Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation Search this
Collection Director:
Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957 Search this
Container:
Box 95, Folder 1
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
1983
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:
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish or broadcast materials from the collection must be requested from the 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); Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation Records, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
The man cradles a club and has hand prints painted on his chest.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09864100
OPPS NEG.91-15705
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Bushnell, SMC, volume 87, number 3, 1932, page 8, states that the Dakota Indians sketched and painted by Eastman at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 1841-1848, were Mdewakanton.
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.3705
Local Note:
Eastman made a pencil sketch and oil painting of this subject while at Fort Snelling (McDermott, page 60; oil painting has never been located). Eastman made a water color (completed by 1851) based on the sketch; this water color was made for the engraving in Schoolcraft's Indian Tribes of the United States (volume 2, plate 28).
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
"I do not apologize for the length of this letter" : the Mari Sandoz letters on Native American rights, 1940-1965 / introduced and edited by Kimberli A. Lee ; foreword by John R. Wunder
American Indian Community House (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Extent:
4 Photographic prints
30 Slides (photographs)
Container:
Photo-folder 4
Box 5, Sheet 1
Box 5, Sheet 2
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Slides
Photographic prints
Slides (photographs)
Date:
2000 April
Scope and Contents:
Pictured: Gallery assistants Lemuel Hill and Hortensia Colorado.
Collection 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).
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.
The NMAI does not own the copyright to any of the images of artwork in Series 3: Photographs of Native Artwork. Permission will need to be aquired from the artist/artist's estate.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); American Indian Community House Gallery records, NMAI.AC.423; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
American Indian Community House (New York, N.Y.) Search this
Container:
Box 1, Folder 21
Type:
Archival materials
Date:
2000 April
Scope and Contents:
Artists: Walter Bigbee, Ken Blackbird, Anthony Two-Moons
Collection 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).
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.
The NMAI does not own the copyright to any of the images of artwork in Series 3: Photographs of Native Artwork. Permission will need to be aquired from the artist/artist's estate.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); American Indian Community House Gallery records, NMAI.AC.423; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Indians of North America -- Great Plains Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Date:
1854?
Scope and Contents:
Frances Densmore gives the following descriptive data on the practices of Indian medicine men: (pages 39-40) Doctor in the picture sings as he shakes a gourd rattle with his left hand and stirs medicine with the right. The skin of a large bird and large bag woven of bark or roots lies on the ground beside him. (Bag may be used for storing dried herbs). A pointed bag, such as the type used by the Dakotas in the old days to contain packets of herb medicine, hangs on the post at the left.
Biographical / Historical:
1854 is the date picture sent to be published (McDermott, page 87).
Local Numbers:
OPPS NEG.48185
Local Note:
The mat covered dwelling suggests a Chippewa structure -- Information from Frances Densmore, "The Collection of Water Color Drawings of the North American Indian by Seth Eastman in the James Jerome Hill Reference Library," 1954, page 40.
The boys are lined up on the upper and lower porches of a building. They are dressed in European style clothes. The boys are from sixteen different tribes. The boys on the lower porch and on the ground are the boys in number 865 of Photo Lot 90-1. The date is April 20, 1880.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09908400
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Carlisle Barracks -- American Indian, Plains -- Dakota Search this
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
American Indian -- Plains -- Wyoming Peace Commission Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Stereographs
Scope and Contents:
The item is number 48 of an unidentified series.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09824500
Place:
Wyoming -- Fort Laramie
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Wyoming Peace Commission -- American Indian Search this
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
American Indian -- Plains -- Carlisle Barracks Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Scope and Contents:
The girls are lined up in front of a building. They are dressed in European style clothes. Several white men and women are sitting in a gazebo. The girls are from ten different tribes. The date is April 20, 1880.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09908300
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Topic:
Carlisle Barracks -- American Indian, Plains Search this
Collection Citation:
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
