Photograph, shell heap, man, and equipment, c.1933-1934: Bass personal papers and Zinn photographs

Abstract

This item is part of a series of photographs from a scrapbook created by Donald Joseph Zinn, an employee and later a research fellow at the Bass lab. These images were most likely taken in the early 1930s. The shells featured may have come from a midden, and the equipment appears to be intended for an archaeological excavation. The archaeological remains associated with this dig may have been Calusa or Seminole based on earlier studies done of the area by the Bureau of American Ethnology. A camera and tripod can be seen in the foreground on the left.