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National Museum of the American Indian
Louis C. G. Clarke Kechipauan Expedition photograph collection
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.044
- Creators:
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye FoundationLothrop, S. K. (Samuel Kirkland), 1892-1965Coffin, Edwin F. (Edwin Francis), b. 1883
- Dates:
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1923
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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152 Photographic prints4 Negatives (photographic)140 Copy negatives
- Repository:
Field photography from the 1923 Louis C. G. Clarke Kechipauan Expedition at the Kechipauan ruins on the A:shiwi (Zuni) Reservation in New Mexico.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
The photographs in this collection include field photography from the Louis C. G. Clarke Kechipauan Expedition shot by Edwin C. Coffin and Samuel K. Lothrop in 1923. This includes images of rooms, trenches, kivas in addition to general views of the site. There are several photographs which include images of burial and human remains which are restricted due to cultural sensitivity. The majority of the photographs are photographic prints, which later had copy negatives made during a large photograph conservation project in the 1960s. There were 30 negatives that arrived with the prints in 1923 but it appears the majority of these were destroyed in 1959, possibly because they were nitrate. Some, but not all of these negatives, had copy prints made before they were destroyed.
Scope and Contents
N08561 - N08590, P05197 - P05348, N21049 - N21051, N35572 - N35597, N35600 - N35699, N35800 - N35813.
Arrangement
Arrangement
Arranged by catalog number.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
The Louis C. G. Clarke Kechipauan Expedition happened concurrently with the Hendricks-Hodge Hawikku (Hawikuh) archaeological expedition on the A:shiwi (Zuni) Reservation in New Mexico. Though there had been some preliminary archaeological work conducted by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (MAI) in 1919, in 1923 a more substantial joint expedition was conducted by the MAI and Louis C. G. Clarke, director of the Cambridge University Museum in England. The expedition was under the direct supervision of Samuel K. Lothrop. Kechipauan (Kechipawan) was a neighboring A:shiwi (Zuni) Pueblo to Hawikku in the Ojo Caliente Valley. For more information about the history of Kechipauan see "The Age of the Zuni Pueblo of Kechipauan" by Frederick Webb Hodge in Indian Notes, Volume III, No. 2.
Administration
Author
Rachel Menyuk
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Field photographs came to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation along with the collections in 1923.
Processing Information
This collection is still in need of processing. Collection record written by Rachel Menyuk, Processing Archivist, in 2019.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
Access to NMAI Archive Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu). Photographs with burials, human remains or any other cultural sensitivity are restricted.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center. Please submit a written request to nmaiphotos@si.edu. For personal or classroom use, users are invited users to download, print, photocopy, and distribute the images that are available online without prior written permission, provided that the files are not changed, the Smithsonian Institution copyright notice (where applicable) is included, and the source of the image is identified as the National Museum of the American Indian.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Louis C. G. Clarke Kechipauan Expedition photograph collection. Item Number; National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Related Materials
Related Materials
The archaeological materials for this collection are in the NMAI archaeology collection with catalog numbers 12/3829 – 12/3911; 12/4834.
Keywords
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A:shiwi (Zuni) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Mexico | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Archeology -- Southwest | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
Photographs | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
New Mexico | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
University of Cambridge. University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
National Museum of the American Indian
4220 Silver Hill Rd
Suitland, Maryland 20746-2863
nmaiarchives@si.edu