Wendell H. Oswalt photograph collection, western Alaska, 1940s-1980s.
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Wendell H. Oswalt photograph collection, western Alaska, 1940s-1980s.
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Physical Description:
1 box, 6 folders (192 color slides)
General Note:
In the Alaska State Library, Historical Collections, P.O. Box 110571, Juneau, AK 99811-0571.
Abstract:
201 color slides from 30 years of archaeological work in western Alaska, the Kuskokwim River Region, and Iceland.
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Biographical/Historical Data:
Wendell H. Oswalt received a Ph. D. in anthropology from University of Arizona in 1959. He is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles, where he taught for thirty-two years. His research has examined Native American cultures, with particular attention to the Yupik-speaking people in southwestern Alaska and Inuit-speaking people in northern Alaska and Canada.
Restrictions on Access:
Access to the collection is unrestricted.