National Anthropological Archives

Truman Michelson Photograph Collection

Summary

Collection ID:
NAA.PhotoLot.13
Creators:
Michelson, Truman
Michelson, Truman
Dates:
1910-1931
Languages:
Undetermined
.
Physical Description:
270 Items
prints
244 Items
negatives
Repository:

Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents
Virtually all of the photographs were made by Michelson during his field work. A few items, however, are by D. L. Duvall, De Lancey W. Gill, and others. Most are of Fox subjects, but there are also items identified, some tentatively, as Arapaho, Blackfoot (Piegan), Chippewa, Menominee, Mexican Kickapoo, Micmac, Potawatomi, and Shoshoni. Subjects include portraits, scenic views, Fox pow-wow, man making string figures, la crosse game, Fox basswood bag, gravel pit-burial ground near Strafford, Iowa, and St. Michaelʹs Mission, Ethete, Wyoming.

Biographical / Historical

Biographical / Historical
Truman Michelson was an ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1910 to 1938. His specialty was Algonquian linguistics and culture.

Using the Collection

Citation
Photo lot 13, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Keywords

Keywords table of terms and types.
Keyword Terms Keyword Types
Pow-wow -- Fox Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
String figures Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Lacrosse Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Basswood bag -- Fox Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Ground -- gravel pit -- Strafford, Iowa Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Religion -- St. Michael's Mission -- Ethete, Wyoming Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Shoshone Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mi'kmaq Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Chippewa Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Blackfoot Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox Topical Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Wyoming -- St. Michael's Mission -- Ethete Geographic Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Kickapoo Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Fox Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Mi'kmaq (Micmac) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Potawatomi Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Menominee (Menomini) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Shoshone Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Inunaina (Arapaho) Cultural Context Search Smithsonian Collections Search ArchiveGrid
Indians of North America -- Great Basin 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
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