This series contains 81 gelatin silver prints depicting the Lake Superior Chippewa band of Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) harvesting wild rice on the Bad River Reservation in Odanah, Wisconsin. The photographs were shot by David Grant Noble in 1970-1971. The photographer wrote captions on the back of most of the photographs.
The photos depict boat launching and towing on the Bad River Reservation; wild rice harvesting on the Bad River and in the Kakagon Sloughs on Lake Superior; and ceremonies and community festivals and games after the wild rice harvesting. Individuals depicted include Marie LaPointe.
Arrangement:
Photographer David Grant Noble arranged the photographs in this series in rough sequential order.
Collection Restrictions:
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Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu.
Some photographs in this collection are RESTRICTED due to Cultural Sensitivity.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); David Grant Noble photographs, Box and Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
This series contains 28 gelatin silver prints depicting the Minnesota Chippewa [Bois Forte/Nett Lake, Minnesota] band of Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) on the Bois Forte Reservation in northern Minnesota. The photographs were shot by David Grant Noble in September 1971. The photographer wrote captions on the back of most of the photographs.
The photographs depict wild rice harvesting and processing, as well as photographs of children playing. Some of the photographs depicting wild rice processing at the home of Ira Isham.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive 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).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu.
Some photographs in this collection are RESTRICTED due to Cultural Sensitivity.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); David Grant Noble photographs, Box and Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Photographic print of unidentified Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) man in hunting/trapping clothing. Photographed by Roland W. Reed in Minnesota, in 1908.
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Access to NMAI Archive 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).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank A. Rinehart and Roland W. Reed photograph collection, NMAI.AC.289; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Photographic print of unidentified Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) man. Photographed by Roland W. Reed in Minnesota, in 1908.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive 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).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank A. Rinehart and Roland W. Reed photograph collection, NMAI.AC.289; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Photographic print of unidentified Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) man in canoe, blowing a moose call. Photographed by Roland W. Reed in Minnesota, in 1908.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive 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).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank A. Rinehart and Roland W. Reed photograph collection, NMAI.AC.289; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
This series contains 15 gelatin silver prints depicting "spirit houses" in the Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) Pinery Indian Cemetery in L'Anse, Michigan. The photos were shot by David Grant Noble in September 1970. The Spirit Houses were made of bark and were placed over individual graves.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive 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:
This series is RESTRICTED due to Cultural Sensitivity.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); David Grant Noble photographs, Box and Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
This series contains 10 photographic prints of Native American men and women photographed by Roland W. Reed between 1908 and 1913. Traveling throughout the U.S. West and Canada, Reed photographed Native communities ranging from Minnesota to Montana and Canada, and extending to Arizona in the Southwest U.S. Images of particular communities include Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa); Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan); Northern Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne); Kainai Blackfoot (Kainah/Blood); Diné (Navajo); and Hopi Pueblo.
Photograph titles were written by Reed.
Numbers written on the verso of these photographic prints were supplied by the donor, (the Dakota County Historical Society), and do not necessarily correspond with the processing or organization of these materials as they are now presented.
Collection Restrictions:
Access to NMAI Archive 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).
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Frank A. Rinehart and Roland W. Reed photograph collection, NMAI.AC.289; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
50 Stereographs (circa 50 printed stereographs, halftone and color halftone)
1,000 Stereographs (circa, albumen and silver gelatin (some tinted))
239 Prints (circa 239 mounted and unmounted prints, albumen (including cartes de visite, imperial cards, cabinet cards, and one tinted print) and silver gelatin (some modern copies))
96 Prints (Album :, silver gelatin)
21 Postcards (silver gelatin, collotype, color halftone, and halftone)
Photographs relating to Native Americans or frontier themes, including portraits, expedition photographs, landscapes, and other images of dwellings, transportation, totem poles, ceremonies, infants and children in cradleboards, camps and towns, hunting and fishing, wild west shows, food preparation, funeral customs, the US Army and army posts, cliff dwellings, and grave mounds and excavations. The collection also includes images of prisoners at Fort Marion in 1875, Sioux Indians involved in the Great Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, the Fort Laramie Peace Commission of 1868, Sitting Bull and his followers after the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the aftermath of the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890.
There are studio portraits of well-known Native Americans, including American Horse, Big Bow, Four Bears, Iron Bull, Ouray, Red Cloud, Red Dog, Red Shirt, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tail, Three Bears, and Two Guns White Calf. Depicted delegations include a Sauk and Fox meeting in Washington, DC, with Lewis V. Bogy and Charles E. Mix in 1867; Kiowas and Cheyennes at the White House in 1863; and Dakotas and Crows who visited President Warren G. Harding in 1921. Images of schools show Worcester Academy in Vinita, Oklahoma; Chilocco Indian School; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Haskell Instittue, and Albuquerque Indian School.
Some photographs relate to the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876; World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893; Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, 1903; and Centennial Exposition of the Baltimore and Ohio Railraod, 1876. Expedition photographs show the Crook expedition of 1876, the Sanderson expedition to the Custer Battlefield in 1877, the Wheeler Survey of the 1870s, Powell's surveys of the Rocky Mountain region during the 1860s and 1870s, and the Hayden Surveys.
Outstanding single views include the party of Zuni group led to the sea by Frank Hamilton Cushing; Episcopal Church Rectory and School Building, Yankton Agency; Matilda Coxe Stevenson and a companion taking a photographs of a Zuni ceremony; John Moran sketching at Acoma; Ben H. Gurnsey's studio with Indian patrons; Quapaw Mission; baptism of a group of Paiutes at Coeur d'Alene Mission; court-martial commission involved in the trial of Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, 1877; President Harding at Sitka, Alaska; Walter Hough at Hopi in 1902; and Mrs. Jesse Walter Fewkes at Hopi in 1897.
Biographical/Historical note:
George V. Allen was an attorney in Lawrence, Kansas and an early member of the National Stereoscope Association. Between the 1950s and 1980s, Allen made an extensive collection of photographs of the American West, mostly in stereographs, but also including cartes-de-visite and other styles of mounted prints, photogravures, lantern slides, autochromes, and glass negatives.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 20957 of an unidentified series. The number 14 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The item is identical to number 952 of Photo Lot 90-1. Numbers 1270 and 1291 of Photo Lot 90-1 are colorized versions of this image.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09871400
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Studio portrait of six men. The item is number 78 in the series Scenery on the Northern Pacific Rail Road.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09883300
Other Title:
Scenery on the Northern Pacific Rail Road
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A woman is standing in the entrance to the tipi. The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Gems of Lake Superior Scenery.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09883500
Other Title:
Gems of Lake Superior Scenery
"Indian wigwam, Sault River"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
An elderly woman, a girl and a boy sit in the foreground. In the background adults and children sit in front of the entrance to a log building. The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Gems of Lake Superior Scenery.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09883700
Other Title:
Gems of Lake Superior Scenery
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is unnumbered but is part of the series The Picturesque of Lake Superior. Mrs. Lo, in European dress, is seated outside a wigwam holding her child who is in a cradleboard. The item is identical to number 265 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09883600
Other Title:
The Picturesque of Lake Superior
"A juvenile Lo"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Gems of Lake Superior Scenery. The man is holding some unidentified objects.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09883800
Other Title:
Gems of Lake Superior Scenery
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Gems of Lake Superior Scenery.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09886600
OPPS NEG.90-17241
Other Title:
Gems of Lake Superior Scenery
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The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Gems of Lake Superior Scenery.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09886700
Other Title:
Gems of Lake Superior Scenery
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 20958 of an unidentified series. The number I25 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The man is posed preparing to fire an arrow from his bow. The item is identical to numbers 673 and 1313 of Photo Lot 90-1. The same tents and trees appear to be in numbers 1271 and 1292 of Photo Lot 90-1. These are actually two different photographs taken seconds apart.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09888000
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The item is number 20958 of an unidentified series. The number I25 is stamped on the front of the photograph. The man is posed preparing to fire an arrow from his bow. The item is identical to numbers 672 and 1313 of Photo Lot 90-1. The same tents and trees appear to be in numbers 1271 and 1292 of Photo Lot 90-1. These are actually two different photographs taken seconds apart.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09888100
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
In the foreground is a canoe, a wigwam is in the background. The item is number 736 of the series Scenery and Groups. The item is identical to number 1022 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09892800
Other Title:
Scenery and Groups
Stereoscopic Gems
"Chippewa Indians"
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Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
