Photographs and drawings mostly relating to archeological subjects, collected and arranged by Jesse Walter Fewkes for his reference. Subjects include burial mounds, excavations, drawn maps, as well as urns, implements, idols, pottery, and other artifacts found in excavations, and Hopi, Zuni, and Piegan ceremonies and dances. Many of the photographs and drawings were probably made by Fewkes. Publication information is noted on some. The collection also includes newspaper clippings and correspondence.
Photographs were taken in Alabama, Arizona (including Casa Grande, Elden Pueblo, Navajo National Monument, and Wupatki National Monument), Colorado (including Mesa Verde and Montezuma Valley), Florida (including Weeden Island), Illinois (Cahokia Mound), Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico (including La Huasteca Region), Mississippi Valley, New Mexico (including Chaco Canyon, Hawikuh, and Mimbres Valley), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah (including Hill Canyon, McElmo Canyon, and McLean Basin Ruins), Hovenweep National Monument, the West Indies (including Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Cuba), and West Virginia.
Biographical/Historical note:
Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) was a naturalist, anthropologist, and archeologist, and chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to his death in 1928. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and acted as curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology until 1887. While on a collecting trip in the western United States, he developed an interest in the culture and history of the Pueblo Indians. In 1891, Fewkes became director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition and editor of the Journal of American Archeology and Ethnology, studying and recording Hopi ceremonials. In 1895, he embarked on various archeological explorations for the Bureau of American Ethnology, excavating ruins in the Southwest, the West Indies, and Florida. He was appointed chief of the Bureau in 1918, and played an important role in the creation of Hovenweep National Monument in Colorado and Wupatki National Monument in Arizona.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 4321
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Jesse Walter Fewkes Papers (MS 4408), his photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde (Photo Lot 30), his negatives (Photo Lot 86), and other manuscript collections by and related to Fewkes' ethnological research and archeology and his work with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Correspondence from Fewkes held in the National Anthropological Archives in the George L. Beam papers (MS 4517), the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers, the Anthropological Society of Washington records (MS 4821), the Herbert William Krieger papers, the J.C. Pilling papers, the Walter Hough Papers (in the records of the Department of Anthropology), and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
The anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History hold artifacts collected by Fewkes, including USNM ACC 048761 (relating to Casa Grande excavations) and USNM ACC 050765 (relating to Mesa Verde excavations).
Restrictions:
Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing.
Photo Lot 4321, Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
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Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Date:
1912, 1913
Scope and Contents:
Indians from the Reservation at Ignacio, Colorado, making camp in the Garden of ther Gods, Colorado Springs, Colorado, to which place a group of about 70, under the leadership of Buckskin Charlie ("War Chief" of the Utes) had come by train to be the feature of the annual "Shan Kive" (good time) of the Pike's Peak region, summer, 1913. H. S. Poley, photographer. Numbers 4251: Numbers 1a-10a: Mrs Buckskin Charlie erecting her tipi. 1a "Buckskin Charlie's squaw preparing to erct her tipi." 46,786-C. 2a "Ready to raise the poles. She used 5 but Charlie's tent is very large." 46,786-D. 3a "Opening out the poles." 46,786-E. 4a "Raising the canvas." 46,786-F. 5a "Straightening the canvas." 46,786-G. 6a "Opening out the canvas over the poles." 46,786-H. 7a "Adjusting canvas at entrance." 46,786-J. 8a "Placing end of pole in socket of ventilating flap." 46,786-K. 9a "Stretching canvas and pegging down the edge of tipi." 46,786-L. 10a "Buckskin Charlie and squaw viewing the camp." Numbers 1b-12b. Erection of the tipi of John Robinson. 1b "Selecting site for tipi." 2b "Selecting first four poles to be tied together." 3b "Opening out the first four poles." 4b "Showing the two poles at entrance." 5b "Adjusting canvas and fastening it to pole." 6b "Canvas on pole in position. Placing the other poles." 7b "Completed tipi." 8b "Neighborly calls." 9b "Her home was ready in less than an hour." 10b "Ute camp--carrying water." 11b "John Robinson--Ute." 12b "Ute camp."
C-Series: Utes of same Band. Photos taken 1 year earlier (1912), in their camp in Monument Valley Park, Colorado Springs, Colorado. C-1 "Luke Snow (Police)." Two men standing, woman seated, outside tipi. C-2 Same. C-3 "Mrs Luke Snow." Woman with cradle on back. C-4 Same, with cradle; another woman with small girl. C-5 Same. C-6 Man, two women, outside tipi. C-7 Woman at tipi entrance. Not clear.
Indians of North America -- Great Basin Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Date:
ca. 1912-1913
Scope and Contents:
Catalog Number 4570: (1) Tribe: Ute Description: "Ute Winter house Navaho Springs, Colorado. Poley #51. Photographer: H. S. Poley Colorado Springs, Colorado Date: Transmitted ? 12-31-13 S. I. Negative Number 45,925-D. (2) Ute "Ute Indians in camp. From the agency near Ignacio, Colo." or "Southern Ute" (2 copies). H. S. Poley Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13 S. I. Negative Number 45,925-A. (3) Ute "Ute Camp- south western Colo." (2 copies) H. S. Poley Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13. S. I. Negative Number 45,925-B. (4) Ute "Utes in Camp" H. S. Poley Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13. (5) "Chipeta, and other Ute women." H. S. Poley, Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13 S. I. Negative Number 45,925-E. (6) Ute "Teaching the Trail. Chief Buckskin Charlie of the Utes quizzing his warriors for the signs of a trail." H. S. Poley, Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13 See S. I. Negative Number 45,925-C. (7) Ute "Ute--Chief Buckskin Charlie" (and group outside tipis). H. S. Poley, Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13 See S. I. Negative Number 45,925. (8) Ute "Aug. 12. Buckskin Charlie and Ute Indians officially verified the marking of Ute Trail above Manitou, Colorado.- as marked by the Pioneer Ass'n of El Paso Co. Colo." or "Chief Buckskin Charlie of the Southern Utes preceded by a committee of the El Paso Co. Pioneer Assn. rode the trail and verified the stone markers erected by the Assn. Aug. 2- 1912. Manitou end of trail at Soda Spring." (2 copies). H. S. Poley, Colorado Springs, Colorado August 1912, Transmitted ? 12-31-13. (9) Ute "Ute Camp-- an Early Morning Call." Two women outside tipi. (2 copies). H. S. Poley, Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13. (10) Ute "Ute-- Dick Charlie and family." H. S. Poley, Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted: ? 12-31-13 See S I. Negative Number 45,925-F. (11) Ute "Interior Ute Tepee. Dick Charlie." (and family.) H. S. Poley. Colorado Springs, Colorado Transmitted ? 12-31-13.
Photographs made by H. S. Poley in the American Southwest. There are depictions of archeological sites in New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado, as well as images of Tewa people at San Juan Pueblo and Cochiti people at Cochiti. Descriptions of the photographs are also available with the collection.
Biographical/Historical note:
Horace Swartley Poley was a professional photographer based in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 87-2J, NAA Photo Lot 87-2I
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photo Lot 87-2I has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 87-2J. These photographs were incorrectly identified as having been made by H. L. Standley. These photographs were made by H. S. Poley and form part of this collection.
Additional Poley photographs held in National Anthropological Archives MS 4251, MS 4570, and Photo Lot 24.
Correspondence from Poley held in the National Anthropological Archives in the Bureau of American Ethnology records.
Contained in:
Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collections, undated
