Exhibition Records
This accession consists of exhibition fieldwork records and production recordings produced by the Office of Community Services for the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) inaugural exhibitions Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities and Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories. Native American communities represented include the Iglulik (Igloolik …
Production Records
This accession consists of production records created by Howard Bass, Cultural Arts Manager, in the planning and development of the recording, "Beautiful Beyond: Christian Songs in Native Languages." Produced in partnership with Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings, "Beautiful Beyond" is an anthology of hymns and songs from Native American communities throughout the …
Carol H. Krinsky papers
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.
Colin Taylor Photograph Collection
Relate to museum specimens, mainly 19th century, including: 7 Dakota headdresses, 1 Eastern Woodlands headdress, 1 Arapaho headdress, 3 Blackfoot headdresses and 1 shirt, 5 Plains headdresses, 1 Pomo (?) headdress, and 1 Delaware headdress, photographed presumably by Taylor from collections at Cambridge Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology, Oxford Pitt-Rivers Museum, the British Museum, and Colin Taylor's private collection. No …
Frederick S. Dellenbaugh photographs, negatives and other material
486 Photographic prints (black and white, color)
1 Lantern slide (black and white)
Images in this collection were mostly taken by Frederick Dellenbaugh, William Henry Jackson, Alexander Gardner, John Wetherill, John K. Hillers, Edward O. Beaman, Charles Milton Bell and Frank Rinehart. Subjects include delegation portraits, images from the Hayden's and Powell's Geological and Geographical Surveys, cliff dwellings, landscape views, and images from the U.S. Indian Congress Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in Omaha 1898.
American Indian Magazine
This accession includes a reference set of American Indian magazine (Volumes 1-11), a quarterly publication issued by the National Museum of the American Indian which explores Native traditions and communities through lively and insightful news and feature articles.
American Indian Magazine
This accession consists of a reference set of American Indian magazine (Volumes 16-19), a quarterly publication issued by the National Museum of the American Indian, Office of Publications, and, prior to 2016, the Office of Public Affairs. The magazine explores Native traditions and communities through lively and insightful news and feature articles …
MS 3931 Miscellaneous vocabularies
On cards compiled from information furnished in reply to letters of inquiry. The information is secondary and lacks documentation. Terms of the following languages are thought to be included: Achomawi, Alibamu, Arikara, Athapascan, Blackfoot, Catawba, Choctaw, Copehan, Creek, Dakota, Hitchiti, Hopi, Iowa, Kansa, Klikitat, Mandan, Muskhogean, Niuskoki, Nez Perce, Omaha …
MS 7100 Bureau of Indian Affairs Orientation Material: Tribal Operations
Six manuals: "Indian Governments"; "Information Index"; "Hypothetical Cases"; "Enrollment"; "Claims"; "General Historical Background" (second in the series is missing). Issued under Commissioner Philleo Nash to orient new employees.
MS 3653 Letters addressed to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, from Indian Agents
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Replies to correspondence (circular letter) sent to various Indian Agencies relative to marriage customs among the various Indian tribes. The tribes represented are: Flathead, Kalispel, Kootenai, Mescalero Apache, Navaho, Oto, Pend d Oreille, and Shoshoni.
