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Expedition:

River Basin Surveys, (Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology)  Search this

Preparation:

Dry

Place:

W of Trenton, Indian Village site, Trenton Reservoir, Hitchcock County, Nebraska, United States

Collection Date:

1950

Common name:

Freshwater Bivalves

Published Name:

Quadrula quadrula (Rafinesque, 1820)

Other Numbers:

Sort Order : SL-R25-C086-5

USNM Number:

595410

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Invertebrate Zoology

Mollusca

Data Source:

NMNH - Invertebrate Zoology Dept.

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31fdaf74e-cb51-4132-80db-0475a7650d39

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmnhinvertebratezoology_13801558

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Type:

Photographs

Date:

1910?

Topic:

Native American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA)10600

See more items in:

Allen Tupper True and True family papers, 1841-1987

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_item_10600

Measurements:

overall -horn: 15 in x 19 in; 38.1 cm x 48.26 cm

Object Name:

phonograph horn

Other Terms:

Mechanical

Credit Line:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

ID Number:

ME.313451.01

Catalog number:

313451

Accession number:

186797

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Work and Industry: Mechanisms

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a6-aadb-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_855878

Expedition director:

Powell, John Wesley  Search this

Transfer:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Physical Description:

metal, copper (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 5.08 cm x 335.28 cm; 2 in x 132 in

overall: 26 in x 26 in; 66.04 cm x 66.04 cm

Object Name:

Font, Baptismal

baptismal font, copper

Place made:

United States: Arizona

Location where used:

United States: Arizona

Date made:

ca. 1811

Subject:

Roman Catholicism  Search this

Credit Line:

Gift of I.T. Whittmore

ID Number:

CL.135348

Catalog number:

135348

135348

Accession number:

24012

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Cultural and Community Life: Religion

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746aa-aae9-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_659672

Associated user:

unknown  Search this

Physical Description:

cloth (overall material)

cotton, string (overall material)

fiber, plant (overall material)

Measurements:

overall: 24 in x 2 in x 3/4 in; 60.96 cm x 5.08 cm x 1.905 cm

Object Name:

Whip

Place made:

United States: New Mexico

Location where used:

United States: New Mexico

Subject:

Roman Catholicism  Search this

Credit Line:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology

ID Number:

CL.234786

Accession number:

43829

Catalog number:

234786

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Cultural and Community Life: Religion

Data Source:

National Museum of American History

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a4-b95c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:nmah_661417

Culture/People:

probably Multiple archaeological cultures (attributed), including Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian Traditions  Search this

Collector:

George Hubbard Pepper (GHP), Non-Indian, 1873-1924  Search this

Expedition:

Nacoochee Mound Expedition (1915)  Search this

Expedition leader:

George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957  Search this

Expedition sponsor:

George Gustav Heye (GGH), Non-Indian, 1874-1957  Search this

Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE), 1879-1965  Search this

Object Name:

Bifacial tool/projectile point

Media/Materials:

Stone

Techniques:

Flaked/chipped

Object Type:

Tools and Equipment (General)

Place:

Ivylog; Union County; Georgia; USA

Date created:

3000 BC-AD 1600

Catalog Number:

4/2817

Barcode:

042817.001

See related items:

Multiple archaeological cultures

Tools and Equipment (General)

Data Source:

National Museum of the American Indian

GUID:

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws64f072252-54af-4fff-a1c4-982464c58c8d

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:NMAI_46203

Creator:

Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961  Search this

Source:

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Former owner:

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Names:

Bautista, Bob, c.1843-1923  Search this

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

Heye, Thea  Search this

Extent:

17 Negatives (photographic)

16 Photographic prints

2 Copy negatives

Culture:

Chumash  Search this

Tachi Yokuts  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Negatives (photographic)

Photographic prints

Copy negatives

Place:

Santa Barbara -- California -- archeology

Ventura County (Calif.)

Santa Barbara (Calif.)

Date:

1923

Summary:

Negatives and photographic prints taken by John Peabody Harrington in Santa Barbara and Ventura County, California in 1923. John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) was an ethnologist and linguist who specialized in the Native peoples of California and served with the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology from 1915 to 1955. Beyond his efforts to document innumerable Native languages, Harrington also collected objects for the Bureau of Ethnology and on his own. Photographs in this collection accompanied the objects he sold to or collected for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Scope and Contents:

The John Peabody Harrington photographs from California include negatives and photographic prints taken in 1923 by Harrington while in the field. All of the negatives were taken at the Ventura County fair in the fall of 1923. These photographs depict a group of Chumash men building a grass lodge, organized by J.P. Harrington, as well as Bob Bautista, a Tachi Yokuts man, demonstrating traditional boat and house building. George Gustav Heye is pictured in several shots while the Chumash grass lodge is being built. Prints [P11568-P11572] were made from the aforementioned negatives. There is also one copy negative made from one of the subsequent prints.

The remainder of the photographic prints in this collection were taken during the Burton Mound expedition, funded by Thea Heye and led by John Peabody Harrington in 1923. Photographs taken by Harrington show workers excavating the mound as well images of the mound itself. There are four additional photographs from Burton Mound that were not taken by Harrington. These include an image Of J.P Harrington, D.B. Rogers and George W. Bayley standing with excavated materials. Some of these photographs have been restricted due to cultural sensitivity.

Arrangement:

Physically arranged by catalog number. Negatives: N08762-N08766, N08964-N08975, N35868, N36678. Prints: P06039, P05564-P05566, P09497-P09502, P11568-P11572, P28107.

Biographical / Historical:

John Peabody Harrington (1884-1961) was an ethnologist and linguist employed by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) for forty years, from 1915 to 1955. He came to the Smithsonian after training at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. He became interested in Native American languages upon meeting historically renowned anthropologist A. L. Kroeber. J. P. Harrington was reportedly fluent in nine international languages and eighteen Native American languages.

In 1923, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye foundation provided funding for J.P. Harrington to lead an expedition in Santa Barbara, California to excavate the Burton Mound.

Additional information on John Peabody Harrington can be found on the National Anthropological Archives' website, home to his collection.

Related Materials:

Archaeological materials excavated from Burton Mound can be found in NMAI's archaeological collection. For more information on these object please contact NMAICollections@si.edu.

Provenance:

The negatives were acquired from John Peabody Harrington by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation shortly after they were taken in 1923. It is likely that prints [P11568-P11572] were made from the negatives some time in the 1930s. Prints from Burton Mound [P09497-P09502] were cataloged by the MAI in 1929 though the additional Burton Mound prints arrived with the collection in 1923. The provenance of P06039 and P28107 is unknown.

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).

Some images restriced: Cultural Sensitivity.

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 users to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not changed, 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.

Topic:

Mounds -- California -- Santa Barbara  Search this

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); John Peabody Harrington photographs from California, Photo Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001.040

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John Peabody Harrington photographs from California

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-040

Creator:

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

Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation  Search this

Source:

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

Names:

Nacoochee Mound Expedition, 1915  Search this

Coffin, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), b. 1883  Search this

Heye, Thea  Search this

Hodge, Frederick Webb, 1864-1956  Search this

Turbyfill, Charles Orr, 1888-1966  Search this

Former owner:

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

Extent:

13 Photographic prints (silver gelatin)

120 Glass plate negatives

125 Copy negatives (acetate)

Culture:

Mississippian Tradition (archaeological culture)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographic prints

Glass plate negatives

Copy negatives

Slides (photographs)

Photographs

Black-and-white negatives

Place:

Nacoochee Valley (Ga.)

Date:

1915

Summary:

The photographs in this collection document the excavation of the Nacoochee Mound, located along the banks of the upper Chattahoochee River in the mountains of northeast Georgia, in the summer of 1915. The excavation was a joint project between the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and the Bureau of American Ethnology.

Scope and Contents:

The Nacoochee Mound excavation photographs consists of glass plate negatives, photographic prints and copy negatives related to the joint effort of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology to excavate the mound in the summer of 1915. The photographic materials primarily depict the mound photographed from various directions before and during excavation, but also objects and antiquities exhumed from the mound and members of the field team posed singly and as a group on the mound site, including George G. Heye and his wife Thea Heye. Any photographs that include images of burials or human remains have been restricted. Other MAI staff photographed include Frederick Webb Hodge, Charles Turbyfill and Edwin Coffin. George Gustav Heye is listed as the photographer but it is much more likely that George Hubbard Pepper or another one of the MAI staff shot the photographs.

Glass negatives include N00478-N00597. The copy negatives (acetate) have the same N #'s as the glass plate negatives and also include N34266, N36690-N36693, which are copies of the photographic prints. These copy negatives were made by the Museum of the American Indian sometime in the 1960s as part of a large photograph conservation project. Silver gelatin prints include P11593-P11605.

Arrangement note:

Arranged by catalog number.

Biographical/Historical note:

Between May and October of 1915, the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology collaborated to excavate the Nacoochee Mound, located in the Nacooche Valley along the upper Chattahoochee River in northeast Georgia. One of the earliest scientific excavations of its kind in the state of Georgia, the Nacoochee Mound excavation was headed by Frederick Webb Hodge and George Hubbard Pepper and found evidence of at least two mound stages with a total of seventy-five human burials, some of them intrusive from a later time. George Heye, Hodge, and Pepper's co-authored paper, "The Nacoochee Mound in Georgia," appeared in vol. 4, no. 3 of Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Although there is also evidence for previous occupation, archaeological evidence at the Nacoochee Mound site and the nearby Eastwood site suggests that these two mound sites probably served as local, primarily administrative, centers during the Middle Lamar Period (approximately late fifteenth to early sixteenth centuries). (particularly Eastwood) The village around Nacoochee Mound has not been excavated but is possibly the site of Nacoochee or Chota, two Cherokee villages documented by Colonel George Chicken's 1715 expedition. These two towns continued to appear on maps until the mid-eighteenth century but were abandoned shortly thereafter.

Separated Materials:

See George Pepper's field notes from the Nacoochee Mound, 1915 in the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation records (NMAI.AC.001) in Box 191, Folder 4-8. All archaeological materials from this excavation can be found in NMAI's archaeology collections.

Provenance:

The negatives are field photographs created by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in 1915. It is still not clear when or how the photographic prints came to the Museum of the American Indian, though they were cataloged sometime around 1935.

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). Some photographs are restricted due to cultural sensitivity.

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:

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Georgia -- Nacoochee Valley (Ga.)  Search this

Mounds -- Georgia -- Nacoochee Valley (Ga.)  Search this

Antiquities -- Georgia -- Nacoochee Valley (Ga.)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Georgia  Search this

Indians of North America -- Georgia -- Nacoochee Valley (Ga.) -- Antiqiuties  Search this

Genre/Form:

Slides (photographs)

Photographic prints

Photographs

Black-and-white negatives

Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Nacoochee Mound excavation photographs, Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NMAI.AC.001.007

See more items in:

Nacoochee Mound excavation photographs

Archival Repository:

National Museum of the American Indian

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-nmai-ac-001-007

Creator:

Lubken, Walter J., 1881-1960  Search this

Names:

Rio Grande Project (U.S.)  Search this

Salt River Project.  Search this

United States. Bureau of Reclamation  Search this

Yuma Project (U.S.)  Search this

Extent:

19 Prints (silver gelatin)

2 Prints (albumen)

Culture:

White Mountain Apache  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Apache  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Photographs

Place:

Casa Grande (Ariz.)

Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.)

Mesilla Valley (N.M.)

Fort Selden (N.M.)

Date:

circa 1904-1906

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs made during the Rio Grande Project in New Mexico, Salt River Project in Arizona, and Yuma Project in Arizona and California. The collection includes images of scenery, roads and wagons, Apache workers, dams, farms, and remains of Fort Selden, Fort McRae, and Mesilla Jail. There are also two images, possibly not made by Lubken and probably made before 1900, of Casa Grande castle.

Biographical/Historical note:

Walter J. Lubken (1881–1960) was an official photographer for the United States Reclamation Service (now Bureau of Reclamation) from 1903 to 1917. While in this position, he documented irrigation projects in the American West. Lubken left the Reclamation Service and the photography profession in 1917, but returned to photograph the construction of the Hoover Dam (formerly Boulder Dam) in the 1930s.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 87-2H

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs by Lubken can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24 and the BAE historical negatives.

The National Archives and Records Administration and the Sharlot Hall Museum hold photographs by Lubken.

Contained in:

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collections, undated

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 87-2H, Walter J. Lubken photographs of the Salt River, Rio Grande, and Yuma Projects, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.87-2H

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-87-2h

Collector:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Photographer:

Bennett & Brown  Search this

Caswell & Davy  Search this

Continent Stereoscopic Company  Search this

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)  Search this

J. Gurney & Son  Search this

Whitney & Zimmerman  Search this

Barker, George, 1844-1894  Search this

Bennett, H. H. (Henry Hamilton), 1843-1908  Search this

Brown, William Henry, 1844-1886  Search this

Childs, B. F. (Brainard F.), ca. 1841-1921  Search this

Cross, W. R. (William R.)  Search this

Doerr, H. A. (Henry A.), 1826-1885  Search this

Haynes, F. Jay (Frank Jay), 1853-1921  Search this

Heister, H. T., (Henry T.), -1895  Search this

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

Jarvis, J. F. (John F.), b. 1850  Search this

Morrow, Stanley J.  Search this

Payne, H. T.  Search this

Robinson, H. N.  Search this

Savage, C. R. (Charles Roscoe), 1832-1909  Search this

Singley, B. L. (Benjamin Lloyd)  Search this

Soule, John P.  Search this

Whitney, Joel E. (Joel Emmons), 1822-1886  Search this

Wittick, Ben, 1845-1903  Search this

Publisher:

Florida Club (Cooperative)  Search this

Keystone View Company  Search this

Underwood & Underwood  Search this

Brubaker, C. B.  Search this

Names:

Curly, approximately 1856-1923  Search this

Red Cloud, 1822-1909  Search this

Sitting Bull, 1831-1890  Search this

Extent:

70 Stereographs (circa, albumen)

Culture:

Arctic peoples  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)  Search this

Seneca  Search this

Numakiki (Mandan)  Search this

Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)  Search this

Nuwuvi (Southern Paiute)  Search this

Tewa Pueblos  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Sisitonwan Dakota (Sisseton Sioux)  Search this

Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)  Search this

Tuscarora  Search this

Ute  Search this

Eskimos  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Isleta Pueblo  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Kiowa  Search this

Laguna Pueblo  Search this

Sahnish (Arikara)  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Minitari (Hidatsa)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Stereographs

Photographs

Date:

late 19th century-early 20th century

Scope and Contents note:

Stereographs documenting Native North Americans, including studio portraits, camps and dwellings, graves, infants in cradleboards, and pottery. Specific images portray Sitting Bull's camp at Fort Randall, Curly at the Custer monument, and a Southern Plains delegation at the White House Conservatory. Tribes represented include Winnebago, Tuscarora, Tesuque, Seneca, San Juan, Pecos, Ojibwa, Oglala, Ute, Kaibab, Sisseton, Arikara, Mandan, Hopi, Shoshoni, Isleta, and Laguna, as well as Native peoples of Alaska and Labrador.

The photographs were published by a variety of firms including E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, George Barker, H. H. Bennett, Bennett & Brown, W. Henry Brown, Caswell & Davy, Childs Art Gallery, B. B. Brubaker, Continent Stereo Company, W. R. Cross, H. A. Doerr, J. Gurney & Son, Haynes, H. T. Hiester, John K. Hillers, William H. Jackson, J. F. Jarvis, Keystone View Company, B. L. Singley, S. J. Morrow, H. T. Payne, H. N. Robinson, C. R. Savage, John P. Soule, Underwood & Underwood, Whitney's Gallery, Whitney & Zimmerman, and Ben Wittick.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 140

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs by these photographers can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in additional collections of stereographs relating to Native Americans (MS 4551 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:

Dwellings  Search this

Cradleboards  Search this

Pottery  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Photo lot 140, Bureau of American Ethnology collection of stereographs relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.140

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-140

Creator:

DeRasitt, James  Search this

Collection Collector:

Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798-1851  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Date:

April 19, 1885

Local Numbers:

NAA MS

Place:

Pecan Point Arkansas

Forms part of:

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Division of Mound Exploration Arkansas administrative correspondence 1884-1886

Topic:

Arkansas -- Pecan Point -- Archeology -- Mounds  Search this

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 2500, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 2500 Extract from "Outlines of the ancient history of medicine: being a view of the progress of the healing art among the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Arabians"

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms2500-ref1

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Photographs

Date:

undated

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1671

Topic:

United States -- Archeology -- Pictographs  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Citation:

Manuscript 1671, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS1671

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MS 1671 Miscellaneous group of photos showing pictographs mostly in western states

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1671

Creator:

Heasley, Uno J., U.S. Public Service, Fort Stanton, New Mexico  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Extent:

1 Print

Type:

Archival materials

Prints

Date:

October 13, 1913

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1671, New Mexico

Forms part of:

Heasley, Uno J. Photograph of petroglyph from Fort Stanton, New Mexico October 13, 1913

Topic:

New Mexico -- Fort Stanton -- Archeology -- Pictographs  Search this

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 1671, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 1671 Miscellaneous group of photos showing pictographs mostly in western states

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms1671-ref23

Creator:

Scott, Walter V.  Search this

Collection Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Type:

Archival materials

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1671, California

Forms part of:

Scott, Walter V. Sketch of petroglyphs near Reedley, California

Topic:

California -- Reedley -- Archeology -- Pictographs  Search this

Collection Citation:

Manuscript 1671, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

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MS 1671 Miscellaneous group of photos showing pictographs mostly in western states

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_component:sova-naa-ms1671-ref39

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Mound Exploration Division  Search this

Thomas, Cyrus, 1825-1910  Search this

Extent:

11 Boxes

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Place:

United States -- Archeology -- Mounds

Date:

1881-1889

Scope and Contents:

Alabama - Arkansas; Canada, Florida - Illinois; also California and Canada, Indiana - New York, New York - North Dakota (and South Dakota), Ohio, Oregon - Tennessee (South Dakota, see North Dakota) Virginia - Wisconsin, "Miscellaneous and General" (more than one state discussed) General Correspondence, 1882-1892, A - Z Bibliography; Newsclippings; Thomas, Personal Miscellanea.

Includes reports, field notes, drawings, correspondence and other materials relating to mound explorations by Cyrus Thomas and collaborators, including F. S. Earle, J. W. Emmert, Gerard Fowke, Charles C. Jones, J. P. MacLean, J. D. Middleton, Warren K. Moorehead, P. W. Norris, Edward Palmer, H. L. Reynolds, J. P. Rogan. L. H. Thing.

Site reports and correspondence relating to specified localities are arranged by state. There are separate files of material relating to more than one state; correspondence of a general nature; and bibliographic references.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 2400

Citation:

Manuscript 2400, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS2400

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms2400

Creator:

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958  Search this

Artist:

McKenney & Hall  Search this

De Batz, A.  Search this

Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques, 1533?-1588  Search this

Tidball, J. C.  Search this

Trumbull, John, 1756-1843  Search this

Names:

Catlin, George, 1796-1872  Search this

Le Page du Pratz, -1775  Search this

Romans, Bernard  Search this

Verelst, Willem (painter)  Search this

White, John (painter)  Search this

Extent:

80 Copy prints (circa)

Culture:

Chickasaw  Search this

Atakapa  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Cherokee  Search this

Alabama Indians  Search this

Chitimacha  Search this

Choctaw  Search this

Houma  Search this

Coushatta (Koasati)  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Natchez (archaeological)  Search this

Seminole  Search this

Tunica  Search this

Timucua (archaeological)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Copy prints

Paintings

Sketches

Illustrations

Drawings

Photographs

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs used to illustrate John Reed Swanton's "The Indians of the Southeastern United States" depicting American Indians of the Southeast and their dwellings, food preparation, and ceremonies.

Biographical/Historical note:

John Reed Swanton (1873-1958) was an ethnologist and ethnohistorian with the Bureau of American Ethnology (BAE) from 1900 until his retirement in 1944. Swanton spent his first few years at the BAE studying the Haida and Tlingit groups of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, and published a number of significant articles on the language, ethnography, and folklore of Northwest Coast Indians. His focus then shifted to the American Indians of the Southeastern United States, where his interest remained for the rest of his career. In addition to conducting ethnographic fieldwork in the Southeast, Swanton studied extensively the history of the area in order to better understand its indigenous cultures and is considered a pioneer in the field of ethnohistory. During his career Swanton published numerous articles and several major works on Southeastern American Indians, including the reference work The Indians of the Southeastern United States (1946), a Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin (No. 137).

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot R87-2Q

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional photographs published in BAE Bulletin 137 can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 80-39.

Photographs made by Swanton can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 76 and the BAE historical negatives.

The National Anthropological Archives hold more than 200 manuscripts created or collected by Swanton, in the Numbered Manuscripts.

Objects collected by Swanton, including potsherds from various sites in Southeastern United States can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accessions 111748, 113252, 122679, 129788, 165802, and 062577.

Contained in:

Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collections, undated

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Copy prints in this collection that represent photographs not held by the National Anthropological Archives are for reference only.

Topic:

Catawba Indians  Search this

Rites and ceremonies  Search this

Dwellings  Search this

Genre/Form:

Paintings

Sketches

Illustrations

Drawings

Photographs

Citation:

Photo Lot R87-2Q, John Reed Swanton photograph collection of illustrations for "The Indians of the Southeastern United States", National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.R87-2Q

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-r87-2q

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Photographer:

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

Cohner, Samuel A.  Search this

Dinwiddie, William, 1867-1934  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

Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)  Search this

Sawyer, Wells, 1863-1960  Search this

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

Vannerson, Julian, 1827-  Search this

Names:

Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-  Search this

Mindeleff, Victor, 1860-1948  Search this

Extent:

16 Albums (albumen and platinum)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Cocopa  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)  Search this

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)  Search this

Wichita  Search this

Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)  Search this

Northwest Coast  Search this

Tonkawa  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Spokan  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Sauk  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Fox Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Apache  Search this

Assiniboine (Stoney)  Search this

Inunaina (Arapaho)  Search this

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

Ponca  Search this

Tewa Pueblos  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Osage  Search this

Plains Apache (Kiowa Apache)  Search this

Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)  Search this

Iowa  Search this

Kalispel (Pend d'Oreilles)  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Albums

Photographs

Place:

Chaco Canyon (N.M.)

Sonora (Mexico : State)

New Mexico

Date:

1858-1905

Scope and Contents note:

Photograph albums prepared by the Bureau of American Ethnology or the photographic lab, possibly for reference purposes by staff. The use of such albums has been mentioned by BAE photographer De Lancey W. Gill. The albums contain photographs made from the Bureau of American Ethnology's collection of negatives, documenting Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cocopa, Dakota, Flathead, Fox, Iowa, Kalispel, Kiowa Apache, Nez Perce, Omaha, Osage, Ponca, Santa Clara, Sauk, Shoshoni, Spokane Tonkawa, Wichita, and Winnebago people. The bulk of the photographs are studio portraits, made at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha in 1898 or during delegation visits to Washington, DC. There are also other photographs made during Victor Mindeleffʹs work in Chaco Canyon, and on W J McGeeʹs expedition to Sonora, Mexico, in 1900.

Photographers include Charles Milton Bell, William Dinwiddie, Alexander Gardner, De Lancey W. Gill, John K. Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Frank Albert Rinehart, Wells Moses Sawyer, Antonio Zeno Shindler, Victor or Cosmos Mindeleff, Julian Vannerson with Samuel A. Cohner. Included are negative numbers formerly used by BAE, but the National Anthropological Archives also annotated them with current negative numbers.

Arrangement note:

Titles of the albums are (1) Omaha and Winnebago; (2) miscellaneous; (3) Sauk and Fox; (4) miscellaneous; (5) Arapaho and Cheyenne; (6) Chiricahua, San Carlos, and Apache; (7) Sauk and Fox; (8) Osage, Shoshoni and Nez Perce, Siouan, Oto; (9) Santa Clara and Flathead; (10) Ponca; (11) Sauk and (12) Wichita and Kiowa Apache; (13) Cocopa; and (14) Assiniboin and Blackfoot

Biographical/Historical note:

The Bureau of American Ethnology was founded in 1879 in part as a result of the federal geological surveys and under the administration of the Smithsonian Institution. Under the directorship of John Wesley Powell (1879-1902), the BAE supported field research by its staff and collaborators, initiated several anthropological publications, and supported the growth of the anthropological discipline, particularly as it related to Native Americans. In addition to its research and publications program, it developed a manuscript repository, library, and an illustrations section that included (in addition to the preparation of artwork for publications) photography and a photographic collection. The BAE commissioned studio portraits of visiting Indian delegates and hired De Lancey Gill served as the its official photographer and illustrator from the 1890s to 1930.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 60

Location of Other Archival Materials:

The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Bureau of American Ethnology records and the BAE historical negatives, as well as Dinwiddie photographs of the W. J. McGee expeditions are held in (Photo Lot 89 and Photo Lot 144), Charles Milton Bell photographs (Photo Lot 80), and additional photographs by most photographers represented in this collection (Photo Lot 59 and Photo Lot 90-1)

See others in:

Bureau of American Ethnology photograph albums of Native Americans, 1858-1905

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 60, Bureau of American Ethnology photograph albums of American Indians, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.60

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-60

Collector:

Hewitt, J. N. B. (John Napoleon Brinton), 1859-1937  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology -- History  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents:

Items have been tentatively identified and individually cataloged. Subjects include Hewitt, J. N. B.; Cushing, Frank H.; Powell, Johns Wesley; Hemenway, Mrs. August; Sapir, Edward; Hodge, F. W.; Radin, Paul; Kroeber, Alfred; Michelson, Truman; Fewkes, J. W.; Skinner, Alanson; Indian interest groups; Parker, Arthur C.; McGee, W. J. ; Swanton, J. R.; Walcott, Charles D.; Curtis, Charles; Bottineau, J. B.; medicine; Native American Church; religion; U. S. Army; war; Kiowa; Cheyenne; Boas, Franz; physical anthropology; Brown, John Mason; Trumbull, J. H.; Algonquin; astronomy; Thomas, Cyrus; Ten Tribes.

Local Numbers:

NAA MS 1647

Citation:

Manuscript 1647, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.MS1647

See more items in:

MS 1647 Miscellaneous materials by Hewitt and others

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-ms1647

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Names:

Smithsonian Institution  Search this

Photographer:

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882  Search this

Hillers, John K., 1843-1925  Search this

Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942  Search this

Michelson, Truman, 1879-1938  Search this

Smillie, T. W. (Thomas William), 1843-1917  Search this

Extent:

2 Prints (etching or engraving)

13 Prints (albumen)

230 Copy prints (circa)

1 Chromolithograph

179 Cyanotypes

200 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)

Culture:

Indians of North America -- Great Basin  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southern States  Search this

Hopi Pueblo  Search this

Sisitonwan Dakota (Sisseton Sioux)  Search this

Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)  Search this

Tewa Pueblos  Search this

Taos Indians  Search this

Wenatchi Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Tuscarora  Search this

Yanktonnai Nakota (Yankton Sioux)  Search this

Yakama (Yakima)  Search this

Iowa  Search this

Ponca  Search this

Dakota (Eastern Sioux)  Search this

Sauk  Search this

Akimel O'odham (Pima)  Search this

Shoshone  Search this

Cayuga  Search this

Cherokee  Search this

Oneida  Search this

Choctaw  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Muskogee (Creek)  Search this

Cochiti Pueblo  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Fox Indians  Search this

Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux)  Search this

Apache  Search this

Isleta Pueblo  Search this

Jicarilla Apache  Search this

Klamath  Search this

Laguna Indians  Search this

Menominee (Menomini)  Search this

Diné (Navajo)  Search this

Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)  Search this

Seneca  Search this

Omaha  Search this

Onondaga  Search this

Osage  Search this

Chaticks Si Chaticks (Pawnee)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Pueblo Indians  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Prints

Copy prints

Chromolithographs

Cyanotypes

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Photographs mostly commissioned and collected by personnel in the Bureau of American Ethnology. Most of the photographs are studio portraits of Native Americans made by the Bureau of American Ethnology and Smithsonian Institution, possibly for physical anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka. There are also photographs made by Truman Michelson among the Catawba tribe, copies of illustrations and drawings, and various images of archeological sites and artifacts.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 87-2M, USNM ACC 42191

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Original negatives for many photographs in this collection held in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Michelson photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 13, Photo Lot 24, MS 2139, and MS 4365-c.

Additional Hillers photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot 83-18, Photo Lot 87-2N, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-46, and the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Jackson photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 60, Photo Lot 93, Photo Lot 143, Photo Lot R82-10, Photo Lot 87-2P, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-3, the records of the Department of Anthropology, and the BAE historical negatives.

Additional Smillie photographs held in the National Museum of American History Archives Center in the Frances Benjamin Johnston and Thomas W. Smillie Glass Plate Negatives and in Smithsonian Institution Archives SIA Acc. 05-123.

Additional Gardner photographs held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 80-18, Photo Lot 87-2P, Photo Lot 90-1, and the BAE historical negatives.

Associated busts and molds held in the Department of Anthropology collections in accession 42191.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Catawba Indians  Search this

Citation:

Photo lot 87-2M, Bureau of American Ethnology photograph collection relating to Native Americans, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.87-2M

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-87-2m

Creator:

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology  Search this

Artist:

Newcomb, Josepha  Search this

Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962  Search this

Schumacher, Edward G.  Search this

Wright, Mary Irwin  Search this

Extent:

1 Watercolor

3 Prints (silver gelatin)

120 Items (circa 120 line drawings)

20 Graphite drawings

Culture:

Arctic peoples  Search this

Eskimos  Search this

Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)  Search this

Sioux  Search this

Indians of North America -- Northeast  Search this

Yakama (Yakima)  Search this

Indians of North America -- Great Plains  Search this

Mayas  Search this

Indians of North America -- Plateau  Search this

Pueblo Indians  Search this

Indians of North America -- Southwest, New  Search this

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Watercolor

Prints

Graphite drawings

Photographs

Watercolors

Drawings

Date:

undated

Scope and Contents note:

Mostly images of artifacts, architecture, peoples, and some maps published in various Bureau of American Ethnology publications, particularly the Annual Reports. Most of the line drawings were made by Henry Hobart Nichols, while most of the graphite drawings were possibly created by Edward Schumacher.

Local Call Number(s):

NAA Photo Lot 78-51

Location of Other Archival Materials:

Additional illustrations for various BAE publications can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 133 and in the records of the BAE.

Information on these illustrations and publications can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the BAE.

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Access to the collection requires an appointment.

Rights:

Contact the repository for terms of use.

Topic:

Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890  Search this

Genre/Form:

Photographs

Watercolors

Drawings

Citation:

Photo lot 78-51, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Identifier:

NAA.PhotoLot.78-51

Archival Repository:

National Anthropological Archives

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-78-51