Polaroid photographs of South Hall Gallery display cases and their contents, circa 1980

22 polaroid photographs, 39 mounted photographs and 5 caption cards covering anthropology exhibits on display in the South Hall Gallery, circa 1980. Exhibits include Navajo textiles, Andaman Island baskets, woodcrafts of the Pacific Islands, Greek shephard clothing, the Hadza of Tanzania, the Samburu of Kenya and the Betel of South Asia. Several of the mounted prints have annotations on the back listing the object references for objects exhibited in the cases.

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