A 30 Year Search For Pictograph Photos of Moose Creek Bluff in Fairbanks, Alaska

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

I have been searching for the photographs and tracings made by J. Louis Giddings in June 1940 as reported in the American Antiquity, Vol. 7, No. 1 (July 1941) since I was an undergraduate student in anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in 1992. When entering the program for my master’s degree in the 2000’s I had to content myself that these were not available after years of searching at intuitions that Giddings attended after leaving Alaska. I sent a request to the Haffenreffer Museum at Brown University in March 2023 if there were any of Giddings photos and tracings. In a reply from Rodney (Rip) Gerry the Exhibition Coordinator at Archives he had found the slides and negatives in April 2023 taken of the Fairbanks site by Giddings in June 1940, and in July he had located the original tracings. Locating these I will be applying the program D-Stretch and other graphic enhancement software to render the images for comparing with the sketches in the 1941 American Antiquity report.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37953.0