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In an undated photo, a square, stone column displays bas-relief carvings of a human figure wearing a headdress and holding a curved object, with plants and flowers above.

An undated, black and white photograph shows a water-filled sinkhole surrounded by shrubs and small trees. A caption reads, "Maya maidens thrown into this natureal well in the limestone formation in sacrificial ceremonies."

Date: 1927 A stepped, stone pyramid with a square structure at the top stands at the edge of a plain, surounded by plazas with numerous upright columns. A caption reads, "The Temple of the Warriors at the close of the 1927 working season."

Black and white photograph of sunshine on willows and pine trees lining a stream at Waipawa, Hawke's Bay.

Two black and white photographs pasted onto a piece of paper with hand drawn borders around each picture. One is of school children on their ponies at Te Kaha, Bay of Plenty and the other is of shepherds and their dogs at the Matahilia station, Rustoria district on the east coast of the North Island.

Date: 20.07.39 In a room, a woman in period costume stands next to unpowered, wooden machines. A caption reads, "An excellent example of French Regional Museums. The Bourbonnais room in the Vichy Historical Museum, showing the looms on which the famous Vichy Cloth was made, figures clothed in the local costumes, ancient furniture, utensils, etc."

These handwritten, undated research notes on a lined note card, titled "Blessings in disguise," contain information about a Navajo myth. A brief citation is given. The notes read, "v. Monsters -- Sun spares Old Age, Poverty, Hunger, etc."

This undated, hand-written note on the Zuni cites: Papago HR Kroeber J25, 103; and briefly describes a myth in which Rain, who is blind, and Whirlwind are banished for lifting maidens' skirts.

Handwritten note references a Ute myth on recovering sight and compares it to a Yokut myth on the falcon who loses his eyes gambling and is led by a crow. Undated.

These brief, handwritten, undated research notes on a lined note card, titled "Blind dupe," contain a citation for a Tsimshian myth related in "Tsimshian Mythology," Franz Boas, Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Vol. 31, p. 825.