Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Purchase and partial donation.
A number of Indian pottery crafts are displayed. The item is number 183 in the series Views in New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico. The image is of the same pottery, but is not identical to number 197 of Photo Lot 90-1. The item is identical to number 290 of Photo Lot 90-1.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A number of Indian pottery crafts are displayed. The item is number 183 in the series Views in New Mexico and Arizona. The image is of the same pottery, but is not identical to number 196.
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
A number of Indian pottery crafts are displayed. The item is identical to number 196 of Photo Lot 90-1. The item is unnumbered but is part of the series Views Representing Specimens of Indian Pottery and Statuary Both Ancient and Modern.
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.09849900
Other Title:
Views Representing Specimens of Indian Pottery and Statuary Both Ancient and Modern
Photo Lot 90-1, George V. Allen collection of photographs of Native Americans and the American frontier, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
1 Film reel (27 minutes, black-and-white silent; 717 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Silent films
Place:
Asia
India
Burma
Malaysia
Vietnam
Japan
Date:
1938-1939
Scope and Contents:
Edited film of a trip to Asia to view a variety of pottery techniques. The film concentrates on Indian pottery making, primarily in the Delhi Pottery Works and Puri, but also includes brief sequences of pottery making in Burma, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Japan. Film was shot in 1938-1939 by Adelaide Pearson, founder of Rowantree Pottery in Blue Hill, Maine.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Local Numbers:
HSFA 1991.2.1
Provenance:
Received from David Weiss, Northeast Historic Film, in 1991.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Outtakes from edited film shows a woman and her children unpacking a pottery kiln and cooling the earthenware pots with liquid dowsed on by leafy branches. Children are shown carrying the fired pots into a side room of the house for storage; shots of house exterior with painted wall decorations. Shots of an old woman gathering corn stalks along a path as fodder for her cow; interview footage at another homestead of an old man talking about his illness; interview with an unemployed young man along a path discussing causes of unemployment, the nature of his skills, size of his family, inheritance of land, and prospects for the future.
Credits:
Ssennyonga, Joseph (Social Anthropologist)
Strasburg, Ivan (Cameraman)
McDuffie, Michael (Soundman)
Legacy Keywords: Pottery earthenware unglazed ; Kilns pottery ; Crafts self-employment ; Houses decorations ; Illness family support ; Hunger ideas about ; Employment labor supply ; Language and culture
General:
Local Numbers: HSFA 1978.2.1 (RF 30)
Collection Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
Collection Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Collection Citation:
Sandra Nichols collection, Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America Search this
Extent:
2.3 Linear feet
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Scrapbooks
Video recordings
Date:
1895-2000
bulk 1940s-2000
Summary:
The papers of ceramicists and educators Otto and Vivika Heino measure 2.3 linear feet and date from 1895 to 2002, with the bulk of the records dating from the 1940s to 2000. The material documents the lives and careers of Otto and Vivika Heino through a mix of personal and professional papers, printed material, a video recording of a documentary, and photographs.
Scope and Contents:
The papers of ceramicists and educators Otto and Vivika Heino measure 2.3 linear feet and date from 1895 to 2002, with the bulk of the records dating from the 1940s to 2000. The material documents the lives and careers of Otto and Vivika Heino through a mix of personal and professional papers, printed material, a video recording of a documentary, and photographs.
Personal and professional papers consist of correspondence, personal business records, exhibition papers, scant financial records, resumes, writings, and a video recording of a documentary titled "You Are the Miracle: Exploring the Creative Process."
Printed material includes newspaper and magazine clippings, mailings and advertisements from The Pottery, announcements, advertisements, and some catalogs from Heino exhibitions, studio events, and sales. Printed material can also be found in two scrapbooks.
Photographs depict Otto and Vivika working and teaching in their studios, exhibitions, professional events, family and friends and friendly gatherings, marionette shows, pets, and properties.
Arrangement:
This collection is arranged as three series.
Series 1: Personal and Professional Papers, 1942-2000 (Box 1; 0.8 linear feet)
Series 2: Printed Material, 1933-2000 (Box 1, 3; 0.7 linear feet)
Series 3: Photographs, 1895-2000, bulk 1940s-1990s (Box 1-3; 0.8 linear feet)
Biographical / Historical:
Vivika and Otto Heino were ceramicists and educators active primarily in California, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
Vivika Heino (1910-1995) was born Vivika Place in Caledonia, New York. She attended Rochester Normal School and took a sculpture class, a drawing class at the Memorial Art Gallery, and a design class at the University of Rochester Extension. She then attended Colorado College of Education where she received her BA and became involved with puppeteering. By 1934 she had moved to California, where she apprenticed with a bookbinder, Mr. Bitteroff, making candlesticks, tin trays, and other small crafts. She also apprenticed with wood carver Charlie Sayers in Carmel, carving picture frames and furniture for about seven months, before learning weaving at Swedish Applied Arts in San Francisco.
While at Swedish Applied Arts, Place worked and became friends with Harry Dixon, Armank Harranian, Margaret Gravandar, and Bill Saroyan. She also found time to work as a puppeteer with Ralph Chesse and the Works Progress Administration. She also began studying pottery with Manuel Eugene Jalanivich at California University of Fine Arts, and subsequently focused primarily on pottery for the rest of her career.
Place began working with Glen Lukens at the University of Southern California in 1940. Lukens and Dr. Morley, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, recommended her for a scholarship at New York State College of Ceramics in Alfred, New York, from which she graduated in 1944. She subsequently took a teaching position at the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts where she met Otto Heino.
One of twelve siblings, Otto Heino (1915-2009) was born in East Hampton, Connecticut, to a market gardening family of Finnish descent. The family moved to New Hampshire to sell milk when Otto was 12, and around that time he began apprenticing as a wood turner for Louie Harr. Heino was then drafted into the military and became a gunner in the United States Air Force. Between flying twenty-five missions in Europe, Heino took classes in England, made jewelry, did wood working, traveled to museums, and met individual potters and silversmiths. After visiting Leach's Pottery in Cornwall, and investigating pottery in other parts of Europe, Otto was determined to study pottery on the GI Bill on his return to the United States.
Otto and Vivika met while Otto was a student at the League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, where Vivian was an instructor. They married in 1950 and went on to establish their reputations as artists and educators by widely exhibiting their work, leading workshops, conducting studio open houses, consulting on film productions, and teaching at various schools and institutions. They both taught at the University of Southern California, the Chouinard Art Institute, and Rhode Island School of Design; Vivika also taught at the Sheridan School of Design in Ontario, Canada, and New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. They operated The Potter, a studio and retail store in Ojai, California, from 1973 to 1995.
The work of Otto and Vivika Heino can be found in the collections of many museums, including the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Ariana Museum, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Provenance:
The collection was donated in 2003 and 2004 by Otto Heino as part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.
Restrictions:
This collection is open for research. Access to original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center. Researchers interested in accessing born-digital records or audiovisual recordings in this collection must use access copies. Contact References Services for more information.
Rights:
The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
Otto and Vivika Heino Papers, 1895-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
The processing of this collection received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
Photographs made by Eugene H. Boudreau depicting Tarahumara people, ceremonies (including Easter observances), villages, and craftspeople. The collection documents activities including weaving and textiles, brickmaking, pottery making, basketmaking, hatmaking, and food preparation. There are also images of a mercury mine, an archeological excavation, scenery of the Tarahumara Mountains and images of masks and other artifacts probably at Boudreau's house in California.
Biographical/Historical note:
Eugene H. Boudreau (b. 1934) was born in Los Angeles, California, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in geology (1959). He traveled to Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, for the first time while working as a mining geologist. As a result of his interest in the residents of these states, Boudreau began to collect the histories, textiles, and information about the Mestizo and indigenous Mexican peoples. He first visited the Tarahumara in the mountains of Sinaloa and Chihuahua in 1960. Over the ensuing forty years, Boudreau collected artifacts, conducted research, and published a series of books on the culture of the area.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 99-47
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Anthropological Archives holds Eugene H. Boudreau's papers.
Mexican objects collected by Boudreau held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 416144.
Photographs documenting people in built and natural environments, made by S. Hogg in Kashmir. The photographs depict people in boats, gardens, streets, and their homes and performing daily activities. Prints are signed and captions are inscribed in pencil on the prints.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 4986
General note:
Date supplied by William Sturtevant, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Postcards
Prints
Photographs
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents note:
Photographs depicting Maria Martinez of San Ildefonso holding examples of her pottery, probably at San Ildefonso Pueblo.
Biographical/Historical note:
Maria Martinez (1887-1980) was an internationally-known potter from San Ildefonso Pueblo. With her husband Julian and the rest of her family, she created contemporary pottery inspired by traditional Pueblo styles and techniques. The family demonstrated their craft at expositions, world's fairs, and the Renwick Gallery in Washington, DC.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 81-14, USNM ACC 339407
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional photographs of Maria Martinez and her pottery can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 79-18, Photo Lot 80-4, and Photo Lot 89-43.
Pottery by Martinez can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 339407.
2 Film reels (color sound print; 1,137 feet, 16mm)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Film reels
Sound films
Place:
East Asia
Japan
Date:
1966
Scope and Contents:
"Potters of Japan" parts one and two, 1966, made by Richard and Marjorie Peeler.
Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or Anthropology Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
Provenance:
Received from Marjorie Peeler in 2005.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research. Please contact the archives for information on availability of access copies of audiovisual recordings. Original audiovisual material in the Human Studies Film Archives may not be played.
