8 Prints (halftone (including one newspaper clipping))
124 Prints (circa, silver gelatin, albumen, and platinum)
50 Copy prints (circa)
3 copper printing plates
1 Color print
1 Print (wood engraving)
3 Copy negatives (glass)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Copy prints
Color prints
Copy negatives
Photographs
Date:
circa 1860s-1970
Scope and Contents note:
This collection is an artificial collection of photographs, copper plates, and a few notes, all of which depict or relate to anthropologists, many of which were associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Included are portraits of Franz Boas, Q. M. Bond, Arno B. Cammerer, Frank Hamilton Cushing, Edwin Hamilton Davis, J. Woodbridge Davis, Frances Densmore, James Owen Dorsey, Philip Drucker, Jesse Walter Fewkes (including photographs of his home by Frances Densmore), Albert Samuel Gatschet, James A. Geary, De Lancey W. Gill, George Brown Goode, Horatio Hale, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, John Napoleon Brinton Hewitt, John K. Hillers, William Henry Holmes, William Henry Jackson, Eugene Irving Knez, Alfred Louis Kroeber, Pere Albert Lacomb, Augustus Le Plongeon, James Mooney, Lewis Henry Morgan, Carl Oschsicanes, James Constantine Pilling, John Wesley Powell, Frau Signe Rink, Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., Charles C. Royce, Robert Lloyd Stephenson, James Stevenson, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, Julian Haynes Steward, Steward Struever, James Gilchrist Swan, John Reed Swanton, Edwin P. Upham, Wilcomb E. Washburn, and Gordon Randolph Willey. Groups depicted include the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1936; the De Soto Commission; officers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1885; a 1920 expedition group to Hawikuk; staff of the Great Lakes Division, United States Geological Survey, in Salt Lake City, 1882; a group at Moundville, Alabama, 1932; the University of Nebraska archeological field party, 1920; the Pecos conference, 1927; John Wesley Powell with Wild Hank, Kentucky Mountain Bill, and Jesus Aloiso; and the United States Geological Survey staff, ca. 1894.
Among photographers represented are Vernon Orlando Bailey, Blackston Studios of New York, Dana of New York, Frances Densmore, Gene Garrett, C. W. Gilbert, De Lancey W. Gill, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson, Kets Kemethy, Paul Koby, David McDonough, H. C. Phillips, Rice of Washington, D. C., and J. A. Shuck of El Reno, Oklahoma.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 33
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Four photographs with negatives by Matilda Coxe Stevenson have been relocated to Photo Lot 23.
This collection includes photographs that have been removed from other collections in the National Anthropological Archives, including MS 4970, MS 4851, MS 4780, MS 4250, MS 4751, MS 4516, MS 4860, MS 4695, MS 4970, and MS 4558.
See others in:
Portraits of anthropologists, 1860s-1960s
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Copy prints of original photographs held by the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, and National Archives cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Photograph of pencil sketch by Grace Hudson depicting Henry Wetherbee Henshaw
Depicted:
Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930 Search this
Extent:
1 Photographic print (003 in x 005 in)
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Date:
1969
Scope and Contents:
The original sketch was made October-November 1892 in Ukiah, California.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.02858700
OPPS NEG.79-6858
Local Note:
Black and white photoprint
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Collection Rights:
Copy prints of original photographs held by the American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, and National Archives cannot be copied. Copies may be obtained from these repositories.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Collection Citation:
Photo lot 33, Portraits of anthropologists, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Pages
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Handwritten in ink. The 1884 portion is apparently a neat copy from the Obispeno portion of Number 296, with the addition of a note identifying the informant. To this has been added in a different shade of ink material obtained from the same informant in 1888.
Biographical / Historical:
From Alikano, a full-blood Indian living on Mr. Jasper's ranch near San Luis Obispo. October 19-28, 1884; and 1888.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 868
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 868, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Letter in Spanish to H.W. Henshaw, San Buenaventura, California, April 21, 1891, written in parallel columns in the San Buenaventura (Ventureno Chumash) language and in Spanish. Typed English Translation, 19 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3718
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 3718, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
List compiled by Mooney. Includes letter from Dorsey to H.W. Henshaw, giving comparative information from other Siouan languages. October 14, 1890. Typescript and autograph letter signed. 2 pages. Also note from Gatschet to Mooney giving some Biloxi, Catawba and Tutelo comparisons. No date. Autograph letter. 1 page.
The collection largely consists of late 19th century studio portraits of Native American delegates to Washington DC made by professional photographers including Antonio Zeno Shindler, William Dinwiddie, Henry W. Henshaw, John K. Hillers, De Lancey Gill, and Alexander Gardner.
Biographical/Historical note:
Many of the photographers represented in the collection were associated with or did work for the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 141A
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Original negatives for many of the photographs in this collection are held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives and Photo Lot 31.
Delegation portraits by these photographers are held in numerous collections within the National Anthropological Archives, including photo lot 60, photo lot 59, photo lot 24.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 141A, Portraits of Native American delegates to Washington DC, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Winnebago vocabulary, text, grammatical and ethnological notes. Winnebago Agency, Nebraska, 1889 and Washington, D.C. 1890-1891. Autograph document signed. 108 pages and Typescript letter signed from J. Owen Dorsey to Gatschet, Washington, D.C., November 24, 1891, 3 pages and autograph letter signed from Dorsey to H. W. Henshaw, Washington, D.C., January 13, 1892, 1 page.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 1989-a
Local Note:
Recorded in bound notebook with letters tipped in. Informants: 1889, David St Cyr; 1890-1891, John Michel St Cyr. Letter from Dorsey to Gatschet advises about phonetics, and letter from Dorsey to Henshaw advises that this manuscript should be obtained by the Bureau. Manuscript includes corrections and annotations in red ink by Dorsey.
autograph document signed
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Manuscript 1989-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
Digitization and preparation of these materials for online access has been funded by the National Science Foundation under BCS Grant No. 1561167 and the Recovering Voices initiative at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Photographs depicting Native American baskets and portraits of Native Americans with whom C. Hart Merriam worked, as well as scenic views and images of animals and plants, mostly in California. Many of the photographs were made by Merriam himself or his daughter Zenaida Merriam Talbot. In addition, Merriam collected photographs from other researchers and photographers, including J. S. Diller, John Peabody Harrington, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, and O. E. Meddaugh. There are also images acquired from the Boysen Studio of Yosemite and photographs of Mark Twain, John Muir, basketmaker Maggie James, and Merriam's family.
Biographical/Historical note:
Clinton Hart Merriam (1855-1942) was a Columbia University-educated physician who worked as a naturalist, including as head of the Biological Survey for the US Department of Agriculture. He joined the Harriman Alaska Expedition as a zoologist in 1899. In 1910, he left the USDA and began to conduct research among California tribes. Financed by Mary W. Harriman and the E. H. Harriman Fund administered by the Smithsonian, he researched tribes' vocabularies, history, mythology, crafts (particularly basketmaking) until about 1936. His resarch was assisted by his daughter, Zenaida, who took photographs and painted glass slides for him. Merriam served as President of the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1920-1921.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 74-27
General note:
Additional information supplied by Marvin Shodas.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Merriam's notes held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 1563 and in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA Acc. 12-264.
Additional photographs by Merriam held in the National Museum of American Indian Archives in the Mary Harriman Rumsey Photograph Collection and the Harriman Alaska Expedition Photograph Collection.
Correspondence from Merriam held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4558, the Department of Anthropology records (Manuscript and Pamphlet file), Bureau of American Ethnology records, J.C. Pilling Papers, Ales Hrdlicka Papers, and Jesse Logan Nusbaum Papers.
The Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley holds the C. Hart Merriam Papers, C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs (prints corresponding to negatives in this collection), and C. Hart Merriam pictorial collection.
Indians of North America -- California Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Date:
November 18, 1884
Scope and Contents:
In ink, in Powell's Schedule in Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. Apparently a neat copy of 291-a, with additional note on the title page about the informant, Juan Estevan Pico. With this is a typed copy of 3075, 104 pages. (not on film reel.) Filed with 291-a.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3075
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 3075, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
MS 293-a: In pencil, in Powell's Schedule in Introduction to the Study of Indian Languages. See also Number 3075, apparently a neat copy of this, filed with it.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 293-a
Topic:
Language and languages -- Documentation Search this
Citation:
Manuscript 293-a, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
