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Ludlow Griscom, Assistant Curator of Birds at American Museum Natural History was the leader of The Western Panama Expedition (February - March 1924). He had three assistants Mr. George Albert Seaman, field collector; J. Manson Valentine, Volunteer Assistant at Peabody Museum; and Rudyerd Boulton, from the University Pittsburgh and photographer for the expedition.
Sarah Lavanburg Straus (1861-1945) was the financier of The Straus Central African Expedition (1929) and participated in part of it. Her grandson Edward Schafer Jr. (also known as Ned Schafer) also participated in the expedition and served as camera operator. Other participants included, Rudyerd Boulton, the Assistant Curator of Birds at the Carnegie Museum and Laura Boulton. The first half of the expedition specimens were collected for the American Museum of Natural History and the second half of the expedition specimens were collected for the Carnegie Museum.
The leader of The Straus West African Expedition (January – September 1934) was Rudyerd Boulton, Assistant Curator of Birds at the Field Museum. As with the Central African expedition, Sarah Lavanburg Straus was the financier of the West African Expedition and participated in part it. The other participates included, Frank C. Wonder, taxidermist at the Field Museum (from 1926 to 1954); John F. Jennings, in charge of photography; and Laura Boulton, ethnomusicologist who earned a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study traditional music of Africa.
16mm; silent; black and white; 400 ft
Shotlist
1. Several people sitting in a structure
2. A group of people standing next to a structure
3. Children standing in a village
4. Men of the village posing for the camera
5. Laura Boulton asking for directions from the men
6. Laura Boulton and another person interacting with people from the village
7. Men in front of a hut
8. Men sitting on ground
9. A man standing by a river
10. Men in front of a hut posing for the camera
11. A woman talking to the men
12. Two men practice fighting/ hunting
13. Landscape
14. Three children walking
15. A group of people near the automobiles
16. Animal goes into the water
17. Views of a villages from a boat
18. Two boats on a river
19. A view of a water well from a boat
20. Landscape views from a boat
21. A boat harbor
22. Views of a village from a boat
23. Views of the landscape from a boat
24. People standing around in the village street (Laura Boulton in the shot?)
25. Camel walking on its knees
26. Men in a hut
27. Men clearing the road for the automobiles (Rudyerd Boulton in the group of men?)
28. A man driving an automobile
29. Wild boar
30. Three wild boars
31. Men hunting
32. Out of focus shot of the wild boar
33. Wild boar
34. A man hunting with a spear
35. Hunter standing over the dead wild boar
36. Man signal hunting companions to the dead wild boar
37. A group of men walking
38. A group of men tying the dead wild boar to be carried
39. Men carrying the dead wild boar home
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