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National Anthropological Archives
George E. Hyde photograph collection relating to Native American corn, circa 1915
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.4457
- Creators:
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Hyde, George E., 1882-1968
- Dates:
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circa 1915
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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11 Printssilver gelatin on postcard stock
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Images of several varieties of corn, including types of Pawnee corn, Canadian Sioux corn, Navajo corn, Mandan red sweet-corn, and Red Lake Ojibwa "flint corn." The collection also includes one image of a hoe blade made from a buffalo scapula.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
George E. Hyde (1882-1968) was a well-known author of books on Native Americans, earning himself the moniker "dean of American Indian historians." A resident of Omaha, Nebraska, Hyde became fascinated by Native Americans after visiting an encampment at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition (1898). Despite having no formal education past the eighth grade, Hyde corresponded with George Bird Grinnell (for whom he was a salaried researcher) and George Bent and published several books, including Red Cloud's Folk (1937), A Sioux Chronicle (1956), and the Life of George Bent (1967).
Administration
Author
Sarah Ganderup
Custodial History note
Donated by George E. Hyde, 1915.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
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Preferred Citation note
Photo Lot 4457, George E. Hyde photograph collection relating to Native American corn, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Correspondence from Hyde held in the National Anthropological Archives in the records of the Bureau of American Ethnology and in the River Basin Surveys Records.
Contained in
Contained in
Numbered manuscripts 1850s-1980s (some earlier)
More Information
Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 4457
Bibliography
Bibliography
Photographs published in George F. Will and George E. Hyde, Corn Among the Indians of the Upper Missouri, University of Nebraska Press, 1917.
Addl. KW Subj
Addl. KW Subj
Chippewa
Sioux
Keywords
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