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 William Henry Holmes
Image from http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/laexped/ch4ns.htmHolmes, who began working drawing specimens for many naturalists at the age of 25 for Spencer Fullerton Baird, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He soon went on to work for the U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories, which explored Yellowstone in it's pre-national park days. During his work here, his interest in prehistoric peoples was formed when he studied the cliff-dwellings in the West. In 1882, he was appointed honorary curator of Aboriginal Ceramics at the Smithsonian's U.S. National Musuem. In 1884, Holmes travled to Mexico with William H. Jackson, a photographer, and surveyed a large portion of the country. From his work in excavations here, he published three influential articles about stone sculpture and pottery. In 1892, Holmes made exhibits for the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of the New World. Included in these exhibits were life-sized displays of native Americans. From here, he became the curator of anthropology at the Field Museum in Chicago. In this position, he was able to visit many sittes, including Chichen Itza. Holmes's early work with art, demonstrated by his early work drawing specimens for naturalists, allowed him to make detailed drawings of the ruins that his visited, which help the study of the Mayan pyramids.
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