Cosmos Mindeleff photographs of cliff dwellings at Canyon de Chelly
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: Photo Lot 2006-21
name: label: Creator
content: Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-
label: Names
content: Mindeleff, Victor, 1860-1948
place: label: Place
content: Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Cliff-dwellings
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Uncertain
creator: label: Creator
content: Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: Cosmos Mindeleff (1863-1938) started his career as assistant to his brother Victor Mindeleff, who was employed by the Bureau of American Ethnology to conduct studies of Pueblo architecture (1880s). In 1882, James Stevenson and the Mindeleffs visited Canyon de Chelly and Canyon del Muerto. In later years, Victor and Cosmos Mindeleff continued their research in Canyon de Chelly and Cosmos published the first authoritative archeological map of White House in 1893.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 19 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1893
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.2006-21
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Photographs published in Cosmos Mindeleff, "The Cliff Ruins of Canyon de Chelly, Arizona," 16th BAE Annual Report, 79-191.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Images of Canyon de Chelly, including cliff dwellings, masonry, overlooks, and a river.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs made by Cosmos Mindeleff held in National Anthropological Archives Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 83-14, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Reports and correspondence by Cosmos Mindeleff held in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 4733, MS 4734, MS 4745, the Herbert William Krieger papers, Department of Anthropology (Manuscript and Pamphlet file), and Bureau of American Ethnology records.