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Chapin, James Paul, 1889-1964

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Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935)

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Asset ID film160_100249169

Title The scientific expedition to the South Pacific in the yacht Zaca

Date 1934-1935

Agent (Role) Asaeda, Toshio, 1893-1968 (Photographer)

Work/Object Type Video file

Collection/Work Relation AMNH Special Collections, Film Collection no. 160: The scientific expedition to the South Pacific in the yacht Zaca, film, barcode no. 100249169

Publication History Chapin, James P. To Polynesia on the Yacht Zaca. Natural History, v. 36, no. 4, Nov. 1935: 293-[310]. Chapin, James P. Through Southern Polynesia. Natural History, v. 37, no. 4, Apr. 1936: 286-308. Shapiro, H. L. Pitcairniana. Natural History, v. 41, no. 1, Jan. 1938: 34-45, 80.

Repository American Museum of Natural History

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Description Filmed during the AMNH Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition, 1934-1935. On this expedition in his yacht, the Zaca, Templeton Crocker was accompanied by AMNH staff members James Paul Chapin, leader and ornithologist, Harry L. Shapiro, anthropologist, and Francis Lee Jacques, preparator and artist, all of whom appear in the film. Other expedition staff members included Toshio Asaeda, artist and photographer, Arthur Pedersen, ship's captain, and George Lyman, ship's surgeon. The expedition's objectives were to collect bird specimens for the museum's Hall of Oceanic Birds and to gather anthropological material. The film, however, offers little more than general documentation of the expedition's activities and travels. The film opens with views of the Zaca, and of crew members playing with and feeding a kitten, and panoramas of the Marquesas Islands' coastlines, including some inhabitants. A devilfish, or sting ray, is pursued and harpooned by the expedition staff. On Tahiti, young women dance a hula on the beach; other young women swim. Following coastal views of Moorea, a woman weaves a small basket in a complex of stone and thatch buildings on Rurutu in the Tubuai or Austral Islands. Next are aerial views of Easter Island, followed by the making of a plaster cast of one of the huge heads, or moais, for which the island is known. Collecting activities of the expedition staff in the Galapagos Islands are shown; locations include Indefatigable Island, Tower Island, Salmo Island, and Conway Bay. A shark is towed by the Zaca. Animals appearing in this section include: large lizards, frigate birds, swallow-tailed gulls, red-footed boobies, and sea lions.

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External Resource AMNH Library authority record: Templeton Crocker Pacific Expedition (1st : 1934-1935), AMNH Library authority record: American Museum of Natural History. Whitney Memorial Hall of Oceanic Birds

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