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Series
Description by S. Bazán and A.
Pezzati (March, 1996) Correspondence Letters from Mason to
contacts and officials in Panama and Samuel K. Lothrop of
the Peabody Museum detailing the planning of the expedition,
and to Museum Director Horace H. F. Jayne reporting on
progress from the field. Also included is documentation
relating to a proposed second expedition to Panama for the
following year (1941), and to the settlement of the contract
with the Conte family. Administrative
Records Copies of contracts in
English and Spanish (including copy of Peabody Museum
contract); correspondence and information regarding, and
lists of, equipment and supplies used in the field; planning
of transportation of expedition personnel to and from the
site, and shipment of artifacts; receipts and financial
statements. Field
Notes Field diary of J. Alden
Mason, comprising a journal of the expedition and including
notes by John Corning; and field diary of Robert H. Merrill,
containing the scientific notes and detailed measurements
for the excavations, many photographs, plans, and sections.
Merrill’s diary contains a table of contents. This
series also includes a field object catalogue and object
cards, and post-expedition notes on the excavations and the
artifacts, especially the gold objects. Reports
& Interpretive Materials Published articles and
drafts of papers and lectures by Mason on the results of the
excavations; exhibit brochures; and notes, probably for
lecture purposes, on the motion picture film taken in the
field. Original news clippings found in this series were
removed to Special Collections —
Newsclippings. Visual
Records Black-and-white film
negatives, lantern slides, color transparencies, and 16mm
motion picture film (including edited videotape copy) housed
in the Photographic Archives. Black-and-white photographic
prints are found in Robert H. Merrill’s diary (see p.
11 for explanation of field cataloguing system), and in the
standard size print collection. Visual records also include
site plans in ink and pencil on paper. See Maps
& Plans and Photographs for further
information.
1939-1970. 0.25 feet.
1939-1940. 0.25 feet.
1940-1956. 0.75 feet.
1929 — 1942. 0.25 feet.
1940 — Present.