National Anthropological Archives

Illustrations used in Bureau of American Ethnology and United States National Museum publications, circa 1879-1929

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.133
Dates:
circa 1879-1929
Languages:
Undetermined
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Physical Description:
2,000 Items
circa 2000 paintings, drawings, and photographs
Repository:

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Artwork and some photographs used to illustrate articles published in the annual reports and bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States National Museum. The material includes artwork by Mary Beth Chapman, Mary Wright Gill, Mary M. Hildebrant, Spencer Baird Nichols, and Antonio Zeno Shindler. Also included are unidentified illustrations of Near Eastern costumes, prayer positions and Mexican funerary vessels, perhaps sketched by Walter Hough, and a drawing, signed "J. T. G.", of a memorial to the daughter of Chief Spotted Tail.

Administration

Author
Sarah Ganderup

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
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Conditions Governing Use note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 133, Illustrations used in Bureau of American Ethnology and United States National Museum publications, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Location of Other Archival Materials

Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional illustrations are held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 78-51, the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the Manuscript and Pamphlet File in the Department of Anthropology records.

More Information

Local Call Number(s)

Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 133

Bibliography

Bibliography
Photographs published in John G. Bourke, "The Medicine Men of the Apache," Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1892; Stewart Culin, "Games of North American Indians," Twenty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1903; Culin, "Mancala: The National Game of Africa," United States National Museum Bulletin 139, 1926; Jesse Walter Fewkes, "The Tusayan Flute and Snake Ceremonies," Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896; Fewkes; "Two Summerʹs Work in Pueblo Ruins," Twenty-second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1904; W. J. Hoffman, "The Monominee Indians," Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896; Otis T. Mason, "Aboriginal American Basketry," Annual Report of the United States National Museum, 1902; W. J. McGee, "The Seri Indians," Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1898; James Mooney, "The Ghost Dance Religion," Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, part 2, 1896; Edward W. Nelson, "The Eskimo about Bering Straits," Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1899; and other BAE and USNM annual reports. Also Clarence B. Moore, "Antiquities of the Oachita Valley," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume XIV.

Other Finding Aids note

Other Finding Aids note
Preliminary finding aid available in repository.


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Drawings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Paintings Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Photographs Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Illustrations Genre Form Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mooney, James, 1861-1921 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
McGee, W J, 1853-1912 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mason, Otis Tufton, 1838-1908 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Nichols, Spencer Baird, 1875-1950 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Shindler, Antonio Zeno Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hough, Walter, 1859-1935 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Bourke, John Gregory, 1846-1896 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chapman, Mary Beth Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Gill, Mary W. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Culin, Stewart, 1858-1929 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Moore, Clarence B. (Clarence Bloomfield), 1852-1936 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
United States National Museum Corporate Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
J. T. G. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hildebrant, Mary M. Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Nelson, Edward William, 1855-1934 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Hoffman, Walter James, 1846-1899 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid

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