John K. Hillers photographs of Pueblos
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 143
name: label: Photographer
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
label: Artist
content: Nichols, Hobart, 1869-1962
label: Names
content: Powell, John Wesley, 1834-1902
index: label: Addl. KW Subj
content: Tesuque

Pueblo

Oraibi

Mishongnavi
place: label: Place
content: Chelly, Canyon de (Ariz.)
topic: label: Topic
content: Pueblos
creator: label: Photographer
content: Hillers, John K., 1843-1925
culture: label: Culture
content: Cochiti Pueblo
label: Culture
content: A:shiwi (Zuni)
label: Culture
content: Taos Indians
label: Culture
content: Diné (Navajo)
label: Culture
content: Hopi Pueblo
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
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content: John K. Hillers photographs of Pueblos
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: John K. Hillers (1843-1925) immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1852. He spent almost twenty years photographing Native Americans, largely for the Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States Geological Survey. He began work on the Survey as a boatman on John Wesley Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River in 1871. He soon became the assistant, and then main photographer (1872) for the expedition. From 1879 to 1900, Hillers served as the first staff photographer of the Bureau of Ethnology, and in 1881 he took pictures for the United States Geological Survey.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 40 Albumen prints (circa, mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1870s-1880s
label: Date
content: bulk 1879-1879
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: This collection may have been transferred to the Bureau of American Ethnology by the United States Geological Survey.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.143
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: The collection primarily consists of photographs made by John K. Hillers for the Bureau of American Ethnology documenting pueblos, cliff and rock dwellings, and people in Arizona and New Mexico.  The photographs depict Navajo, Zuni, Taos, Oraibi, Walpi, Tesuque, Sichomovi, Cochiti, Mishongnavi, and Shipaulovi Pueblos.  There are also pictures of mounds, possibly in West Virginia, and a Hobart Nichols drawing of the interior of a Pueblo dwelling.  The bulk of the photographs are on BAE mounts, of which some are stamped "Compliments of J. W. Powell".  Several of the images were made during the United States Geological Survey in 1885.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Hillers photographs in the National Anthropological Archives can be found in Photo Lot 14, Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 28, Photo Lot 40, Photo Lot 83-18, Photo Lot 87-2N, Photo Lot 90-1, Photo Lot 92-46, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds Hillers's diary from 1871-1872 and 1874, 1875 (MS 4410).