Box 20

Scope and Contents Includes materials regarding the 1967 installment of Hall of Man in Africa exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History. Organized into exhibits research; photographs and murals; publications on or used for exhibit; correspondence between Colin Turnbull and others; plans and descriptions of case and hall layout; public relations materials including reviews and multi-page full color exhibit spread in the New York News (1968) [see Oversize]. Also includes...

Scope and Contents Includes notes on African and African-American art; slavery; African chiefs; Ashanti religion/life including the use of Ashanti gold weights; slavery in the Americas including Joseph Towles' diagrams of slave trade routes in Africa; Ku Klux Klan propaganda; black folk music of Alabama; maroons of Jamaica; photographs of African people, art, plans for murals; African-American art; material regarding the South Carolina lowcountry, including photographs and color slides of Joseph Washington and...