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National Museum of the American Indian
Ferdinand Anthony Stahl photographs from the Peruvian Amazon
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.141
- Creators:
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Stahl, Ferdinand Anthony, 1874-1950
- Dates:
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19251928
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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3 Negatives (photographic)18 Photographic prints6 Copy negatives
- Repository:
Photographic prints and negatives taken by Seventh-day Adventist missionary Ferdinand Anthony Stahl amongst indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. These include the Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha), Yagua (Yahua) and Amahuaca communities.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
The majority of the photographs in this collection include portraits of indigenous community members in the Peruvian Amazon taken by Ferdinand Anthony Stahl while on Mission for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Some of the photographs include images of Ferdinand Stahl and his wife Ana posing with community members and it is unclear who the photographer was for these images. The photographs were shot in 1925 and 1928 in the Ucayali (Atalaya Province), Junin (Chanchamayo Province) and Loreto regions in Peru. The bulk of the photographs were taken among the Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha) and includes images of women weaving; group portraits along the Río Perené with canoes; as well as posed group portraits in front of the Stahl's Mission. There are also photographs of Yagua (Tahua) tribal members posed in traditional dress.
Negatives include N14915-N14917. Prints include P07956-P07965, P08614-P08619, P09483-P09484. Copy negatives include N36121-N36124, N36262-N36263. The copy negatives were created by the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation (NMAI's predecessor museum).
Arrangement
Arrangement
Arranged by catalog number.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
Ferdinand Anthony Stahl, 1874-1950, was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary to South America. Along with his wife Ana, Stahl converted to Seventh-day Adventism in 1902 and trained as a nurse at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1909 the Stahls, along with their children, were sent as missionaries to La Paz, Bolivia by the General Conference in order to evangelize the indigenous communities in the area. In 1911, they moved to the Peru side of Lake Titicaca, establishing schools among the Aymara and Quechua communities. In 1920 the Stahls moved from Lake Titicaca to the headwaters of the Amazon in Iquitos, Peru where they established the Metraro Mission Station and launched mission boats downriver. They returned to the United States in 1939.
See "Ferdinand Stahl, Missionary to Peru" Adventist Heritage - Vol. 12, No. 2, summer 1988 by Robert G. Wearner for more information.
Administration
Author
Rachel Menyuk
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Ferdinand A. Stahl in 1927 (N14915-N14917) and part of a 1929 purchase along with ethnographic objects (P07956-P07965). It is unclear when the remainder of the prints (P08614-P08619, P09483-P09484) were acquired by the Museum.
Processing Information
Processed by Rachel Menyuk, Processing Archivist, 2020.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
Access to NMAI Archives Center collections is by appointment only, Monday - Friday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm. Please contact the archives to make an appointment (phone: 301-238-1400, email: nmaiarchives@si.edu).
Conditions Governing Use
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Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ferdinand Anthony Stahl photographs from Peruvian Amazon, image #, NMAI.AC.141; National Museum of the American Indian Archives Center, Smithsonian Institution.
Related Materials
Related Materials
See Box 307, Folder 7 in the Museum of the Amrican Indian, Heye Foundation records (NMAI.AC.001) for an original catalog list of Peruvian and Bolivian Artifacts purchased from Stahl by the MAI in 1927.
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Asháninka (Campa/Chuncha) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Yagua (Yahua) | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Amahuaca | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Amazonia | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Peru | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Missionaries | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Indians of South America -- Peru | Cultural Context | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Missions -- Peru -- Photographs | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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