Bureau of American Ethnology photograph albums of Native Americans
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 60
name: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
label: Photographer
content: Bell, C. M. (Charles Milton), approximately 1849-1893
label: Photographer
content: Cohner, Samuel A.
label: Photographer
content: Dinwiddie, William (1867-1934)
label: Photographer
content: Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882
label: Photographer
content: Gill, De Lancey, 1859-1940
label: Photographer
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
label: Photographer
content: Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942
label: Names
content: Mindeleff, Cosmos, 1863-
label: Names
content: Mindeleff, Victor, 1860-1948
label: Photographer
content: Rinehart, F. A. (Frank A.)
label: Photographer
content: Sawyer, Wells, 1863-1960
label: Photographer
content: Shindler, A. Zeno (Antonio Zeno), 1823-1899
label: Photographer
content: Vannerson, Julian, 1827-
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Assiniboin; Assiniboine

Blackfoot

Dakota, Sioux

Flathead

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox

Santa Clara

Sauk & Fox

Shoshone

Shoshone

Sauk & Fox

Assiniboin

Sioux

Plains Apache

Meskwaki; Sauk & Fox

Blackfeet
place: label: Place
content: Chaco Canyon (N.M.)
label: Place
content: Sonora (Mexico : State)
label: Place
content: New Mexico
topic: label: Topic
content: Indians of North America -- Northeast
creator: label: Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Plateau
label: Culture
content: Cocopa
label: Culture
content: Sioux
label: Culture
content: Sihasapa Lakota (Blackfoot Sioux)
label: Culture
content: Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
label: Culture
content: Wichita
label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
label: Culture
content: Northwest Coast
label: Culture
content: Tonkawa
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Basin
label: Culture
content: Spokan
label: Culture
content: Shoshone
label: Culture
content: Sauk
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
label: Culture
content: Fox
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
label: Culture
content: Apache
label: Culture
content: Assiniboine (Stoney)
label: Culture
content: Inunaina (Arapaho)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Northwest Coast of North America
label: Culture
content: Ponca
label: Culture
content: Tewa Pueblos
label: Culture
content: Omaha
label: Culture
content: Osage
label: Culture
content: Plains Apache (Naisha/Kiowa Apache)
label: Culture
content: Niimíipuu (Nez Perce)
label: Culture
content: Iowa
label: Culture
content: Kalispel (Pend d'Oreilles)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology photograph albums of Native Americans
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Bureau of American Ethnology was founded in 1879 in part as a result of the federal geological surveys and under the administration of the Smithsonian Institution. Under the directorship of John Wesley Powell (1879-1902), the BAE supported field research by its staff and collaborators, initiated several anthropological publications, and supported the growth of the anthropological discipline, particularly as it related to Native Americans. In addition to its research and publications program, it developed a manuscript repository, library, and an illustrations section that included (in addition to the preparation of artwork for publications) photography and a photographic collection. The BAE commissioned studio portraits of visiting Indian delegates and hired De Lancey Gill served as the its official photographer and illustrator from the 1890s to 1930.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 16 Albums (albumen and platinum)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1858-1905
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Albums found in a laboratory of the Arts and Industries Building of the Smithsonian Insitution, circa 1950s.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.60
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albums
label: Type
content: Photographs
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Titles of the albums are (1) Omaha and Winnebago; (2) miscellaneous; (3) Sauk and Fox; (4) miscellaneous; (5) Arapaho and Cheyenne; (6) Chiricahua, San Carlos, and Apache; (7) Sauk and Fox; (8) Osage, Shoshoni and Nez Perce, Siouan, Oto; (9) Santa Clara and Flathead; (10) Ponca; (11) Sauk and (12) Wichita and Kiowa Apache; (13) Cocopa; and (14) Assiniboin and Blackfoot
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Preliminary description is available with the collection. Draft inventory is available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photograph albums prepared by the Bureau of American Ethnology or the photographic lab, possibly for reference purposes by staff. The use of such albums has been mentioned by BAE photographer De Lancey W. Gill. The albums contain photographs made from the Bureau of American Ethnology's collection of negatives, documenting Apache, Arapaho, Assiniboin, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Cocopa, Dakota, Flathead, Fox, Iowa, Kalispel, Kiowa Apache, Nez Perce, Omaha, Osage, Ponca, Santa Clara, Sauk, Shoshoni, Spokane Tonkawa, Wichita, and Winnebago people. The bulk of the photographs are studio portraits, made at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition in Omaha in 1898 or during delegation visits to Washington, DC. There are also other photographs made during Victor Mindeleffʹs work in Chaco Canyon, and on W J McGeeʹs expedition to Sonora, Mexico, in 1900.

Photographers include Charles Milton Bell, William Dinwiddie, Alexander Gardner, De Lancey W. Gill, John K. Hillers, William Henry Jackson, Frank Albert Rinehart, Wells Moses Sawyer, Antonio Zeno Shindler, Victor or Cosmos Mindeleff, Julian Vannerson with Samuel A. Cohner. Included are negative numbers formerly used by BAE, but the National Anthropological Archives also annotated them with current negative numbers.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds the Bureau of American Ethnology records and the BAE historical negatives, as well as Dinwiddie photographs of the W. J. McGee expeditions are held in (Photo Lot 89 and Photo Lot 144), Charles Milton Bell photographs (Photo Lot 80), and additional photographs by most photographers represented in this collection (Photo Lot 59 and Photo Lot 90-1)
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content: Bureau of American Ethnology photograph albums of Native Americans, 1858-1905