National Anthropological Archives

Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects, circa 1890-1928

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.4321
Creators:
Fewkes, Jesse Walter, 1850-1930
Dates:
circa 1890-1928
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
9 Prints
cromolithograph
40 Prints
circa
halftone
77 Prints
circa
albumen
84 Drawings (visual works)
circa 84 drawings (some mechanically produced)
1,655 Prints
circa
silver gelatin
71 Copy negatives
43 Copy prints
363 Negatives (photographic)
circa
nitrate
7 Paintings (visual works)
1 Print
cyanotype
1 Print
photogravure
1 Postcard
collotype
Repository:

Scope and Contents note

Scope and Contents note
Photographs and drawings mostly relating to archeological subjects, collected and arranged by Jesse Walter Fewkes for his reference. Subjects include burial mounds, excavations, drawn maps, as well as urns, implements, idols, pottery, and other artifacts found in excavations, and Hopi, Zuni, and Piegan ceremonies and dances. Many of the photographs and drawings were probably made by Fewkes. Publication information is noted on some. The collection also includes newspaper clippings and correspondence.
Photographs were taken in Alabama, Arizona (including Casa Grande, Elden Pueblo, Navajo National Monument, and Wupatki National Monument), Colorado (including Mesa Verde and Montezuma Valley), Florida (including Weeden Island), Illinois (Cahokia Mound), Louisiana, Maryland, Mexico (including La Huasteca Region), Mississippi Valley, New Mexico (including Chaco Canyon, Hawikuh, and Mimbres Valley), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah (including Hill Canyon, McElmo Canyon, and McLean Basin Ruins), Hovenweep National Monument, the West Indies (including Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, and Cuba), and West Virginia.

Biographical/Historical note

Biographical/Historical note
Jesse Walter Fewkes (1850-1930) was a naturalist, anthropologist, and archeologist, and chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1918 to his death in 1928. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and acted as curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative Zoology until 1887. While on a collecting trip in the western United States, he developed an interest in the culture and history of the Pueblo Indians. In 1891, Fewkes became director of the Hemenway Southwestern Archeological Expedition and editor of the Journal of American Archeology and Ethnology, studying and recording Hopi ceremonials. In 1895, he embarked on various archeological explorations for the Bureau of American Ethnology, excavating ruins in the Southwest, the West Indies, and Florida. He was appointed chief of the Bureau in 1918, and played an important role in the creation of Hovenweep National Monument in Colorado and Wupatki National Monument in Arizona.

Administration

Author
NAA Staff
Existence and Location of Copies note
Digital surrogate for one drawing is available online.

Using the Collection

Conditions Governing Access note
Original nitrate negatives are in cold storage and require advanced notice for viewing.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Preferred Citation note
Photo Lot 4321, Jesse Walter Fewkes photograph collection relating to archaeological subjects, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Location of Other Archival Materials

Location of Other Archival Materials
The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Jesse Walter Fewkes Papers (MS 4408), his photographs of excavations in Mesa Verde (Photo Lot 30), his negatives (Photo Lot 86), and other manuscript collections by and related to Fewkes' ethnological research and archeology and his work with the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Correspondence from Fewkes held in the National Anthropological Archives in the George L. Beam papers (MS 4517), the Henry Bascom Collins, Jr. papers, the Anthropological Society of Washington records (MS 4821), the Herbert William Krieger papers, the J.C. Pilling papers, the Walter Hough Papers (in the records of the Department of Anthropology), and the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
Location of Other Archival Materials
The anthropology collections of the National Museum of Natural History hold artifacts collected by Fewkes, including USNM ACC 048761 (relating to Casa Grande excavations) and USNM ACC 050765 (relating to Mesa Verde excavations).

More Information

Local Call Number(s)

Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 4321

Other Finding Aids note

Other Finding Aids note
Inventory available in repository.

Addl. KW Subj

Addl. KW Subj
Blackfoot


Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
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A:shiwi (Zuni) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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Beam, George L. (George Lytle), 1868-1935 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
McKee, Thomas M., 1854-1939 Personal Name Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
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