MS 1998-46 Oraibi Day School student drawings of Hopi designs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1998-46
label: Publication Note
content: The designs were published in:

Myers, J. Preston. The Oraibi Book of Indian Designs for Arts and Crafts or Decorative Work. [Horton, Kan.], 1930.
label: Variant Title
content: Hopi Illustrations
name: label: Compiler
content: Myers, J. Preston
place: label: Place
content: Oraibi (Ariz.)
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Children's drawings
creator: label: Compiler
content: Myers, J. Preston
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi [Old Oraibi]
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: J. Preston Myers (1892-1947) worked for the Office of Indian Affairs as an Educational Field Agent at the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota, Potowatomi and Kickapoo Agencies in Kansas, and Hoopla Valley Agency in California.  He was principal of the Oraibi Day School in Arizona in the 1920s.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 98 Drawings (visual works) (70 leaves, ink and crayon, 8.5 x 11 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1924-1928
container: label: Container
content: Box 1998-46
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1998-46
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Illustrations
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Illustrations
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection consists of approximately ninety-eight (98) drawings on seventy (70) leaves. The illustrations were made by students of the Oraibi Day School between 1924 and 1928 under the direction of J. Preston Myers.  The collection also contains a photocopy of a published version of the drawings held by the University of Arizona special collections.

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