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Halseth, Odd S.
- Dates:
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1920-1925
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158 Negatives (photographic) (black and white)
4 Photographic prints (black and white)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.038
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The collection consists of negatives and photographs made by Halseth from 1920 to 1925 in Arizona and New Mexico.
Herbert U. Silleck photographs
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Silleck, Herbert Underhill
- Dates:
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circa 1924-1944
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260 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.223
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains 260 photographs depicting many American Indian communities including Diné (Navajo); Hopi; Isleta Pueblo; Pikuni (Piegan) [Blackfeet Nation, Browning, Montana]; Taos Pueblo; and Lacandon Maya, as well as others. Photographs were shot by amateur photographer Herbert Underhill Silleck circa 1924-1944 during his travels with his wife Agnes Smartt Silleck.
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Edley, Bernard J., 1925-1994
- Dates:
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1948-1949
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78 Acetate negatives (black and white, 5 x 7 inches.)
35 Photographic prints (gelatin silver, 2 x 3 inches.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.026
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains 78 black-and-white negatives and 35 gelatin silver prints taken by Bernard J. Edley in 1948-1949. The images depict scenes of everyday life among the Santa Cruz Indians of Quintana Roo State and the Tzotzil Indians of Chamula, Chiapas State. Also present are views of archaeological sites at Monte Alban and Mitla in Oaxaca State.
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
- Dates:
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1914-1915
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141 Glass plate negatives
142 Copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.047
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographic negatives shot by George H. Pepper and George G. Heye during farm excavations in New York and New Jersey in 1914.
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Meyer, Andrew
- Dates:
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1929
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49 Photographic prints
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.259
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection consists of 49 black and white photographic prints of images of village life as well as pre-Columbian stone carvings and statues photographed by Andrew Meyer in Colombia in 1929.
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Davis, Edward H., b. 1862
- Dates:
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1903-1939
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770 Photographic prints (approximate number, black & white)
2000 Negatives (photographic) (approximate number)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.031
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Davis visited the Diegueno and Luiseno in southern California; the Pi-pi (Pais), Kil-e-wah (Cahuilla), and Waicuri of Lower California, Mexico; the Yuma, Cocopah, Pima, Papago, Maricopa, Mojave, Hualapai (Walapai), Yaqui, and White Mountain Apache in Arizona; the Cora, Huichol, Opata, Mayo, and Yaqui of Mexico; the Seri of Tiburon Island; the Chemehuevi of Nevada and California; the Modoc and Klamath Lake Indians in Oregon; and the Paiute in Nevada. His collection contains photographs of Apache, Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Cochimi, Cochiti Pueblo, Cocopa, Cora, Guaicuruj, Huichol, Kawia, Kiliwa, Kumeyaay (Diegueno), Luiseno, Maricopa, Mayo, Mission, Mohave, Opata, Paipai, Papago (Tohono O'odham), Pima (Akimel O'odham), San Carlos Pueblo, San Manuel, Seri, Ute, Walapai (Hualapai), Yaqui, and Yuma.
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Smith, Henry H.
- Dates:
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1858
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1 Ambrotypes (photographs)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.385
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Ambrotype of Chief Okemos [Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)] photographed by Henry H. Smith in 1858.
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Littleton, O. T. (Otis T.)
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1938
1953
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6 Acetate negatives (5 x 7 inches.)
35 Photographic prints (gelatin silver.)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.023
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection is comprised of 35 gelatin silver prints and 6 acetate negatives taken in 1938 and 1953 by Otis T. Littleton at various archaeological excavations in southern California, including Los Angeles County, Ventura County, Colusa County and Kern County. The majority of the images depict human remains and are restricted.
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Frič, Alberto Vojtěch, 1882-1944
- Dates:
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circa 1905-1923
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401 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.165
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection contains photographs documenting indigenous peoples photographed by Czech botanist and ethnographer Alberto Vojtech Fric during his expeditions to Central and South America circa 1905-1923.
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Parker, Frank W.
Hertzberg, Hazel
- Dates:
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1975
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2 Sound cassettes
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.082
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Includes Parker's recollections of preliminary efforts in the 1940s to plan a representative and effective pan-Indian organization; of the creation of the National Congress of American Indians and highlights of its history, 1952-1962, when Parker was actively affiliated with it, and Recording Secretary; and of a number of people involved in its initial and continuing stages. Also includes remarks by Helen Peterson, 1953-1961 Executive Director of the organization, concerning the threat of internal pressure to it.
