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.
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Date:
1898
Scope and Contents:
Group, Including Shaman with Bell and with Instrument Made of Wood Bowl, Notched Brazil Wood (?) Stick, and Rasping Stick, All in Costume, Around Fire/ Group, Including Non-Native Man, Near Pole Fence/ Stone Wall Nearby
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.07621700
Local Note:
See: Carl Lumholtz, "Unknown Mexico", Vol 1, P 242, 369, 1902
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Date:
1898
Scope and Contents:
Group, Including 2 Men Dancing, and Shaman with Instrument Made Of Bowl, Notched Brazil Wood (?) Stick and Rasping Stick, All In Costume, Around Fire/ Group in Costume Beside Pole Fence/ Stone Wall Nearby
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.07621800
Local Note:
See: Carl Lumholtz, "Unknown Mexico", Vol 1, P 242, 369, 1902
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographic prints
Photographs
Date:
1898
Scope and Contents:
Group, Including 2 Women Dancing, and Shaman with Instrument Made Of Wood Bowl, Notched Brazil Wood (/) Stick, and Rasping Stick, All in Costume, Around Fire/ Group in Costume Beside Pole Fence/ Stone Wall Nearby
Local Numbers:
NAA INV.07621900
Local Note:
See: Carl Lumholtz, "Unknown Mexico", Vol 1, P 242, 369, 1902
This collection contains 50 black-and-white photographic prints and 7 negatives taken by George W. Avery during his time as an agent for the Museum of the American Indian. Taken in 1910 in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua and Sinaloa, Mexico, the images depict members of the Seri, Mayo and Tarahumara tribes.
Arrangement note:
Negatives: organized in individual sleeves; arranged by negative number.
Prints: organized in folders; arranged by print number.
Biographical/Historical note:
George W. Avery (1880-1927) was a collector and agent for the Heye Foundation/Museum of the American Indian. In 1926, Avery collected for the museum in Mexico, possibly in the company of E.H. Davis. He also purchased pieces for Heye/MAI in Alaska.
Restrictions:
Access is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment.
Rights:
Copyright: National Museum of the American Indian.
Genre/Form:
Black-and-white negatives
Photographs
Citation:
George W. Avery photographs and negatives, National Museum of the American Indian Archives, Smithsonian Institution (photograph or negative number).
Images of Tarahumara people celebrating Easter and Holy Week in and near Basihuare, Guachochi and Chihuahua City in Chihuaha, Mexico. The collection includes images of a church and other buildings, dances and people in dance regalia, spectators, musicians, encampments, and a market.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 96-8
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Footage of other Tarahumara Easter ceremonies held in the Human Studies Film Archives in HSFA 82.10.2 and HSFA 87.15.1.
