1916 Scientific Expedition, Indigenous Peoples
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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
- Collection: Photograph Collection
- Object Name: Anna Heyward Taylor Photographs
- Object Id: MK 4515
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