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Producer:

Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna, 1901-1959  Search this

Recorder:

Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna, 1901-1959  Search this

Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-1986  Search this

Collection Creator:

Asch, Moses  Search this

Distler, Marian, 1919-1964  Search this

Folkways Records  Search this

Extent:

1 Sound cassette (analog.)

Culture:

Mazatec Indians  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Sound cassettes

Place:

Mexico

Local Numbers:

FW-ASCH-CT-0023

FLP.52597

Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):

Llewellyn/Folkways

Restrictions:

Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.

Collection Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.

Topic:

Mazatec Indians -- Rites and ceremonies  Search this

Indians of Central America  Search this

Mushrooms, Hallucinogenic  Search this

Collection Citation:

Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-CT-0023

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Moses and Frances Asch Collection

Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CT

Archival Repository:

Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5425cb055-ef48-4672-980b-75805080fd50

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-cfch-asch-ref24589

Creator:

Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961  Search this

Names:

Geronimo, 1829-1909  Search this

Extent:

683 Linear feet

Culture:

Indians of Central America  Search this

Indians of North America  Search this

Indians of South America  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Maps

Stats (copies)

Newspaper clippings

Printed material

Photographs

Botanical specimens

Field notes

Correspondence

Financial records

Personal records

Poetry

Writings

Date:

1907-1959 (some earlier)

Summary:

Harrington was a Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist involved in the study of over one hundred American tribes. His speciality was linguistics. Most of the material concerns California, southwestern, northwestern tribes and includes ethnological, archeological, historical notes; writings, correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, biological specimens, and other types of documents. Also of concern are general linguistics, sign language, writing systems, writing machines, and sound recordings machines. There is also some material on New World Spanish, Old World languages. In addition, there are many manuscripts of writings that Harrington sketched, partially completed, or even completed but never published. The latter group includes not only writings about anthropological subjects but also histories, ranging from a biography of Geronimo to material on the history of the typewriter. The collection incorporates material of Richard Lynch Garner, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and others. In his field work, Harrington seems sometimes to have worked within fairly firm formats, this especially being true when he was "rehearing" material, that is in using an informant to verify and correct the work of other researchers. Often, however, the interviews with informants (and this seems to have been the case even with some "rehearings") seem to have been rather free form, for there is a considerable intertwining of subjects. Nevertheless, certain themes frequently appear in his work, including annotated vocabularies concerning flora and fauna and their use, topography, history and biography, kinship, cosmology (including tribal astronomy), religion and philosophy, names and observations concerning neighboring tribes, sex and age division, material culture, legends, and songs. The fullness of such materials seems to have been limited only by the time Harrington had to spend with a goup and the knowledge of his informants.

Arrangement:

(Some of the titles are tentative). Papers relating to Alaska/Northwest Coast, including (1) Aleut; (2) Tlingit/Eyak; (3) Northern Athapascan (Beaver, Carrier, Chipewyan, Sarsi, Sekani, Cree); (4) Nicola/Thompson; (5) Lummi/Nespelem; (6) Duwamish; (7) Chimakum/Clallam; (8) Makah/Quileute; (9) Quinault/Chehalis/Cowlit; (10) Chinook/Chinook Jargon; (11) "Kwalhioqua-Tlatskanai"; (12) Tillamook, (13) Alsea/Siuslaw/Coos; (14) Southwest Oregon Athapascan (Chasta Costa, Chetco, Upper Coquille, "Gold Beach", Smith River, Tolowa, Tutini, Upper Umpqua), (14) Galice/Applegate; (15) Takelma, general and miscellaneous; (16) Klamath; (17) Wiyot/Yurok/Mattole; (18) Coast Yuki/Northern and Central Pomo/Kato; (19) Coast Miwok; (20) Lake and Coast Miwok/Southeastern Pomo/Wappo; (21) Nisenan/Northern Sierra Miwok; (22) Southern Pomo/Central Sierra Miwok; (23) Karok/Shasta/Konomihu; (24) Chimariko/Hupo; (25) Achomawi/Atsugewi/Wintu/Yana; (26) Chamariko/Achomawi/Atsugewi/Wintu/Yana; (27) Costanoan (Chocheno, Mutsun, Tumsen); (28) Salinan (Antoinano, Migueleno); (29) Yokuts (Chunut, Tachi, Wikchamni, Yawdanchi, Yawelmani, Koyeti); (30) general and miscellaneous; papers relating to southern California and the Basin area,

including (31) Chumash (Barbareno, Cruzeno, Ineseno, Obispeno, Purisimeno, Ventureno); (32) Chauilla; (33) Chemehuevi; (34) Gabrielino; (35) Juaneno; (36) Kitanemuk; (37) Luiseno; (38) Serrano; (39) Tubatulabal; (40) Diegueno; (41) Mohave/Yuma; (42) general and miscellaneous; papers relating to the Southwest, including (43) Apache; (44) Hopi; (45) Jemez; (46) Acoma/Laguna; (47) Cochiti; (48) Navaho; (49) Pima/Papago; (50) Illeta; (51) Taos; (52) Picuris; (53) Tewa; (54) Zuni; (55) general and miscellaneous; papers relating to the Plains, including (56) Comanche; (57) Caddo/Pawnee/Wichita; (58) Dakota/Lakota; (59) Hidatso/Mandan/Crow;

(92) general and miscellaneous; notes and writings on special linguistic studies, including (93) correspondence; (94) financial records; (95) personal records; (96) poetry; (97) newspaper clippings; (98) printed material/reprints/photostats/microfilm; (99) maps; (100) photographs (101) sound recordings; (102) botanical specimens

Joseph S. Danner, Edward S. Davis, Ella C. Deloria, Frances Densmore, Paul Desiardins, Lydia Dornherr, Harry W. Dorsey, Frederick Huntington Douglas, David C. Dozi, Edward P. Dozi, Robert Drak Aitken), Rose S. Gaffney, David E. Gales, S. H. Gapp, Clark M. Garber, Lucrlson Fenton, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Reginald G. Fisher, Barbara Freire-Marreco (see also Barbara Aitken), Rose S. Gaffney, David E. Gales, S. H. Gapp, Clark M. Garber, Lucretia Garcia, Maria Garcia, Paul Garcia, Walter C. Garwick, William Gates, Ja Gapp, Clark M. Garber, Lucretia Garcia, Maria Garcia, Paul Garcia, Walter C. Garwick, William Gates, James A Geary, Otto William Geist,

Richard H. Geoghegan, Harold S. Gladwin, Pliny Earle Goddard, T. R. Goodwin, Howard W. Gorman, Blanche C. Grant, George Grasty, Louis H. Gray, Alexander Grigolia, Alexandra Gromoff, F. A. Gross, Ruther Gruber, Erwin G. Gudde, Grace Guest, Ralph Gustafson, Berard Haile, Alfred Irving Hallowell, Howard M. Hamblin, Lucile Hamner, Adelaide Harrington, Arthur Harrington, Awona Harrington, Edmund Ross Harrington, Elliot Harrington, Mark Raymond Harrington, Robert Fleming Heizer, Marta Herrera (Orozoco), Melville Jean Herskovits, Edgar Lee Hewett, George Gustave Heye,

Thomas Willing Hicks, Willard Williams Hill, William B. Hill, Philip K. Hitti, Hulda R. Hobbs (Heidel), Frederick Webb Hodge, Robert Hofsinde, W. C. Holden, Nils Homer, R. B. Horsefield, James Hovey, Grace Hudson, John W. Hudson, William Hughes, Edward P. Hunt, George Hunt, Wayne Henry (Wolf Robe) Hunt, Arnold J. Jacobins, Jean Allard Jge, George M. Lamsa, William T. Linkins, Ralph Linton, Alan Lomax, Theodore R. Lonewolf, uis Kroeber, Benjamin T. Kurtz, Walter and Hilda Kurze, Oliver LaFarge, George M. Lamsa, William T. Linkins, Ralph Linton, Alan Lomax, Theodore R. Lonewolf,

Boas Long, Ivan Alexis Lopatin, Robert Harry Lowie, Charles F. Lummis, Phoebe Maddux, Frank Marashulo, Frank Marr, John Marr, Edna P. Marsh, Gordon H. Marsh, William B. Marye, Elizabeth Mason, John Alden Mason, Anna P. Mattinger, Wayne L. Mauzy, William Ralph Maxon, Parker McKenzie, F. Romero Mendez, Clinton Hart Merriam, E. Vigo Mestres, Truman Michelson, Harry E. Miller, Ralph L. Milliken, William S. Mills, Willie Miranda, Albert Mohr, Dionisia Mondragon, Manuel Mondragon, Lucy Montgomery, Harriet Moore, Mildred C. Moore, R. E. Moore, Rosalind Moore, Carlos Morales, Marion Moreno, Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Philip A. Munz, O. J. Murie,

Roy Nash, Mrs. W. J. Nichols, Eugene A. Nida, Frans M. Olbrechts, Cornelius Osgood, Asbjorn P. Ousdal, Charles F. Outland, Henry E. Parmenter, Elsie Clews Parsons, A. W. Payne, Ellen Peace, Elizabeth Wells Pearce, Arthur B. Perkins, Mrs. Rodolphe Petter, Kenneth L. Pike, Arnold R. Pilling, Nellie B. Pipes, I. J. Pitman, J. O. Prescott, Erik Kellerman Reed, Nathaniel Julius Reich, Jane Richardson, Arthur Stanley Riggs, Frank Harold Hanna Roberts, Jr., Helen H. Roberts, Clarence M. Ruth, Everett Sanders, Edward Sapir, Charles F. Saunders, F. H. Saville, Paul Schumacher, Donald Scott, Blanche Seeley, Ettie Seeley, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,

A. W. Setychell, Jessie Shaw, Anna O. Shepard, Frank T. Siebert, Rita Siedenberg, Albion M. Sitton, Nich Sivonen, H. D. Skinner, Mrs. N. P. Sloan, Clement Smith, Stella Smith, Jack Snow, Maria Soto, Frank Gouldsmith Speck, Robert F. Spencer, Marjorie Spinks, Waldo C. Spraque, Winifred Stamm, Moses Steinberg Marian Stirling, Matthew Williams Stirling, William Duncan Strong, Edgar Howard Sturtevant, Georgianna Barbara Such, John R. Swanton, Turkey Tayac, Douglass Taylor, Lincoln Thompson, Morjorie L. Tichy, Janet Tietjins, Bennie Tilden, J. R. R. Tolkien, W. Cameron Townsend, George L. Trager, Lovell B. Triggs, Edwin H. Tuttle,

Ruth Underhill, Richard Fowler Van Valkenburgh, Rosendo Vargas, Charles Frederick Voegelin, Paul Vogenitz, James W. Waldo, Paul A. F. Walter, Althea Warren, Fred Washington, Thomas Talbot Waterman, Edith White, Joseph J. White, Leslie A. White, Grace T. Whiting, Robert B. Whitsett, Benjamin Lee Whorf, H. E. Williams, William L. Wonderly, Arthur Woodward, Robert W. Young, and Father Zephyrin of the Santa Barbara Mission.

Restrictions:

The John Peabody Harrington papers are open for research

Access to the John Peabody Harrington papers requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Linguistics  Search this

Indians of North America -- Languages  Search this

Ethnomusicology  Search this

Ethnobotany  Search this

Toponymy  Search this

Language and languages -- Documentation  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Maps

Stats (copies)

Newspaper clippings

Printed material

Photographs

Botanical specimens

Field notes

Correspondence -- 1930-1950

Financial records

Personal records

Poetry

Writings

Citation:

John Peabody Harrington papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

The preferred citation for the Harrington Papers will reference the actual location within the collection, i.e. Box 172, Alaska/Northwest Coast, Papers of John Peabody Harrington, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

However, as the NAA understands the need to cite phrases or vocabulary on specific pages, a citation referencing the microfilmed papers is acceptable. Please note that the page numbering of the PDF version of the Harrington microfilm does not directly correlate to the analog microfilm frame numbers. If it is necessary to cite the microfilmed papers, please refer to the specific page number of the PDF version, as in: Papers of John Peabody Harrington, Microfilm: MF 7, R34 page 42.

Identifier:

NAA.1976-95

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John Peabody Harrington papers

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw31fe9575b-f7aa-4286-9787-0cfc495ab461

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-1976-95

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Photographer:

Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893  Search this

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882  Search this

Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940  Search this

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899  Search this

Westmann, Orloff R.  Search this

Names:

Middlebrook, J. E.  Search this

Extent:

2,600 Prints (circa, silver gelatin and platinum)

Culture:

Zulu (African people)  Search this

Indians of North America  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Date:

circa 1870s-1930

Scope and Contents note:

The bulk of the collection consists of photographs made from glass negatives collected and produced by the Bureau of American Ethnology. These photographs include portraits and field photographs by photographers and anthropologists, most associated with the BAE, including Alexander Gardner, William Henry Jackson, John K. Hillers, DeLancey Gill, C. M. Bell, Antonio Zeno Shindler Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and others. The collection also includes photographs donated to the United States National Museum and transferred to the Department of Anthropology which depict Zulus and people from Chiapas, Mexico. Some of the prints in this collection may have been made for an Indian Photographic Exhibit lent by the BAE to the Public Library Commission of Indiana.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 85

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Original negatives for the bulk of the photographs in this collection can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.

Original prints for photographs of Zulu and people in Chiapas are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 97 and 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 85, Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collection relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.85

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3958a7b13-16cb-4dca-8861-055a2513fd24

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-85

Creator:

Jenkins, Dale  Search this

Extent:

145 Postcards

11 Photographic prints

0.5 Linear feet

Culture:

Havasupai (Coconino)  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Acoma Pueblo  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Tesuque Pueblo  Search this

K'apovi (Santa Clara Pueblo)  Search this

Laguna Pueblo  Search this

Inupiaq (Alaskan Inupiat Eskimo)  Search this

Suquamish  Search this

Indians of North America -- California  Search this

Cayuse  Search this

Northern Paiute (Paviotso)  Search this

Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute)  Search this

Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache)  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

Seminole  Search this

Indians of Central America -- Panama  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Postcards

Photographic prints

Place:

Temuco (Chile)

Cuzco (Peru)

Date:

1890-1939

Summary:

This collection consists of 145 postcards and 11 photographs depicting Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with dates ranging 1890 – 1930s. The bulk of the collection consists of postcards of Native communities throughout the United States, and includes portrait images, dwellings, basket-making, weaving, and crafts.

Scope and Contents:

The Dale Jenkins postcard and photograph collection consists of 145 postcards and 11 photographs with dates ranging 1890 – 1930s. The images depict Indigenous peoples of the Americas, and spans a large geographical breadth extending from the Arctic in the north to Chile and Peru in South America. The bulk of the collection consists of postcards of Native communities throughout the United States, with a significant number of images depicting various Pueblo and Southwest cultural groups; many of these latter postcards were produced by the Fred Harvey Company. A number of the postcards and photographs include portrait images, dwellings, basket-making, weaving, and crafts. Also of particular note are 13 scenes of daily life at a number of different Indian Boarding Schools at the turn of the twentieth century. Finally, in addition to the postcard images are 11 photographs consisting of cabinet cards and other photographic prints.

Please note that the language and terminology used in this collection reflects the context and culture of the time of its creation, and may include culturally sensitive information. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged into 11 series, organized thematically (Indian Boarding Schools) and then regionally by location or culture group. Series 1: Indian Boarding Schools, Series 2: Arctic/Subarctic, Series 3: Northwest Coast, Series 4: California, Series 5: Great Basin/Plateau, Series 6: Southwest, Series 7: Plains, Series 8: Northeast/Great Lakes, Series 9: Southeast, Series 10: Mexico/Central America, Series 11: South America

Biographical / Historical:

Dale Jenkins is a retired Financial Planner living in California, having previously worked in the Aerospace industry. He has collected late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American photographs and postcards for over 30 years. In addition to archival collections donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, Jenkins has also donated postcard and photograph collections to the California Museum of Photography, the California Historical Society, and the Museum of the City of New York.

Provenance:

This collection was donated by Dale Jenkins in 2013 and 2014.

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

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 Archives Center's Digital Image request website.

Topic:

Indians of North America -- Education  Search this

Off-reservation boarding schools -- Photographs  Search this

Education -- Carlisle Indian School  Search this

Indians of Central America -- Guatemala  Search this

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Dale Jenkins postcard and photograph collection, NMAI.AC.069, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.069

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Dale Jenkins postcard and photograph collection

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv497ccf83e-56ee-4a16-8ea6-3e3c84db22eb

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-069

Author:

Teriananda, 1947-  Search this

Names:

Peltier, Leonard  Search this

Extent:

0.83 Linear feet (2 archival boxes )

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Articles

Writings

Letters

Clippings

Reports

Date:

1972 - 1999

Summary:

The Teriananda Papers contain writings authored by Teriananda, as well as various position papers, news articles, flyers, correspondence, and group newsletters that represent the political activities she participated in on behalf of Native American and other Indigenous peoples.

Scope and Contents:

This collection, from the 1970s to the 1990s, is comprised of published and unpublished writings by Teriananda, as well as letters, reports, newspaper and magazine articles, group newsletters, flyers and announcements of political events, and news releases. The issues represented here, including support work for "The Longest Walk," the campaign for justice for Leonard Peltier, and the Big Mountain relocation are indicative of the concerns in parts of Indian Country in the United States and elsewhere during these decades.

Arrangement:

The Teriananda papers are arranged into two series:

Series I: Writings (1978-1991)

Series II: Political Activities (undated; 1972-1996)

Biographical / Historical:

Teriananda was born in Manhattan in 1947, where she grew up and has continued to live throughout her adult life. Teriananda's father, born in Brooklyn, became a financial officer and independent scholar, her mother, born in British Guiana (now Guyana), was a classical pianist who immigrated to the United States and later became an editorial assistant, working part-time during Teriananda's childhood. Her parents instilled in Teriananda a belief that she was "a citizen of the world." She studied ballet as a youngster, and, as a teenager, immersed herself in the artistic and intellectual milieu of the Lower East Side and Greenwich Village. An improperly diagnosed back injury while she was a senior in high school resulted in severe back problems in the 1970s that have persisted throughout her life.

Teriananda became interested in Indigenous struggles in the 1970s following a "back crisis" that almost took her life yet proved to be psychically transformative. In seeking to know who she was, she realized she needed to know where she was, and this led her to ask who the original inhabitants of the continent were. She soon became involved in activist struggles for Indigenous rights, and worked with a number of Native American groups during the 1970s and 1980s, including, among other things, the International Treaty Council's attempts to found the U.N.'s permanent Working Group on Indigenous People, support for Yvonne Wanrow and Leonard Peltier, the issue of uranium contamination from mining on Native American land, and the problem of the Joint Land Use Area near Big Mountain on the Hopi and Navajo reservations.

Teriananda also worked on issues surrounding the AIDS crisis after the death of several friends from this disease. She had become familiar with the possibilities of natural medicines, partly through contact with traditional Native teachers, and she became active promoting the benefits of nutritional, herbal and other natural therapies to sufferers of AIDS. As Teriananda's own health issues persisted and worsened, she turned to Tibetan Buddhism, and has devoted herself to artistic pursuits influenced by this spiritual path, although she has worked artistically since the early 1970s, when she stopped dancing. Although she has cut back on her activism, due to health problems and family demands, Teriananda remains a committed political activist who stays informed of current issues and is determined to pass on the heritage of struggles for peace and justice to the next generation.

Provenance:

Donated to the National Museum of the American Indian Archives by Teriananda in March 2003

Restrictions:

Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 3:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).

Rights:

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the NMAI Archivist. The Archives has no information on the status of literary rights for the work of others found in these papers; researchers are responsible for determining any question of copyright.

Topic:

Indians of North America -- Civil rights  Search this

Indians of North America -- Relocation  Search this

Traditional medicine  Search this

AIDS (Disease)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Land tenure  Search this

Indians of South America  Search this

Indians of Central America  Search this

Genre/Form:

Articles

Writings

Letters

Clippings

Reports

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Teriananda papers, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.009

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Teriananda papers

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4c4026e79-6475-49d9-ac8d-c282f248302d

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-009

Creator:

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Director:

Heye, George G. (George Gustav), 1874-1957  Search this

Dockstader, Frederick J.  Search this

Names:

Ford-Bartlett East Greenland Expedition 1930  Search this

Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899)  Search this

Hendricks-Hodge Expedition (1917-1923).  Search this

Huntington Free Library  Search this

Hyde Exploring Expedition (1902-1903)  Search this

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research  Search this

Collector:

Barrett, S. A. (Samuel Alfred), 1879-1965  Search this

Churchill, Clara G.  Search this

Churchill, Frank C. (Frank Carroll), 1850-1912  Search this

Davis, Edward H., b. 1862  Search this

Emmons, George Thornton  Search this

Gridley, Marion E. (Marion Eleanor), 1906-1974  Search this

Harrington, M. R. (Mark Raymond), 1882-1971  Search this

Harvey, Byron  Search this

Harvey, Fred  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994  Search this

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956  Search this

Lothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965  Search this

Pepper, George H. (George Hubbard), 1873-1924  Search this

Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925  Search this

Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith), 1881-1950  Search this

Stiles, William F., 1912-1980  Search this

Verrill, A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt), 1871-1954  Search this

Waterman, T. T. (Thomas Talbot), 1885-1936  Search this

Wildschut, William  Search this

Former owner:

Burnett, Edwin K.  Search this

Force, Roland W.  Search this

Extent:

400 Linear feet

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Administrative records

Photographs

Annual reports

Field notes

Correspondence

Ledgers (account books)

Minutes

Date:

1890-1998

Summary:

These records document the governance and programmatic activities of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation (MAI) from its inception in 1904 until its sublimation by the Smithsonian Institution in 1990. The types of materials present in this collection include personal and institutional correspondence, individual subject files, minutes and annual reports, financial ledgers, legal records, expedition field notes, research notes, catalog and object lists, publications, clippings, flyers, maps, photographs, negatives and audio-visual materials. These materials span a varied range of subjects relating to the activities of the museum which are more fully described on the series level.

Scope and Contents:

These records document the governance and programmatic activities of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation (MAI) from its inception in 1904 until its sublimation by the Smithsonian Institution in 1990. The types of materials present in this collection include personal and institutional correspondence, individual subject files, minutes and annual reports, financial ledgers, legal records, expedition field notes, research notes, catalog and object lists, publications, clippings, flyers, maps, photographs, negatives and audio-visual materials. These materials span a varied range of subjects relating to the activities of the museum which are more fully described on the series level.

Arrangement:

The MAI, Heye Foundation records have been arranged into 21 series and 50 subseries: Series 1: Directors, 1908-1990 (1.1: George Gustav Heye, 1863-1962, 1.2: Edwin K. Burnett, 1943-1960, 1.3: Frederick Dockstader, 1950-1976, 1.4: Alexander F. Draper, 1972-1977, 1.5:Roland W. Force, 1963-1990, 1.6: George Eager, Assistant Director, 1977-1990) Series 2: Board of Trustees, 1916-1990 (2.1: Board of Trustee Minutes, 1916-1990, 2.2: Individual Board Correspondence, 1943-1990, 2.3: Subject Files, 1917-1990) Series 3: Administrative, 1916-1989 (3.1: Subject Files, 1904-1991, 3.2: Personnel, 1956-1991, 3.3: Legal, 1900-1989, 3.4: Task Force, 1976-1986, 3.5: George Abrams, 1980-1991) Series 4: Financial, 1916-1990 (4.1: Ledgers, 1900-1962, 4.2: Correspondence, 1905-1985, 4.3: Subject Files, 1916-1990) Series 5: Expeditions, 1896-1973Series 6: Collectors, 1872-1981Series 7: Registration, 1856-1993Series 8: Collections Management, 1937-1988Series 9: Curatorial, 1963-1990 (9.1: Curatorial Council, 1973-1990, 9.2: Gary Galante, 1979-1991, 9.3: Mary Jane Lenz, 1974-1994, 9.4: James G. E. Smith, 1963-1990, 9.5: U. Vincent Wilcox, 1968-1984, 9.6: Anna C. Roosevelt, 1973-1988) Series 10: Exhibits, 1923-1991 (10.1: MAI Exhibits, 1923-1990, 10.2: Non-MAI Exhibits, 1937-1991) Series 11: Public Programs, 1935-1990Series 12: Publications, 1904-1994 (12.1: Annual Reports, 1917-1989, 12.2: Publications by MAI, 1904-1990, 12.3: Publications by Other Sources, 1881-1990, 12.4: Administration, 1920-1988, 12.5: Archival Set of Official Publications, 1907-1976) Series 13: Public Affairs, 1938-1991Series 14: Development, 1927-1991 (14.1: Administration, 1979-1990, 14.2: Donors, 1978-1990, 14.3: Fundraising, 1973-1990, 14.4: Grants, 1970-1990, 14.5: Subject Files, 1976-1990) Series 15: Other Departments, 1914-1990 (15.1: Archives, 1914-1990, 15.2: Conservation, 1972-1989, 15.3: Education, 1921-1990, 15.4: Indian Information Center, 1977-1989, 15.5: Museum Shop, 1947-1989, 15.6: Photography, 1918-1990, 15.7: Physical Anthropology, 1919-1956) Series 16: Huntington Free Library, 1926-1991Series 17: Museum Relocation, 1969-1992 (17.1: Subject Files, 1979-1990, 17.2: American Museum of Natural History, 1980-1987, 17.3: Dallas, Texas, 1984-1987, 17.4: Smithsonian Institution, 1979-1990, 17.5: U.S. Custom House, 1977-1990, 17.6: Other Locations, 1974-1987) Series 18: MediaSeries 19: PhotographsSeries 20: Miscellaneous, 1837-1990Series 21: Oversize, 1873-1972 (21.1: Maps, 1873-1975, 21.2: Miscellaneous, 1884-1982)

History of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation:

The Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation was established by wealthy collector George Gustav Heye in 1908. Heye began collecting American Indian 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:

In 2004, the Huntington Fee Library, once part of the MAI/Heye Foundation, was transferred to the Cornell University Library Rare Book and Manuscript Collection. While this collection mainly contained books, it also contained a significant amount of archival materials. The Huntington Free Library's Native American Collection contains outstanding materials documenting the history, culture, languages, and arts of the native tribes of both North and South America, as well as contemporary politics and human rights issues are also important components of the collection. Further information about the collection and links to finding aids can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/collections/HFL_old.html.

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).

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.

Topic:

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Peru  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Tennessee  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- New York (State)  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Panama  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Jersey  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Mexico  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Missouri  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Nevada  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- California  Search this

Indians of South America  Search this

Indians of Central America  Search this

Pre-Columbian objects  Search this

Museum exhibits  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Texas  Search this

Museums -- Collection management  Search this

Archaeological expeditions  Search this

Ethnological expeditions  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology)  Search this

Museums -- Acquisitions  Search this

Museums -- Curatorship  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Cuba  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ecuador  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Arkansas  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Canada  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Guatemala  Search this

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Haiti  Search this

Genre/Form:

Administrative records

Photographs

Annual reports

Field notes

Correspondence

Ledgers (account books)

Minutes

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.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001

See more items in:

Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation records

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv412df8cf1-44c0-41fd-9101-eefb477e5aef

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001

Author:

Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium "Waves of Influence: Revisiting Coastal Connections between Pre-Columbian Northwest South America and Central America" (2019 : Washington, D.C.)  Search this

Editor:

Beekman, Christopher  Search this

McEwan, Colin  Search this

Host institution:

Dumbarton Oaks  Search this

Physical description:

x, 604 pages illustrations (some color), maps 29 cm

Type:

Congresses

Conference papers and proceedings

History

Place:

Mexique

Amérique du Sud

Pacific Coast (Mexico)

Pacific Coast (South America)

Pacific Coast (Central America)

Mexico

Pacific Coast

Central America

South America

Date:

2022

To 1500

Topic:

Indians of Mexico--Commerce--History  Search this

Indians of Central America--Commerce--History  Search this

Indians of South America--Commerce--History  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Indiens d'Amérique--Antiquités  Search this

Commerce  Search this

Indians of Central America--Antiquities  Search this

Indians of Central America--Commerce  Search this

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities  Search this

Indians of Mexico--Commerce  Search this

Indians of South America--Antiquities  Search this

Indians of South America--Commerce  Search this

History  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1159005

Author:

Bowen, Thomas 1942-  Search this

Physical description:

xix, 313 pages illustrations, maps 27 cm

Type:

Books

History

Place:

Mexico

California, Gulf of

Baja California (Mexico : Peninsula)

Baja California (Peninsula)

Date:

2022

Topic:

Seri Indians--Antiquities  Search this

Indians of Mexico--Antiquities  Search this

Islands--History  Search this

Islands  Search this

History  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1159012

Creator:

Wright, Bill  Search this

Extent:

14 Prints (silver gelatin)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Tiwa Pueblos  Search this

Kickapoo  Search this

Seminole  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Date:

circa 1986, 1993

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs made by Bill Wright circa 1993 documenting the Kickapoo Tribe in Colonia el Nacimiento, Mexico, and Black Seminole people in Coahuila, Mexico. There are also three images of the 1986 Tiwa Celebration of St. Anthony that depict dancers, preparations, and a procession.

Biographical/Historical note:

Bill Wright is a businessman and photographer in Abilene, Texas. His photography has been published in four photography books: Portraits from the Desert: Bill Wright's Big Bend, The Tiguas: Pueblo Indians of Texas, The Texas Kicakpoo: Keepers of Tradition, and People's Lives: A Photographic Celebration of the Human Spirit.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 91-3

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional Bill Wright photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 98-39.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Photographs are under copyright by the photographer.

Topic:

Religion  Search this

Dance  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 91-3, Bill Wright photographs of Kickapoo, Seminole, and Tiwa people, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.91-3

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d46072c2-b46a-42e8-88f0-d20f1d546eab

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-91-3

Photographer:

Van Schaick, C.J.  Search this

Smith, Huron H. (Huron Herbert), 1883-1933  Search this

Creator:

Skinner, Alanson, 1886-1925  Search this

Extent:

454 Negatives (photographic)

99 Photographic prints (black and white)

5 Lantern slides

Culture:

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)  Search this

Iowa  Search this

Menominee (Menomini)  Search this

Odawa (Ottawa)  Search this

Plains Cree (Prairie Cree)  Search this

Seminole  Search this

Bribri  Search this

Plains Ojibwa (Bungi)  Search this

Cayuga  Search this

Minnesota Chippewa  Search this

Saulteaux  Search this

Shinnecock  Search this

Wahpetonwan Dakota (Wahpeton Sioux)  Search this

James Bay Cree  Search this

Seneca [Cattaraugus]  Search this

Potawatomi [Forest County, Wisconsin]  Search this

Kesagami (Kesagmi) Cree  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives (photographic)

Photographic prints

Lantern slides

Negatives

Place:

Minnesota

Wisconsin

Costa Rica

Oklahoma

Mexico

Canada

Florida

New York

New Mexico

Wyoming

Date:

circa 1870 to before 1926

Summary:

Tribes covered in the photographs are: Arapaho, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Iowa, Iroquois, Mahican, Menomini, Ojibwa, Oto, Plains Cree, Potawatomi, Seminole, Seri, Shinnecock, Sioux, Winnebago, Zuni Pueblo. The majority of photographs (552) have Skinner listed as the photographer and presumably are photographs he took on his expeditions. However, 104 photos are of the Seminole in Florida. According to Dennis P. Carey's biography of Skinner (Unpublished? 1980) Julian Q. Dimock, a well-known photographer, accompanied him on his expedition to the Seminole in Florida; how many of the photos were taken by Dimock is unknown, but he is listed as the photographer for 23 of them. Skinner's other photographs are of the Seneca Iroquois in New York; the Zuni Pueblo and Hawikku site; several tribes in Wisconsin; the Chippewa in Minnesota; and miscellaneous shots taken in Canada, Costa Rica, Florida and New York. Two photographs of the Mahican were taken by Huron H. Smith (1923) and two of the Winnebago were taken by C.J. Van Schaick (c. 1870). The remaining photographs have no photographer listed but were in Skinner's collection of photographs and are of varying tribes with dates ranging from 1909 to 1923.

Arrangement note:

Collection arranged by item number.

Biographical/Historical note:

Alanson Buck Skinner was born in Buffalo, New York, on September 7, 1886. His parents moved to Staten Island, New York, when Alanson was still very young. There Alanson met W.T. Davis who taught him to find arrowheads and other traces of ancient Indian life. When he was older he consulted with Prof. F.W. Putnam and George H. Pepper at the American Museum of Natural History about his interest. In the summer of 1902 Skinner went on his first fieldwork expedition near Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, for the American Museum of Natural History with Arthur C. Parker and Mark R. Harrington. Two years later Skinner and Harrington went on another archeological expedition in western New York State for the Peabody Museum and while there he attended his first Native ceremony on the Cattaraugus reservation. After high school Skinner joined the staff of the AMNH as an assistant in anthropology. In 1908 he led an expedition to Hudson Bay to study the Cree Indians. In 1910 he went to Wisconsin where he met John V. Satterlee, part Menomini, and Judge Sabatis Perote, a full-blooded Menomini, who adopted him into the tribe under the Thunder clan name of Sekosa or "Little Weasel." He later went on expeditions to collect from the Seminoles in the Florida Everglades, and other tribes in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and other states. During these years he was also studying anthropology at Columbia under Boas, Farrand, Saville, and Bandelier, and at Harvard under Dixon, Tozzer, and Farrabee. In 1916 Skinner joined the Museum of the American Indian and remained there until 1920, when he took a position as curator of anthropology at the Public Museum of Milwaukee. He returned to the MAI in 1924 where he remained until his untimely death on August 17, 1925 in a car accident in North Dakota. He was a member of the American Anthropological Association, the Wisconsin Archeological Society, the Explorer's Club, a York Rite Mason and a Shriner. A more detailed biography by Dennis P. Carey (1980) can be found in the vertical file. A complete bibliography of Skinner's writings can be found in Indian Notes, Vol. II, No. 4 (October 1925).

Restrictions:

Access restricted. Researchers should contact the staff of the NMAI Archives for an appointment to access the collection.

Topic:

Indians of North America -- Wisconsin  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Lakes Region  Search this

Indians of North America -- New York (State)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern states  Search this

Indians of North America -- New Mexico  Search this

Genre/Form:

Negatives

Photographic prints

Lantern slides

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001.036

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv43e72bdfd-3445-490f-9e4f-9684dc6b5597

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-036

Collector:

Starr, Frederick, 1859-1933  Search this

Photographer:

Koehne, William L.  Search this

Extent:

60 Platinum prints (mounted)

Culture:

Chol Maya  Search this

Chontal (Chontol)  Search this

Chinantec  Search this

Chocholtec (Chocho)  Search this

Ikood (Huave)  Search this

Mayas  Search this

Cuicatec Indians  Search this

Huastec  Search this

Tepehuán (Tepehuan)  Search this

Purepecha (Tarasco)  Search this

Totonac  Search this

Nahua  Search this

Aztec (archaeological culture)  Search this

Otomí (Otomi)  Search this

Mixtec  Search this

Zoque  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Tzotzil Maya  Search this

Zapotec  Search this

Triqui (Trique Choco)  Search this

Tzeltal Maya  Search this

Mixe  Search this

Mazatec [Huautla]  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Platinum prints

Photographs

Date:

circa 1890-1902

Scope and Contents note:

Front and profile studio portraits of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, representing Aztec, Chinantec, Chocho, Chol, Chontal, Cuicatec, Huastec, Huave, Maya, Mazatec, Mixe, Mixtec, Otomi, Tarascan, Tepehua, Tlaxcalan, Totonac, Trique, Tzental, Tzotzil, Zapotec, Zapotec Tehuartepec, and Zoque tribes. The photographs were made by William L. Koehne of Chicago for publication in Frederick Starr's book, Physical Characters of Indians of Southern Mexico.

Biographical/Historical note:

Frederick Starr (1858-1933) was an anthropologist and academic who worked as curator at the American Museum of Natural History and professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. During his professiorship, Starr hired professional photographer and studio owner William L. Koehne to make the studio portraits for his 1902 book, Physical Characters of Indians of Southern Mexico. Additionally, Starr made several field studies in Mexico and commissioned field photographs and plaster busts.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 123

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Photographs collected by Cyrus Thomas, Robert T. Hill, Edward W. Nelson, and Edgar L. Hewitt have been relocated to Photo Lot 169, Photo Lot 170, Photo Lot 171, and Photo Lot 172, respectively.

The Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian Archives holds the Frederick Starr negatives and lanterns slides, 1894-1910.

Correspondence from Starr held in the National Anthropological Archives is in MS 4558, MS 4821, and the Bureau of American Ethnology records.

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 123, Frederick Starr collection of William L. Koehne photographs of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.123

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d7f3a80c-2158-41ad-b0ee-07bb8f9ac7df

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-123

Creator:

Cordry, Donald Bush  Search this

Names:

Cordry, Donald Bush -- Exhibitions  Search this

Extent:

8 Color transparencies

93 Gelatin silver prints (mounted)

Culture:

Mixe  Search this

Amuzgo (Amusgo)  Search this

Zapotec  Search this

Mestizos  Search this

Purepecha (Tarasco)  Search this

Tepehuán (Tepehuan)  Search this

Totonac  Search this

Mazatec [Huautla]  Search this

Nahua  Search this

Chinantec  Search this

Wixarika (Huichol)  Search this

Seri  Search this

Ikood (Huave)  Search this

Chiapanec  Search this

Mixtec  Search this

Mayas  Search this

Yoreme (Mayo)  Search this

Cuicatec Indians  Search this

Zoque  Search this

Tzotzil Maya  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Color transparencies

Gelatin silver prints

Place:

Mexico

Date:

1937-1972

Scope and Contents note:

Enlargements of photographs made by Donald Bush Cordry during his time in Mexico. These were mounted for a 1970s Bellas Artes-sponsored traveling exhibit based on Cordry's collection of Mexican Indian costumes. Included are images of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, fiestas and dances, pottery, boats, weaving, spinning, masks, vendors and markets, churches, and shrines. Depicted groups include the Huichol, Mestizo, Tarascan, Seri, Mayo, Tepehua, Totonac, Nahua, Mazatec, Cuicatec, Chinantec, Zapotec, Mixe, Amusgo, Huave, Mixtec, Chapanec, Zoque, Tzotzil, and Maya. Additionally, there are some self portraits of Donald Cordry and his wife Dorothy.

Biographical/Historical note:

Donald Bush Cordry (1907-1978) was an artist and photographer who studied the art of Indigenous peoples of Mexico. In 1931, Cordry made his first trip to Guerrero, Mexico, where he became interested in contemporary mask making. In 1934, Cordry moved to New York to work as a marionette designer for puppeteer Tony Sarg. While there, he contacted George G. Heye to learn more about Indigenous Mexican art. This led to a series of collecting expeditions from 1935 to 1938, during which Cordry collected Mexican masks and other artifacts for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 87-38, USNM ACC 361232

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs made by Cordry can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 82-14.

Donald Cordry and his wife, Dorothy Mann Cordry, also donated clothing and musical instruments from Mexico to the Department of Anthropology in accessions 361232 and 355866.

The National Museum of the American Indian Archives holds the Donald Bush Cordry collection of photographs and negatives, 1933-1940, as well as artifacts collected by Cordry.

Photographs of the Donald Cordry Mexican mask exhibit can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 80-3.

The Donald Cordry Mexican mask collection can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 355867.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Pottery -- Mexico  Search this

Dances -- Mexico  Search this

Weaving -- Mexico  Search this

Markets -- Mexico  Search this

Clothing and dress  Search this

Spinning -- Mexico  Search this

Masks -- Mexico  Search this

Citation:

Photo Lot 87-38, Donald Cordry photographs of Indigenous peoples of Mexico, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.87-38

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3bbb563fb-4f02-46de-9c51-37e81c7dbd07

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-87-38

Collector:

Hill, Robert Thomas, 1858-1941  Search this

Extent:

1 Letter

29 Albumen prints (mounted)

Culture:

Indians of Central America  Search this

Talamanca  Search this

Guatuso  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Letters

Albumen prints

Photographs

Correspondence

Place:

Colombia

Costa Rica

Guatemala

Panama

Date:

circa 1895

Scope and Contents note:

The bulk of the collection consists of photographs documenting Indigenous peoples of Central America, including Cheripo, Guatuso, Talamanca, and Guatemala people. Additional photographs document stone artifacts found at grave sites, Panamanian women, people in Bogata, and a museum in San Jose, Costa Rica. The photographs may have been collected by Robert Thomas Hill from H. N. Rudd, a postcard publisher in Costa Rica. A letter from Rudd to Hill is also in the collection.

Biographical/Historical note:

Robert Thomas Hill (1858-1941) was a geologist best known for his work in Texas for the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Hill was orphaned during the Civil War and raised by his grandmother. While employed at his brother's newspaper in Comanche, Texas, he developed an interest in collecting rocks and fossils. In 1887, he earned a BS in geology from Cornell University. Hill worked for the USGS from 1885 to 1903 and is credited with discovering the Comanche Series of the Lower Cretaceous strata. Additionally, he conducted some preliminary studies in Central America and the West Indies between 1894 and 1902, collecting for the Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States National Museum. Hill resigned from the USGS in 1903 to pursue personal interests in geology and Texas history.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 170

Location of Other Archival Materials:

This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 123.

Correspondence from Hill is held in the National Anthropological Archives in records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Artifacts collected by Hill are held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accessions 035646, 053949, 028088, and 034831.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds a field notebook from Hill (1895, 1924) in SIA ACC. 12-126. Southern Methodist University, DeGolyer Library, and Autry Center's Braun Research Library, hold collections of Hill's papers.

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

Correspondence

Citation:

Photo Lot 170, Robert Thomas Hill photograph collection relating to the Indigenous peoples of Central America, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.170

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw32340b4e9-2c75-40ad-9542-82e16d2f40f7

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-170

Creator:

Génin, Auguste, 1862-1931  Search this

Extent:

37 Gelatin silver prints ((1 Album))

Culture:

Mexicans  Search this

Aztec (archaeological culture)  Search this

Rarámuri (Tarahumara)  Search this

Wixarika (Huichol)  Search this

Matlatzinca  Search this

Zapotec  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gelatin silver prints

Photographs

Place:

Mexico

Nayarit (Mexico)

Date:

circa 1920

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs relating to a Mexican natural history collection, including archeological, ethnographic, physical, entomological, ornithological, conchological, and paleontological collections. The photographs are mounted in an album entitled "Collections de Auguste Genin," where they are divided according to discipline and have accompanying typewritten descriptions by Genin. There are images of Huichol peoples; a diorite yoke from Jalapa; Aztec, Zapotec, Matlatlzinca, Huichol, and Tarahumara arms, tools, urns, vases, and idols; statuettes from Nayarit and statuettes of musicians and musical instruments; a wooden instrument from Hidalgo; ancient and modern musical instruments; terra cotta Spanish objects; coins and medals; skulls from Guerrero and the Valley of Mexico; a shell collection; and mastodon bones.

Biographical/Historical note:

Auguste Genin (1862-1931) was a a Franco-Mexican writer, poet, photographer, ethnologist. He was a resident of Mexico and director of the Mexican National Company of Dynamite and Explosives.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 86-25B

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Digital surrogates for most of the photographs can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4523, a duplicate album sent to the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Entomology  Search this

Mollusks  Search this

Ornithology  Search this

Numismatics  Search this

Paleontology  Search this

Musical instruments  Search this

Music -- Mexico  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot 86-25B, Auguste Genin photographs of Mexican natural history collections, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.86-25B

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3d1b7869b-7d7e-4f12-99dc-20f77c60bfb3

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-86-25b

Collector:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. exhibit designer  Search this

Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933  Search this

Extent:

31 Gelatin silver prints (mounted)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Mayas  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

A:shiwi (Zuni)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Indians of the West Indies  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Gelatin silver prints

Photographs

Place:

Xochicalco Site (Mexico)

Date:

1904

Scope and Contents note:

Images of United States National Museum anthropological exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also called the St. Louis World's Fair. Images of the Department of Anthropology's exhibits include those of photographs and models of Mayan and Mesoamerican temples; antiquities from Mexico, Mesoamerica, and the West Indies; and American Indian, Mexican, and Mesoamerican sculptures, ceramics, tools, textiles, masks, and baskets. Photographs also document the Bureau of American Ethnology's exhibits, including "symbolic art," drawings and paintings on artifacts from tribes of the New Southwest, Plains, and Northwest Coast. The collection also includes a photograph of carved designs on a structure at Xochicales, possibly used in the exhibition or as part of its design.

Biographical/Historical note:

The National Museum's Department of Anthropology and the Bureau of American Ethnology exhibits at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition were highly integrated, and both were designed by then chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology and former head curator of the Department of Anthropology, William Henry Holmes. The exhibits were intended to illustrate "the culture of the Native American peoples as shown in their arts and industries." The exhibit featured examples of architecture, sculpture, ceramics, metal work, water craft, musical instruments, pipes, and ceremonial objects and included models of Aztec ruins based on plans by De Lancey W. Gill.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 82-31

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Papers, photographs, and records relating to exhibitions at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4689, MS 7571, MS 7208, Photo Lot 24, and Bureau of American Ethnology Letters Received 1888-1906.

The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and the United States National Museum, 1867-1940 (SIA RU000070) as well as photographs of the exhibits.

Additional photographs of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 107, Photo Lot 89-8, and Photo Lot 90-1.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Religion  Search this

Mayas -- Antiquities  Search this

Decorative arts  Search this

Symbolism  Search this

Exhibitions  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 82-31, Photographs of Smithsonian anthropology exhibits at Louisiana Purchase Exposition, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.82-31

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw338954408-04d3-466e-8582-5748b25ab46c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-82-31

Creator:

Cordry, Donald Bush  Search this

Extent:

1 Color print (mounted)

11 Gelatin silver prints ( mounted)

Culture:

Mexicans  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Color prints

Gelatin silver prints

Photographs

Place:

Mexico

Date:

1941-1974

Scope and Contents note:

Images of masks, mask making, and use of masks in various parts of Mexico. Also includes photograph of a painting by Donald Cordry depicting use of a mask and musical instruments.

Biographical/Historical note:

Donald Bush Cordry (1907-1978) was an artist, photographer, and ethnographer of the arts and crafts of Indians of Mexico. In 1931, Cordry made his first trip to Mexico (Guerrero) and become fascinated by contemporary Mexican Indian art, especially mask making. In 1934, Cordry moved to New York to work as a marionette designer for puppeteer Tony Sarg and soon contacted George G. Heye to learn more about Mexican Indian art. From 1935 to 1938, Cordry collected Mexican masks and other art forms on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. On his first 1935 collecting trip for Heye, Cordry traveled throughout the states of Michoacan and Guerrero and collected carved and painted dance masks.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 82-14

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Photographs of the Donald Cordry Mexican mask exhibit can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 80-3.

The Donald Cordry Mexican mask collection can be found in the Department of Anthropology in USNM ACC 355867.

Photographs taken by Cordry can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 87-38.

Donald Cordry and his wife, Dorothy Mann Cordry, also donated clothing and musical instruments from Mexico to the Department of Anthropology in USNM ACC 361232 and USNM ACC 355866.

The National Museum of the American Indian Archives holds the Donald Bush Cordry collection of photographs and negatives, 1933-1940, as well as artifacts collected by Cordry.

The University of Texas at Austin holds the Donald Cordry Collection Relating to Mexican Masks, 1931-1978.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Festivals -- Mexico  Search this

Mask makers  Search this

Masks -- Mexico  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 82-14, Donald Bush Cordry photographs of Mexican masks and mask-making, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.82-14

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw396e9cfad-ea43-47ed-8a3e-071848820d02

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-82-14

Creator:

Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910  Search this

Photographer:

Alvarez y Medina  Search this

Kildare y Cia  Search this

Names:

Museo Nacional de Antropología (Mexico)  Search this

Artist:

Waldeck, Frédéric de, 1766-1875  Search this

Extent:

35 Prints (albumen and silver gelatin; mounted)

Culture:

Mayas  Search this

Aztec (archaeological culture)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Place:

Mexico -- Antiquities

Date:

circa 1880-1910

Scope and Contents note:

The bulk of the photographs document Mayan reliefs and hieroglyphics at ancient sites, including Chichen Itza, Palenque, and Yaxchilan. Additional photographs depict items in the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico, including a necklace, the Stone of Tizoc, and a stone altar disk to Tlaltecuhtli. The collection includes photographs made by Alvarez y Medina, Kildare y Cia, and a photograph of a drawing by Frederic de Waldeck.

Biographical/Historical note:

Cyrus Thomas (1825-1910) was an archeologist for the Bureau of American Ethnology best known for his work on American Indian burial mounds in the American Midwest. Born in Kingsport, Tennessee, Thomas was educated in law and served as Deputy County Clerk under his brother-in-law, the County Clerk of Jackson County, Illinois (1850-1853). In 1858, Thomas helped found the Illinois Natural History Society, through which he met John Wesley Powell. Thomas served for a brief period as an Evangelical Lutheran minister (1864-1866) before becoming an entomologist for the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (1869-1873), Illinois State Entomologist (1874-1876), and a member of the US Entomological Commission (1876-1882). In 1876, he also worked as a professor of natural history at Southern Illinois Normal College and founded the school's Museum of Natural History (now the University Museum). During this time, Thomas also became interested in Mesoamerican ethnology, publishing articles about Mesoamerican codices and writing systems. In 1881 Thomas joined the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian and served as the Director of the Division of Mound Exploration, a position he maintained until his death in 1910.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 169

Location of Other Archival Materials:

This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 123.

Additional Cyrus Thomas materials relating to Mesoamerica held in the National Anthropological Archives are in MS 103, MS 1328, MS 3705, MS 3956, MS 3530, MS 3941, MS 3260, MS 2337, and MS 3920-b.

Correspondence from Thomas is held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4821, the J. C. Pilling papers, and records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Indians of Mexico -- Languages -- writing  Search this

Citation:

Photo Lot 169, Cyrus Thomas photograph collection relating to Mayan and Aztec carvings, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.169

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw311327802-8625-4e30-9483-a266e8d1b0c4

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-169

Author:

Townsend, Camilla 1965-  Search this

Physical description:

1 online resource

Type:

Sources

History

Place:

Mexique

Latin America

Mexico

Date:

2017

To 1519

Conquest, 1519-1540

Jusqu'à 1519

1519-1540 (Conquête)

Topic:

Nahuas--History  Search this

Nahuas--Historiography  Search this

Nahuatl language--History  Search this

Nahuatl literature--History  Search this

History  Search this

Nahua (Indiens)--Histoire  Search this

Nahua (Indiens)--Historiographie  Search this

Nahuatl (Langue)--Histoire  Search this

Littérature nahuatl--Histoire  Search this

Indiens d'Amérique--Histoire  Search this

HISTORY  Search this

Antiquities  Search this

Indians of Mexico  Search this

Nahuas  Search this

Nahuatl language  Search this

Nahuatl literature  Search this

Antiquités  Search this

Histoire  Search this

Call number:

F1221.N3 T69 2017 (Internet)

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_1160636

Author:

Stuart, Gene S  Search this

National Geographic Society (U.S.) Special Publications Division  Search this

Physical description:

199 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

North America

Mexico

Central America

Date:

1988

[c1988]

Topic:

Antiquities  Search this

Extinct cities  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_470953

Photographer:

Guadagno, Carmelo  Search this

Creator:

Krevolin, Lewis  Search this

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Extent:

1402 Negatives (photographic) (color, black and white, 35mm)

67 Contact sheets

Culture:

Indians of North America  Search this

Guerrero Nahua  Search this

Morelos Nahua  Search this

Nahua [Xalita]  Search this

Puebla Nahua  Search this

Mixtec  Search this

Zapotec  Search this

Purepecha (Tarasco)  Search this

Chamula Maya  Search this

Tzeltal Maya  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives (photographic)

Contact sheets

Negatives

Place:

Mexico

Date:

1973

Summary:

Photography taken by MAI staff photographer Carmelo Guadagno during a research project expedition with Lewis Krevolin on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in March of 1973. The project focus was pottery making techniques in various Indigenous settlements across Mexico in support of the 1976-1977 exhibition "Traditional Pottery of Mexico."

Scope and Contents:

This collection includes 35mm negatives (photographic) and contact sheets shot by Carmelo Guadagno and Lewis Krevolin on their 1973 research trip to Mexico. The majority of the negatives were made by Guadagno and included both color and black and white rolls. There are 32 rolls of color negatives, numbered 1 to 33 (roll 15 is missing), and four rolls of black and white negatives, numbered 34, 35, 1A and 3A. The negatives depict Guadagno and Krevolin's travels in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Jalisco, and Morelos where they photographed indigenous families, markets and landscapes with a special focus on potters and pottery making. Indigenous communities photographed include the Morelos Nahua, Nahua (Xalita), Guerrero Nahua, Puebla Nahua, Mixtec, Zapotec, Purepecha (Tarasco), Tzeltal Maya and Chamula Maya. There are an additional six rolls of color and black and white negatives shot by Lewis Krevolin labeled "A-F" that were likely shot before and after Guadagno joined him on the research trip. Unlike the Guadagno negatives, these photographs did not come with accompanying descriptions.

Arrangement:

Arranged by Negative Roll number: 1-35, 1A, 3A, A-F.

Biographical / Historical:

Carmelo Guadagno was a staff photographer for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation from 1948 through 1981. In addition to photographing objects in the collections, he also documented the museum's exhibits, events and participated in several research trips.

Initially begun in 1968, research and field work conducted for the "Traditional Pottery in Mexico" exhibition was led by Lewis Krevolin, a ceramicist and art historian at Duchess Community College. The project was supported by the State University of New York Research Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation along with the Duchess Community College. In March of 1973, at the suggestion of Frederick Dockstader, director of the Museum of the American Indian, MAI staff photographer Carmelo Guadagno accompanied Lewis "Lew" Krevolin on his field survey of traditional pottery in Mexico. In addition to photographically recording their trip, Guadagno also assisted in interviews with indigenous potters. The field survey covered 30 villages in the Mexican states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Puebla, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Jalisco, and Morelos. In addition to the photographs shot during the trip, Krevolin collected 125 pottery vessels along with tools and material samples. The Jenny and Lewis Krevolin Collection of Mexican ceramics was donated to the Museum of the American Indian in December of 1973 and the exhibition "Traditional Pottery of Mexico" opened at the Museum in December of 1976.

Related Materials:

Pottery and other materials collected during this trip can be found in NMAI's ethnographic collections with catalog numbers 24/8500 – 24/8695.

Photographs of the pottery collected during this trip can be found in the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation photographs collection (NMAI.AC.001.002) in the "Object Photography" series (N40964 - N41123 ; N41234).

Documents, correspondence and field notes from Carmelo Guadagno related to this trip can be found in the Museum of the American/Heye Foundation records (NMAI.AC.001) in Box 32, Folder 9 and Box 394, Folder 4a.

Provenance:

Gift of Lewis and Jenny Krevolin in 1973.

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).

Rights:

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive 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.

Topic:

Pottery -- Mexico  Search this

Indians of Mexico -- Photographs  Search this

Genre/Form:

Negatives

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Field photographs for "Traditional Pottery of Mexico" exhibition, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001.058

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Field photographs for "Traditional Pottery of Mexico" exhibition

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

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https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sv4857be96a-eb6d-4083-9dee-a8dfe26d0749

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-058