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National Anthropological Archives
Henry Niese photographs of Thunderbird Pow Wow, University of Maryland Indian Awareness Week, and Turkey Tayac, 1974-1975, 1978
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.81-47
- Creators:
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Niese, Henry
- Dates:
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1974-1975, 1978
- Languages:
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Undetermined.
- Physical Description:
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10 Printssilver gelatin
- Repository:
Scope and Contents note
Scope and Contents note
Photographs depicting Winnebago and Piscataway people at various gatherings. The collection includes images of two Winnebago boys dancing at the August 1974 Thunderbird Pow Wow in Oakland, New Jersey, as well as photographs of Turkey Tayac (Philip Proctor), Jenice Bigbee, and Mark Tayac, made for University of Maryland Indian Awareness Week in March 1975. There are also informal portraits of Turkey Tayac and a group of Piscataway people, made in April 1978.
Biographical/Historical note
Biographical/Historical note
Henry Niese is a painter, photographer, teacher, and founder of the Eagle Voice Center in Glenelg, Maryland. He graduated from The Cooper Union and Columbia University and taught in the Art Department at the University of Maryland (1969-1996). He also wrote "The Man Who Knew the Medicine," a memoir about his experience learning traditional medicine ways from Bill Schweigman Eagle Feather, Lakota Sun Dance chief and medicine man.
Administration
Author
Sarah Ganderup
Custodial History note
The photographs made in 1974-1975 were donated by Henry Niese in 1975. Photographs from 1978 loaned by Niese for copying in 1981.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access note
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Conditions Governing Use note
This collection available for reference only. Permission to copy or publish must be granted by Henry Niese.
Preferred Citation note
Photo lot 81-47, Henry Niese photographs of Thunderbird Pow Wow, University of Maryland Indian Awareness Week, and Turkey Tayac, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Location of Other Archival Materials
Location of Other Archival Materials
Additional photographs of Turkey Tayac can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot R79-22 and Photo Lot 79-45.
More Information
Local Call Number(s)
Local Call Number(s)
NAA Photo Lot 81-47
, NAA Photo Lot 75-49
Addl. KW Subj
Addl. KW Subj
Conoy
Keywords
Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
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Powwows | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Piscataway (Conoy) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Genre Form | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Niuam (Comanche) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Northeast | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Indians of North America -- Great Plains | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Proctor, Philip Piscataway, 1895-1978 | Personal Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
National Anthropological Archives
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4210 Silver Hill Road
Suitland, Maryland 20746
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