Mexican America - Resources and Credits
This section contains educational materials to supplement your journey through Mexican America as illustrated by the collections of the National Museum of American History.
The glossary explains some of the terms used to talk about the history and peoples of Mexico and the American West and Southwest.
The national borders of Mexico have changed radically between the start of the Aztec Empire in the 14th century and the present. See Mexican maps from the collections of the University of Texas Libraries.
Scenes and figures from postcards commemorating the American West and Southwest from the Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Colonia outside of El Paso (circa 1920)
- David Crockett
- Greetings from San Antonio, Texas (The Alamo)
- Mexican Home, New Mexico (circa 1925)
- Old Spanish Days (circa 1925)
Historical scenes and figures from Mexico from the Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Avenida A Tijuana (circa 1910)
- Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (circa 1925)
- Calle del Comercio Ciudad Juárez (circa 1925)
- Mexican Market Scene (undated photograph)
- Quetzalcoatl
- Taxco, Guerrero (circa 1910)
- Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan (circa 1910)
Other Smithsonian Institution projects about the peoples of Mexico and their descendants, culture, and environment.
For additional information on the history of Mexico, Mexican Americans, and the diverse peoples of the American West and Southwest, please see the bibliography.
Esta sección contiene materiales educativos a fin de complementar el recorrido a través de la América Mexicana ilustrado por objetos provenientes de las colecciones del Museo Nacional de Historia Americana.
Pulsando sobre el enlace que se observa a continuación se puede acceder a un glosario donde se explican algunos de los términos usados para referirse a la historia y a los pueblos de México, tanto como del oeste y sudoeste de América.
Los límites nacionales de México han cambiado radicalmente entre los comienzos del Imperio Azteca en el siglo XIV y el presente. Pulse el siguiente enlace para ver mapas de México de las colecciones de las Bibliotecas de la Universidad .de Texas.
Pulsar los siguientes enlaces para ver tarjetas con escenas y figuras, y fotos conmemorativas del oeste y sudoeste americano de la Colección de Postales Victor A. Blenkle, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
- Colonia en las afueras de El Paso (ca. 1920)
- David Crockett
- Saludos desde San Antonio, Texas
- Hogar Mexicano, Nuevo México (ca. 1925)
- Viejos Tiempos Españoles (ca. 1925)
Pulsar los siguientes enlaces para ver escenas y figuras históricas de México.
- Avenida A Tijuana (ca. 1910)
- Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (ca. 1925)
- Calle del Comercio Ciudad Juárez (ca. 1925)
- Escena de un Mercado Mexicano (foto sin fecha)
- Quetzalcoatl
- Taxco, Guerrero (circa 1910)
- Templo de Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan (ca. 1910)
Pulsar los siguientes enlaces para ver otros proyectos de la Institución Smithsonian acerca de los pueblos de México y sus descendientes, su cultura y su entorno.
Para mayor información sobre la historia de México, los mexicoamericanos y los diversos pueblos del oeste y sudoeste americano, por favor pulsar sobre el enlace de bibliografía a continuación.
The Mexican America object group is a collective effort of the staff of the National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center: Division of Home and Community Life; Division of Information Technology and Communications; Division of Music, Sports and Entertainment; Division of Politics and Reform; New Media Program; Program in Latino History and Culture; Office and Museum Management and Services; and Registration Services.
Special thanks to Diana Taggart and Michelle Sánchez.
El grupo de objetos América Mexicana es un esfuerzo conjunto del personal del Museo Nacional de Historia Americana, del Centro Kenneth E. Behring: División de Vida en el Hogar y la Comunidad; División de Tecnología Informativa y Comunicaciones; División de Música, Deportes y Entretenimiento; División de Política y Reforma; Programa de Nuevos Medios de Comunicación; Programa de Historia y Cultura Latinas; La Oficina de Gestión y Servicios de Museo; y la Oficina de Servicios de Adquisiciones.
Un agradecimiento especial a Diana Taggart y Michelle Sánchez.
"Mexican America - Resources and Credits" showing 6 items.
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Marshall !Kung Expedition I, 1950 1950
- Notes
- Supplementary materials: production logs, manuscripts
- title supplied by Archives staff (unpublished work) -- archival collection
- For supporting HSFA collections see also: 2007.17 (Robert Gesteland's daily log from the 1957-58 expedition); 2008.12 (National Geographic Society/Wolper Productions 1973 film project on John Marshall); and 2008.13 (Nippon TV ca. 1985 video project on John Marshall)
- Summary
- Full film record shot during a preliminary expedition to the Kalahari Desert in Namibia sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum. Footage was shot primarily in southern Angola south of the Kanini River among the Bantu speaking Mehemba. Footage includes: dances of the Mehemba and Naulila bands; San graves; making of a plaster San lifemask; and wildlife including merle goats, springbok, wildebeest, jackal, hyena, elephant, giraffe, and eland. Footage was primarily shot by John Marshall with additional photography by Laurence Marshall
- Date
- 1950
- Creator
- Marshall, John ethnographic filmmaker (1932-2005 )
- Local number
- HSFA 83.11.1
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection 1950-2000
- Summary
- The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection contains full film and video projects (outtake material), film production elements and edited films and videos, audio tapes, still photographs, negatives, transparencies, slides, published and unpublished writing by John Marshall and others, study guides for edited films, Nyae Nyae Development Foundation and Advocacy files, maps, and production files that include letters, shot logs, translations, transcriptions, editing logs, treatments, and proposals spanning from 1950-2000. This material comprises Marshall's long-term documentary record of the Ju/'hoansi of the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert in northeastern Namibia. A great deal of the film and video footage focuses on one particular extended family, that of Toma Tsamko, whose ancestral home is at /Gautcha, an area with a large salt pan and a permanent waterhole. The life stories of some family members are captured in the footage; appearing as children in the 1950's, middle-aged parents in the 1980's, and pensioners in the final years of visual documentation. The Marshall Collection also documents other Ju/'hoansi living in Nyae Nyae and elsewhere, their relationships with neighboring ethnic groups, and national politics that affected Ju/'hoansi. Marshall also documented the local political body (the Nyae Nyae Farmers' Cooperative, or NNFC), the foundation he started (the Nyae Nyae Development Foundation of Namibia, or NNDFN), and the ways in which both groups worked with and were affected by international development organizations and foreign aid during the 1990's
- Cite as
- The John Marshall Ju/'hoan Bushman Film and Video Collection, 1950-2000, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Date
- 1950-2000
- Creator
- Marshall, John ethnographic filmmaker (1932-2005 )
- Local number
- HSFA 83.11
- HSFA Marshall Collection
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Marshall !Kung Expedition V, 1956 1956
- Notes
- title supplied by Archives staff (unpublished work) -- archival collection
- For supporting HSFA collections see also: 2007.17 (Robert Gesteland's daily log from the 1957-58 expedition); 2008.12 (National Geographic Society/Wolper Productions 1973 film project on John Marshall); and 2008.13 (Nippon TV ca. 1985 video project on John Marshall)
- Summary
- Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia was sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Footage documents ambient life in Nyae-Nyae and at Etosha National Park in Namibia, featuring large game, wild-fowl, and plant-life. Inlcuded are shot of gum collection by Ju/'hoan gathers. Footage was primarily shot by Laurence Marshall (John Marshall was not a member of this expedition)
- Date
- 1956
- Creator
- Marshall, John ethnographic filmmaker (1932-2005 )
- Local number
- HSFA 83.11.5
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Marshall !Kung Expedition III, 1952-1953 1952-1953
- Notes
- Supplementary materials: audio tapes, production logs, manuscripts
- title supplied by Archives staff (unpublished work) -- archival collection
- For supporting HSFA collections see also: 2007.17 (Robert Gesteland's daily log from the 1957-58 expedition); 2008.12 (National Geographic Society/Wolper Productions 1973 film project on John Marshall); and 2008.13 (Nippon TV ca. 1985 video project on John Marshall)
- Summary
- Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae-Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia was sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institution. Footage documents both the hunting and gathering lifeways of the Ju/'hoansi as well as aspects of their historical association with Herero and Tswama pastoralists. Locations include Gam, /Kai /Kai, and /Gautcha waterholes. Documentation on Ju/'hoan subsistence practices includes: gathering gum, baobob and palm fruit, and mangetti nuts; digging
and water roots; picking and berries; collecting salt at a pan; and tracking, shooting, butchering, and cooking large and small game (including giraffe, eland, gemsbok, wildebeest, duiker, badger, warthog, ostrich, tortoise, and python). Other footage documents: technologies (netmaking and the manufacture of string, arrows, and poison), distribution of meat and sociability around (shelters), divining with oracle discs, trance-dancing and curing, nursing babies, making toy cars, "rolling" fire with firesticks, playing musical instruments (one-string violin and //uashie), and activities around waterholes. Also included is footage on the Mutues, a Bantu-speaking people of Angola. The published film titles THE HUNTERS, RITE OF PASSAGE, and !KUNG BUSHMAN HUNTING EQUIPMENT were produced from this project. Footage was primarily shot by John Marshall with additional photography by Laurence Marshall and Lorna Marshall
- Date
- 1952-1953
- Creator
- Marshall, John ethnographic filmmaker (1932-2005 )
- Local number
- HSFA 83.11.3
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
Marshall !Kung Expedition VI, 1957-1958 1957-1958
- Notes
- Supplementary materials: audio tapes, production logs
- title supplied by Archives staff (unpublished work) -- archival collection
- For supporting HSFA collections see also: 2007.17 (Robert Gesteland's daily log from the 1957-58 expedition); 2008.12 (National Geographic Society/Wolper Productions 1973 film project on John Marshall); and 2008.13 (Nippon TV ca. 1985 video project on John Marshall)
- Summary
- Full film record shot during an expedition to the Nyae-Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert in Namibia, sponsored by the Harvard Peabody Museum. Locations include: the plains south of !Nama, !Nama pan, !Kubi, Tsumkwe, !O, and /Gautcha waterhole. Subsistence activities documented include: gathering mangetti nuts and
, eating berries and nuts, digging for roots, preparation of lamb, herding and milking of cows, killing a puff adder, and hunting giraffe, hartebeest, and wildebeest. Technologies illustrated include: arrow-making and poisoning, stringing beads, preparation of hides, making a musical bow, and working on thongs. Aspects of sociability, and daily and ceremonial life include: male and female ornamentation; various games (porcupine game, melon tossing game, and bird toy); curing and trance dancing; administration of medicine; and playing musical instruments (including the musical bow, the one-stringed violin, the (harp), and the harmonica). Also included is footage of (shelters); activities at Bantu sites (dancing, pounding mealie-meal, grinding corn, and winnowing tobacco); various wildlife; and activities of the Marshall expedition. Footage from this expedition was used to make the published film titles: AN ARGUMENT ABOUT A MARRIAGE, BAOBAB PLAY, CHILDREN THROW TOY ASSEGAIS, A CURING CEREMONY, DEBE'S TANTRUM, GROUP OF WOMEN, JOKING RELATIONSIP, LION GAME, THE MEAT FIGHT, MELON TOSSING GAME, MEN BATHING, N/UM TCHAI, PLAYING WITH SCORPIONS, TUG OF WAR, and THE WASP NEST. Footage was primarily shot by John Marshall with additional photography by Robert Gardner and Robert Gesteland
- Date
- 1957-1958
- Creator
- Marshall, John ethnographic filmmaker (1932-2005 )
- Local number
- HSFA 83.11.6
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives
- This record comes from another Smithsonian unit: Human Studies Film ArchivesNo Image Available
The Bushman 1972-1976 Nomads of the Desert Man TV
- Notes
- title from credits (published work)--archival collection
- supplementary materials: publicity materials, article, logs
- Summary
- Television broadcast series produced by Jun'ichi Ushiyama for Nippon A-V (NAV) was originally produced for Japanese audiences and later modified and released in an English language version. A band of Bushman in the Kalahari Desert, Botswana, were filmed over a ten month period. Filmed are making poison arrows; killing a giraffe; trapping antelopes, hawks, hares, kites and pythons; water collection from wild melons and hollow trees; introduction of a horse for hunting which causes discord among the band; games played by boys and girls which prepare them for their gender roles; a coming of age ceremony for girls; and boys and girls singing a song to pray for rain
- Date
- 1972-1976
- Local number
- HSFA 2004.10.5
- Data Source
- Human Studies Film Archives