101 Stories from the Field,Research; Planning Exhibitions / Alyce Sadongei, Karen Cooper, Thomas Vennum.
102 Conservation / William L. Withuhn, Dennis Martinez, Lonn Taylor.
Local Numbers:
FP-1996-CT-0114
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Washington (D.C.), United States, July 5, 1996.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. Some duplication is allowed. Use of materials needs permission of the Smithsonian Institution.
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.
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Extent:
1 Photographic print
Container:
Photo-folder 2005.0002
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Scope and Contents:
Outdoor photograph of Y.M.C.A. singer Felipe Rose (Lakota).
Separated Materials:
This photograph was donated to NMAI with a gold record, (Catalog # 26/5129)
Provenance:
Gift of Felipe Rose, 2005.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
The General Photograph collections contains photographs depicting people, events, and activities related to the historical and contemporary lives of Native peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Scope and Contents:
The General Photograph collections is comprised of individual small collections of photographs that were acquired by the Archive Center from various sources. These small collections are presented together under a single collection for easy access and depict the historical and contemporary lives of Native peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere.
Arrangement:
This collection is organized in folders by accession numbers.
Biographical / Historical:
The photographs in this collection were shot by a variety of photographers and depict many different people and scenes. For specific biographical and historical notes please see individual photographs listed in this guide.
Provenance:
The National Museum of the American Indian and its predecessor, Museum of the American Indian, acquired the photographs in this collection from 1916 to the present.
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.
Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
2015.0049- Fort Wrangell Tlingit Industrial School photograph
Collection Collector:
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Search this
Extent:
1 Photograph
Container:
Photo-folder 2015.0049
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographs
Date:
circa 1886-1887
Scope and Contents:
Albumen print on a studio cabinet card photographed by Winter & Brown (Eugene City, OR) circa 1886-1887. The photograph depicts students and teachers from the Fort Wrangell Tlingit Industrial School in Alaska posing outside a building. The school founder Rev. S. Hall Young is the taller man in the middle. The other individuals in the photograph are unidentified.
Provenance:
The photograph was donated by Murray Scher in 2015.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Photographic print
Container:
Photo-folder 2017.0028
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Date:
circa 1905
Scope and Contents:
Studio portrait depicting Doyaby (Kiowa) in traditional clothing. The photograph is attached to a card mount, which also features a 1905 calendar attached to the bottom. The following is also handwritten on the mount, "Doyaby Kiowa."
Provenance:
This photograph was donated by Crayton Walker in 2017.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Photograph
Container:
Photo-folder 2015.0012
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographs
Date:
circa 1900-1905
Scope and Contents:
Gelatin silver print depicting Goyathlay (Geronimo) photographed by E. W. Logston circa 1900-1905. There is a signature on the card mount purportedly made by Goyathlay. The following is also stamped on the card mount: "GERONIMO in his famous war bonnet. Copyrighted E. W. Logston, Lowton, Okla."
Provenance:
Bequest of Catherine Horne, 2015.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Photographic print
Container:
Photo-folder 2014.0065
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Date:
1910
Scope and Contents:
Postcard of a Grace Chandler Horn photograph entitled, Departure of the Warriors. The postcard depicts an annual Ojibway performance in Wayagamug, Michigan of Longfellow's poem, A Song of Hiawatha. The photograph was published for Indian handicraft shop and theater in Wayagamug, Michigan.
Provenance:
Donated by an anonymous source in 2014.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Photograph
Container:
Photo-folder 2015.0020
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographs
Date:
1913
Scope and Contents:
Gelatin silver postcard photographed by E. L. Woodin on March 16, 1913 and depicts the funeral of Chief Mato He Hlogeca, also known as Hollow-Horn Bear of the Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux) tribe. The photograph depicts pallbearers carrying a casket out of St. Paul's Church (now St. Augustine Church) on 15th and V streets, NW in Washington, DC. Behind the casket are six American Indian Chiefs (although only one is visible) and include Richard Wallace [Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)], John Carl (Chippewa/Ojibwa), Thomas L. Sloan (Omaha), P.H. Kennerly (Blackfeet), J.N.B. Hewitt (Seneca), and Joseph Craig (Umatilla).
A handwritten description about Hollow Horn Bear's death and funeral is on the back of the photograph, possibly written by the photographer.
Provenance:
The photograph was donated by Kai Schafft in 2015.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Photograph
Container:
Photo-folder 2017.0007
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographs
Date:
1905
Scope and Contents:
One Keystone View Company stereograph depicting six Chiefs riding in President Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration parade on March 4, 1905. Individuals depicted include Goyathlay (Geronimo; Chiricahua Apache), Quanah Parker (Comanche), Buckskin Charlie (Ute), Hollow Horn Bear (Brule Sioux), American Horse (Oglala Lakota), and Little Plume (Piegan Blackfeet). The photo was probably shot by B. L. Singley.
Provenance:
The photograph was donated by Ken Maley in 2017.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Photographic print
Container:
Oversize 1
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Date:
2012
Scope and Contents:
Photograph depicting a group of protesters at an Idle No More (#IdleNoMore) rally in Arizona, 2012. Protesters carry flags and signs as they march through the streets. Idle No More is a Canadian First Nations movement and Native communities in Arizona held this rally to show their support and solidarity for the cause.
Provenance:
Donated by Donovan Shortey in 2017.
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:
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.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
2 Photographic prints
Container:
Oversize 1
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Date:
1881-1898
Scope and Contents:
The first photograph is "Totem Poles of Alaskan Indians, " which depicts Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, now Haida Gwaii. The albumen print is by Isaiah West Taber made from a 1881 negative by Edward Dossetter. The second photograph is "Cayuse Twins - Crying." This photo depicts two twins Tox-e-lox and A-lim-pum (also known as Ema and Edna Jones) in cradleboards. Platinum print by Major Lee Moorhouse, 1898. Both photographs are matted.
Provenance:
Gift of Wm. B. Becker in memory of Dee Brown, 2018.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Photograph depicting a portrait of a Ganondagan Dancer (Seneca) that was photographed by Kyleen James (Passamaquoddy) circa 2009. The photograph may have been shot at the Ganondagan Native American Dance and Music Festival held in New York.
Provenance:
Donated by Kayleen James in 2009.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
This lot consists of three photographs. One photograph depicts a Hopi Chief by photographer Norman Rhodes Garrett, Prescott, Arizona, circa 1950. The second photo is a negative depicting a Jemez Buffalo Dancer Felix Frague photographed by Ralph Anderson in New Mexico on August 15, 1940. The third photograph is of an unidentified man.
Provenance:
Gift of Neal McKinley, 2014.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
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Extent:
1 Photographic print
Container:
Oversize 1
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographic prints
Place:
Oregon
Date:
1905
Scope and Contents:
One photographic print entitled, "Indian Madonna," photographed by Benjamin A. Gifford, circa 1905. The photo depicts a young Native American mother and infant from the Columbia River Plateau in The Dalles, Oregon.
Biographical / Historical:
Benjamin A. Gifford (1859-1936) was born in DuPage County, Illinois. He worked as a photographer in Portland and The Dalles, Oregon. His work includes depictions of Native Americans, primarily of the Columbia Plateau region; the Columbia River and the Historic Columbia River Highway; and Central and Eastern Oregon.
Provenance:
Gift of Yeshiva University from the Hedi Steinberg Library in 2012.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
2004.0044- Photographs related to Commander John B. Herrington (Chickasaw) and Flight STS-113 of Space Shuttle Endeavor
Collection Collector:
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Search this
Extent:
3 Photographs
Container:
Oversize 1
Photo-folder 2004.0044
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Photographs
Date:
1996
Scope and Contents:
This set of photos includes a photo collage, which features photographs, a small American flag, and flight patch. The collage reads, "This United States flag was flown aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour, STS-77, May 19-29, 1996, orbiting the Earth 160 times, traveling 4.1 million miles. Presented to The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the crew of the Endeavour, STS-113. [Signed] John B. Herrington / Mission Specialist"
Also included in this lot are 2 photographs of an eagle feather floating on the Space Shuttle Endeavour. The feather was presented by native elder Phil Lane, Sr. (Yankton Sioux) to Commander John B. Herrington (Chickasaw) in a religious ceremony and subsequently taken on a mission into space by Commander Herrington.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shot the photographs.
Separated Materials:
This collection was also donated with a Flute and a Certificate of Authentication related to Commander John B. Herrington and Flight STS-113 of Space Shuttle Endeavor. These are cataloged under object numbers 264550.
Provenance:
Gift of Commander John B. Herrington, 2004.
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).
Rights:
NMAI does not hold rights to the photographs. Please contact the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for permission to use these images.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Glass plate negative and photograph depicting two Lakota leaders Kicking Bear (on left) and Short Bull (on right), photographed outdoors. The photograph was shot or collected by Lt. Blanton C. Welsh.
Provenance:
Gift of Rick Wiggin, 2020.
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:
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.
Collection Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); General Photograph collections, Box and Folder Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.