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Hight, George C.
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circa 1963-1964
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23 Slides (photographs) (color)
38 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.039
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National Museum of the American Indian
Images include domestic and ceremonial scenes of Navajo Indians. Ceremonies include Blessing Way Ceremony, Enemy Way Ceremony,and Hoop Ceremony.
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Thomas, Jeff, 1956-
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1982-1994
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5 Photographic prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.055
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The photographs include an image of Jack Moore, a Pima dancer, with the American flag painted on his face; a portrait of the dancer Kevin Haywahe (Assiniboine) wearing a wolf-hide and feather headdress with beaded sun wheel medallion and beaded appendage, elaborate face painting, pipe bead necklace and elaborately beaded breast ornament; an outdoor view of a young boy posed beside grafitti that reads "Cultural Revolution"; a young man standing in front of a grain elevator and wearing a t-shirt with an image of Christopher Columbus and the caption "Founder of the New World"; and a triptych documenting the urban Onondaga Iroquois experience in Ottawa, Ontario.
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Pepper, Jim
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1983-1984
1990
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0.5 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.062
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection includes a selection of handwritten and original sheet music written by Native jazz musician Jim Pepper (Kaw/Oklahoma Muskogee [Creek]).
Toba Tucker photographs
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Tucker, Toba
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1981, 1995-1997
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23 Photographic prints (Cibachrome)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.030
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains 23 prints that were shot by photographer Toba Tucker of Diné (Navajo) portraits and landscapes from 1981 and Pueblo portraits from 1995-1997.
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Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
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1866-1868
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61 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.077
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) was a photographer best known for his portraits of President Abraham Lincoln, his American Civil War photographs, and his photographs of American Indian delegations. This collection contains 61 albumen prints that were shot by Gardner circa 1866-1868 and held in General William T. Sherman's personal collection. Photographs depict American Indian tribes and Peace Commissioners involved in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty; photographs shot along the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division in 1867; and photographs of American Indian delegations visiting Washington, D. C. from 1866-1868.
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Johnson, Frederick, 1904-1994
Dockstader, Frederick J.
Churchill, Frank C. (Frank Carroll), 1850-1912
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1890-1998
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400 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
These records document the governance and programmatic activities of the Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation (MAI) from its inception in 1904 until its sublimation by the Smithsonian Institution in 1990. The types of materials present in this collection include personal and institutional correspondence, individual subject files, minutes and annual reports, financial ledgers, legal records, expedition field notes, research notes, catalog and object lists, publications, clippings, flyers, maps, photographs, negatives and audio-visual materials. These materials span a varied range of subjects relating to the activities of the museum which are more fully described on the series level.
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Waugh, Donald.
Waugh, Leuman Maurice, 1877-1972.
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1909-1963
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2.1 Linear feet ((5 boxes; 1 map case drawer))
1,749 Photographic prints
1,035 Lantern slides
1579 Negatives (photographic)
80 Film reels (16mm)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.003
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Leuman Maurice Waugh collection contains papers, photographs, and film holdings that were created by Waugh during his dental research expeditions to indigenous communities in Newfoundland and Labrador in eastern Canada and in Arctic Alaska.
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Krinsky, Carol Herselle
- Dates:
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1964-2004
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2.92 Linear feet ((7 boxes))
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.008
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
These papers consist of research materials collected and used by Professor Carol Herselle Krinsky for her book Contemporary Native American Architecture: Cultural Regeneration and Creativity.
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Gow-Smith, Francis
- Dates:
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1926
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41 Negatives (photographic)
17 Copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.045
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Negatives shot by Francis Gow-Smith over the course of eight months of fieldwork in the Mato Grosso state of Brazil in 1926. Gow-Smith was collecting ethnographic material on behalf of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation. Indigenous communities photographed include the Parecís (Paressi), Nambikuára (Nambicuara) and Borôro (Bororo) peoples.
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Schellbach, Louis, 1887-1971
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1922-1930
- Size:
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138 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)
16 Lantern slides
106 Photographic prints (black and white)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.017
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Includes images of excavations in Nevada, including images of Lake Tahoe, the ghost town of St. Thomas, and Pueblo Grande de Nevada, known as Nevada's "Lost City."