Stereographs published by the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, documenting canyons along the Green and Colorado Rivers and surveyors. Although the images in this collection are credited to Powell and A. H. Thompson, the primary photographers on these surveys were John K. Hillers, E. O. Beaman, and James Fennemore. There is also one stereograph of Washakie's camp, made by William Henry Jackson on September 4, 1871; it is from the series "Picturesque Views of Rocky Mountain Scenery."
Biographical/Historical note:
The geological survey of John Wesley Powell, first authorized in 1870, was known by several names before its final designation as the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. The photograph mounts in this collection refer to the "U.S. Topographical and Geological Survey of the Valley of the Colorado," a survey that continued Powell's earlier work in the basin of the Colorado River. John K. Hillers (1843-1925) was hired as a boatman for John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River in 1871. Initially working as an assistant to team photographers E. O. Beaman and James Fennimore, Hillers eventually became the main photographer for the expedition in 1872.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 76-131
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photographs relating to the Powell surveys can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 4605, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 33, Photo Lot 37, Photo Lot 140.
The Library of Congress, the Bancroft Library at the University of California at Berkeley, and the New York Public Library hold additional stereographs from the Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Stereographs
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 76-131, Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region stereographs of canyons on the Green and Colorado Rivers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
The collection largely consists of photographs of specimens and artifacts, some of which were once in the collections of the Department of Anthropology, as well as images of anthropological exhibits in the National Museum of Natural History, circa 1950s and 1960s. Specimens and artifacts that are depicted include the Waverly Tablet from Waverly, Ohio; Richardson Tablet from near Wilmington, Ohio; Grave Creek Tablet from West Virginia; and Cincinnati Tablet from Cincinnati, Ohio; a Tuxtla statuette; artifacts from the Cascades area of Oregon and Washington collected by Herbert W. Krieger and George E. Phebus; bone and stone artifacts from River Basin Survey and BAE archeological sites in the Great Plains; and artifacts from Bluestone Reservoir, West Virginia, recovered by Ralph Solecki in 1948 together with a manuscript on the Round Bottom site.
The collection also includes images of items not in the department's collections but used for BAE or Smithsonian publications and those sent to the Smithsonian for examination. These include a copy of the winter count of the Yanktonai Long Dog; a war record by Shoshoni Chief Washakie; Folsom-like points from various parts of the United States, and various Hebrew, Italian, and other manuscripts.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 88-35, NAA Photo Lot 88-18
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Photo Lot 88-18 has been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 88-35. These are also Processing Lab photographs of artifacts and form part of this collection.
The Department of Anthropology holds many of the artifacts shown in these images.
The National Anthropological Archives holds the River Basin Surveys records and Herbert William Krieger papers.
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Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Prints
Date:
undated
Scope and Contents:
Contents: Catalog Number 4458: 1) Tribe: Shoshoni Description: Washakie Photographer: Baker & Johnston No date See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 1664. 2) Shoshoni Washakie's grandson Baker & Johnston No date 42023-E. 3) Shoshoni Wickiup with meat drying, Fort Washakie, Wyoming Photographer unknown 1891. 4) Tribe: Arapaho Description: Boy Photographer: Baker & Johnston No date See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 42017-E. 5) Tribe: Chilkat (Filed: Tlingit) Description: Indians in dancing costume Photographer: Winter & Pond Juneau Date: 1895 copyright See Bureau of American Ethnology Negative Number 73-6821. 6) Tribe: Comanche Description: Quanah Parker, on horseback. Fort Sill, Oklahoma Photographer unknown Date: ca. 1897 See Bureau of American Ethnology Number 43,896-E. 7) Comanche (Duplicate of 4458:6.)
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 4458
Local Note:
Filed according to tribe in series of original photos.
Includes Key to Washakie's pictographs, "Obtained from Chief Washakie (his son Dick acting as interpreter) by Col. John T. Wertz...." Jan. 28, 1897. Manuscript document signed: J. K. M. 9 pages in leatherbound volume. Hand-colored photograph by Melvin A. Wertz of pictographs on elk-skin robe. 1 print. Cover from box of "Washakie" cigars, with mounted photograph of Washakie.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 2209
Local Note:
The portrait of Washakie on the cigar box cover is the same as BAE Negative Number 1664 by Baker and Johnston, Evanston, Wyoming. The photograph of the robe was copied (1/72) as NAA Negative Number 72-299.
