Portrait of William F. Stiles, Senior Curator, Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation, near the end of his trip with members of the Innu community of Pakuashipu [Saint-Augustin] along the Saint-Augustin river in Québec, Canada.
Collection Restrictions:
Access is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Restricted: Cultural Sensitivity
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William F. Stiles collection of photographs and films, NMAI.AC.001.014, item #; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadbast materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiarchives@si.edu.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Collection Title, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
The majority of the images are individual and group portraits of Southwestern tribes, photographed between 1900-1902, including Laguna Pueblo, Hopi Pueblo, Zuni Pueblo, Taos Pueblo, San Juan Pueblo, White Mountain Apache, Ute, San Carlos Apache, and Navajo Indians.
Scope and Contents:
The Orchard collection consists overwhelmingly of informal single and group portraits made by Orchard in 1900 and 1902 of Diné (Navajo), Hopi Pueblo, Laguna Pueblo, A:shiwi (Zuni), and White Mountain Apache men and women. Among these are photographs of Native children standing before agency schools. In addition, there are informal single and group portraits of Jemez Pueblo, Isleta Pueblo, Ute, Uintah, San Carlos Apache, and Ohkey Owingeh (San Juan Pueblo) men and women; photographs of Walpi, Zuni, Toas, and Acoma villages; and a few landscape views made in the Rio Grande and Little Colorado River canyons. There are a few portraits of Mohawk men and Sac and Fox women. A few photographs date from 1926 and are of Seminole women performing household duties. There are also a few excavations photographs, including those taken of an 1918 excavation along Spuyten Duyvil Creek in New York. Orchard made the later photographs on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Some of the negatives are glass plate negatives and others are copy negatives made of the photographs.
Arrangement:
Prints Arranged by print number (P01319, P01678-P01679, P02767-P03191, P03217-P03319, P03217-P03319, P04165, P08369-P08373, P12703-P12706, P28311)
Lantern slides Arranged by image number (L00353-L00354, L00356-L00363, L00367-L00369, L00371-L00376, L00379-L00384, L00386, L00388, L00390-L00392, L00397, L00401-L00402, L00404-L00406, L00408-L00409)
Negatives Arranged by negative number (N03368-N03373, N03762, N11617, N13457-N13460, N13481, N14935, N14939, N14941, N21574, N21600, N35151-N35158, N35162, N37725, N37879)
Biographical/Historical note:
Born in England in the early 1860s, William C. Orchard moved to the United States around 1885. Before working privately for George G. Heye, he briefly held a position at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. After the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation was established in 1916, Orchard became a museum preparator. In this position, he used his considerable artistic gifts to repair and restore specimens and to create models and dioramas for the Museum's exhibits. Orchard also published several books on porcupine-quill and beading techniques. He died in 1948.
Restrictions:
Access is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment.
Rights:
Copyright: National Museum of the American Indian
Genre/Form:
Photographic prints
Lantern slides
Photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Citation:
William C. Orchard collection of photographs, lantern slides and negatives, circa 1899-1937, National Museum of the American Indian Archives, Smithsonian Institution (negative, slide or catalog number).
This collection includes audio and video recordings produced by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation for museum events between 1960 and 1989. This includes materials such as recordings from exhibitions, staff meetings, public programs, and interviews with former MAI directors, Frederick Dockstader and Roland Force.
Scope and Contents:
Series 1: Exhibits Materials, 1972-1983, includes audio and video materials, such as exhibit soundtracks and slide shows, created by and for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation for their exhibitions between 1972 and 1983. The following exhibits are represented in this series; "Sounds That Beautify the Land," "Ancestors," "Echoes of the Drums," "Arctic Art," "Star Gods of the Americas," and "With Eagle Glance."
Series 2: Museum Programs and Events, 1962-1988, includes non-exhibition related video and audio materials created by and for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation between 1962 and 1988. This includes ¼ inch open reel sound tapes, sound cassettes, and videotapes (U-m documenting—staff meetings, docent tours and docent training sessions, lectures, and radio interviews. The recordings feature staff members such as E. K. Burnett, Frederick Dockstader, Vincent Wilcox, William Stiles, Robert Venables, Roland Force, Suzanne Aurelio, and Susan Martin, among others.
Arrangement:
Arranged in two series by event type and then chronologically. Series 1: Exhibits Materials, 1972-1983 and Series 2: Museum Programs and Events, 1962-1988.
Biographical / Historical:
The Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation was established by wealthy collector George Gustav Heye in 1916. Heye began collecting Native American and Indigenous artifacts as early as 1897 and his collection rapidly increased over the next several years. Based in New York, Heye bought collections and documentary photographs, sponsored expeditions, and traveled and collected items himself. In addition, once MAI was established, he sponsored numerous expeditions across the Western Hemisphere, including North American, Canada, South America and Central America. From 1908 to 1917 Heye housed his artifacts on temporary loan at the University of Pennsylvania's University Museum, Pennsylvania, in lofts on East 33rd Street in New York City, and at other depositories. In 1917, the collections moved from his apartment to their permanent museum location at Audubon Terrace, at 155th Street and Broadway in New York City. The museum, containing ethnographic and archaeological collections from North, Central and South America, opened to the public in 1922. Less than ten years later, Heye completed a storage facility in the Pelham Bay area of the Bronx, known as the Research Branch. Heye served as Chairman of the Board and Museum Director until his death in 1957. After growing concern about the financial and other management of the collections came to a head, the museum became part of the Smithsonian Institution in 1989 and in 1994 opened exhibit space in the U.S. Customs House at Bowling Green near New York City's Battery Park. The Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Maryland later opened in 1999 and the main Washington, DC museum opened in 2004. Please visit the following links for more information about the history of the museum; History of the Collection, Collections Overview, and Significance of the Collection. Moreover, for information about how the museum currently cares for and exhibits the collection, please see the Conservation department and recent entries regarding Exhibitions and Conservation on the NMAI Blog. In addition, see portions of the NMAI Archive Center's collections highlighted in the SIRIS Blog.
Related Materials:
Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation records (NMAI.AC.001)
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation photograph collection (NMAI.AC.001.002)
Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
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.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
18 Sound tape reels (1/4 inch)
4 Sound cassettes
13 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Type:
Archival materials
Sound tape reels
Sound cassettes
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1972-1983
Scope and Contents:
This series includes audio and video materials, such as exhibit soundtracks and slide shows, created by and for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation for their exhibitions between 1972 and 1983. The following exhibits are represented in this series; "Sounds That Beautify the Land," "Ancestors," "Echoes of the Drums," "Arctic Art," "Star Gods of the Americas," and "With Eagle Glance."
Related Materials:
See Series 10.1: MAI Exhibits, in the Museum of the American Indian Heye Foundation records (NMAI.AC.001) for accompanying documentation.
See Series 3: Exhibits Photographs, in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation photograph collection (NMAI.AC.001.002) for accompanying photographs.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
10 Sound tape reels (1/4 inch)
26 Sound cassettes
1 Videocassettes (U-matic)
5 Videocassettes (VHS)
1 Videoreels (2 inch)
Type:
Archival materials
Sound tape reels
Sound cassettes
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Videocassettes (vhs)
Date:
1962-1988
Scope and Contents:
This series includes non-exhibition related video and audio materials created by and for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation between 1962 and 1988. This includes ¼ inch open reel sound tapes, sound cassettes, and videotapes (U-m documenting—staff meetings, docent tours and docent training sessions, lectures, and radio interviews. The recordings feature staff members such as E. K. Burnett, Frederick Dockstader, Vincent Wilcox, William Stiles, Robert Venables, Roland Force, Suzanne Aurelio, and Susan Martin, among others.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Sound tape reel (1/4 inch)
Container:
Box 1, Item 001
Type:
Archival materials
Audio
Sound tape reels
Date:
1972
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
6 Sound tape reels (1/4 inch)
Container:
Box 1, Item 002-007
Type:
Archival materials
Audio
Sound tape reels
Date:
1978
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
2 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Container:
Box 4, Item 063-064
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1979 August 15
1979 December 6
Scope and Contents:
Includes interview with Dr. Anna Roosevelt.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Container:
Box 4, Item 065
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1978-1979
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Container:
Box 4, Item 062
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1981 December 6
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Container:
Box 4, Item 067
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1982 Feb 4
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
"The Ancestors" and "Echoes of the Drums," Rusty Russell recording
Collection Creator:
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Extent:
2 Sound cassettes
Container:
Box 2, Item 031-031
Type:
Archival materials
Audio
Sound cassettes
Date:
undated
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
4 Sound tape reels
Container:
Box 1, Item 008-011
Type:
Archival materials
Audio
Sound tape reels
Date:
1978 August 14
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
3 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Container:
Box 4, Item 068-070
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1978
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Container:
Box 4, Item 071
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1978
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Videocassettes (U-matic)
Container:
Box 4, Item 072
Type:
Archival materials
Moving Images
Videocassettes (u-matic)
Date:
1978
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
2 Sound tape reels
Container:
Box 1, Item 013-014
Type:
Archival materials
Audio
Sound tape reels
Date:
1980
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is closed until the materials have been digitized.
Collection 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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation audio and video collection, item #, NMAI.AC.001.003; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
