Copies of photographs depicting American Indian gatherings, including those at Pine Ridge and Chicago American Indian Center Exposition. Additionally, there are images of Sioux, Winnebago, and Navajo artifacts and art, and historical sites relating to Chief Red Cloud. Also included are photographs of Kiowa Indians, made by Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot R74-12
Reproduction Note:
Copy prints and negatives prepared by Smithsonian Institution, 1974.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs by John O'Leary can also be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 81-72.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes. Copies can be made only with permission of John O'Leary.
The majority of the Kiowa photographs were taken on La Barre's two field trips to Oklahoma in 1935 and 1936. Many are of Indians whom La Barre had met and with whom he attended peyote meetings. There are no photographs of actual peyote meetings. There are some photographs of the Santa Fe Lab group. Other subjects covered include ceremonial altars, ashes and other paraphernalia as well as ceremonial structures. Included with the ceremonial structures are photographs of the museum-meeting room of the Native American Church in El Reno, Oklahoma. Most photographs are also presented or referred to with captions in the scrapbook, "Kiowa Indian Snapshots, 1935, Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology" (in this series, Box 13) and in "The Peyote Cult," La Barre's doctoral dissertation (Series 2, Box 6). Numbers following photograph captions in the box list refer to corresponding photographs in the thesis copy of "The Peyote Cult."
The scrapbook, in addition to the 1935 photographs from the Santa Fe Lab field trip to the Kiowa, also contains pictures from the 1936 Yale Institute of Human Relations and American Museum of Natural History peyote field trip. Most of the photos have captions. Subjects include portraits of Indians in Oklahoma whom La Barre knew, members of the field trips, and various objects of the peyote ritual.
The last box in this series contains photographs dated from 1937 to 1938, arranged by subject of the Aymara and Uru of Bolivia which were taken by La Barre or a member of his party. Included are a few photographs of Amazon (Bororo) Indians given to La Barre.
The Aymara pictures deal with a number of cultural aspects with an emphasis on festivals and dancing. There are a number of portraits of Indians, none identified. Other subjects addressed include agriculture, boats and fishing, habitations and markets. Religious processions are included under ceremonials. There are three sheets of contact prints which have not been sorted by subject as well as twenty-two color negatives depicting objects in the La Barre Aymara Collection at Duke University. The Uru photographs also cover cultural aspects of their life, but are fewer in number and more limited in scope than the Aymara pictures.
Collection Restrictions:
Some of the materials in the collection are covered by copyright as of April 1976.
Access to the Raoul Weston La Barre papers requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
The Raoul Weston La Barre papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Copy prints
Photographs
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents note:
Copies of photographs depicting Parker McKenzie and his family. Included are images of McKenzie's maternal great-grandmother, maternal grandmother, mother, father, siblings, mother with her second husband (Delos Lonewolf), wife, and great-grandsons. There is also an image of McKenzie's great-grandmother's tipi. Copies of descriptions on the original photographs are available.
Biographical/Historical note:
Parker McKenzie (1897-1999) was a Kiowa linguist who worked with the United States government. He served as a stenographer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and as a translator for Smithsonian anthropologist John Peabody Harrington during Harrington's trip to study the Kiowa language. McKenzie also published A Grammar of Kiowa in collaboration with Laurel Watkins in 1984 and translated many texts from English. At the time of his death, McKenzie was identified as the oldest living Kiowa Indian.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot R86-51
Reproduction Note:
Copy prints made by Smithsonian Institution, 1986.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Kiowa Disyllables, compiled and arranged by McKenzie, can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7535.
The National Anthropological Archives holds John Peabody Harrington's papers.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
This copy collection has been obtained for reference purposes only. Contact the repository for terms of use and access.
