John Ewers
ID: 92-1794
Creator: Clark, Chip
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1978
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder May 1978
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Dr. John C. Ewers, senior Ethnologist of National Museum of Natural History's anthropology staff. He is holding a Native American artifact and is sitting in front of a scene of a Native American battle.
Subject
- Ewers, John Canfield
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
- National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Anthropology
Category
Historic Images of the Smithsonian
Notes
- Featured in TORCH, May 1978
- Dr. John C. Ewers (1909-1997) was one of the nation's foremost scholars in the ethnology of the Plains Indians and the history of the West. He began his career in 1935 as a field curator for the National Park Service, developing exhibits for park sites. From 1941 to 1944, he was Curator of the Museum of the Plains Indian, Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1945, Ewers was appointed Associate Curator of the Division of Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology of the United States National Museum and developed the Museum's Exhibits Modernization Program. Ewers served as Planning Officer for the development of the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now known as the National Museum of American History, from 1956 to 1959, as Assistant Director from 1959 to 1964, and as Director from 1964 to 1965. Following his post as museum director, Ewers returned to active research as Senior Ethnologist in the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History until his retirement in 1978. In 1979, he was appointed Ethnologist Emeritus.
Contained within
Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder May 1978
Contact information
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Date
1978
Restrictions & Rights
No restrictions
Topic
- Natural history museums
- Artifacts
- Historians
- Anthropology
- Ethnology
- Museums
- Anthropologists
- Indians of North America
- Museum directors
- Museum curators
Place
Washington (D.C.)
Form/Genre
- Photographic print
- Person, candid
ID Number
92-1794
Physical description
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print