1916 Scientific Expedition, Indigenous Peoples

Description:

Sepia photograph showing a small boy from one of the indigenous tribes of British Guiana (now Guyana) sitting on the base and roots of a giant Mora tree.

Beebe published this image (Fig. 24) in "Tropical Wild Life in British Guiana: Zoological Contributions From the Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society" with the caption, "Base and Roots of Giant Mora Tree."

• Title: 1916 Scientific Expedition, Indigenous Peoples
• Photographer: Howes, Paul Griswold, 1892-1984
• Date: March-August, 1916

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• Collection: Photograph Collection
• Object Name: Anna Heyward Taylor Photographs
• Object Id: MK 4515

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