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Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Hudson Museum (University of Maine at Orono)
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2006-2008
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51 videocassettes (minidv)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.019
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National Museum of the American Indian
Videotapes of interviews with basketmakers from the Maine Indian Basketmakers' Alliance (MIBA) documenting Maine Indian art forms. Created by the Hudson Museum in partnership with MIBA.
Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation records
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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
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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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Lehner, Frank
Seiling, J.
Braithwaite, Charles Henry
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circa 1890 - 1891
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0.25 Linear feet
37 Photographs
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.147
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection consists of 32 photographic prints of Native and non-Native peoples involved with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in approximately 1890-1891.
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Park, Joseph C., 1872-
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circa 1880-1901
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25 lantern slides
1 Poster
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.387
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National Museum of the American Indian
The Joseph C. Park collection of lantern slides contains 25 lantern slides and 1 poster that were used by Joseph C. Park for his lectures on Indians of North America. Park was the Principal of the Cherokee Baptist Academy located at Tahlequah Indian Territory (today Oklahoma) from 1896 to 1901.
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Eagan, Alice Kennedy
Addison, George A.
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circa 1894-1896
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23 cabinet photographs
0.25 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.097
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National Museum of the American Indian
This collection of twenty-three cabinet card photographs was collected by Alice Kennedy Eagan, and depicts Native American and non-native life in the Fort Still, Oklahoma Territory, circa 1894-1896.
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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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Holstein, Otto, 1883-1934
American Geographical Society
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1925-1926
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425 Photographic prints
68 copy negatives
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.114
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographic prints and copy negatives made by Major Otto Holstein in and around the ruins of Chan Chan, Peru between 1925 and 1926. Some of these photographs were later used by Holstein to illustrate his article publication "Chan-Chan: Capital of the Great Chimu" in the American Geographical Society's publication Geographical Review.
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National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
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undated
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1 Linear foot
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.998
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The General Manuscripts and Ephemera collections contains documents ane ephemera concerning people, events, and activities related to the historical and contemporary lives of Native peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere.
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National Congress of American Indians
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1933-1990
bulk 1944-1989
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251 Linear feet (597 archival boxes)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.010
- Repository:
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National Museum of the American Indian
The National Congress of American Indian (NCAI), founded in 1944, is the oldest nation-wide American Indian advocacy organization in the United States. The NCAI records document the organization's work, particularly that of its office in Washington, DC, and the wide variety of issues faced by American Indians in the twentieth century. The collection is located in the Cultural Resource Center of the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation
Miller, Kenneth C., 1901-1974
Sinclair, David
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
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1938 January
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56 Photographic prints
18 negatives (photographic)
- Collection ID:
- NMAI.AC.001.057
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National Museum of the American Indian
Photographs of the Hidatsa Delegation at the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation in New York, City and visiting the White House in Washington, D.C. for the repatriation of a Water Buster Bundle in 1938. Hidatsa Delegation members included elders Drags Wolf and Foolish Bear.