H. Scudder Mekeel photographs
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 94-21
name: label: Creator
content: Mekeel, H. Scudder (Haviland Scudder), 1902-1947
label: Names
content: Laboratory of Anthropology (Museum of New Mexico)
label: Names
content: Collier, John, 1884-1968
label: Photographer
content: Fiske, Frank Bennett, 1883-1952
label: Names
content: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
label: Photographer
content: Rise, Carl H., 1888-1939
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Chippewa

Walapai

Sioux
place: label: Place
content: Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
label: Place
content: Oraibi (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Mekeel, H. Scudder (Haviland Scudder), 1902-1947
culture: label: Culture
content: Taos Indians
label: Culture
content: Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Lakota (Teton/Western Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Anishinaabe (Chippewa/Ojibwa)
label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Hualapai  (Walapai)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: H. Scudder Mekeel (1902-1947) was an anthropologist who studied social and psychological aspects of Native American cultures. Educated at Harvard University (BA, 1928), the University of Chicago (MA, 1929), and Yale University (PhD, 1932), he was a member of the 1929 Laboratory of Anthropology (Santa Fe) ethnological field school led by Alfred L. Kroeber. In 1929-1932, he carried out three field expeditions to the Sioux communities of South Dakota, working mainly on the Pine Ridge Reservation. He joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs as Director of Applied Anthropology under Commissioner John Collier in 1935. Two years later, he was appointed Director of the Laboratory of Anthropology at Santa Fe and continued there until 1940, when he accepted a teaching position at the University of Wisconsin.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Print (photochrom)
label: Extent
content: 443 Negatives (photographic) (nitrate)
label: Extent
content: 235 Prints (silver gelatin)
unitdate: label: Date
content: bulk 1930-1933
label: Date
content: circa 1920-1947
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Transferred by Nicolette Bromberg at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1993.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.94-21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Kniffen, Fred, et al. Walapai Ethnography, edited by A.L. Kroeber, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 42, Supplement to American Anthropologist 37, no 1, part 2. Menasha, Wisconsin: American Anthropological Association, 1935.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The photographs primarily document ceremonies, people, and lands of Native Americans in the Plains and Southwest, taken during Mekeel's field research from 1929 to 1936. A large portion of the collection depicts Mekeel's research during the early 1930s among the Oglala of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Another large portion of the collection includes personal photos depicting Mekeel's homes and children.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives holds copies of Mekeel's Field Notes from the summers of 1930 and 1931 in the White Clay District of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota (MS 7088). Originals of these field notes and Mekeel's population notes on the White Clay District are held by the American Museum of Natural History, Division of Anthropology Archives (.M454).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Human Studies Film Archives holds Mekeel's film footage of a Lakota Sioux Sundance from 1930 (HSFA 92.8.1).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Correspondence from Mekeel held in the National Anthropological Archives in the William Duncan Strong papers, Raoul Weston LaBarre Papers, and Bureau of American Ethnology Administrative File.