 Professor Saville had the assistance | of Mr George H. Pepper, who assumed immediate charge of the excavations inland from Manta in the province of Manabi, Ecuador; in 1910 the aid of Dr Manuel Gamio, at present Director of Anthropology and Inspector of Monuments of Mexico; while in 1908 and 1909 Dr S. A. Barrett, now of the Milwaukee Public Museum, carried to completion an ethnologic study of the almost unknown Cayapa Indians of northwestern Ecuador, a monograph pertaining to which will shortly be pub- lished. The results of Professor Saville’s archeological work in Ecuador and Colombia have been of great importance, both from the point of view of knowledge obtained and of collections gathered, as the culture of the prehistoric tribes of the regions ex-
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