Photographs in this collection were shot mostly by Native photographers for the 1998 book, Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian.
Spirit Capture: Photographs from the National Museum of the American Indian was published in 1998 by NMAI and Smithsonian Institution Press. A corresponding exhibition of the same name ran from July 2001-2002 in New York City.
Spirit Capture brings together more than 200 images from the museum's collections with essays from Native and non-Native historians, anthropologists, and curators. Several Native photographers were commissioned to produce images for this publication and exhibition.
Related Materials:
Other photographs that were shot by NMAI photographers Katherine Fogden and Janine Sarna Jones for the Spirit Capture project are included in collection NMAI.AC.996, binders 135 and 136.
Provenance:
Photographs from Larry McNeil, Larry Gus, and Dorothy Grandbois were purchased by NMAI in 1996 for the Spirit Capture project. Photographs by Katherine Fogden and Janine Sarna Jones were created as part of their work as employed photographers at NMAI.
Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not modified in any way, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian. For more information please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use and NMAI Archive Center's Digital Image request website.
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Spirit Capture photograph collection, image #, NMAI.AC.384; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
