The collection includes materials from cultures in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, Colombia, Ecuador, and Guiana: Acoma Pueblo, Apache, Arapaho, Arikara, Assiniboine, Caddo, Cahuilla, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Chibcha, Chinantec, Chippewa (Ojibwa), Choco, Chol, Chontal, Cochiti Pueblo, Crow, Cuicatec, Eskimo, Flathead, Haida, Hopi, Huastec, Huave, Iowa, Iroquois, Isleta, Karaja, Kwakiutl, Laguna Pueblo, Macusi, Mandan, Maya, Mazahua, Mazatec, Mehinaku, Menomini, Mixe, Mixtec, Navajo, Nez Perce, Osage, Otomi, Ottawa, Pawnee, Pima, Ponca, Potawatomi, Salish, San Blas, San Felipe Pueblo, Sauk & Fox, Shuar, Sioux, Taos Pueblo, Tarasco, Teotihuacan, Tepehua, Tlaxcala, Tlingit, Tonkawa, Totonac, Triqui, Tzental, Tzotzil, Ute, Wampanoag, Zapotec, Zoque, Zuni.
Arrangement note:
Collection arranged by item number.
Biographical/Historical note:
Frederick Starr was born in Auburn, New York, on September 2, 1858. He received a Ph.D. in biology in 1884 at Coe College, where he was later appointed professor of biology. Starr did postgraduate work in anthropology at Yale. In 1889 he was appointed head of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, and in 1892 he was chosen by William Harper to organize the Anthropology Department at the new University of Chicago. Starr remained at the University until his retirement in 1923. Besides his field studies with various Indian tribes in the United States, Starr traveled to Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Guiana, Japan, the Philippines, and Africa. He died in Tokyo, Japan, on August 14, 1933. Starr was the author of several books and scholarly articles.
General note:
Starr hired professional photographers Charles B. Lang and Louis Grabic to accompany him on his field trips. One lantern slide of Moses Ladd (Menomini) was taken by William H. Jackson.
Provenance:
Dr. Frederick Starr, Purchased, circa 1929
Restrictions:
Access restricted. Researchers should contact the staff of the NMAI Archives for an appointment to access the collection.
This collection includes lantern slides documenting William Duncan Strong's 1932 archaeological excavations of Sahnish (Arikara) villages in North Dakota and South Dakota as well as Strong's 1936 excavations in Honduras and California. Used for lectures, this collection includes a number of images of maps, illustrations, and photographs from other institutions such as the Field Museum of Natural History.
Scope and Contents:
Series 1: Sahnish (Arikara) villages, 1932, includes 85 glass lantern slides which document William Duncan Strong's archaeological excavations of Sahnish (Arikara) villages in North Dakota and South Dakota, particularly at the Leavenworth and Huff sites. These include slides depicting the excavation itself, with both site images and images of William Strong and others at work. There are also slides which include illustrations of maps and site drawings, as well as images of objects such as pottery sherds and pots. It is unclear who the photographer was for these photographs, more research is required. Some of the photographs in this series have been restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
Series 2: Archaeological Expedition to northwestern Honduras, 1936, includes 141 glass lantern slides which were part of a donation to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation by the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University following Strong's death. These include photographs taken by William Strong in Honduras during excavations near Lago De Yojoa, Olancho, Naco, Tres Piedras, and in Copan. The expedition was conducted by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, and the Peabody Museum of Harvard University.
Series 3: California, and other locations, circa 1936, includes 67 lantern slides from California, New Mexico, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, and British Columbia. Communities in California include: Washoe (Washo), Cocopa, Hupa, Karuk (Karok), Mewuk (Miwok), Pomo, Desert Cahuilla, Wintu. Other communities represented in this series include: Nuxalk (Bellacoola), Moapa Paiute, Yakama (Yakima), Salish (Flathead), and A:shiwi (Zuni).
Lantern slides include catalog numbers L01382-L01468 and L01581-L01786.
Arrangement:
Arranged in three series. Series 1: Sahnish (Arikara) village excavations, 1932; Series 2: Archaeological Expedition to northwestern Honduras, 1936; and Series 3: California, and other locations, circa 1936. Arranged by catalog number within each series.
Biographical / Historical:
William Duncan Strong was born on January 30, 1899 in Portland, Oregon. He received his B.A. degree in 1923, and his Ph.D. in 1926 from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Strong's interest in anthropology developed under the influence of Dr. A.L. Kroeber, a student of Dr. Franz Boas. He worked at the Field Museum of Natural History at the University of Nebraska, and at the Bureau of American Ethnology before joining the faculty at Columbia in 1937.
Dr. Strong served as the Chair of the Department of Anthropology for many years, and he remained at Columbia until his death in 1962. Dr. Strong's anthropological career consisted of a variety of experiences. Between 1924 and 1925, Strong was assigned by Dr. Kroeber the job of classifying the Max Uhle Peruvian Collections. During the winter of 1927-28, he participated in the Rawson-McMillan Subarctic Expedition collecting valuable data on the Naskapi Indians of Labrador. His field research on the Great Plains was influential in changing the previous picture of native life on the Great Plains. His excavations in Honduras in 1933 and 1936-37 provided important data on the Maya civilization. It was in 1940, while at Columbia, when he began his field work in Peru which gained him his greatest recognition. He excavated on the central Peruvian Coast of Pachacamac in 1941-42, on the northern Peruvian Coast of the Viru Valley, and on the southern Peruvian Coast at the Nazca and Ica Valleys in 1952 and 1953.
Strong influenced American anthropology by his service in professional societies. He served as president of the American Ethnological Society, the Institute of Andean Research, and the Society for American Archaeology. He was the director of the Ethnogeographic Board (his journal from his tenure as director is in the papers) and chairman of the Committee on Basic Needs of American Archaeology. In this latter capacity, Strong was involved in establishing a program to salvage archaeological sites before they were destroyed by public works. Strong served as the anthropological consultant to the Bureau of Indian Affairs during Franklin Roosevelt's administration and advised on new directions to be taken in Indian Service policy.
See more:
https://archaeology.columbia.edu/william-duncan-strong/
Related Materials:
William Duncan Strong papers, 1902-1965 (NAA.1974-28)
https://sova.si.edu/record/naa.1974-28
Provenance:
The lantern slides from Series 2: Honduras, and Series 3: California, and other locations, were a gift from the Department of Anthropology, Columbia University in 1962 (L01581 - L01786). The provenance of the remaining lantern slides (L01382 – L01468) in Series 1: Sahnish (Arikara) village excavations, is still unclear, though they were likely cataloged by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation prior to the 1962 gift, based on the catalog numbers.
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).
A number of photographs in this collection are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
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.
Genre/Form:
Lantern slides
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); William Duncan Strong lantern slides, image #, NMAI.AC.388; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Series 3: California, and other locations, circa 1936, includes 67 lantern slides from California, New Mexico, Washington, Wyoming, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, and British Columbia. Communities in California include: Washoe (Washo), Cocopa, Hupa, Karuk (Karok), Mewuk (Miwok), Pomo, Desert Cahuilla, Wintu. Other communities represented in this series include: Nuxalk (Bellacoola), Moapa Paiute, Yakama (Yakima), Salish (Flathead), and A:shiwi (Zuni).
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).
A number of photographs in this collection are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.
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); William Duncan Strong lantern slides, image #, NMAI.AC.388; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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