National Anthropological Archives

George E. Hyde photograph collection relating to Native American corn, circa 1915

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.4457
Creators:
Hyde, George E., 1882-1968
Dates:
circa 1915
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
11 Prints
silver 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
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
Contact the repository for terms of use.
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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