Depictions of Native Americans
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Sturtevant, William C.
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content: William C. Sturtevant papers
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content: William C. Sturtevant papers / Series 2: Research Files
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: NAA.2008-24, Subseries 2.5
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries documents Sturtevant's decades-long study of depictions of Native Americans in artwork, maps, and popular culture. He was originally interested in very early European depictions of native peoples from the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, but broadened his parameters over time. He started a file where he kept notes on paintings and drawings from all over the world. His major projects included a study of 18th century German Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck who sailed to the Americas with other colonists and kept a journal with descriptions and sketches of the people, plants, and animals he saw; George Catlin's and Charles Bird King's paintings; the illustrations and drawings of Fernández de Oviedo; and depictions of the Frobisher Eskimos. His work later extended to analyzing cigar store Indians and Land O'Lakes butter packaging. To view some of the images Sturtevant studied, see Series 11 Artwork.