Herman Schweizer was known as "the Harvey anthropologist". 
He headed the Companys Indian Department from its creation 
in 1902 until his death in 1942. Located in Albuquerque, the 
Indian Department assembled collections of Indian arts and 
crafts items and either shipped them to the "curior room" 
in the Harvey Companys Alvarado Hotel or sold them to museums 
such as the Carnegie, Field, and Berlin Volkerkunde. 
The items were not just from the Southwest; they were from 
tribes all over the West. However, Schweizer was known for 
travelling extensively in the Southwest and supervising the 
purchase of many of the items personally. He is known to have 
frequented the Hopi villages and was a supporter of the Santa 
Fe-based Indian Arts fund (Harvey 1963:40-42).