Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation - M.R. Harrington: Correspondence, Cuba, 1915-1922

Help us transcribe "M.R. Harrington: Correspondence, Cuba, 1915-1922” (Box 231, Folder 08) from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Records. Mark Raymond, Harrington (1882-1971) was a prominent twentieth-century anthropologist who worked for many anthropological museums including Harvard University’s Peabody Museum, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (the predecessor to the National Museum of the American Indian or NMAI), Philadelphia’s University Museum, and later, from 1928 until his retirement in 1966, the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles. Harrington worked for George Gustav Heye for two decades (1908-1928) and was one of Heye’s first hires and most prolific collectors, collecting ethnological and archaeological material from Native communities across North America. Following his death, Harrington’s archival materials, consisting of his ethnological fieldnotes, object lists, and personal and professional correspondence were donated to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation by his widow and are now contained in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation records.