C. Hart Merriam photographs of Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 74-27
label: General note
content: Additional information supplied by Marvin Shodas.
name: label: Creator
content: Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
label: Photographer
content: Boysen Studio
label: Photographer
content: Diller, J. S.
label: Photographer
content: Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
label: Photographer
content: Henshaw, Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee), 1850-1930
label: Photographer
content: Meddaugh, O. E.
label: Names
content: Muir, John, 1838-1914
label: Names
content: Talbot, Zenaida Merriam (photographer)
label: Names
content: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Achumawi

Apache

Athapaskan, Athabaskan

Costanoan

Karok (Karuk)

Kulanapan

Lassik

Maidu

Mattole

Mission Indians

Pima (Akimel O'odham)

Shoshone
topic: label: Topic
content: Baskets
creator: label: Creator
content: Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Athapascan Indians
label: Culture
content: Achomawi (Pit River)
label: Culture
content: Jicarilla Apache
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Atsugewi (Hat Creek)
label: Culture
content: Patwin
label: Culture
content: Karuk (Karok)
label: Culture
content: Klamath
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Shasta
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Pomo
label: Culture
content: Paiute
label: Culture
content: Koso (Panamint) Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Akimel O'odham (Pima)
label: Culture
content: Kutzadika'a (Mono Paiute)
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
label: Culture
content: Ohlone (Costano)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Payómkawichum (Luiseño)
label: Culture
content: Maidu
label: Culture
content: Mewuk (Miwok)
label: Culture
content: Modoc
label: Culture
content: Klikitat
label: Culture
content: Laguna Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- California
label: Culture
content: Yana
label: Culture
content: Wintu
label: Culture
content: Yokuts
label: Culture
content: Yokayo Pomo
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Tolowa
label: Culture
content: Taos Indians
label: Culture
content: Washo Indians
label: Culture
content: Wasco
label: Culture
content: Nisenan Indians
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Subarctic
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Hupa
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Clinton Hart Merriam (1855-1942) was a Columbia University-educated physician who worked as a naturalist, including as head of the Biological Survey for the US Department of Agriculture.  He joined the Harriman Alaska Expedition as a zoologist in 1899.  In 1910, he left the USDA and began to conduct research among California tribes.  Financed by Mary W. Harriman and the E. H. Harriman Fund administered by the Smithsonian, he researched tribes' vocabularies, history, mythology, crafts (particularly basketmaking) until about 1936.  His resarch was assisted by his daughter, Zenaida, who took photographs and painted glass slides for him.  Merriam served as President of the Anthropological Society of Washington in 1920-1921.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 5,000 Items (glass negatives, film negatives, lantern slides, and some prints)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1902-1938
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by C. Hart Merriam's daughter Dorothy M. Abbott, 1974.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.74-27
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting Native American baskets and portraits of Native Americans with whom C. Hart Merriam worked, as well as  scenic views and images of animals and plants, mostly in California. Many of the photographs were made by Merriam himself or his daughter Zenaida Merriam Talbot. In addition, Merriam collected photographs from other researchers and photographers, including J. S. Diller, John Peabody Harrington, Henry Wetherbee Henshaw, and O. E. Meddaugh.  There are also images acquired from the Boysen Studio of Yosemite and photographs of Mark Twain, John Muir, basketmaker Maggie James, and Merriam's family.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Merriam's notes held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 1563 and in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA Acc. 12-264.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs by Merriam held in the National Museum of American Indian Archives in the Mary Harriman Rumsey Photograph Collection and the Harriman Alaska Expedition Photograph Collection.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Merriam held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4558, the Department of Anthropology records (Manuscript and Pamphlet file), Bureau of American Ethnology records, J.C. Pilling Papers, Ales Hrdlicka Papers, and Jesse Logan Nusbaum Papers.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Bancroft Library at University of California, Berkeley holds the C. Hart Merriam Papers, C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs (prints corresponding to negatives in this collection), and C. Hart Merriam pictorial collection.